White Day: A Labyrinth Named School

非常好玩

i miss this game every 14th march

Another review said it perfectly. "This game isn't scary, it's annoying."

The characters are bad, plot is bad, and you'll spend more time hiding than doing anything, not because you're scared, but because you have to wait for enemies to leave so you can go and do any objectives without being harassed and killed.

100% not worth any purchase, let alone the full price tag of $30.

I never knew I would love horror game this much until I played this game. The story is rich and I really enjoyed it a lot.

I tried giving my time more on the game but
NO more, I don't want to stress myself with constant chasing - and long range detection enemy.
There is no place to hide. You just can close the lights, or outrun, or hide behind something and wish they didn't detect you.
The game is not scary it's annoying.
Puzzle is tedious and chore, you definitely need a guide for the chalkboard puzzle.
Playing on easy, it gives out hint but not really, more like incomplete hint.

Not recommended

Absolutely not. This has to have been one of the worst games I have ever played. In my opinion, this game is not worth buying at all. There are better things you can spend your money on, seriously.

VERY repetitive, VERY slow.

White Day: A Labyrinth Named School is a remake of a 2002 Korean title of the same name. The original is supposedly very influential (even though I barely hear anyone talking about it) and was an inspiration for sequences in Amnesia, and Layers of Fear. The way the Janitor stalker works, it seems that most similar horror games also took some ideas from it. I’ve never played the original, but if the remake is any indication, White Day didn’t age well.

Multiple puzzles have missing information. There's always that single step that is absent, e.g. you need to find a clay figure and finish it. Finding it is easy, but White Day does not inform you that this particular figure is not finished, or that it needs to be finished at all. You can also find a note about how to do so, but it's easy to miss as well. Another infamous puzzle requires you to find specific numerical Kanji within other Kanji. You do have a note with hints what to look for, but the puzzle itself is ridiculous with its basic logic: how am I supposed to know that this line is this Kanji and not the other one? It's complete guesswork.
There's also timed puzzle boss fights during which you are given barely any hints as to what you should do, so you’re running around like a headless chicken trying to figure out what the devs planned out. You’re searching surrounding rooms, find something that might help you, fail at using it, go to a guide/walkthrough, and find out you need a second item along with the one you found to win the fight. And don’t get me started on a battle which you CANNOT win (i.e., ends in automatic death) if you didn’t do a specific action BEFORE the fight even started. An action which is only slightly hinted at in one of the multiple missable notes.

Worth mentioning is that White Day has ghost encounters which are the best part of the game. Unfortunately, they require well hidden, specific items and locations to summon them, as well as solving puzzles which are even more obscure and cryptic than the ones required to finish the game. Additionally, the easier the difficulty set, the fewer it is possible to find them. Only on Hard and Hell can you encounter all ghosts.

Now addressing the elephant in the room: the Janitors. All negative, and most positive, reviews mention them. While they were heavily nerfed since the release, their design is still largely outdated, and they can bug out and run straight for your exact position for absolutely no reason. Additionally, they can slow the game to a crawl, ironically making White Day LESS scary as the optional ghost encounters, which they can interrupt, are much better at maintaining tension. Players discovered when they spawn/despawn and you can use this knowledge to your advantage making the game plainly more fun, but this is meta-gaming that should never be required. Janitors make the game artificially harder and removing them would make White Day better. Yes, making it a walking simulator would have been a superior choice.

The game can be very atmospheric and creepy with its ambience (wooden floors creaking, doors slightly opening by themselves, rain and thunder, debris hitting windows from the outside), but the Janitors and eardrum rupturing jumpscares ruin it. The plot is actually interesting, but the problem is that 80% of it is told through a huge exposition dump in the very last gameplay section. Aside from the horror aspect it’s a VN romance during which you choose one of three girls, each of whom turns out to have a tragic backstory. Their facial animations and gestures look surprisingly good at least.

I know most people do not care about achievements, but White Day has some of the most absurdly grindy ones. The largest WTF is Memory of White Day, i.e. Complete the Ending Collection. This means unlocking ALL 10 endings on ALL 5 difficulties. That’s FIFTY (50) playthroughs. One “ending” is just dying, so it’s 45 in practice, and you can strategically save at specific points, which lowers it to around 25, but that is still completely insane. I guess the upside is that the game is fairly short if you know it inside out. Dishonorable mention: die 100 times.

