Now that virtual reality is on the verge of becoming a reality (again), it’s time for some software — and not just tech demos — to be shared with the public, and it seems as though South Korea is wasting no time getting in on the action.
Out of a South Korean Sony event came the surprise announcement of a PlayStation VR project entitled White Day. The announcement was paired with a trailer by developer ROI Games.
White Day appears to based on a 2001 survival horror game called White Day: A Labyrinth Named School. Made by Sonnori, White Day: A Labyrinth Named School tells the story of teenagers trapped in a school, and it was released on the PC. From the Wiki page:
White Day: A Labyrinth Named School is the story of a young man’s trip into school at the dead of night to deliver some candy in preparation for the Eastern holiday of the same name, White Day, to So-yeong, a girl at school he likes. Finding himself locked up soon after entering, escaping the school now becomes the main objective.
The White Day teaser depicts plenty of spooky, school-based scenes of terror, from a creepy janitor giving students the stinkeye to a Ring-esque figure undulating on the wall. There’s plenty of first-person running, which reveals one of the game’s mechanics. Though it’s impossible to know for sure how the game is going to play, the circles that attach themselves to doorknobs — and hands, oddly — appear to be controlled by a Move controller.
The preliminary footage looks pretty stellar, but don’t get too excited: there is no Western release scheduled, as of yet, so no love for American audiences, but let’s hope that the game is popular enough to be released our way in the future at some point.
