White Night - Total Conversion v1.1

[Air Resistance]

I've recently completed White Night, and I can say I have thoroughly enjoyed it. The story was delivered in a way that was fresh and enticing, yet challenging and consistently building up suspense.

I have one major disagreement, The White_Night.bat file provided in it's state would only work for a Windows version. I was not able to get it running under Linux until I modified the file contents to ./Launcher.bin64 wn_config/main_init.cfg after several minutes of attempting to find the problem. There were also a couple of bugs in game, specifically: model placement, the ability to move said models, and collision detection with map boundaries. Luckily, these were not egregious enough to destroy immersion.

Aside from this, I love how the story affected the gameplay, and not the other way around. The story was all about deciding what one wants to believe (at least at it's core), and this was reflected in with the voice acting which could (or at least to me) sound emotionally inaccurate, the arguable usefulness of certain supplies, the sporadic and often highly limited control over the environment, the difficulty in locating changes in the map, the inability to see in the dark without light, amongst other examples; effectively everything that the player perceives reflects on the storyline. The best result of this is that each player can draw their own conclusions from what they see in White Night, and draw their own idea of what actually happened (which due to perception could be any stretch of the imagination).

Definitely lives up to it's Best Potential award, and well worth the wait to play. An excellent example of why to keep an open mind.