Despite everything, I'm still playing it because the entire design is so early 00's that I find it quite endearing and a bit nostalgic. I never played the original, but I can say with confidence that the remake completely failed in updating... well, everything aside from graphics. I cannot in good conscience recommend it to anyone, unless you're nostalgic for the extremely questionable design choices of that era. If you do decide to take the leap, make sure to have a guide/walkthrough ready. Maybe even drop the difficulty to below Normal if you hate stalker enemies.

Overall 8/10

Good game, a few animations feel very stiff but the art direction in the game is very good. I wish some of the cutscenes were blended in with the gameplay instead of jumping into a cinematic mode, I think that way the game could have had more subtle scares.
The ghosts are very creepy, I'm soon starting a hard mode run to find all of them. I absolutely love urban legends and ghost stories.

A few things however, I feel as though the sound design varied in terms of quality. Sometimes the noises could fit very well, but sometimes I have a lady going oooOOOOooooooOOOOOOoooo very loudly, no matter how much I turn down the game volume. Or the baby screaming during some of the cutscenes.
Also Ji-Min Yoo's route was so nonsensical I had to look up a guide on how to beat it. I'll turn a blind eye and say it's probably due to translation errors (i played on English). But I think if you took out this route, nothing would have changed.

The game is wonderful, you explore the school, solve many puzzles and have many endings. I recommend playing this game, give it a chance. I'm even sad that the game is not very well known, play the game, you will not regret it. Wait for a promotion, buy it and have fun.

Truly enjoyed this game - it has a rich story and a lot of different endings. Each pass and ending will uncover new information piece that will twist the whole story. In my opinion it is better to start to play it in the hard mode - it will open interactions with all ghosts and phantoms that could be summoned based on the story you read about them or appear case-by-case. Most of the ghosts are not available on the level below hard. This game is for people who love reading. After you finish the hard mode you can run the game on the easiest mode and do only necessary stuff to discover different endings.Usually it require 1,5 h.
Stories of ghosts are capturing, scary and unpredictable.

normal game not bad

3/10

best puzzle game i played

Good. Not too scary , not too goofy

cant dodge stupid tree even with bug spray and the arrow prompts dont work at all

White Day: A Labyrinth Named School is a remake of the renowned 2001 original in which we find ourselves in the shoes of a boy who is trying to deliver the diary and his love that his classmate So-Young Han wants, but in order to achieve this goal he will have to face the horrors that are to be found in his school at night.

The game is centred on a variety of puzzles that require reading notes and paying attention to how to solve them, as well as keeping an eye on surviving the maniacal caretakers of the night. In addition to presenting a tangle of ghosts to scare and damage at higher levels from difficult to hellish (which was unfortunately more tense in the original as it raised the tension at any of the difficulty levels). With a total of 10 endings and a mysterious puzzle to fit around them, White Day tends to be a candlelit rehash of the 2001 version, but which by a small cursed thread fails in its attempt to provoke the terrifying inspection that its pioneering entry managed to provoke.

La verdad si me gustó, pero creo que la mayoría de los puzzles son muy rebuscados y el hecho de que tengas que tener un objeto en especial, el cual solo tiene un uso y es utilizado para guardar la partida de manera manual en puntos específicos es un dolor de huevos.

Quizás no fue para mi.

-Very underrated good horror game remake.
-Highly recommence starting on Normal
-Frosty the snowman and Rudolph on my ass 24/7
-10 endings and for 100% you have to get each ending in all difficulties. Which means Hell difficulty all 10 times. Don't let that stop you from playing :D
-You are required to look at documents through the game for hints, codes are random. I recommend looking at a guide for ending requirements or certain puzzles/items

