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White Day: A Labyrinth Named School |OT| Korean Horror Cult Classic Returns
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Noboru Wataya
Banned
FYI there is a puzzle in this game that requires being able to read Chinese. I had to look up a walk through after stumbling about for hours. I think it might have been over looked by the dev.
purseowner
Member
Dumb question I know, but I don't have any more time to play right now - where do I find the felt pen so I can save?
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Hey everyone, this is Dusk Golem aka AestheticGamer. I have posted on NeoGAF since 2011, and have decided to resign. I have enjoyed posting about horror games here for years, but I no longer wish to support the site and will be leaving for good. I will still be around the internet, I go by AestheticGamer on YouTube, I make games on Steam as Yai Gameworks, and I plan to go by Dusk Golem on other forums. I'll be joining an off-set of the GAF community leaving to try other ventures like ResetEra (Official Twitter for that here: https://twitter.com/reseteraforum ). I hope some of you who read this may consider it, and I plan to try to expose more people to horror games in the years to come. Just not here.
I hope you all are having a good day, and know I always loved the community, and in the end it's the community I'm going to stick with, not the site itself. If you want to follow me, my official Twitter is here: https://twitter.com/AestheticGamer1
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purseowner
Member
I unpaused the game and found I was staring right at one haha
Can you spoiler tag where and when this is? Thanks.
My physical copy should be arriving today or tomorrow so I'll post some pictures for those interested.
In Main Building 2 there is a door with a keypad lock, the code is written on a chalkboard in one of the classrooms but like he says it's in another language
Spoilers in link: This wiki page should help solve it
Thats weird... isn't that a korean game?
Surprised it passed localisation like that.
Seeing how it's not in Korean but Chinese, I assume it's intentional.
Yeah that's what i tought.
I managed to solve that puzzle without much issue even without knowing Chinese, so I don't think it's a huge problem. I thought it was one of the easier puzzles honestly some of the later ones were much harder.
It seemed pretty clear that you had to find the 4 numbers hidden in the writing, and after seeing that each symbol in the group appears twice the solution seemed pretty obvious.
I had the worst time with the damn
Metronome/Morse Code
Maybe I've just missed it the past couple times, but is it just me or is the janitor dead silent? I've been playing this game in 20-30 minute bursts the past few days (because I'm chicken and can't handle any more) but whenever I bump into the guy he isn't making any sound. I have to look for his flash light and most of the time, if I can see that, it's too late.
I think I've heard his keys once but I was practically on top of him in a stairwell.
Edit: alright I heard it, opened a door and he was walking out of a stairwell into another corridor. Fair enough. Crouch down, take one step and his freakin bat hearing sends him from the other building right back to me. The hell man?
I think I've heard his keys once but I was practically on top of him in a stairwell.
Edit: alright I heard it, opened a door and he was walking out of a stairwell into another corridor. Fair enough. Crouch down, take one step and his freakin bat hearing sends him from the other building right back to me. The hell man?
twentytwo22
Member
Beware minor (?) spoilers (mentions some character names) regarding soundtrack tracklisting. Posted thumbnails just in case. The order was from videogamesplus.ca for what it's worth. Cheers!
Oh, this is out? Why is Amazon telling me September?
Not sure of Amazon but I used videogamesplus.ca (I am in Canada). It says they ship worldwide.
https://www.videogamesplus.ca/white...re-order-bonus-ps4-free-shipping-p-24743.html
https://www.videogamesplus.ca/white...re-order-bonus-ps4-free-shipping-p-24743.html
I preordered with Game and got a soundtrack with my copy. Maybe retailer exclusive?
I didn't really find it very scary. It has a really tense atmosphere, but the main source of scariness (the janitor) quickly becomes more annoying then scary due to how annoying it is to deal with him. The atmosphere really is great though.
For comparison, I thought SOMA was much scarier then this, and that's a game I often see described as "not scary at all" and "barely a horror game".
freeofgreed
Member
So is this finally out on the PS4?
This comes down to just what people find scary, really. SOMA was a dark, bleak, and extremely oppressive and existerntial experience, and people more effected by that will find that scarier when they can find asian horror tropes whatever, and vice versa.
I personally am more scared of japanese horror, and this is korean so it will inevitably have the same amount of, if not more, shit that ive never seen before(hopefully)
It's obviously subjective yes. To elaborate on SOMA though, it wasn't the "extremely oppressive and existential experience" I found scary. That's the common opinion people have about SOMA - terrifying existential themes, but not very scary otherwise. On the other hand, it was the moment to moment horror (ie. evading the monsters and whatnot) that was scary as hell for me, and that's something I rarely hear from people.
