"Detention" is a side-scrolling horror adventure developed by Chizhu Games, set during Taiwan's martial law period in the 1960s, presenting characters' memories and traumas through the bizarre experiences of an alternate campus.
| Title of the work | Return to school |
|---|---|
| The publication date listed in the materials | 2017-01-13 |
| Platform | iOS / Android / Nintendo Switch / PS4 / Linux / Mac OS X / PC |
| Genre | 2D horror AVG |
| Also known as | Detention |
| Script | Jiang Dongyu |
| Music | Zhang Weifan |
| Producer | Yao Shunting |
| Game engine | Unity |
| Website address recorded by the source | https://redcandlegames.com/detention/ |
A campus that has changed in mutation
Two students are trapped in a remote mountain school, where familiar classrooms and corridors undergo unusual changes. To leave, they must explore the campus, search for objects, and gradually approach the secrets hidden in the school's history and personal experiences.
Explore and survive
The game uses two-dimensional scenes and point-and-click interactions, where players move between rooms to collect items that can be used in conjunction with the environment. The presence of strange creatures means the investigation involves both hiding and waiting, and the clues to the puzzle come from details within the space.
Folklore and history
The scenes and puzzles incorporate imagery from Taoism, Buddhism, and local folk beliefs, blending with the martial law setting. The school serves as a stage for fictional stories, where characters' encounters unfold through this historical setting and supernatural manifestations.
Sound performance
The acoustic soundtrack combines electronic, lo-fi, rock with traditional Asian instruments. Music and ambient sounds together shape the campus atmosphere. The soundtrack is also independently released and is not mixed with the narrative content in the game text.
Release
The game was released on Steam on January 12, 2017, with both development and publishing credits credited to Red Candle Games. The product offers text languages including Chinese Simplified, Traditional Chinese, English, and Japanese, and is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Meeting in the auditorium and reminiscing about teachers and students
Wei Zhongting fell asleep in class and did not leave the school with other students due to the typhoon warning; He meets third-year student Fang Ruixin in the auditorium, and after discovering the bridge has broken and the river water turning red, they return to campus. Starting from the first chapter, the perspective shifts to Fang Ruixin. Family discord, Teacher Zhang's guidance, and Bai Lu's necklace gradually align with the clues in the scene.
Write a list and report it
Teacher Zhang and Yin Cuihan jointly led the banned books reading club, with Wei Zhongting as a student member. To avoid implicating Fang Ruixin, Teacher Zhang distanced herself, but Fang Ruixin mistakenly thought he was in love with Teacher Yin, and after obtaining the book list, reported the book club to the book.
Explore tools and five-chapter structures
Players solve puzzles by tapping to explore and dragging items; clues are stored in notes, and the altar is used for archiving. The process is divided into a prologue and four main chapters, with the radio later participating in the flashback scene transition; The answers in Chapter 4 determine two endings, and you can choose to reread them by reloading or changing chapters.
Where the book list went after handing it over
Fang Ruixin handed the book list she had obtained from Wei Zhongting to Instructor Bai. After the incident was exposed, Teacher Zhang was executed for treason, Yin Cuihan fled abroad and died in a foreign land, and Wei Zhongting was imprisoned for fifteen years. In the final part, Teacher Zhang's confession reveals that he had previously neglected Fang Ruixin out of concern that the reading club's risk might affect her.
The two final segments: the auditorium and the return to school
There was a branch of the shadow question that was answered incorrectly. Fang Ruixin walked back to the auditorium and received the rope during the award ceremony. The branch where she answers all correctly leads her to find a yellowed paper airplane in the stairwell, followed by Teacher Zhang's confession; The scene then shifts to middle-aged Wei Zhongting revisiting his alma mater, which is about to be demolished. His notes and memories along the way filled in the past, and finally, he sat down on the left side of the classroom, locking eyes with Fang Ruixin's figure who appeared on the right.
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Related entries
- Characters:Fang Ruixin (Returning to School)
- Characters:Wei Zhongting (Returning to School)
- Characters:Teacher Zhang (Returning to School)
- Characters:Yin Cuihan (Returning to School)
- Setting and Setting:Return to school reading club
- Game System:Back-to-School Exploration and Archiving
- Included chapters:Five chapters of Detention and Ending Choices
- Characters:Instructor Bai (Back to School)
- Setting and Setting:The paper airplane at the end of the 'Detention' segment
- Included chapters:The ending of middle-aged Wei Zhongting returning to school
References
- Bangumi works entry: Detention
- Bangumi Copyright Notice
- Red Candle Games: Departing Product Description
- Otaku Survival Diary: Chapter by chapter of the Detention game
- Wu Yufeng: My thoughts after playing 'Detention' + analysis of the plot and ending
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