White Day has its scares lined up for you to suspect, and it's always up to you to survive them and know where to hide in dire circumstances. You'll see long black hair seeping out of an air vent. You'll hear the jingling of keys as the malicious janitor who might beat you to death with a baseball bat as he walks down the hall. Instead, it telegraphs nearly every creepy sequence. It's not the type of game that is pithy to only jump scares. White Day, luckily, still has a few scares left in it. (Earlier this year, a mobile localized version released too.) And at last in 2017, the remake of White Day has found its way westward, released today on August 22 for the two platforms. Still, White Day found an audience again buried in its familiar school setting and heap of eerie sounds for its atmosphere. Other horror games existed now, ones that made the player feel equally helpless by not enabling them with weapons, arguably more so. White Day was no longer ahead of the curve. Fast forward to 2015, when White Day was remade for modern PCs and PlayStation 4.

The recent remake has those easier (a.k.a. Easier, in these terms, meaning less scary. As the internet rumor mill goes, the developers allegedly patched the game to make it easier.

The original from 2001 was a low-key hit on PC, with fans decrying the game as too frightening-as in, literally too scary to play.

Long before Amnesia: The Dark Descent or any other dime-a-dozen helpless horror game, there was the cult Korean horror game White Day: A Labyrinth Named School. This week features the game White Day: A Labyrinth Named School and the album Science Fiction from sad boy kings Brand New. After taking a week off (sorry again!), we're back! Unpredictable is a column from Caty McCarthy circling around recent games and other happenings bustling in the world of media.

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