History VideoGame / WhiteDayALabyrinthNamedSchool

The game was released in Korea for [[IBMPersonalComputer Windows PC]] in 2001 and an English European release was planned by the UK-based 4AM Entertainment in 2004 (even including translated screens from the import game), but [[NoExportForYou it was unfortunately cancelled]]. In the same year of cancelled localization, the game was re-released with six other games developed by Sonnori[[labelnote:*]](the other games are ''Astonishia Story'', ''Darkside Story'', ''Forgotten Saga'', ''Steel Empire'', ''Arcturus'', and ''Astonishia Story R'')[[/labelnote]] during their [[MilestoneCelebration 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 away the real horrors away in the harder difficulties. A port to mobile phones was released in 2009 but sacrificed the 3D graphics for still images that hampered the atmosphere of the game.

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'''''White Day: A Labyrinth Named School''''' is a Korean SurvivalHorror game by Creator/{{Sonnori}} 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 ShrinkingViolet target of affection.

'''''White Day: A Labyrinth Named School''''' is a Korean SurvivalHorror game by Sonnori 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 ShrinkingViolet target of affection.

Since the cancellation of the localization and Sonnori closing up shop, the game itself has become something of a rarity with a few people seeding torrents and file downloads in an attempt to [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes keep a copy available]]. Unnamed Studios has worked a fan-made translation/restoration project that fixes the game so it can be played on non-Korean [=PC=]s, improved the translations, and the works. The project, unfortunately, has been discontinued as of December 2013, ending with v15.9. You can find Unnamed Studios' translation patch [[http://www.unnamedstudios.net/p/whiteday.html here]].

* AbandonedHospital: According to Ji-hyeon, the school was built from one during an old war.

* GameBreakingBug: One in particular if the game is played on non-Korean [=PC=]s; 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 rage-inducing if you're playing on Real mode which strips you of your ability to save. Thankfully this was fixed in v15.9 of Unnamed's Improved Version.

* GameBreakingBug: One in particular if the game is played on non-Korean [=PC=]s; 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 rage-inducing if you're playing on Real mode which strips you of your ability to save. Thankfully this fixed in v15.9 of Unnamed's Improved Version.

Since the cancellation of the localization and Sonnori closing up shop, the game itself has become something of a rarity with a few people seeding torrents and file downloads in an attempt to [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes keep a copy available]]. An fan-made translation project by Unnamed Studios is currently on-going and working on restoring the game so it can be played on non-Korean [=PC=]s, improved translations, bug-fixes, and the works. You can find Unnamed Studios' translation patch [[http://www.unnamedstudios.net/p/whiteday.html here]].

** 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 is still on-going though and Unnamed does plan of fixing these whenever possible.

* GameBreakingBug: One in particular if the game is played on non-Korean [=PC=]s; 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 rage-inducing if you're playing on Real mode which strips you of your ability to save.

* UpdatedRerelease: 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.

Since the cancellation of the localization and Sonnori closing up shop, the game itself has become something of a rarity with a few people seeding torrents and file downloads in an attempt to [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes keep a copy available]]. An fan-made project by Unnamed Studios is currently on-going and working on restoring the game so it can be played on non-Korean [=PC=]s, new translations, bug-fixes, and the works. The game's graphics did not age well, but its place was between ''VideoGame/ClockTower''[='=]s 2D interpretation of the helpless victim and ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''[='=]s 3D depiction of BadassNormal if it was a game using a [[FirstPersonShooter first-person perspective]] that took functionally of a [[ControllableHelplessness defenseless protagonist]] and pitted him against a haunted building with a stalker...

** A translation/game-fixing project made by a person named Unnamed have mostly averted this, although some lines of text still remain in Korean along with out of place translations such as "maths", although some of the translation work is out of his abilities. The project is still on-going though and Unnamed does plan of fixing these whenever possible.
*** Although it does state on Unnamed's page that it is a British English translation, so "maths" would be correct.

'''''White Day: A Labyrinth Named School'''''[[labelnote:*]](stylized as "''Whiteday [a labyrinth named School]''")[[/labelnote]] is a Korean SurvivalHorror game by Sonnori 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 ShrinkingViolet target of affection.

