History VideoGame / WhiteDayALabyrinthNamedSchool

''White Day: A Labyrinth Named School'' is a [[UsefulNotes/{{SouthKorea}} Korean]] SurvivalHorror 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 ShrinkingViolet target of affection.

While regarded by many as a cult classic, the game has been seen by many as not having a chance of a sequel or re-release... However, in early 2016, it was announced it will be re-released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, made to be used with it's 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, with a PC version that was quickly greenlit for UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and was finally released on August 22, 2017 and can be purchased [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/466130/White_Day_A_Labyrinth_Named_School/ here]].

While regarded by many as a cult classic, the game has been seen by many as not having a chance of a sequel or re-release... However, in early 2016, it was announced it will be re-released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, made to be used with it's 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, with a PC version that was quickly [[http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=665183393 greenlit]] for UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Wow do you ever.]]

'''''White Day: A Labyrinth Named School''''' is a [[UsefulNotes/{{SouthKorea}} Korean]] SurvivalHorror 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 ShrinkingViolet target of affection.

* FunWithAcronyms: [[spoiler:All the ending titles are acronyms for WHITE DAY.]]

* [[spoiler:AlienGeometries: The weird maze at the end as well as the void as you escape the school.]]

* [[spoiler:AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Not in the Hyacinth ending. YouBastard.]]
** [[spoiler:Its worth noting as hard as it is to swallow choosing to stay and help sweet, timid, and kind-hearted Ji-hyeon leads you straight into the worst ending in the game.]]

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

* [[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 "I'm sorry".]]
** [[spoiler: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]].
*** Considering that there is a [[spoiler:[[TheStinger stinger]] moment 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]].]]
** [[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 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.]]

** BiggerBad: [[spoiler: The Master of the Labyrinth, the one possessing Seong-ah to begin with.]]

** Overlaps with DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: It turns out Seong-ah was already dead, and is possessed by the evil being trapped in school all along.]]
* DeathByFallingOver: ...The fourth floor's broken guard rails. [[spoiler:Doesn't stick. The mother comes back though she can't run]].
* DifficultyLevels: Your standard Easy, Normal, and Hard affair, as well as...
** EasierThanEasy: Very Easy, which also cuts down a lot of the creepiness in the game.
** HarderThanHard: [[NintendoHard 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)? [[NonStandardGameOver Sucks]].
* [[spoiler:DownerEnding: It ''is'' a survival horror game. The Ivy ending takes the cake though. Heartwarming at first glance. [[FridgeHorror 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.]]
* [[spoiler:EarnYourHappyEnding: Wow do you ever.]]

** FunWithAcronyms: [[spoiler:All these ending titles are acronyms for WHITE DAY.]]

* ImplacableMan: The Janitor. He cannot be fought. He cannot be killed. You can only run, and pray he loses track of you. [[spoiler:The Janitor does get knocked out in the third chapter. But then there's the second one... [[OhCrap and he doesn't have a limp]].]]
** Or if you can, get the gloves from the biology room and... [[AssShove well]]...

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

* [[CheckPointStarvation Save Game 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.

* [[TimedMission Timed Game]]: Hard and Real mode have a time limit that you must complete the game in. [[NonStandardGameOver And you don't want to let the timer reach zero.]]

* [[spoiler: TragicMonster: 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?]]

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

While regarded by many as a cult classic, the game has been seen by many as not having a chance of a sequel or re-release... However, in early 2016, it was announced it will be re-released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, made to be used with it's new VR technology, and completely redone from the ground up.

While regarded by many as a cult classic, the game has been seen by many as not having a chance of a sequel or re-release... However as of recent, a remake has been announced for release in 2016, For the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, made to be used with it's new VR technology, and completely redone from the ground up.

* {{Tsundere}}: Seong-ah. Holy ''[[PrecisionFStrike fuck]]'' Seong-ah. [[spoiler:Though out out of everyone in the school, [[BigDamnHeroes she is the only one who saves YOU]]. [[UpToEleven TWICE]]!]]
* [[spoiler:TragicMonster: 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?]]
** [[spoiler:Also it's implied the janitor is possessed]]. Explains a lot.
** [[spoiler:Seong-ah herself.]]

* WhenTreesAttack: 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 [[SpannerInTheWorks hinder the plan of the BigBad]] or help it along.
* 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.]]

While regarded by many as a cult classic, the game has been seen by many as not having a chance of a sequel or re-release... However as of recent, a remake has been announced for release in 2016, For the PlayStation 4, made to be used with it's new VR technology, and completely redone from the ground up.

!!White Day provides trope examples of:

** 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.

** [[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 where they all die except you.]]

* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler:Whichever girl you help dooms the other two to a FateWorseThanDeath]].

* RewatchBonus: 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 [[spoiler: it was actually the first haunting, and [[{{Foreshadowing}}the girl who was so freaked out]] by the sound was the one killed in the event it was repeating]].

* 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 [[spoiler: it was actually the first haunting, and [[{{Foreshadowing}}the girl who was so freaked out]] by the sound was the one killed in the event it was repeating]].

* {{Cancellation}}: 4AM Entertainment's official English for the game.

* [[spoiler:DownerEnding: It ''is'' a survival horror game. The Ivy ending takes the cake though. Heartwarming at first glance. [[FridgeHorror 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.]]

The game was released in Korea for [[IBMPersonalComputer 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 [[NoExportForYou it was unfortunately cancelled]]. In the same year of cancelled localization, the game was re-released with six other games developed by Sonnori[[note]](the other games are ''Astonishia Story'', ''Darkside Story'', ''Forgotten Saga'', ''Steel Empire'', ''Arcturus'', and ''Astonishia Story R'')[[/note]] 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 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.

The game was released in Korea for [[IBMPersonalComputer 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 [[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. It was later released on mobile phones 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]]. 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]].

* {{Cancellation}}: 4AM Entertainment's official English for the game. Unnamed also discontinued his fan translation project.

* 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 be 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.

** [[CheckPointStarvation Save Game 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.

** BiggerBad: [[spoiler: The Master of the Labyrinth]]

** Overlaps with DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: It turns out Seong-ah was already dead, and is possessed by the evil being all along.]]

* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: [=GameSpot=]'s ''House of Horrors'' showcased some gameplay of ''White Day: A Labyrinth Named School'', and one of the co-commentators stated the game was made by Unnamed. Sonnori are the actual developers of this game, Unnamed just translated it while fixing the game's bugs and compatibility with newer operating systems.

'''''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.

* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: [=GameSpot=]'s ''House of Horrors'' showcased some gameplay of ''White Day: A Labyrinth Named School'', and one of the co-commentators stated the game was made by Unnamed. Sonnori are actual developers of this game, Unnamed just translated it while fixing the game's bugs and compatibility with newer operating systems.