If it weren't for the TapTap reservation of "Paper Wedding Dress 3" exceeding 500,000, I might have really had a hard time opening this vertical screen and small-cost horror decryption game.
It turns out that the "Paper Wedding Dress" series is really a very brilliant and very "smart" game, in a sense, I am not sure how to evaluate it, but then I write about it every sentence, it is a heartfelt praise.
After seeing the 500,000-booked "Paper Wedding Dress 3 Mandarin Duck Debt", I decided to make up the first two in one go. The moment I clicked on the first part of "Paper Wedding Dress", I knew that I had come to the right place.
Click on the TapTap Horror Games tab homepage and you'll see that the four games in the Paper Wedding Dress series are at the top of the list
Although a small cost breath is coming at you, but the taste of the opening chapter is too right, the kiss directly rushed into the scene of the marriage, picked the bride's hijab, tied the paper person, wrapped the red envelope of the dark coin, the dark marriage scene is not only "ghostly sensen", but also this horror theme engraved in the DNA of the Chinese people, and naturally adds a sense of involvement.
It can almost be said that the vast majority of players who have a good feeling about the theme of phobia will be the first time to get on the "Paper Wedding Dress" and are very interested in playing it, because it starts straight to the theme, the puzzle difficulty is moderate, and it is very engaging. The more you play to the back, you will find that it is full of hidden surprises, unexpected performance expression and narrative layers, completely worthy of its super popular representative status.
Standing on the matter of people, "Paper Wedding Dress" is done like a fish
As the male protagonist is guided into a strange village called Zangling Village, which is extremely ominous after hearing the name, this smell of folk horror is directly filled, but the male protagonist is a materialist warrior, bent on saving his fiancée, and is not afraid of the intimidation of the cow ghost snake god at all.
The game needs to have a suspense story based on the background, the unknown and the jump scare, you never know which one will jump out to scare you. The jump scare of "Paper Wedding Dress" must have left a psychological shadow for many players, but its core and moving part lies in the people involved in it, in the unreasonable pursuit of supernatural forces, against fate, blooming with the brilliance of humanity.
In this regard, the understanding of the production team can be said to be first-class in the industry. Around the stage of Zangling Village, the trilogy of "Paper Wedding Dress" tells the love-hate relationship between 8 people. A thousand years ago, Xuanzang passed through a village on his way westward, stayed for a while to solve the strange epidemic disease in the village, and finally solved the source of the disease, leaving behind the "Six Burials True Scripture" to cross the villagers.
However, the greed and anger of human nature spread under Xuanzang's reputation, and a cult was quietly born in the village, centered on the fabricated Six Burial Bodhisattvas, fabricating a ritual sacrifice for the young women of the village to make paper brides to be offered to the burial gods, and brainwashing the entire village from generation to generation. The story of "Paper Wedding Dress" is the story of the "paper brides" in the new era who took the initiative to escape from the cult, and the men who fell in love with the paper brides from the outside world exposed the cult in Zangling Village.
"Paper Wedding Dress" shows enough standing and satisfactory human design ability in the first part, which is the biggest highlight of the series. At this point, the production team of "Paper Wedding Dress" demonstrated a strong deconstruction ability for the horror decryption theme that was completely inconsistent with the production cost.
The protagonist of the first part, Ning Zifu, in the case of the face of the secret marriage scene, is still thinking of saving his fiancée Mo Qi, and the second part is interspersed with two time and space narratives, whether it is the heroine of the "Great Witch Sage", or Liang Shaoping, who only wades into the cult village in the last life in order to save his beloved, in just five chapters, not only tells the heroine to solve the mystery of the previous year in Zangling Village, but also tells a poignant Liang Zhu story, the most absolute thing is that the two intertwined mysteries of time and space are interrelated, It also sets a foreshadowing for the reincarnation of the heroine and Liang Shaoping to continue the frontier.