***SPOILER DOWN*******************************************************************************

(to activate Jasmine/Marguerite ending route, you have to complete White Chrysanthemum, Ivy or Hyacinth on Normal, Hard or Hell. They wont unlock on easy). After that you can do Jasmine/Marguerite on any difficulty

waste game

第一次玩恐怖游戏，有点意思；打折几块钱便宜买的，很值。

White Day is a remake of the cult classic horror game from 2001 of the same name. The game was and is in many ways derivative of other horror titles (Japanese games in particular) but the first person perspective and the defenseless protagonist were quite the innovation for the time and I can't help but think that White Day would have been far more influential if it had been officially ported or remade with an English translation earlier instead of being beat to the punch by Amnesia: The Dark Descent.
Anyway, the game takes place in a haunted Korean school and features a protagonist who lacks the means to defend himself from the murderous possessed janitors looking to bludgeon him to death. Therefore, he must sneak around looking for clues and items to solve puzzles, survive and perhaps even uncover the mysteries of Yeondu Highschool, depending on what ending you manage to get.
That's right, the game has multiple endings depending on how the player interacts with the game's female cast. The intended ending involves the girl that the main character is looking at during the Korean drama intro cinematic, and this is also the route with the most hand-holding and longest overall.
However, besides these changes and a short cutscene at the end the game remains largely the same. It's an interesting idea for a horror game and the endings can differ quite a lot, but it hardly justifies replaying the game 10 times in every difficulty to get every single one. I played the game twice and I'm more than satisfied.
What else do you do when you are not flirting with Korean high-schoolers? Well, you hide from the aforementioned janitors. There's one in each building and roam the hallways of the school constantly.
I think they are great for keeping the player in a constant state of tension, but they stop being scary and become annoying after a few hours because they are endowed with superhuman senses and will hear you opening a door from 2 floors below but will forget you exist if you manage to enter a bathroom stall or hide behind a desk in time.
By the end I was sick of them and all they accomplished was making me alt-tab to do something else while waiting for them to resume their regular patrols.
Another aspect that aids the horror are the limited resources, saves especially. However, this feels like a vestigial element in this version because the game auto-saves after certain important events and you get more than enough saves to beat the game.
Speaking of difficulty, if you are going to play this game then you should know that most of the ghosts haunting Yeondu high-school only show up on hard difficulty or above. I find this incredibly baffling because that means that the vast majority of the items you find in a normal difficulty playthrough are useless which doesn't help for the incredibly obtuse puzzles later on and removes a lot of the potential horror which is the entire point of playing horror games.
This has been a long review so I'm a little ashamed to admit that I'm not entirely sure if I would recommend White Day. I did play it more than once because I wanted to see the ghosts but the hard difficulty AI is also very frustrating. It's a niche game and I think it's destined to remain niche.

Somehow i feel like this game was supposed to be 18+, but somewhere mid-development devs decided to turn it into a mediocre horror/puzzlecollect all deaths simulator. I know that's probably not the case, but it also has a bazillion spicy skins to buy, so...

The story is actually not that bad. It's not good, either, just OK, but it's told very poorly. Gameplay, when you get the hang of it after about 10-15 minutes, is quite shallow, i expected more. Supposedly this game has replayability due to different story routes which are quite easy to mess up, but i was so done with going through the gameplay bits by the end that i wanted nothing besides erasing this from my hard drive as quickly as possible.

Go play Detention instead. This one isn't worth it, especially with the outrageous price.

屎一样的引导

Pretty fun and spooky

THIS GAME INSANE BECAUSE I SEE THOSE GHOST

that nice game play i will like this

Yes

If you are to judge my review, have in mind that I am the kind of player that tries to get or gets all the achievements on games I play.

The main reason for the review being negative is exactly the replayability of the game. Most of the achievements are dull and repetitive, they feel like they are made so that people spend more time playing and therefore the game has better/positive stats (?) or something, I don't know.

Even if you don't care about the achievements but just want to 100% or high% the game, you'll have to get to the end game around fourty times, given that there are nine different endings (you don't have to replay from the beginning for all of them with saves in clever spots, but still it sucks).

Higher difficulties aren't really hard, given that the puzzles and paths you take in the game remain the same The only new thing is some more ghosts to see. Sure the main enemy in the game, the Janitor chases and hears you better but that doesn't make the game harder, just makes me hide more and wait longer for him to go away.

The game has five difficulties, they could have changed the puzzle solutions for normal and hard/hell at least (something like Silent Hill does).

The DLCs are literally just overpriced skins. Wow!

Grade: 5/10.
It is a faithful remake/remaster and the graphics are good, but it has few additions and horrible replayability.
Also, it is one of those games with very basic menu options.

