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

enjoyed every minute of this game... even if it almost gave me a heart attack lmfao...

Relatively short (About 3.5 hours). Movement is a bit slow and frustrating at times, especially considering how large the level is and you'll be going back and forth continuously. All things considered though, it's pretty good for the price tag!

2nd half of the game I pretty much looked up at the solutions of puzzles. Either I'm dumb or some of those hints were outright useless. Game is pretty short, takes place in one big house. There is running but it is like 2 fast steps and the guy is out of breath, thankfully the monsters are slow.
Not bad not great, buy at discount.

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.

HAO

Great atmosphere and production values.
The "combat" is all quick-time events which I'm not a big fan of but there's not that much of it so it's fine.
A few of the puzzles were pretty obscure and especially one I figured out a solution based on the clues and when that didn't work I looked up the way to complete it online and the solution was something completely different which I really can't connect to any of the clues at all.
The wandering enemies can sometime spawn in such a way that you got cornered and most areas are too claustrophobic for you to run around them and they all kill you in one attack.
Overall a good game though, despite its flaws.