The letters and copper rulers left by Liang Shaoping in the previous life have become the key props for the heroine to escape in this life, and combined with the setting of "reincarnation and reconnection", it is more meaningful
It is true that the folk horror is played clearly.
In the latest work, "Paper Wedding Dress 3 Mandarin Duck Debt", the production team has thoroughly played with the character design and action logic.
However, in fact, in the first two works, the character action logic of "Paper Wedding Dress" is already quite self-consistent, and the story of the first part is lacking in depth, but Ning Zifu himself does show a side of not being afraid of ghosts and gods, and has feelings and righteousness throughout the whole process. In the third act of the second part, "Ghost Play", on the way to save his beloved paper bride Zhu Xiaohong, the foreign son-in-law Liang Shaoping, he also mentions the correspondence with "Brother Ning", combined with the hint of the relationship between the characters, this "Brother Ning" is likely to be the elder of Ning Zifu's family.
The "Paper Wedding Dress" series shows very amazing details, as well as the deconstruction ability of the character's action logic, from a short letter, it can be seen that "Brother Ning" is a bold, thoughtful, and righteous person, and his descendant Ning Zifu also showed this trait in the first game. In addition, the brainwashing canons of the cult leaders seen in Zangling Village, combined with the only words of the protagonist group to expose the truth, as the player's perspective, can very clearly sort out the overall development of the Zangling Village cult, as well as the contrast with the truth.
And Liang Shaoping's grasp of the connection between character personality and puzzle gameplay has become more old. When the player operates Liang Shaoping's escape, the process is to pay attention to a violence, and use a hammer to solve the problem when there is no decision, but at the same time, Liang Shaoping has been lurking in the village for a long time for today's escape process, burying many clues and tools, which can be described as thick and thin.
Who would have thought that this organ, which was big at first sight, would finally be cracked by brute force
By the third part, "Paper Wedding Dress 3 Mandarin Duck Debt", this depiction of the characters' motivations for action is already pure. The third part is a small couple with two protagonists, just like the villain Nie Moli's evaluation of them, the male protagonist Shen Moqing is a "flattering personality", cowardly, timid, and habitually pleasing others to escape the problem. The heroine Wang Jiaotong is a "performative personality", vain and squeamish, performing different herself in front of different people, and gaining good feelings to achieve the goal.
Indeed, in almost the entire course of the game, the player experienced that Shen Moqing was a cowardly person who was afraid of ghosts, did not dare to come out, and would not go up to the tree, Wang Jiaotong was screaming throughout the whole process, commanding and commanding, and could not bear a little grievance.
However, it is this seemingly ordinary little couple that has become the "difficult to reconcile" in the hearts of countless players. Wang Jiaotong never hated the shortcomings of her lover, even if she became a "yang soul", she also had a mind to help her lover and find a way to break through the siege; Shen Moqing finally fought step by step against the authority that she never dared to create, and even broke out with breathtaking courage at the moment of life and death.
The villain Nie Moli is indeed able to see through human nature to a certain extent, but because of arrogance and arrogance and completely lost to human nature, the "Paper Wedding Dress" series, regardless of the decent villain, has its own complete action logic, and the people are set up quite completely, the narrative is interlocked, worthy of the top representative in the current store horror decryption.
perform? Plug me in
Who would have thought that a vertical, free point-and-click horror puzzle game could fill up with a variety of classic game narrative performance methods? It can only be said that the times have really changed.
The biggest reason why the "Paper Wedding Dress" series is called a classic, each game has hundreds of thousands of players paying attention, or because it has been improving.
If the 8 main characters highlight the producer's ability to control the story in the game, then the "Paper Wedding" series of various gameplay design, is that it really stands out, different from most of the clicks are fundamental.
Even the first "Paper Wedding Dress", which seems to have the smallest production cost, has the ingenuity of the classic bridge section of elevator puzzle solving.
