

Place the reticle over an interactive item and a hand icon will appear for you to open, turn on/off, and examine. Now White Day has no weapons for you to wield, so this small dot is used to focus your attention on items, documents, and puzzles scattered around the levels.

It does recommend a Normal playthrough for players accustomed to horror survival games, but we would suggest that maybe a run-through on Easy or even Very Easy first is probably advisable, not only to get a feel for the controls and layout of the school, but to also enjoy the story without fretting too much about surviving the many horrors that lurk within.Īs you explore the school, you'll notice that there's no HUD to speak of, and instead there's just a small reticle in the middle of the screen. There are five difficulty settings for you to choose from with Hell, the hardest of them, locked off to begin with. The school itself is said to have once been a hospital during the Korean War, and due to the amount of deaths there coupled with the imbalance of feng shui, the dead now roam the halls, attempting to take any hapless students and faculty with them.

Your only choice is to uncover the dark secrets that haunt the corridors and survive until morning. Not long after entering he discovers that he, along with a few other pupils, are trapped inside the building and are being harassed and hunted by possessed staff and violent spirits. The game takes place in a Korean school the night before White Day, featuring Lee Hui-min a new starter at Yeondu High, who sneaks in to prepare a surprise for his secret crush Han So-young a box of chocolates and her diary she had mislaid earlier in the day.

White Day: A Labyrinth Named School is a first-person survival-horror game published by PQube Limited for a Western release on PS4, but was originally developed and published by Korean studio Sonnori back in 2001 on PC for an Eastern audience. This practice, started back in the '70s, was a marketing ploy by companies to make money, but the day has been embraced across East Asia and is known as White Day. On March 14, boys and men across Japan, China, and South Korea give gifts of White chocolate, Marshmallows and other small presents to girls in reciprocation of Valentine's day the month before.