A true masterpiece even after 10 years unlike it's second part which is totally shit and trash.

The swimsuit DLC is the only good thing about this game. Boring chore fest with timed puzzles, that guess what, you will have no idea what the actual puzzle is. It just tells you solve a timed puzzle. This is one of those games that requires you to basically read the internet for every little detail. Zero chance you will figure out anything on your own or maybe through blink luck after you waste hours on it.

The game was fun and has a lot of replay value.

Recommended game

Not particularly good really. In-posters aren't translated, the story is a bit silly, not really the serious horror game I expected.

The saving mechanic sucks, ruined the experience.

The Puzzle is very challenging, we dont have any clue from where to start. it feels hopeless but, still this game is really fun to play. ( i do recommend this game is worth it to play for people who like playing horror game with tough puzzle)

hated it so much i bought it again on another platform so i could collect all the achievements again.

It is the worst game I have ever played, I hate it with all my heart and soul.

N**ga i've played this game way too much, it is good, bought it for 2 $ and was worth it

WD had red flags all over it, you get chased in a survival horror game and the achievements are a nightmare for completionist gamers. I still wasn’t planning on getting it when it costed €1,50 on Steam but a friend convinced me to get it and I’ve become grateful for it. I really despise getting chased as a mechanic and I was having a hard time on my first 2 runs (very easy & easy). But I started noticing the janitors having fairly consistent AI that you can work around them and prepare ahead of time. It became easier dealing with them, to the point that playing in hell mode, the game’s highest difficulty, became super fun. It’s intense but it’s so rewarding when completing a run close to perfection. The game is also incredibly designed and it shows in so many different ways. The school feels lived in with tons of details and small touches that show care, the English voice acting is iconic and pretty great, the main story is very well told with the cutscenes and endings, the ghost stories are decently written, the puzzles are great, once you collect a ghost story it’s permanently saved on your main profile regardless of which save/run you’re playing etc. This means that you can solve a puzzle in one run, you get your reward and then you don’t have to do it again in a new run.

The flaws are still related to the grind and AI. There are a few minor instances where the AI behaves weirdly. It’s uncertain whether it’s intentional or not but the AI likes to stay in one spot on rare occasions, making it very difficult to sneak around them without being detected. As for the grind, the entire game is designed around completing the game multiple times. Not just because of the 10 endings but also playing on all 5 difficulty modes, lots of events/collectibles being optional, a lot of that progress is kept track of in an overall profile and the game is really short once you’ve completed it a couple of times and you know what you’re doing. I’m okay with having to get all the endings and complete the game on all 5 difficulties at least once. The game actually changes significantly with each difficulty, to the point that some gameplay mechanics cannot be accessed on lower difficulties. The game’s entire balance also changes and having to do the difficulties in order, it forces you to gradually learn the game and become better. What I’m NOT OKAY WITH, is having to get all the 10 endings on every difficulty. So without context, you’re looking at completing the game 50 times. It’s not as bad as it sounds because a lot of the endings can be gotten with one save, you just need to reload the last battle and pick a different choice. This essentially means that you need 4 runs plus extra for every difficulty. 20+ sounds a whole lot better than 50 but it’s still too much and unnecessary. At least the quality of the game is so high that I had fun repeating the game this many times. It became a sport to try to complete it quickly. My average completion time became around 1 hour and 20 minutes after a while.

The game is certainly not for everyone and it’s hard to recommend outright because of the way it does things. But the game has a soul and it’s very special. It feels like a classic PS2 survival horror game that I didn’t know existed. It’s worth giving the game a try if you’re patient and are willing to play the game multiple times on all the difficulties. Clearing it once only doesn’t do it justice. It took me 70 hours to get all the achievements.

White Day: A Labyrinth Named School is a remake of an earlier South Korean survivor horror game of the same name.

You’re a lovesick transfer student on a heartfelt quest to return your crush’s diary but you’ve chosen the worst time to do it: late at night in a creepy, probably haunted school.

The problem is that, rather than return this diary during normal school hours, you’ve gone about this business at night. And that is apparently not okay with the school janitor.

This janitor is relentless. If he finds you walking around the school, he will smash you with a baseball bat.