When Ning Zifu is preparing to return to his home on the 9th floor in his own community, he needs to attack all floors, and within the narrow operation range of this pseudo-stereoscopic space, players need to solve the mystery of "ghost hitting the wall" with the cooperation of mobile phones, and even after reaching certain conditions, they can also open shortcuts, which is a complete box court space mechanism decryption.
Seeing the "inner world" through the mobile phone, the classic design, and through a layer of media, seeing the abnormality in the normal world, it is originally a classic horror design
"Paper Wedding Dress 2 Zangling Village" also has such a highlight performance, its shadow play puzzle section, through the logical connection between the shadow play and reality, to solve the puzzle of mutual communication, and at the same time use Chinese horror performance methods to bring players a variety of surprises. The sound performance of the shadow puppet play was also specially designed as if it were recited in an empty and closed auditorium.
The closed word is rewritten as an open word on the outside prop door, and the door that blocks the protagonist's way in the shadow puppet play is opened, and one of the most classic Chinese horror movie shots is used, the protagonist sees a ghost behind us on the screen, raising his claws at us.
In "Paper Wedding Dress 3 Mandarin Duck Debt", on the basis of the picture, sound effects, and interactive performance, a level was added to supplement this more complex idea. At the beginning of the story, the female protagonist was comatose at home, and after the male protagonist sent to the hospital for this "ghost journey" was temporarily over, the camera turned, and it turned out that the female protagonist had never left with the male protagonist, but the Yang soul was separated from the body and trapped at home. The previous scene of the male protagonist being affected by inexplicable things at home is actually the influence of the female protagonist's yang soul on the real world, so the new scene is a supplementary explanation of the "inner world" in the male protagonist's previous scene.
Not to mention the last scene, Shen Moqing in order to save her lover, after the three reckless left two, fell off the cliff countless times, and Wang Jiaotong also did not want to see her lover die for herself, resolutely broke her wrist, this period with music, visual effects, interactive performance, it can be said that directly pushed the "Paper Wedding Dress" series to a new height.
Arrogant on the surface, kind in fact, cowardly on the surface, but actually resolute, the story of Wang Jiaotong and Shen Moqing has once again made players have a new round of expectations for "Paper Wedding Dress".
Those that "Paper Wedding Dress" contributes to the market
Finally, I want to talk about the credit outside of the games of "Paper Wedding Dress", although for the player, this is not important.
At the beginning of the article, I expressed my admiration for this clever game. To a large extent, it was able to dance in shackles and dance gracefully while standing.
At the beginning, I almost missed this excellent folk horror game because of the cheap art style of the vertical screen and the pop-up advertising on the screen, in fact, this is indeed the difficulty of the horror mobile game that has always been the game, and the big category it belongs to, the IAA game.
As an IAA game, the Paper Wedding Series has been consistently generating revenue through click ads in puzzle hints. So the game chooses to follow a more reasonable rhythm, stuffed into some too complicated, multi-layered password puzzles, so that players can understand the puzzle after thinking, but because the actual link to crack the password is tedious and repetitive, so choose advertising to skip this guiding idea.
For example, this puzzle that distinguishes the true from the false according to the two people's arguments and places the nine-square grid props is a typical design that is expanded on the basis of common sense puzzles
This allows horror puzzle games to have more room to play in the IAA field, and in fact all puzzle games can learn this idea.
In addition, due to the success of "Paper Wedding Dress" itself in the folklore horror genre, but also awakened the market attention of this type, at present, TapTap has emerged a large number of folk horror games, and the number of reservations over 100,000 is also large, and many boutiques have emerged.
Although the "Paper Wedding Dress" series has achieved the fourth part, it is still a small-cost production, which can be seen from the research and development cycle and the presentation effect of clicking on the puzzle, but the production team is really very good at this kind of game to break through the market, and the game level is gradually rising, and what is more valuable is that its sequel will never lose itself because of the pursuit of the outside world, but has been trying to break through itself and bring new things.
If our game needs to tell more stories, then I would like to be the sober, wise, never-ending, and always-moving story of The Paper Wedding.