The game was released in Korea for [[IBMPersonalComputer Windows PC]] in 2001 and an English European release was planned by the UK-based 4AM Entertainment in 2004 (even including translated screens from the import game), but [[NoExportForYou it was unfortunately cancelled]]. In the same year of cancelled localization, the game was re-released with six other games developed by Sonnori[[labelnote:*]](the other games are ''Astonisha Story'', ''Darkside Story'', ''Forgotten Saga'', ''Steel Empire'', ''Arcturus'', and ''Astonisha Story R'')[[/labelnote]] during their [[MilestoneCelebration 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 away the real horrors away in the harder difficulties. A port to mobile phones was released in 2009 but sacrificed the 3D graphics for still images that hampered the atmosphere of the game.

* AssShove: By getting a pair of gloves from the biology room, it's possible to do this to one of the janitors. [[spoiler: 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.]]
* AxCrazy: The janitor, though it's more like creepy laugh and baseball bat crazy. [[spoiler: There are two guys wandering the school with baseball bats.]]

* BlindIdiotTranslation: An old translation was a horrible example of this. Thankfully, new ones have averted this mostly.
** A translation/game-fixer project made by a person named Unnamed have mostly averted this, although some lines of text still remain in Korean, although some of the translation work is out of his abilities. The project is still on-going though and Unnamed does plan of fixing these whenever possible.

** HarderThanHard: [[NintendoHard Real]]. 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)? [[NonStandardGameOver Sucks]].

* GameBreakingBug: One in particular if the game is played in non-Korean [=PC=]s; 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 be quick, save often, and try avoid being caught. Although this could rage-inducing considering Real strips you of your ability to save.

** Or if you can, get the gloves from the biology room and... [[AssShove well...]]

* NiceGuy: The main character. Ji-hyeon is fairly sweet as a female example.
* NonActionGuy: You have two options when being pursued. Run. or die.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Earlier versions of Unnamed version 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.

* UpdatedRerelease: Unnamed Studios' Patched version of the game contains some changed things (such as all difficulties available from start), added some extra things (skins/costumes for the female characters), and removed a lot of glitches and crashes.

'''''White Day: A Labyrinth named School'''''[[labelnote:*]](stylized as "''Whiteday [a labyrinth named School]''")[[/labelnote]] is a Korean SurvivalHorror game by Sonnori 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 ShrinkingViolet target of affection.

** [[CheckPointStarvation Save Game Starvation]]: In the Real difficulty, the game eliminates your ability to save your game by removing the pens altogether.

* UpdatedRerelease: Unnamed Studios' Patched version of the game contains some changed things (such as all difficulties available from start), added some extra things (skins/costumes for the female characters), and removed alot of glitches and crashes.

It doesn't take long for the place to go from moody and dark into [[NightmareSequence a full-blown nightmare]] as parts of the school begin to grow dilapidated, an [[AxCrazy insane]] security guard goes to town on a seemingly random adult before he starts coming for you, and two girls that seem pretty unfazed about the school turning into a hellish nightmare. [[FromBadToWorse And everything goes downhill from there]]...

* GameBreakingBug: One in particular in Chapter 3 of the game where if one of the ceiling monsters catches you, 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 be quick, save often, and try avoid being caught. Although this could rage-inducing consider Real strips you of your ability to save.

The game was released in Korea for [[IBMPersonalComputer Windows PC]] in 2001 and an English European release was planned by the UK-based 4AM Entertainment in 2004 (even including translated screens from the import game), but [[NoExportForYou it was unfortunately cancelled]]. In the same year of cancelled localization, the game was re-released with six other games developed by Sonnori[[labelnote:*]](other games are ''Astonisha Story'', ''Darkside Story'', ''Forgotten Saga'', ''Steel Empire'', ''Arcturus'', and ''Astonisha Story R'')[[/labelnote]] during their [[MilestoneCelebration 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 away the real horrors the game has to offer in the harder difficulties. A port to mobile phones was released in 2009 but sacrificed the 3D graphics for still images that hampered the atmosphere of the game.

Since the cancellation of the localization and Sonnori closing up shop, the game itself has become something of a rarity with a few people seeding torrents and file downloads in an attempt to [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes keep a copy available]]. An fan-made project by Unnamed Studios is currently on-going and working on restoring the game so it can be played on non-Korean [=PC=]s, new translations, bug-fixes, and the works. The game's graphics did not age well, but its place was between ''VideoGame/ClockTower''[='=]s 2D interpretation of the helpless victim and ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''[='=]s 3D depiction of BadassNormal was a 3D game in full [[FirstPersonShooter first-person]] mode that took functionally of a [[ControllableHelplessness defenseless protagonist]] and pitted him against a haunted building with a stalker...

** HarderThanHard: [[NintendoHard Real]]. 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? [[NonStandardGameOver Sucks.]]