That’s the core of this game. You wander around the school, finding keys, opening doors. And while you’re doing this, avoiding that asshole janitor who just won’t relent.

When you’re not avoiding that janitor, you’re observing the old school—which, to be honest, looks like a dump. That janitor seems more obsessed with smashing school kids than, you know, cleaning the school. Isn’t cleaning part of the janitorial job description?

But for whatever reason, students—other than you—seem to love wandering around that school even though they’re fully aware of the janitor’s murderous intent. I guess these kids aren’t so good with long terms planning.

The deeper you get into the school, the creepier it gets. It might just be haunted.

Graphically, no one will mistake this for a big budget AAA title. But it’s a massive step up for the original White Day, and the visual improvements are appreciated—particularly when it comes to the character models.

In terms of sound, there’s no soundtrack. Instead, you have to contend with deafening silence interspersed with creepy environmental ambience—with sudden jump scare sound effects.

Sonnori developed White Day, and they’re also the same developers who made the original. They have a long storied history as PC game developers, and also made the Legend of Heroes arcade game—which seems unrelated to the RPG series.

Overall, White Day is an above average survival horror with plenty of scares and laughs—mostly unintentional. It’s worth a play if you like awkward romantic gestures accompanied by homicidal school janitors.

The remake of White Day: A Labyrinth Named School is a Korean masterclass in ghostly horror that's aged incredibly well, despite the original games gameplay remaining intact. This remake is more of the same, but with "modern graphics" and a few new surprises.

The atmosphere is oppressive, the sound design is chilling, and the jump scares are all expertly timed. But what really gets me is the tragic backstory of Seong-ah Kim, the Labyrinth Master. Trapped in the school for eternity after a horrific fire... I almost feel bad for the vengeful spirit trying to kill me, which is rare to see these days.

White Day: A Labyrinth Named School's remake is a must-play for horror fans. Don't let its age fool you - this game still packs a punch, more than two decades later.

it ok

Not scary, just stupid with poor control and poor movement.

Very fun horror game, full of suspense

I really love this game, its scary

Puzzles were fun, I did like how there are different types of endings depending on your choices.

The stalker character, who isn't even really that scary, is so annoying to deal with. He moves super slowly through his path, sees you from anywhere unless you're crouching, and randomly appears super close to you for no reason. You'll spend most of the game running back to the same place to hide. Sometimes you will get cornered in weird spots and just die. There's a ton of super cryptic puzzles that are impossible to figure out unless you look them up. Finally, there are so many moments where there aggravating sound design. From the cackling when you die to just obnoxious music playing during boss fights. It gets to a point where you just get so annoyed you just don't care to keep going.

White Day has a cool setting, engaging puzzles, and an interesting story. Unfortunately the game does literally everything in its power to sabotage itself.

White Day revolves around two main mechanics. Exploring to find clues and evading pursuers. The exploration element of the game is surprisingly good. The process of finding items and then applying them towards the completion of a puzzle was addicting. There is some significant back tracking as a result of the guess and check nature that some puzzles in this game have; however, the actual quality of the puzzles made this tolerable.

On the other hand, the pursuer mechanic was absolutely miserable and added nothing of value to the game. White Day feels like an escape room. It has the challenging puzzles and engaging theme of a great escape room. Now imagine if the employees of said escape room routinely interrupted your thinking to beat you senseless and reset your progress. The stalker enemies of White Day add absolutely nothing of value to the game. If you plan on playing the game, I highly recommend that you find a way to disable the stalker enemies as I did during my play through.

I can forgive the horrendous choices that were made with the enemies; however, the reason this review is negative is because White Day does not respect the player's time. In my case, I spent hours tracking down all the miscellaneous items in the game to complete the ghost quest lines. What I did not know was that the majority of the ghosts do not appear in normal mode. At the normal difficulty, the standard experience of the game, there is no reward for 80% of the optional side puzzles. What the fuck?

In general, White Day fails to see that it is a puzzle game above all else. This leads to the inclusion of annoyances like the stalker enemies and difficulty settings that make no sense for a puzzle game. There is enjoyment to be found in this game; however, it is buried under so many stupid design choices that I cannot recommend playing it.

Got stepped on but it was worth it. Iykyk.