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It is the second remake of White Day, with the first being a 2009 2D. Hindered exploration (the former of which later received a patch that reduced difficulty). 'Korean horror title White Day: A Labyrinth Named School set to get PS4 release'. This article is a copy paste from White Day: A Labyrinth Named School at White Day Wiki, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (Unported) license.; External links. White Day on White Day Wiki.; White Day on Namu.wiki (Korean) 화이트데이: 학교라는 이름의 미궁| White Day White Day - Remake website (Korean).
White Day: A Labyrinth Named School is a KoreanSurvival Horror game by Sonnori and distributed by Wizard Soft that tells a story of a young man's trip into school in the dead of night to deliver some candy in preparation for the Eastern holiday of the same name (similar to Valentine's Day in Western countries) to So-yeong, the archetypical Shrinking Violet target of affection.Advertisement:
It doesn't take long for the place to go from moody and dark into a full-blown nightmare as parts of the school begin to grow dilapidated, an insane janitor goes to town on a seemingly random student before he starts coming for you, and two girls that seem pretty unfazed about the school turning into a hellish nightmare. And everything goes downhill from there...
The game was released in Korea for PC in 2001 with an English European release planned by the UK-based 4AM Entertainment in 2004 (even including translated screens from the import game), but it was unfortunately cancelled. In the same year of cancelled localization, the game was re-released with six other games developed by Sonnorinote during their 10th anniversary in the Romance of Package compilation. The game was quite notable for several patches on the creator's site made to tone down the creepiness factor due to complaints from people being too terrified to finish the game and locked the real horrors away in the harder difficulties. It was later released on mobile phones in 2009 but sacrificed the 3D graphics for still images that hampered the atmosphere of the game.
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Since the cancellation of the localization and Sonnori closing up shop, the original game itself had become something of a rarity with a few people seeding torrents and file downloads in an attempt to keep a copy available. Unnamed Studios has been working on a fan-made translation/restoration project that translates the game and fixes the compatibility issues so it can be played on non-Korean PCs.
The game's graphics did not age well, but its place was between Clock Tower's 2D interpretation of the helpless victim and Resident Evil's 3D depiction of Badass Normal if it was a game using a first-person perspective that took functionally of a defenseless protagonist and pitted him against a haunted building with a stalker...
Soundsvaguelyfamiliar...
While regarded by many as a cult classic, the game had been seen by many as not having a chance of a sequel or re-release... However, in early 2016, it was announced it would be re-released for the PlayStation 4, made to be used with its new VR technology, and completely redone from the ground up. An Android and iOS version of the remake has been released overseas in April 2016 under the title The School: White Day, with a PC version that was quickly greenlit for Steam and was finally released on August 22, 2017 and can be purchased here. It was also released for PS4 the same month.
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Warning! Due to the nature of this game, it is best not to read any further past this point since the game can be a minefield of spoilers, despite the amount of spoilers covered up on this page.
White Day provides trope examples of:
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- Abandoned Hospital: According to Seong-ah, the school was built from one during an old war.
- Abandoned Playground: The school shows signs of regular wear and tear, but after you leave the vents in the first area it really begins to show.
- Alien Geometries: The weird maze at the end as well as the void as you escape the school.
- Air-Vent Passageway: One of the ways of getting around the school is going through the air vents found the restrooms and various places.
- Always Save the Girl: Not in the Hyacinth ending. You Bastard!.
- It's worth noting that choosing to stay and help sweet, timid, and kind-hearted Ji-hyeon leads you straight into the worst ending in the game.
- Ass Shove: By getting a pair of gloves from the biology room, it's possible to do this to one of the janitors. Doing so lets the player be able to steal a key which opens up a locker with a figure that gives you loads of lunchboxes.
- Ax-Crazy:
- The janitor, though it's more like creepy laugh and baseball bat crazy. There are two guys wandering the school with baseball bats.
- The Mother's half-ghost. A real peach that one is. Tragic, but nuts.
- Badass Grandpa: Lee-Bong-gu is a villainous example. The man is pushing 60 and has a pretty bad limp, but he'll beat you to death easily if he corners you.
- Batter Up!: The janitor's favorite toy. RUN.
- Bittersweet Ending:
- The Hyacinth ending where you make the Sadistic Choice to save yourself and leave So-yeong unconscious to die. It helps that this flower means 'I'm sorry'.
