Detention (computer game)
| Detention | |
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| Studio | Red Candle Games |
| Publisher | Red Candle Games |
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
January 13, 2017 |
| platform | PlayStation 4 , Microsoft Windows , MacOS , Linux , Nintendo Switch |
| Game engine | Unity |
| genre | Survival horror , adventure |
| Game mode | Single player |
| control | Keyboard , mouse |
| medium | Download |
| language | Chinese, German, English |
Detention ( Chinese 返校 ) is a survival horror - adventure video game developed by Taiwanese game developer Red Candle Games. It's a horror 2D sidescroller set under martial law in Taiwan in the 1960s. The game also contains religious elements based on Taiwanese culture and mythology. The game was released on January 13, 2017. A demo version was released on June 13, 2016 via Steam Greenlight.
Setting
Wei and Ray, who lived in Taiwan at the time of the White Terror in the 1960s , are students at Greenwood High School (翠華 中學), which is located in a remote mountain region. The place they once knew has changed worryingly and is haunted by evil creatures known as the "bereaved" (魍 魎). As they hide from the angry monsters, the protagonists reveal secrets that slowly uncover the cursed school's dark past.
action
During the White Terror Period in Taiwan, Wei Chung Ting (魏仲廷) falls asleep in class when Instructor Bai (白 教官) arrives to ask teacher Miss Yin Tsui Han (殷翠涵) about a particular list of books. He later wakes up to find the campus deserted due to an incoming typhoon, but encounters a sleeping senior classmate, Fang Ray Shin (方 芮欣), as he walks through the auditorium. When the river floods the bridge, they decide to sit out the storm in Wei's classroom. Wei decides to look for a phone, and the game switches to Ray, who wakes up again in the auditorium, this time in a nightmarish version of the school with We's corpse hanging upside down from the ceiling of the stage. Ray wanders the rest of the school, avoiding different types of ghosts, solving puzzles, finding clues, and Ray's story is slowly pieced together:
Ray was a shrewd student at Greenwood High School but developed depression after family problems that affected her school performance and led to meeting school counselor Chang Ming Hui (張明暉), with whom she developed a romantic relationship. What Ray didn't know was that Chang Yin was also helping smuggle banned books into an illegal book club of which Wei was a member. After their counseling sessions ended, Chang ended their relationship, causing Ray to become depressed again. Overhearing Yin and Chang's conversation, Yin confronting Chang about how his and Ray's relationship could endanger their book club, she interpreted it as if Yin was trying to take Chang away from her. On the night of the storm, Ray convinced Wei to give her the reading list, which she gave Instructor Bai, a military officer assigned to Greenwood, on the assumption that Yin would be fired. But Yin fled the country before she could be caught. Wei and the other members were imprisoned for 15 years, and Chang was executed, despite attempts to get rid of the books. Ray was honored for her actions, but branded a snitch by her classmates. Distraught by guilt and Chang's death, she jumped off a school building. In the game, Ray's soul goes through a cycle of her memories as she refuses to accept her guilt.
Towards the end, Ray's shadow asks you a series of questions. When the player refuses to admit her mistakes, the shadow says she and Ray are not the same, and Ray walks a path along a river of blood, with Wei, Chang, and Yin telling her the cycle won't end. She enters the auditorium, where she is applauded, while her shadow hands her a noose to hang herself with. The auditorium reverts to its present state while the noose remains on the stage and Ray's soul repeats the cycle. When she shows guilt and remorse, she finds a paper airplane with a message of love and goodbye to Chang and is shown to his office. She witnesses Chang's arrest, and he tells Ray that humans should be born to live freely without fear of oppression.
The game switches back to Wei, an old man (who turned out to be the random man Ray saw wandering through school earlier in the game); he was pardoned after the White Terror. His diary reveals that Yin spent the rest of her life abroad speaking out against the country's oppression, but eventually succumbed to cancer. He goes to his old classroom and sits at his desk with Ray's ghost looming over him, as they did before when Ray ends her endless cycle of death in purgatory.
development
The concept of the game comes from the co-founder of Red Candle Games, Shun Ting Yao. In February 2017, a game-based novel by writer Ling Jing was released. The background music for Detention was composed by Taiwanese composer Weifan Chang. The soundtrack was released as DLC with the game on Steam. The German translation is by Marcel Weyers .
reception
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The game received positive reviews from critics. Rely On Horror gave the game a 9 out of 10 rating, saying, "Every facet of detention moves in harmonic lockstep to an inevitable tragedy that drowns the world around you." When the game was released in January 2017, the response to Steam was “overwhelmingly positive”. Detention topped the ranking of the games on Steam in Taiwan and reached third place in the Steam ranking worldwide within 3 days of publication.
In the first month of its release, Detention achieved the highest user rating of the year at 8.4 and was named the second best PC game of the year by Metacritic after Resident Evil 7: Biohazard .
filming
A film adaptation is scheduled for release on September 20, 2019 and is slated to be distributed by Warner Bros. Taiwan.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 恐怖 遊戲 《返校》 改編 小說 決定. In: 返校 Facebook. June 1, 2016, accessed September 12, 2016 (Chinese).
- ↑ Marcel Weyers: Detention - German translation. August 30, 2019, accessed September 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Review: Detention. In: Rely on Horror. January 14, 2017, accessed January 17, 2017 .
- ↑ 帶 人 感受 白色恐怖 《返校》 發售 3 天 引 熱潮. In: Liberty Times Net. January 17, 2017, Retrieved January 18, 2017 (Chinese).
- ^ Detention for PC Reviews. In: Metacritic . Retrieved February 5, 2017 .
- ↑ 恐怖 遊戲 《返校》 電影 真人 版 9/20 正式 上映 - Styletc 樂 時尚 . China Times . Retrieved June 20, 2019.