White day felt less scary in that respect, since the main "monster" is just such a pain to deal with, so his appearances quickly turned from being scary to just being frustrating. I don't think it matters much in the end, because the horror atmosphere remains strong throughout the game, and that's what really matters to me.
Oh I pre ordered with Shopto, damn :/
When it comes to scariness I have to agree that the Janitor becomes more frustrating and an annoyance than genuinely scary.
He is unbelievably on top of you with how precise he is / how fast he can catch you. I don't really get a thrill from being chased as much as "oh no here we go again".
Doesn't seem like it. Can anyone confirm that this is supposed to come out on PS4 today?
Pandora012
Member
So many release dates. For the US it's out on psn today. For physical it's out in September.
It is out on us psn live!
Awesome, I just saw that! Super excited to get started on it.
That's my biggest concern regarding this game. In Resident Evil 3, I thought Nemesis was annoying as hell and not at all scary. In Alien Isolation, the Xeno wasn't really scary but it made me feel very tense. It's a completely different feeling than the one I got from, say, Fatal Frame 1 and 2 where I was truly afraid. So with that said, I'm convinced I'll eventually find the janitor annoying or at best tense. How are the ghosts? From streams I've seen it seems to be jump scares very often.
I take it back i hate jumpscares and the tension of one maybe happening is killing me
Is whispering the sign something is there?
Edit: got to the first janitor section and uh? Does the game open up a bit more because that was literally a straight line with nowhere i could go to hide/lose him.
Is whispering the sign something is there?
Edit: got to the first janitor section and uh? Does the game open up a bit more because that was literally a straight line with nowhere i could go to hide/lose him.
Dusk Golem
A 21st Century Rockefeller
Hey everyone, this is Dusk Golem aka AestheticGamer. I have posted on NeoGAF since 2011, and have decided to resign. I have enjoyed posting about horror games here for years, but I no longer wish to support the site and will be leaving for good. I will still be around the internet, I go by AestheticGamer on YouTube, I make games on Steam as Yai Gameworks, and I plan to go by Dusk Golem on other forums. I'll be joining an off-set of the GAF community leaving to try other ventures like ResetEra (Official Twitter for that here: https://twitter.com/reseteraforum ). I hope some of you who read this may consider it, and I plan to try to expose more people to horror games in the years to come. Just not here.
I hope you all are having a good day, and know I always loved the community, and in the end it's the community I'm going to stick with, not the site itself. If you want to follow me, my official Twitter is here: https://twitter.com/AestheticGamer1
I hope you all are having a good day, and know I always loved the community, and in the end it's the community I'm going to stick with, not the site itself. If you want to follow me, my official Twitter is here: https://twitter.com/AestheticGamer1
Huh, thanks. I guess my positioning was off so I always got grabbed.
theyturkerjurbs
Neo Member
Started playing on normal tonight with the GF. The janitor seems pretty merciless so far. Might start again on easy tomorrow, hopefully its not too different though because we were enjoying the puzzles and atmosphere!
I had to go very easy for now because the janitor was frustrating af!
Enjoying the game a lot more and i loved the section after the janitor scene.
I will do another run on normal later to see more content.
Hide in one of the bathroom stalls. Also, you can see the light from his flashlight way before you can hear him if you look carefully enough. Can also hide behind desks.
You need to burn 5 mutated plants before engaging the boss.
Also, found a nice bug in the
New Building
I did, and then
his arms fall and allow you to pour the solvent in him and is apparently supposed to trigger a QTE, but all it gives me is a cutscene of him grabbing and killing me
Yeah, it uses the item in a quick scene, it
almost falls dead, character starts walking away, it wakes up again and grabs him, and stabs him. No prompt shows up at all
Shit, thats what thats for. On my second most recent try(which was right after i installed the patch) i found that and during the scene out of anticipation of the prompt not appearing i started trying to guess it and the prompt appeared but i fucked it up from the guess and died, but i hadnt thought the bug spray was it and was about to complain again when i did it without finding it just now and died lol
Honestly this would be a cool boss if not for that random item that im pretty surer hasnt been talked about in any note so far. Atleast the solvent was talked about.
Edit: Beat it, fonally.
I really love this game's faux visual novel character cutscenes? Its really neat.