- The Tuberose (Ebony?) ending is this in a way. So-yeong is doomed, but Seong-ah is revived as a human and on your side. However, there is a stinger moment though, with Seong-ah giving the camera a bit of a Psychotic Smirk, it leaves one to wonder if she really is on your side at that point. She may not be, if she's been possessed as she was in the So-yeong endings...Uh-oh. There goes the sweetness.
- You can't save all the girls in any ending. Save ONE per ending. Choose Ji-hyeon, Seong-ah, or So-yeong. You can Take a Third Option where they all die except you. That is, at least overtly. Ji-hyeon is never directly involved in any of the plans and tends to be out of the way, so there's no reason to assume she dies in most endings even if she doesn't leave with you. For Seong-ah, there are implications it was never her to begin with, and she was already dead anyway, so she was arguably never in the running to be saved.
- Big Bad: Seong-ah
- Bigger Bad: The Master of the Labyrinth, the one possessing Seong-ah to begin with.
- 'Blind Idiot' Translation: An old translation was a horrible example of this.
- A translation/game-fixing project made by a person named Unnamed have mostly averted this, although some lines of text still remain in Korean. The project unfortunately ended for reasons unknown.
- Brown Note: Soon after you meet the two other sane people in the school, the fire alarm goes off and spooks one of them. Your next task is to turn it off. You will be sick of the sound within a minute, and it takes a bit to shut it off.
- Check-Point Starvation: Hard mode cuts down the number of pens available, making it much more strenuous on your progress. Real mode, however, the game eliminates your ability to save your game by removing the pens altogether.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: The first thing you see the janitor do is brutally beat a student to death then giggle about it. You'renext.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Not ALL the ghosts want you dead...
- Dead All Along: It turns out Seong-ah was already dead, and is possessed by the evil being trapped in school all along.
- Demonic Possession: Implied by a note from the janitor mentioning that he doesn't remember patrolling the school at night and he hopes that he's not contributing to the rising number of deaths at the school.
- Death by Falling Over: The fourth floor's broken guard rails. Doesn't stick. The mother comes back though she can't run.
- Difficulty Levels: The levels are Very Easy, Easy, Normal, Hard, and Real.
- Downer Ending: It is a survival horror game. The Ivy ending takes the cake though. Heartwarming at first glance. Then you realize Ji-hyeon's comment ' Oh...Its warm.' means that she and the hero are dying. After all it was so cold they could see their breath. Although it's a bit ambiguous, as there was just an inferno in the room and it would make sense to be warm, and the cold breath is always an effect in the game and the developers could simply have forgotten to turn it off in that scene.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Wow do you ever.
- Easier Than Easy: Very Easy, which also cuts down a lot of the creepiness in the game.
- Easy-Mode Mockery: Playing the game on anything below Normal will prevent you from accessing the game's Multiple Endings.
- Eldritch Location: The school is a haunted mess that has tens of ghosts haunting several rooms, a lot of it being students who died by suicide and at night, many of them come out to attack the students they find. Some parts of the school apparently have Alien Geometries that turn it into a Labyrinth. A lot of character reefer to the school as being cursed and it being at fault for a lot of the ghosts, and it seems to trap the souls inside of it.
- Evil All Along: Seong-ah.
- Evil Sounds Deep: The janitors Lee-Bong-gu and Son-Dal-su don't have any actual dialogue in the game, but instead make deep, almost animalistic, growls and grunts if they see you.
- Fanservice Pack: One of the DLC packs for the remake is the 'Swimsuit pack' which allows you to dress all the characters in swimsuits. So-young and Seong-A both don pretty revealing bikinis, and there's Gainaxing aplenty thanks to this. Especially with Seong-A.
- Flower Motifs: The titles of the endings you chosen depend on your action during this game: White Chrysanthemum (Truth), Hyacinth (Sorrow/Forgive Me), Ivy (Friendship), Tuberose (Dangerous Pleasure), Ebony (Hypocrisy/Darkness), Dandelion (Sincerity/Happiness), Althea (Consumed By Love), and Yew (Death).
- Fun with Acronyms: All the ending titles are acronyms for WHITE DAY, which is very surprising considering that there wasn't even an English Translation of the game for many years.
