In The White Chamber, wewe play as Serah, a cute anime girl who emerges from a coffin with no memory of how she got there au what’s going on. As it turns out, Serah had woken up on a ship in the middle of space, and the entire crew aboard it is dead and she is the only one on it, with each room containing some gruesome imagery. So, basically, it’s a kuvuka, msalaba between Dead Space and Silent Hill. And I upendo Dead Space and Silent Hill. I mean, I could say that it’s got Dead Space because… space, but it’s zaidi similar due to the use of storytelling, and how it uses the character Arthur, a scientist that wewe only hear about in recordings, to help tell wewe the story of the game. As it turns out, Arthur was new to the ship and was on the assignment to study something known as the Artefact, which he alisema was starting to make people paranoid and suspicious of others, even Serah. Yes, the same Serah wewe are, so we know that Serah is involved with this in some way. It plays like Silent kilima kwa the use of imagery. Each room is filled with some fleshy substance, having some sort of secret meaning behind it, and of course, as the game goes on, we see that there are many instances that describe Serah as being… different than what she leads on to be, like James from Silent kilima 2. There’s another thing this game is similar too as well, and that is a little horror movie known as Event Horizon… Oh, that’s not a good thing to be compared to. Of course, I think The White Chamber is better than Event Horizon for… obvious reasons. But the main one is that this game is very subtle. No character interactions, no monsters to get killed by, just atmosphere to look at and puzzles to solve. And that’s what The White Chamber comes down to.
The character Serah is a pretty interesting character. She seems to have a very curious personality about her, wondering just what is going on around the place, and what she should do to get off it, hoping to find others alive, like Arthur, the only other character in this game with a voice, and it is just wonderful to listen to. Serah is the only other one with a voice actor and it… isn’t the worst voice uigizaji I’ve heard, at least. Yeah, a lot of people say her voice uigizaji is terrible, but I kinda enjoy it. It adds to her curious personality. Now, as I alisema before, this game doesn’t have any monsters to get killed by, but that doesn’t mean wewe can’t die. wewe can die in four different ways in this game. wewe can get sucked out into space, wewe can be electrocuted to death if wewe don’t escape from the table, wewe can get trapped in a cell and end up being found as a decaying corpse, and wewe can die of inhaling poison… which makes your head melt… Why not? Another similarity to Silent kilima is that your minor actions in the game can cause a good au a bad ending to occur. The game has four endings (SPOILERS), one resulting in your death, another resulting in the game starting over and over in an endless cycle, another with Serah escaping the ship and onto a peaceful beach, pwani (And giving wewe a nice bikini shot as well, because why the hell not), and even a joke ending like Silent Hill, which…. Wow, if wewe thought the Dog Ending made no sense, just try watching this ending. It makes even less sense. But we’re not here for the joke ending. We’re here for the disturbing shit, obviously. So, forget the happy joke ending and get back to the terrifying parts.
The White Chamber is filled with many terrifying parts of the game, and many terrifying hallucinations that will make wewe swali just what the hell is going on. One includes finding a beach, pwani that ends up actually being an exit into space, which nearly gets wewe killed, and another gets Serah sucked into a video game where she has to escape kwa killing herself with an exploding barrel, and those are just the tame ones. One of them gets Serah stuck onto a meza, jedwali that slowly electrocutes her to the point of melting her flesh off. Another involves picking up a severed head that opens its eyes and looks directly at you. Another is a computer inaonyesha wewe a face with missing eyes, and it’s not overly gory and bloody like a typical middle schooler creepypasta. But I think my inayopendelewa hallucination in the entirety of The White Chamber is the corridor. It starts out with Serah walking into a fleshy corridor with a gate in the center, the other side of the gate having a headless crucified corpse and a strange… bulge in the wall. Once wewe pass the corridor, wewe start at the beginning again, and after the sekunde time, wewe repeat again, and see that there the bulge has turned into an eyeball looking directly at wewe (And a traffic light for some odd reason). After repeating for the fifth time, the eyeball will start going nuts, looking everywhere, and wewe will probably notice that the muziki has gotten zaidi and zaidi crazy and loud, getting zaidi and zaidi intense, with demonic chanting in the background, and it starts to get louder and louder and LOUDER!... And then it stops. That was the most intense and unnecessary panic attack that I’ve experience in a while.
The White Chamber, while having some elements of Dead Space, is mostly like Silent kilima 2, and this is because of how the game ends. Also, spoilers, I am going to spoil The White Chamber for wewe right now, so skip this entire section if wewe don’t want the game spoiled for you. So, after solving lots of puzzles, dealing with walking corpses, and dealing with zaidi wonderful voice acting, wewe finally reach the place the game is named after, The White Chamber, and it is the only room that is void of any blood and horrifying effects, mainly because it contains the most haunting thing in the entire place, the Artefact. And Arthur is there too, only he is a faceless corpse that is still alive. As it turns out, after all of the paranoia that was going on, Serah had ended up killing everyone aboard the ship, and they were all killed, and Arthur knew of this zaidi than anyone, as he had suspected all of this would happen from the beginning, and he now wishes to decide what will happen to Serah, and it is shown that the Artefact, along with Arthur, had created all of this haunting imagery in just Serah’s mind because of what she did and he did it to see if she could at least redeem herself, as shown through the game to see what your actions are, and if wewe fail… Well, the endings won’t be pretty, I assure you.
The White Chamber is a very haunting game, and also a very short one. If wewe know what wewe are doing in this game, wewe can complete it within a single hour. It’s not that long of a game, but I think that adds to it. The short game lets wewe experience the different outcomes that wewe can see, and to see if wewe can get the scarier endings, the best possible ending, or… If wewe really want to get it, the joke ending. The short gameplay really makes the game zaidi replayable, at least for me it was. Only problem, the camera moves too slow. When moving across long rooms, it moves at a snail's pace and wewe just have to sit and wait. But, that only rarely happens, so I guess it could be worse. White Chamber is, according to my knowledge, the only game kwa development company Studio Trophis, and I mean this was the ONLY game. They made nothing else after that, which is a real shame. These people had some real talent in creating some terrifying point and click games, and The White Chamber proves that fact. If wewe want a haunting and short game to make wewe feel paranoid and creeped out, than I recommend The White Chamber… Also if wewe really want to see a bikini shot of the main character, than this is an easy way to do it. Take care.
