The Horror Story of Mid-Autumn Festival in the Game Evaluation of Paper Wedding Dress 4 Wrapped in HongLing

Although horror movies and games are not popular, they are still loved by some brave and cautious loyal fans. In my opinion, in recent years, horror games seem to be more and more keen to join the folk elements of various countries.

For example, interactive movie's game "Cry in the Quarry" ostensibly tells the story of a summer camp in a quarry in new york, USA, and the final "mystery" is related to the "werewolf" in western folklore;

For example, the shooting game Ghost Line: Tokyo, which is ridiculed as a horror coat, takes Japanese folk culture as one of the main selling points of the game.

There must be friends who want to ask, are there any horror games with China cultural elements?

Of course there is. Paper wedding dress series is a series of China horror puzzle games developed by HeartNet, among which the first three works have received extremely good response and scored extremely high scores on taptap.

On August 12, the paper wedding dress went online for the fourth time. So whether the latest sequel of this high-scoring series is worth your experience and what kind of horror it has reached, the author will give you a brief evaluation of this game below. (Front row tip: the evaluation involves mild spoilers)

First, the China element can be used freely.

August 12, the release time, must also be the "auspicious day" that operators deliberately choose. Why do you say that? August 12 this year corresponds to the Mid-Autumn Festival of the lunar calendar, which is also commonly known as "Ghost Festival". According to the traditional custom of our country, Mid-Autumn Festival generally needs to worship ancestors by burning paper money and setting off river lanterns in order to pray for good luck and a bumper harvest in the coming year. In folklore, there will be a large number of ghosts marching in the street on the Mid-Autumn Festival, which obviously conforms to the horror theme of this book.

The theme of the game revolves around an electronic wedding invitation. The hostess Cui Wanying received a cursed e-invitation and asked her to forward it to her relatives and friends.

Although invitations are widely used all over the world, "wedding invitations" are a unique feature of China culture. Wedding invitations, in particular, are generally designed vertically in red, with men's and women's names written and some words of blessing written to express the meaning of celebration. Although the network is developed now, and there are not a few people who send invitations through the network, it is obvious that the electronic invitation of this book still retains the traditional design habits.

In terms of solving puzzles, this work also incorporates many folk elements. For example, on the bus that the male host takes, the player can get a large number of banknotes (Mingbi) by opening the box for collecting banknotes; However, the protagonists have strayed into Yichang Town, which is not only the Mid-Autumn Festival, but also institutions that need players to explore and solve puzzles, such as puppet shows, lanterns painted by Kongming and paintings of Tang Hua.

It can be said that the creative team has a rich understanding of China culture, especially the Mid-Autumn Festival culture, which is also the reason why folk customs and games can be combined so closely. In May of this year, Paper Wedding Dress 2 was officially released on steam. Presumably, this way of exporting China culture through games is easier to be accepted and spread by foreigners.

Second, the atmosphere of terror is excellent.

An excellent horror work doesn't use jumpscar too much, that is, a ghost or scary thing suddenly appears, but uses plot, music and scenes to create a horrible atmosphere.

In this painting, the man claims that Chen Rui used to take an ordinary bus, but as the clear sky suddenly turned cloudy, all the passengers on the bus magically disappeared and were replaced by several lifelike paper characters. These paper men wear different clothes. For example, the paper man "passenger" opposite Zhang Chenrui is dressed as a lady. Although they don't move, but

And the whole scene is full of strange and horrible breath.

On the one hand, the paper men's sense of terror comes from the "valley of terror effect". According to this theory, the degree of personification of a non-human object increases, but the emotional response of human beings to it decreases. In short, the more inhuman things look like people, the more terrible they will be.

On the other hand, paper men are also taboo in China. The paper burner is either a custom in China's funeral culture or a superstitious curse to a specific person. From this point of view, perhaps the horror experienced by China people in Paper Wedding Dress 4 should be stronger than that experienced by foreigners.

What makes people's heart beat faster is that players even need to directly interact with these terrible paper characters to solve puzzles and promote the development of the plot-for example, the man can only escape after pressing a box under the "lady" with red high heels. What the player needs to do is to break the fingers of the "lady" one by one before taking out the high heels. This kind of detail is easy for players to substitute into the perspective of the male host and feel the horror face to face.

This close terrorist interaction does not stop there. When players solve puzzles in Yichang Town, there is a link in which players need to exchange masks with a paper man A through an ingot, and then put the mask on another paper man B. At that time, when the author gave the ingot to a paper man A, the paper man took off its mask in front of me, directly revealing a remnant.

Lack of head almost didn't send the author away on the spot.

Therefore, timid players still suggest never playing paper wedding series, which is really scary.

Third, the advertising model is not the natural enemy of the game.

To tell the truth, there is a common problem in the paper wedding dress series, that is, you need to read the puzzle tips or watch the advertisements between levels for dozens of seconds to continue.

Nowadays, many stand-alone mobile games have advertisements, and players are never used to game manufacturers. It is common to give a score of 1 star when commenting on the fire in the area. However, to the author's surprise, the paper wedding dress series was hardly scolded for advertising. Take taptap comment area of paper wedding dress 3 as an example. On the contrary, many players said that "manufacturers' conscience" and "advertising has little impact". This scene of defending manufacturers is really rare.

Investigate its reason, I think there are probably two aspects:

On the one hand, the quality of the game itself has passed, and the so-called hard work is needed while the iron is hot. Many bad reviews of the game are rooted in itself.

On the other hand, the insertion method and duration of paper wedding advertisements are very reasonable. To know that this game itself is a puzzle game, players will jump to the advertising interface when they need tips. Obviously, people can accept a short advertising time more than sticking to a certain custom. Of course, if you are a player who knows a series of game routines, you can get through customs almost without watching advertisements.

In the comment area of previous works, players did not shy away from advertisements, some ridiculed themselves as "advertising god of war" and even called on the official to update the advertising content, which really made people laugh and cry.

Before the release of the game, the official of Paper Wedding Clothes 4 also called on everyone not to introduce the game too soon, because the mode of "watching advertisements and getting tips" was almost their only means of profit. However, the official appeal is still not enough to satisfy the players' enthusiasm for this game. Within one day of its release, Baidu has a lot of raiders for players' reference.

Therefore, some manufacturers who are not good enough and always want to make money should not regard advertising as a fig leaf of game quality. Game developers also need proper meals, which is a problem that most players can realize.

Four. conclusion

The game duration of "Paper Wedding Clothes 4" varies from person to person. The author, a brain-dead player who is not good at solving puzzles, may need to draw more time, while a player who knows routines may only spend an hour or two clearing customs. But in any case, the game as a whole is still very interesting, and the atmosphere of terror is really full. Generally speaking, as long as you are mentally prepared, you might as well download this book to experience it!