- Game-Breaking Bug: One in particular if the game is played on non-Korean PCs; in Chapter 3 of the game, if you get caught by one of the ceiling monsters, your game will freeze, you fly out of the map and become stuck with no way of getting out. The only way around this is to load your previous save and try to avoid being caught again, although this could be rage-inducing if you're playing on Real mode which strips you of your ability to save. Thankfully this was fixed in v16 of Unnamed's Improved Version.
- Harder Than Hard: Real mode. All the horrors the game has to offer that were locked away in lesser difficulty levels due to complaints of game's fear factor are in full effect here. Also, you cannot save your game on Real. And there's a time limit to boot! Didn't finish the game within midnight (in-game)? Sucks.
- Hyperactive Metabolism: Drinking Soyabean Milk, Canned Coffee, or eating Lunch Boxes refills your health.
- Implacable Man: The Janitor. He cannot be fought. He cannot be killed. You can only run, and pray he loses track of you. The Janitor does get knocked out in the third chapter. But then there's the second one... and he doesn't have a limp. Or if you can, get the gloves from the biology room and... well...
- Kill It with Fire: A boss takes place in an inferno If you help Ji-hyeon after the boss fight it becomes the Final Boss. Also a very important plot point has to do with fire. Seong-ah's death as well as her mother's descent into madness.
- Knife Nut: Seong-ah's mother. You're the target.
- Meaningful Name: White Day, the whole reason why you are in the school in the first place.
- Meganekko: Ji-hyeon. Ironically enough, she also earned herself the nickname 'Glasses Girl'.
- Ms. Fanservice: Seong-Ah has certainly become this in the remake since most of her DLC costumes were designed to show off her figure (especially her swimsuit). Hell, her latest one is called 'Sexy Santa', which looks exactly like what you'd expect.
- Multiple Endings: Several as long as you don't play the game on any difficulty below Normal. From worst to best: Yew, Ivy, Althea, Tuberose, Ebony, Hyacinth, Dandelion, and White Chrysanthemum.
- Nice Guy: Hui-min, the main character. Ji-hyeon is fairly sweet as a female example.
- Ji-hyeon mentions that Lee-Bong-gu (the janitor with a limp) is 'nice in the daytime'.
- Non-Action Guy: You have two options when being pursued: run, or die.
- Non-Standard Game Over: Most of the player character's endings are of him dying in some way. There's one you can only get on Real, in which you let the in-game clock hit midnight.
- Reincarnation: Seong-ah's motive. All well and good, too bad that can only happen if So-yeong is sacrificed.
- Rewatch Bonus: When the fire alarm goes off at the beginning of the game, it just seems like an annoying obstacle that takes you into a really weird room. By the end of the game, or on a second playthrough, you might realize that it was actually the first haunting, and the girl who was so freaked out by the sound was the one killed in the event it was repeating.
- Sadistic Choice: Whichever girl you help potentially dooms the other two to a Fate Worse than Death.
- Save-Game Limits: You can only save with pens which are found scattered throughout the environment. Use them wisely.
- Spell My Name with an 'S': Earlier versions of Unnamed's version of the translation had instances of this with names like So Young and Ji Hyun instead of the more technical So-yeong and Ji-hyeon respectively, although these can be used alternate spellings of the characters' names.
- The Tease: Seong-Ah certainly acts this way when you first meet her, being quite flirtatious with Hee-min in order to get him to do what she wants.
- Temporary Platform: The last level as escaping the school. Whether or not you take So-yeong with you is up to you.
- 13 Is Unlucky: The date the game takes place is on March 13th, on the night before White Day.
- Timed Mission: Hard and Real mode have a time limit that you must complete the game in. And you don't want to let the timer reach zero.
- Tsundere: Seong-Ah. Holy fuck Seong-Ah. Though out out of everyone in the school, she is the only one who saves YOU.TWICE!
- Tragic Monster:
- As freakin' NUTS as she may be Seong-Ah's mother is this. The reason she is so kill crazy? Would you not snap a little if your child died in a fire and you could do NOTHING to help her?
- Also it's implied the janitor is possessed. Explains a lot.
- Seong-Ah herself.
- Updated Re-release: Unnamed Studios' Improved Version of the game, albeit a fan-made updated re-release, contains some changed things (such as all difficulties available from the start), added some extras features (skins/costumes for the female characters), and removed a lot of glitches and crashes. v15.9 also added a multiplayer component.
