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# White Night is beautiful, stylish, coming out soon
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/white-night-beautiful-stylish-coming-out-soon/
- Published: 2015-02-04T13:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T17:15:28.000Z
- Description: Part-noir, part-horror, White Night releases March 3rd.
- Author: Daniel Fries
- Tags: News, Film, lighting, Noir, Puzzle, release date, survival horror, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

*White Night*, from the French developer OSome Studio, has been given a cross-platform release date of March 3rd. With its high-contrast shadows and minimal lighting, the game uses a carefully-formed aesthetic to carve a niche at the intersection of 1990s survival horror and 1940s film noir.

By now, “film noir” has been pared down to a laundry list of tropes and themes that frequently get parodied and revisited. Our idea of the genre is made up of gruff detectives in trenchcoats, gravelly voice-overs, sparse lighting, fast cars, and femmes fatales. The minute-long trailer promises all of these, but instead of murky morality and a seedy criminal underworld, the game deals in ghosts and puzzles set in a haunted mansion.

The fixed camera angles of *White Night* call to mind the look of the original DOS *Alone in the Dark* or *Resident Evil* on the PS1\. In the 90s, developers were able to save processing power by using static 2D backgrounds, but *White Night* replicates this in order to reclaim control of the camera; in this way, they also look back to the stylized lighting and non-interactive cameras of early cinema.