Even on it's own "merits" without the stink of the designer this game looks pretty poor to me. They took a "magic" theme and slapped Houdini's name on it. Houdini was a skeptic and did not believe in seances; yet it's a clear feature of this game. Houdini was primarily an escape artist, not really a magician. "Believe" in the middle is very silly. Much of the other imagery on the game, such as the gargoyles and gryphon, are not associated with HH and just lazy decoration. Even the title of the machine doesn't make any sense. "The Master Mystery" is a series of films with HH as an actor, but I don't see any link between that and this machine. It's lazy.
On top of that there are a couple distractingly bad spots in the current art. In a vacuum, with no history of jpop, this does not look like a good game to me.