Welshy15m ago(Edited 13m ago)
Puzzles are there as a gameplay representation of the challenges your character is coming across in the game. Without that down time between combat and scares it would get monotonous real fast in most survival horror games.
Sometimes that down time or time spent doing puzzles is the most effective part of the horror since you’re wondering when the scares are going to come back or some is going to attack you.