- An official remake of the game is coming out in 2016 for the PS4, complete with graphics redone from the ground up, a new game engine, and compatibility with PlayStation VR.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: The student that's presumably killed by the janitor at the beginning of the game is never directly acknowledged and has no known reason to be at the school after closing unlike the rest of the cast. Presumably this was to show that the janitor is a threat for the sake of the gameplay, but it might be leftover from one of the earlier versions of the game that had a bigger cast.
- When Trees Attack: When finally run into So-Yeong early into the game, she gets roped in by an evil tree and you have to save her quickly if you want her to survive.
- Wildcard: The protagonist's decision to enter the school at night could either hinder the plan of the BigBad or help it along.
- Woman in White: Two of them. One of them seems fairly benign and occasionally appears to point out important items to you. The other one clings to the ceiling and you have to defeat her. Both are also examples of Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl.
Alternative Title(s):White Day
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White Day: A Labyrinth Named School | |
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Developer(s) | Sonnori |
Publisher(s) | Wizard Soft 4AM Entertainment[1] |
Director(s) | Lee Eun-Seok (이은석) |
Producer(s) | Seo Gwan-hi (서관희) |
Writer(s) | Lee Jeong-sul (이정술) |
Composer(s) | Hwang Byung-ki |
Engine | WangReal Engine |
Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
Release | |
Genre(s) | First Person Survival horror Adventure Multiplayer |
Mode(s) | Single player |
White Day: A Labyrinth Named School, known as (Hangul: 화이트데이: 학교라는 이름의 미궁 ; RR: hwaiteudei: hakgyoraneun ireumui migung) in Korea, is a survival-horror game developed and published by Korean game development studio, Sonnori in 2001.
The game was remade in 2015 by ROI Games, directed and produced by the former CEO (Lee Won-Sool) of Sonnori. The remake was released for mobile phones in 2015, and for Windows and PlayStation 4 platforms in August 22, 2017 through publisher PQube Limited in North America and Europe market.[2]
Plot[edit]
Yeondu High School's construction led to the unbalanced feng shui around the area. It is said that the area used to be a perfect natural landscape before it was built. During the Korean War, the school was a hospital. Many visitors and builders died during the construction of the building that had awakened the power (Qi) of the imbalance of feng shui and the ghosts from the hospital's past, so a geomancer was brought in to construct 5 amulets representing the five elements (Wu Xing). He then equally spread them around the school to balance feng shui and resist the spirits, preventing them from interfering with the living. However, it also locked all the spirits inside the school, preventing them from going to the afterlife. This was kept a secret from that day onwards.One spirit, the 'Master of the Labyrinth' could not stand being unable to escape the Schools hold and sought a way to escape it, eventually using the body of Na-yeong in 1997, threatening that she could never leave her.
One day, in 1998, a lab fire broke out in the Home Economics room, resulting in the death of Seong-ah. Seong-ah was a very close friend of Na-yeong (So-yeong's older sister) and died because of her asthma. This upset Na-yeong and she started resisting the master of the labyrinth. Seong-ah became trapped in the School because of the amulet's power and could not pass on.
The music teacher, Ji-won, had discovered the school's past and began to study it and deeply believed that he could resurrect the dead using the power of feng shui in the area. One day, Seong-ah's mother Eun-mi visited and asked for the resurrection of her daughter with Ji-won deciding to help her out so he can prove that his theory was right. To revive the dead, three people were needed:
- A person who calls the dead (Seong-ah's mother, Choi Eun-mi)
- A person who can break the seals using the amulets (one who sees ghosts - the music teacher, Ji-won)
- A sacrifice (Na-yeong).
They successfully called Na-yeong to the school at night, but somehow, the ritual went wrong because of the master of the labyrinth interfering and stopping Na-yeong being sacrificed. The seals also had to be broken one by one, with some seals having to remain unbroken while the land regains its strength, otherwise, the spirits will go to the afterlife if all of them are broken. Seong-ah was only partially revived, with her Qi being input wrong and the master taking advantage of this to gain an empty body/vessel to possess. Her mother went crazy (as was warned could happen when you try to revive the dead) and the music teacher, stricken with grief, killed himself. Shortly after, Na-yeong tried to resist the master of the labyrinths possession and in return was forced to hang herself. The master moved onto the now partially revived Seong-ah and possessed her for the next three years as an empty vessel, posing as a normal student. The possession is explained in one of the notes in the game.
