Paper Cut Mansion Review (Xbox Series S)
For our Paper Cut Mansion Review, we play a roguelike horror set in a cardboard universe. Explore, Solve Puzzles, Discover The Story, Fight or Flee, Prepare to Die, Gear Up, and Repeat! Play as Toby, a police detective arriving at a mysterious old mansion. Explore the mansion floor by floor as you seek to unravel the story behind this bizarre place, with each run giving you the opportunity to collect another piece of evidence to be added to your Evidence Board. The Mansion also hosts a mysterious cast of characters who may help or hinder your progress on each run…
Paper Cut Mansion Review Pros:
- Beautiful papercraft-looking graphics.
- 2.1GB download size.
- 1000 Gamerscore.
- The brilliant opening sequence, song, and all!
- Has a Tim Burton feel to it.
- Puzzle gameplay.
- Interact with objects by rotating them around and opening and closing drawers etc.
- The Green moth acts like a radar and will tell you when something important or missing is still in the room.
- You go from room to room, level by level of the mansion.
- Riddles can be found and solved.
- Generally speaking, the answers to puzzles are hidden in the rooms.
- Simple aim and shoot gun combat.
- Interact with NPC to get story, hints, or clues.
- Portals can be entered and change the way the world is like changing the atmosphere etc.
- 3 difficulties – Normal, hard, and very hard.
- Boss encounters.
- Each time you go through a portal, you are in the same world but in a different time or atmosphere.
- Discover evidence to fill in your board and uncover story elements.
- Coins can be found and are used to buy medicine, boosts, or packages.
- Packages are random and give upgrades or abilities, and are permanently unlocked.
- Folder to fill in with packages and weapons.
- Interactive elements will highlight.
- Ghosts can appear and will chase you for a short time, you cannot damage them but if they hit you then you lose coins.
- Booby traps a plenty.
- Earn medals for solving riddles and pick a medal that changes your stats and is placed on your jacket.
- Roguelike elements.
- Levels and room layouts are randomized every run.
- Upon death, you lose all stat changes and coins.
- Love the style of it all.
- The voice work is excellent.
Paper Cut Mansion Review Cons:
- The opening section is a slow walk.
- You can only go to the settings in the main menu.
- The game is not that good at explaining what’s going on.
- No map or anything.
- Constant feeling of being lost.
- Not always sure what the game wants from you.
- Small claustrophobic rooms which is a pain when it’s a combat encounter.
- Every run, the game thinks it’s your first one and will give all the same dialogue again.
- NPC will repeat themselves.
- The auto-aim goes wonky and will just randomly lock onto the wrong enemy or maybe it won’t lock on at all.
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Paper Cut Mansion:
Developer: Space Lizard Studio
Publisher: Thunderful Games
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