* SaveGameLimits: You can only save with marker pens which are found scattered throughout the environment. Use them wisely.
** [[CheckPointStarvation Save Game Starvation]]: In the Real difficulty, the game eliminates your ability to save your game by removing the marker pens altogether.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The first thing you see the janitor do is brutally beat an innocent(?) man to death then giggle about it. [[PursuedProtagonist You're]] [[OhCrap next]].

*** Considering, that there is a [[spoiler:[[TheStinger stinger]] moment of that though, with Seong-ah giving the camera a bit of a PsychoticSmirk, 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...[[OhCrap Uh-oh]]. There goes the [[BittersweetEnding sweetness]].]]

*** Considering, that there is a [[spoiler:[[TheStinger stinger]] moment of that though, with Seong-ah giving the camera a DeathGlare, 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...[[OhCrap Uh-oh]]. There goes the [[BittersweetEnding sweetness]].]]

The game was released in Korea for [[IBMPersonalComputer Windows PC]] in 2001 and an English European release was planned by the UK-based 4AM Entertainment in 2004 (even including translated screens from the import game), but [[NoExportForYou it was unfortunately cancelled]]. In the same year of cancelled localization, the game was re-released with nine other games developed by Sonnori 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 away the real horrors the game has to offer in the harder difficulties. A port to mobile phones was released in 2009 but sacrificed the 3D graphics for still images that hampered the atmosphere of the game.

* AlternateEnding: Named for various flowers; [[spoiler:from worst to best: Yew, Ivy, Althea, Tuberose, Ebony, Hyacinth, Dandelion, and White Chrysanthemum]].

* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding: The Hyacinth ending where you make the SadisticChoice to save yourself and leave So-yeong unconscious to die.]] It helps that this flower means [[spoiler:"I'm sorry"]].

** [[spoiler:You can't save all the girls in any ending. Save ONE per ending. Choose Ji-hyeon, Seong-ah, or So-yeong]]. As stated above you can TakeAThirdOption [[spoiler:where they all die except you]].

** A translation/game-fixer project made by a person named Unnamed have mostly averted this, although some lines of text still remain in Korean. The project is still on-going though.
* BrownNote: [[spoiler: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.

* KnifeNut: [[spoiler:Seong-ah's mother]]. You're the target.

It doesn't take long for the place to go from moody and dark to [[NightmareSequence a flat-out nightmare]] as parts of the school begin to grow dilapidated, an [[AxCrazy insane]] security guard goes to town on a seemingly random adult 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...

'''Warning!''' Due to the nature of this game, it is best not to read any further past this point since the game is a minefield of spoilers, despite the amount of spoilers covered up on this page.

!!The game provides examples of:
* AbandonedPlayground: The school shows signs of regular wear and tear, but [[spoiler:after you leave the vents in the first area]] it really begins to show.
* [[spoiler:AlienGeometries]]: The weird [[spoiler:maze at the end as well as the void as you escape the school]].

* AlternateEnding: Named for various flowers; [[spoiler:from worst to best: Yew, Ivy, Althea, Tuberose, Ebony, Hyacinth, Dandelion, White Chrysanthemum]]
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: [[spoiler:Not in the Hyacinth ending. YouBastard]].
** Its worth noting as hard as it is to swallow [[spoiler:choosing to stay and help sweet, timid, and kind-hearted Ji Hyun leads you straight into the worst ending in the game]].

** Don't forget the [[spoiler:Mother's half ghost]]. A real peach that one is. Tragic but nuts.

* BittersweetEnding: The [[spoiler:Hyacinth ending]] where you make the SadisticChoice to [[spoiler:save yourself and leave So-yeong unconscious to die]]. It helps that this flower means [[spoiler:I'm sorry]].
** The [[spoiler:Tuberose(Ebony?) ending is this in a way. So-yeong is doomed, but Sung An is revived as a human and on your side]].