...After more days of research, I theorized about this. I found a possible way to resurrect people from the dead. Let me explain, if you were to find a source of Qi (energy) somewhere in the school coming from the afterlife, and that Qi belonged to the person you're trying to resurrect, if you were to reverse the Qi emanated from the cycle of the dead persons life, you could effectively put the Qi from the afterlife back into its dead body. I desperately wanted to further investigate this, but I had to acknowledge the risks. What if the wrong source of Qi from the afterlife were to go into the wrong dead body? If that were to happen, then the dead body would become possessed. And what if a source of Qi from the afterlife was so strong, it could do this on its own? This school has more threats than I thought. Some sort of resurrection ritual would be incredibly dangerous, I do not want to risk it.
Gameplay[edit]
White Day is a first personsurvival horror with numerous adventure game elements and a plot background based on the ancient Chinese religious studies of Taosim (mainly Wu Xing, Feng Shui and Qi). The game has multiple difficulty modes that you can choose from, with hard and real difficulties only unlocked later.
The game has its own Heads Up Display, where there is a heartbeat icon showing the health condition, a compass which you acquire early in the game and a square showing the current equipped item.
There are no weapons in White Day, as you assume the role of Lee Hui-min, a typical high school boy student cooperating with Han So-yeong, Seol Ji-hyeon and Kim Seong-ah; who are also trapped in the school with you, you have to go through the school and ultimately escape unharmed by the numerous threats that want you dead.The game uses a multiple choice based conversational system, which is rather known as Conversation Tree or Dialog tree, a common feature in adventure games. The dialog choices you make when interacting with the NPCs affect the story progression and the ending you get. There are eight (8) different endings you can get, each determining which girl you end up escaping with (or dying with, depending on the girl).
When one of the two Janitors find you (indicated by the sounds of keys rattling), he will blow his whistle and proceed to chase you wherever you go until you outrun him or lose him by hiding. If he catches up to you, he will repeatedly hit you with his bat until you are dead. The Janitor finds you much easier if you make loud noises (running, opening doors, turning on lights, etc..) and whether you are hiding in the dark or light won't affect how easily you can be discovered as he wields a flashlight in his left hand at all times.
Falling from a height, walking into ghosts or taking damage from other hazards will cause the screen to flash red and increase the rate of your heartbeat, which is heard in-game. Running for too long will make you tired and also increase the rate of your heartbeat.
Health items such as Soyabean Milk, Lunch Boxes and Coffee Cans can recover your stamina and health and can be obtained by inserting 500 won Coins in Vending Machines placed in hallways and rooms around the school. The game also has several equipable items that assist you through your journey such as the Matches, the Lighter or the Flashlight.Through exploring the school the player will find many documents, some relating to the school, the people in it, the construction of it and backstories to the ghosts you encounter.
Features[edit]
As commercialized:
- 'Multiplayer option play as a ghost, demon, school kid or janitor (Cancelled)'
- 'Full 3D play'
- 'Ingenious puzzles that get progressively harder'
- 'Movie storyline and cut scenes'
- 'First horror survival game played completely in full first person perspective'
- 'Genuinely scary'
- 'Movie quality soundtrack'
Remakes[edit]
A remake came out in 2009 in South Korea for mobile phones, which replaced the 3D exploration with still, 2D drawings.
The game was remade again in 2015, also for mobile phones (though this version was in 3D and more accurately represented the original product) by developer ROI Games. A version for PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows was released worldwide in August 2017.
References[edit]
- ^Justin Calvert (2003 nyeon 11 wol 17 il). 'WhiteDay confirmed for UK'. Game Spot. Also confirmed on October 2, 2007.
- ^'Korean horror title White Day: A Labyrinth Named School set to get PS4 release'. Crash Landed. May 4, 2017. Retrieved May 5, 2017.
- This article is a copy paste from White Day: A Labyrinth Named School at White Day Wiki, which is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (Unported) license.
External links[edit]
- White Day on White Day Wiki.
- 화이트데이: 학교라는 이름의 미궁 | White Day White Day - Remake website (Korean)
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