It can be rather maddening if you’ve not saved for a while. And if you find yourself cornered in an office or such like you’ll just have to resign yourself to death as there’ll be no way to get past him. If you do get caught by the janitor and he gives chase, there often aren’t many places for you to run off to and hide.
Trouble is, if he is nearby, the cramped nature of the corridors in which the game takes place means you can often do nothing but wait for him to move on, and he’s not the speediest of fellows. Only on very easy difficulty do you get an indicator showing that he’s nearby, otherwise you need to listen and keep a keen eye out for him. Probably not in the way that White Day‘s developers intended though, more in the way that he’s a pain in the arse and a broken one at that. Giving chase if he detects you, eager to beat you to death with his baseball bat, he’s definitely the game’s most prominent terror. What really soured my experience of playing White Day though, was the janitor that frequently roams the school’s halls.
WHITE DAY A LABYRINTH NAMED SCHOOL PATCH TRIAL
These moments of trial and error only served to irritate. Another room faced me off against a crying ghost when entered, but unless I had the right item to deal with the spirit in my inventory I had no option but to die and restart from a checkpoint. Unless I’d already fiddled with the electric panel that powers the alarm and moved a fuse around, however – something that was totally illogical to do – moving to the alarm would simply trigger a cutscene and my subsequent death. When running away from a mad, knife wielding woman late in the game, for instance, I had to activate an alarm to put an end to her antics. These are perhaps the highlight of White Day – moments where you feel truly under pressure to perform – they certainly get the blood pumping, anyhow. There’s even some QTEs thrown in for good measure. In these highly dramatic sequences you need to solve puzzles and use your wits to save yourself or others from impending danger. There are even a handful of events, often timed, that could be considered puzzle-based boss fights. As someone that likes a bit of brainteasing in games, this aspect of White Day was endearing to me. From working out codes to open locks, to using dowsing rods to cross a body of water, the puzzles in White Day are rarely straightforward, forcing you to get your thinking cap on. Getting from A to B is never a simple affair you’ve always got to be on the lookout for notes and objects that are crucial to solving the countless conundrums that stand in your way. Trapped in a school out of hours, White Day is one of those horror games where being able to solve puzzles is just as important as being able to cope with a good scare.
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