** A translation/game-fixer project made by a person named "Unnamed" have mostly averted this, although some lines of text still remain in Korean. The project is still on-going though.
* BrownNote: Soon after [[spoiler: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.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The first thing you see the janitor do is brutally beat an innocent(?) man to death then giggle about it. [[PursuedProtagonist You're next]]

* DeathByFallingOver:...The fourth floor's broken guard rails. [[spoiler:Doesn't stick. The mother comes back though she can't run]].
* DownerEnding: It IS a SurvivalHorror game. The [[spoiler:Ivy ending]] takes the cake though. Heartwarming at first glance. [[FridgeHorror Then you realize]] Ji-hyeon's comment [[spoiler:" Oh...Its warm."]] means that [[spoiler:she and the hero are dying. After all it was so cold they could see their breath]].
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Wow do you ever...
* FlowerMotifs: The Titles of the endings you chosen depend on your action during this game: [[spoiler: 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).]]
** FunWithAcronyms: All these ending titles are acronyms for WHITE DAY.
* HarderThanHard: The Real difficulty. Every bit of horror the other difficulties locked away is in full effect here. Also, you can't save your game on Real.

* KillItWithFire: A boss takes place in an inferno [[spoiler:If you help Ji-hyeon after the boss fight it becomes the FinalBoss]]. Also a very important plot point has to do with fire. [[spoiler:Seong-ah's death as well as her mother's descent into madness]].

* NiceGuy: The main character. Ji Hyun is fairly sweet as a female example.

* TemporaryPlatform: [[spoiler:The last level as escaping the school]]. Whether or not [[spoiler:you take So-yeong with you]] is up to you.
* {{Tsundere}}: Seong-ah. Holy ''fuck'' Seong-ah. Though out out of everyone in the school [[spoiler:[[BigDamnHeroes she is the only one who saves YOU]]]]. [[spoiler:[[UpToEleven TWICE]]]]!
* TragicMonster: As freakin' NUTS as she may be [[spoiler:Seong-ah's mother]] is this. The reason she is so kill crazy? [[spoiler: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 [[spoiler: the janitor is possessed]]. Explains a lot.
** [[spoiler:Seong-ah herself]]
* WomanInWhite: [[spoiler: 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 StringyHairedGhostGirl.]]

'''''White Day: A Labryinth named School'''''[[labelnote:*]](stylized as "''Whiteday [a labyrinth named School]''")[[/labelnote]] is a Korean SurvivalHorror game by Sonnori 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 ShrinkingViolet target of affection.

The game was released in Korea for [[IBMPersonalComputer Windows PC]] in 2001 and an English localization in Europe was planned by the UK-based 4AM Entertainment in 2004 (even including translated screens from the import game), but [[NoExportForYou it was unfortunately cancelled]]. 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 away the real horrors the game has to offer in the harder difficulties. A port to mobile phones was released in 2009 but sacrificed the 3D graphics for still images that hampered the atmosphere of the game.

'''Warning!''' Due to the nature of this game, it is best not to read any further past this point, despite the amount of spoilers covered on this page.

** A translation/game-fixer project made by a person named "Unnamed" have mostly averted this, although some lines of text still remain in Korean. The project is still on-going.

* {{Reincarnation}}: [[spoiler:Seong-ah's motive]]. All well and good, too bad that can only happen if [[spoiler:[[HumanSacrifice So-yeong is sacrificed]]]]

A SurvivalHorror game made by Korean studio 4AM Entertainment, '''''White Day: A Labryinth named School''''' is the 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 ShrinkingViolet target of affection.

It doesn't take long for the setting to to go from moody and dark to [[NightmareSequence full-out nightmare]] as parts of the school begin to grow dilapidated, an [[AxCrazy insane]] security guard goes to town on a seemingly random adult before he starts coming for you, and two girls that seem pretty unfazed about the school turning into a nightmare. And it just goes downhill from there...

Since 4AM closed after its release in 2001, a port to Europe that was in production (even including translated screens from the import game) was cancelled. Notable in Korea or having 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.

Since the cancellation of the translation, the game itself has become something of a rarity with a few people seeding torrents and file downloads in an attempt to [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes keep a copy available]]. An fan-made project by Unnamed Studios is currently on-going and working on restoring the game so it can be played on non-Korean [=PC=]s, a new translation, bug-fixes, and the works. The game's graphics did not age well, but its place between ''VideoGame/ClockTower''[='=]s 2D interpretation of the helpless victim and ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''[='=]s 3D depiction of BadassNormal was a 3D game in full FirstPersonShooter mode that took a functionally [[ControllableHelplessness defenseless protagonist]] and pitted him against a haunted building with a stalker...

* FanTranslation: As mentioned on BlindIdiotTranslation above, there was an English fan translation of the game before, albeit a poor one. Unnamed Studios has been working a more proper fan translation of the game[[labelnote:*]](although it'll probably contain British English spellings of certain words since Unnamed is from the UK)[[/labelnote]] as well as retooling the game so it can run on non-Korean [=PC=]s.