Paper Dolls Original

This one barely squeaks by with a positive experience from me not a great game but it's decent overall I don't regret playing it. However, I can't for the life of me figure out why anyone would put so many QTEs in a survival horror game, even just removing or at least cutting down on the insane amount of them would make the world of difference this is suppose to be a horror story. Like some other Chinese horror games I've played the narrative/story is impossible to understand the notes are all poorly translated and make no sense you seem to be trying to save your daughter from some malevolent spirits but I forgot all about her because other than right at the start of the game they do nothing to remind you this is your goal. So i didn't care about whoever I was playing as nor the child I was meant to rescue leaving us with another spooky dark unknown place where there are actually some pretty scary looking ghosts stalking the halls. The atmosphere is pretty good I got the chills near the beginning and there were a few decent scares as well as some challenging puzzles but for at least two puzzles you need to read/understand Chinese symbols/letters so I had to look up some solutions which was obviously pretty immersion breaking but I've had to do this for other foreign games in the past so no big deal really. The main reason I dropped my score down was because of the Boss fight, the main Madam scary women it's literally just like nonstop QTEs and designed extremely poorly super frustrating. Progressing through the rooms and figuring out the puzzles is solid tho and I thought the spirits looked pretty intense but it was a rough ride towards the end. Recommend on sale it's pricey for the length and amount of content but if you really love Asian style horror and QTEs :P, going to check out the sequel soon and hope to see some changes. 6.8/10

HAO

This is a nice hide-and-seek style short horror game focusing more on puzzle solving. I enjoyed it but I must say that some puzzles are really hard and very obscure and very bad English translation for puzzle clues aren't very helpful. Also you can't pick items or interact with any objects unless you picked another item that is required to progress further in the puzzle you are solving, so anything that looks unimportant, dead and that you can't interact with in a room can actually be a key in solving puzzles which makes everything harder to figure out. Visuals are good and ghosts are really scary too, and they aren't very hard to avoid because you hear their footsteps first and that gives you plenty of time to hide and there are a lot of hiding spots. There are some QTEs too but they aren't hard either. Only hard thing is to figure out bad English translation for puzzle clues in this game. There doesn't seem to be a coherent story, unfortunately.

CGI and scary parts are good but the puzzle is a bit too hassle not everyone can speak chinese be specific...

Great game. Its difficult to find a game that has full Mandarin dubbing and this is it. Thanks to the developers for that 12 hours of gameplay. Wish to try out the second part. 伟大的游戏。对我找有完全的中文配音的游戏是太难了。这个游戏就是。为那个12游戏里的小时谢谢，开发商! 我愿意试一试第二部分。

Overall, I would recommend this game if you like puzzle and mystery horrors. If you are looking for a faster paced action horror, I would avoid it.
It's a cool game and I really enjoyed the graphics and character models. The paper monsters look fantastic! The puzzles are difficult and can be a little much -I needed guides to solve a couple of them- but the atmosphere is great. The best part is the big chase sequence in the end. The developers should include more like that in future games. There should be more action mixed with the puzzles. Much of the game is spent figuring out what to do and wandering the house. What enhances this problem is that there is no real sprint button, so things get tedious.

I haven't yet managed to finish that game. It has amazing mysterious and scary atmosphere and it gives you anxiety many times, as the main character walks around extremely slow! The environment is a labyrinth like house, which i learned how to navigate after many hours. It was, at least for me, difficult to move on and I got help from the walk around articles many times, as some riddles seemed didn't have a logic, which could help you to solve. Other than that, the game definitely deserves playing it!