Leaving Zangling village full of crazy horror customs, from the wrong twin point of view to the cruel paper bride custom, in part 4 of the Paper Bride game series, Paper Bride 4 Bound Love, we will go to Yichang Town.
The player for personal reasons accidentally went to Yichang Town, a small town in the Chinese countryside. The game scene from the beginning was tinged with gloom, signaling unexpected turns in this trip. Players going here will meet an old friend who has been lost for a long time. But this meeting unexpectedly led to a series of ghostly consequences later.
Everything in Paper Bride 4 Bound Love begins with a seemingly normal question “Long time no see, how are you”. Even now, you are still unaware that you are talking to a ghost. And that ghost is also the matchmaker for a seemingly very good marriage.
How things will turn out when you and the new girl you meet, through the introduction of an old friend, are separated. However, the feelings that arise are real. How to make this confusing love story cross the line between life and death? And the other friend, good or bad, is the one who wants to take over your body or is it just a family man?
What makes Paper Bride 4 Bound Love so interesting compared to the previous 3 parts is the dream and reality space happen to be intertwined. In the end, if you give up and are not brave enough, you will have to give up your real life and forever become a wandering ghost to live happily with the person you love. And if you are rational, really awake, and decisively the other cruel predestined relationship, you will return to your true self in the world, but carry a wound that is hard to heal.
What’s improved in Paper Bride 4 Bound Love?
Part 4 of the Paper Bride series has accumulated significant experience from the previous games to create a compelling 3D appearance, full of depth with richer character expressions.
Paper Bride 4 Bound Love also retains the observational gameplay, object interaction, and logical thinking of crossing the screen and solving many horror puzzles to reach the final goal of the character. However, the gloomy atmosphere, the quality of the puzzles, and the hundreds of clues constantly appearing in this game can make you feel a bit overwhelmed compared to the previous parts. The horror thus also escalates, the feeling of inhibition, difficulty breathing, and heart pounding in the new, cold space will make you constantly afraid, afraid of even the most familiar items in everyday life when they are present in the game.
This game also appears a new cast of characters, mysterious both in terms of identity and role in the game. The background music is lamentable, and ghostly, making each heart flutter.
Also in this game, you will witness boldly different aspects of traditional Chinese folklore. Elements such as paper puppets, paper dolls, charms, exorcisms, and even bronze-casting spells also appear in this game with much more frequency than in the previous parts.
