"The Stranger" centers on an alternate East Asian school life, weaving the competition for academic advancement, secret missions, and social changes into a single period of youth.
| Title of the work | Outsider |
|---|---|
| The publication date listed in the materials | 2020-07-07 |
| Platform | PC / Mac OS |
| Genre | Visual novel/reality genre: wasteland, suspense, crime history, love exercises, campus galgame |
| Also known as | College Entrance Exam Bounty Hunter / L'Etranger |
| Planning | Lin Zhengjun |
| Website address recorded by the source | https://class-two.com/Letranger.html |
| External links to source records | https://store.steampowered.com/app/1078970/_LEtranger/ |
Transfer and Quests
The story takes place against the backdrop of the "Tianyu Zhongjing" economic backdrop. A teenager arrives by train in a riverside city, continuing to complete tasks assigned by the organization at a strange school. The organization required him to avoid club activities that might reveal his identity, while courses, exams, and interactions with classmates constantly drew him into campus life.
Campus and the times
High school exercises, academic pressure, and closeness among classmates form part of daily life, while crime and conspiracy gradually emerge from this routine. The work organizes social settings through fictional history and geography, intertwining personal choices within schools with broader changes in the times.
Production division of labor
Class-2 produced and released this work. Lin Zhengjun was responsible for planning and co-authored the script with Penguin-kun and ChrisM; lthry was responsible for character and interface design, with character art also contributed by Yangyang, and CG was done by SAI. The program was handled by cwdyhm, koscielny, and ChrisM, with arrangement and mixing credited to LBR and Xiaogangya.
Artbook, original soundtrack, and extras
The official website provides a digital artbook and an access to the original soundtrack, and lists "Namiko Kuma doesn't understand this problem!" The "Her Majesty the Queen" and "Secret Forest" chapters, "Kyle Langley's Ordinary Day," and "The Outsider CODA" are four side stories. The Steam version was released in July 2019; The art book, music, and extras respectively supplement visual, auditory, and side reading content.
Substitute examiners and the cardiac guidance department
After dropping out, Sisyphus became a bounty hunter for the college entrance exam. Arranged by Group A and the supervisor Cosine, he entered the school under a false identity. After a monthly exam, he joined the psychological counseling department with excellent grades and gradually became familiar with the group leader Hayato Wakabayashi and three other girls. Maho is close friends with Natsuru, Tsvia was once the captain of the light music club, and Taotao secretly provides technical support.
Maho's daily life at a secondhand bookstore
Maho was the first friend Sisyphus made in high school. She studies diligently but still faces pressure to leave the elite class. The two buy pen refills and search for old books together, and their relationship develops through their after-school interactions. Students have sought out the teacher's supplementary questions for the "Little Green Skin" math workbook; Soon after, shops at the school gate began selling facsimiles of the book.
Associations restored and broadcasting stations were cleared
After Principal Burkeqin's corruption and embezzlement of tutoring fees were exposed, he was ousted. Students took advantage of the school's turmoil to restore clubs, briefly changing campus life. Parents demanded that the school strengthen teaching again, and the new Hagar began tightening management. Tswia led students to seize the broadcasting station in resistance, but the operation was cleared out, and she subsequently left the school.
true end: catching up to Tsvia, who has just left school
In the route supporting student actions, Sisyphus pursues Tsviya after clearing the field, which is once misunderstood. Despite the criminal risk of Group A's collapse, he still refuses Hagar's threats and offers to visit Tsvia's home to express his feelings. The two reconciled and gained her parents' approval, then went abroad together and stopped taking the college entrance exam.
The difference between good end and bad end
Without supporting the student resistance, Hagar cited the criminal risk of Group A demanding Sisyphus continue to cooperate. Compromise leads to a bad end: Sisyphus asks to swap his test papers to help Maho, whose grades have dropped due to turmoil. Resistance leads to the good end: he is caught while verifying with Maho, and his identity is exposed; Later, Naikaru and Maho listened to the full explanation and continued helping their classmates. After the college entrance exam, Maho confesses her feelings to Sisyphus, who has achieved good grades.
Multiple versions in the original soundtrack
The sixteen-track soundtrack catalog includes "Ashita kara" and its solo and winter versions, "Old Smell" and revised, revised 2, as well as the basic and long versions of "Kobore-hi wo Naru Jikuru" (Time That Flows Through the Trees). The two songs "Red Moonlight" are listed as ~1 and ~2, each lasting 1 minute and 2 seconds; "Sekai no Hate Made Edition" is included under the title "Complete Score Version ver.1."
Chapter-level sound integration and production iteration
Introductory.Chapter.'s sound integration is credited by LBR and YLTS, while Closing.Chapter.' is credited by ChrisM and lthry. In his production review, Lin Zhengjun explained that in 2016, the first version of the script, character art, music, and code was already available, still at the stage of scattered materials; In the first half of 2018, it took three months to complete a demo of about ten minutes, allowing members to see the actual performance combining text, music, and visuals, then continuously iterating to adjust their performance.
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Related entries
- Production and Distribution:Class-2
- Planning and Script:Lin Zhengjun
- Script and Promotion:Penguin-kun
- Scripts and Programs:ChrisM
- Character, Interface, and Background Design:lthry
- Character Art and Costume Design:Yangyang (Outsider Art)
- CG：sai (Outsider Art)
- System Development and Program Scripts:cwdyhm
- System Development and Program Scripts:koscielny
- Arrangement and Mixing:LBR (Outsider Music)
- Arrangement and Mixing:Small steel teeth
- Setting and Setting:Tianyu Zhongjingqi (Outsider)
- Original Soundtrack:Outsider Original Soundtrack
- Characters:Sisyphus (outsider)
- Characters:Maho Tsukino (Outsider)
- Characters:Naizuru (Outsider)
- Characters:Tswia (outsider)
- Characters:Hayato Wakabayashi (Outsider)
- Characters:cosine (outsider)
- Characters:Berkin (outsider)
- Characters:Hagar (outsider)
- Characters:Taotao (Outsider)
- Setting and Setting:Group A
- Setting and Setting:Psychological counseling department
- Included chapters:Outsider true end route
- Included chapters:Outsider Good End Route
- Included chapters:Outsider bad end route
- Related Records:Outsider Original Soundtrack
- Related songs:Starting tomorrow
- Related songs:The scent of the past
- Related songs:Time passing through the sunlight filtering through the trees
- Related songs:Sunshine Street 2
- Related songs:Sekai no Hate Made Complete Score Edition ver.1
- Related songs:Gentle Duck
- Related songs:Unpolished Midweek
- Related songs:Time Flowing Through Sunlight Through the Trees Long Version
- Related songs:Sojourn
- Related songs:red moonlight~1
- Related songs:red moonlight~2
- Related songs:The old scent restored
- Related songs:Old scent revised 2
- Related songs:Solo version starting tomorrow
- Related songs:Starting tomorrow, the winter version
- Related songs:Sunshine Street
- Sound Integration Role in the First Part:LBR (Outsider Music)
- Sound Integration Role in the First Part:YLTS
- Part 2: Audio Integration Role:ChrisM
- Part 2: Audio Integration Role:lthry
References
- Bangumi works entry: Outsider
- Bangumi Copyright Notice
- Class-2: Outsider official website
- Class-2: Outsider Steam product page
- Xing Yifan: Do you miss your senior year of high school? Let's try this college entrance exam game
- Wang Fei Hu Ning: The Criminal Who Stops a Chariot Like a Mantis — An Outsider's Review
- Class-2: The complete sixteen original tracks of the Outsider
- Class-2: Amateur Author's Reflections
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