Detention - The Truth ( ALL ENDINGS ) Manly Let's Play Pt.3 

Now that Detention is over I escape quietly out the back door.

I think the horror elements at the beginning were meant to distract you from what is really going on. After both us (the player) and Ray started to figure out there was something else going on, the monsters stopped appearing.

"Don't leave Jealous Eggs around, or else one of them will hatch into a dragon and eat you" - Manly 2017 I actually find this life teaching in a sence

So, the plot of the game was this: Detention takes place during the "White Terror" around 1960s Taiwan. At this time, paranoia was widespread and people were imprisoned/executed on the suspicion that they were communists spies. Miss Yin and Wei organized a secret book club to share knowledge on banned books considered "communist propanganda." Ray's home life was collapsing because of her father's love affair and then she got counseling from Mr. Chang. She grew to like her counselor, but was jealous because she thought Ms Yin and Mr.Chang ere in a relationship. This caused her to rat out the book club which got Wei imprisoned. Yin got imprioned and Chang was presumely executed because he was also in the book club Ray committed suicide due to guilt and the whole game is basically about her traveling in purgatory and reliving the guilt and bad memories.

I kinda cried at the end. No wonder she is haunted by her guilt. She made a terrible mistake. The story was definitively well written and the game gave it with symbolics, rather than telling it outright. I love this aspect of the game.

I'm caught in this odd feeling of both wanting to dislike our main character and sympathizing with her.

_A young girl's choices affected so many lives..._ Detention - not the hours after school, but an eternity where you are detained to relive your life & your life choices. No happy ending for Ray even in the hereafter. As her home was filled with unhappiness & rancor, she found comfort from Chang thru a brief affair. I think she became jealous of what she thought was his relationship with Ms Yin, so she sought revenge by disclosing the book club which promoted independent thought. And the rest is martial law history. The game did a wonderful job depicting the turmoil of human emotions in a time of turmoil. The song the bells played, Going Home, could sum up the game perfectly... sweet yet sad, we're always looking for shelter in a storm, hoping to find our way. I enjoyed the game's different simple puzzles, haunting imagery, poetic writing & very good music choices. The ghosts, folklore, & philosophy presented nicely framed the real horror of history & the girl's story.

So, if I understood it correctly: Fang started as a very good student at home, until she started experiencing issues at home (father's drinking and infidelity, mother's sorrow). So she sought comfort in her counselor (Mr. Chang), who she became romantically interested in. During this, she met Wei, who let her in on the 'book club', fronted by My. Chang and Ms Yui. Her mother eventually got tired of her fathers impropriety and hired a private investigator, an had him arrested and carried away. At school, she overheard Ms. Yui talking to Mr. Chang, admonishing him for being with Fang and that they were already a couple. In jealousy, I wager she gave the book list to Inspector Bai (essentially exposing everything). Ms Yui escaped abroad, Mr. Chang was executed, and Wei tried to burn the evidence, yet was still sent to prison for 15 years, possibly more, before being released. At some point, Fang killed herself, and tried to accept what happened. I guess Detention is an analog here for Limbo.

That ending hit hard... but as I interpret it, the "good" end seems to imply that Fang warned the counselor and her female teacher about her snitching. That's how the female teacher managed to get out of the country. The counselor mentions something to wei about who told on them, implying he also knew, but he clearly resigned to his fate (ironic, since he was the one to inspire Fang to take control of her own fate). Fang still kills herself, but the good ending is still kind of nice because Fang earned her peace by owning up to her actions. That's how I like to see it anyway...

The counselor's monologue at the end was quite... moving. This game was beautiful.

So this is what I got Ray was having a hard time dealing with her parents fighting, she eventually started letting this affect her school performance. Letting the Counselor work with Ray to help her vent and get her back on track, and this is how they started developing a relationship, which I guess was budding romantically. Until the teacher leading the book club, Ms. Yin, intervened and convinced the Counselor to break off the relationship with Ray. Ray feeling burned by Ms. Yin, ratted out to Instructor Bai, the hardliner anti-communist teache,r about the illegal book club where they read books which were about banned topics referring to communism or something along those lines, who then alerted the Military, who arrested Yin, the Counselor, Wei, and a few more involved. As a result many of those convicted were given harsh sentences such as execution or prison time, like Wei. Ray was given a public award for her actions ratting out these "Communist Collaborators", but due to her immense guilt or fear of something else, committed suicide as seen in the bad ending, and Wei is then given Amnesty for his "crimes", even though it looks like he had already served the whole time in jail, leaving him an old man as he looks in the ending, even though that wouldve just leave him around the age of mid 30s or whatever. Anyways, the ending is just him going back to the school some years later contemplating on those lost and motives gathered as to what happened. TL;DR Books are bad, just read doujins online. Or Fuck Communism, but not your students. *Fixed the part where I called the teacher leading the club, Ms Hui, to the correct name Ms. Yin.

the good ending is bitter sweet :')

I just realized how utterly tragic Wei's life is. *_Meets cute girl during Typhoon, talk to her and seem to hit it off_* *_Your Hunky Teacher's already got to her first_* *_You wind up compromising your illegal book club because she's just too cute_* *_Get sent to prison for 15 years after Ray's betrayal, she then kills herself_* *_Finally released and goes back to old school, Ray's ghost actually meets him_* *_School's going to get demolished so it might be the last time he sees her_* *_Being Wei is suffering_* (ง⪰ʖ̯⪯)ง

"I miss the days when he had jokes and stories to tell." When you realised, you never got to say goodbye to your loved ones.

Moral lesson: Stop doing stupid things when you are jealous. It will ruin everything.

Was gonna start homework but decided to check Manly's channel. Consider homework forgotten.

The sentence "Class dismissed" in the description got me so emtional idk why, maybe it so fits with the game atmosphere and all. But overall, great game. Totally worth my time. Normally I'd hate to watch long videos like this, since there would be parts that was painfully long and the player usually did nothing but rambling and running around do stupid stuffs, but when it came to Manly, it just all worth the price.

Ray asked Wei if the f. teacher(Yin)and m. teacher(Chang) were an item so I suspect early on that she snitched to have Chang to herself, doesn't work out, snitches on him too. Ray must have learned from her mother turning in the father that snitching is an easy way to "get rid" of people in her country, be they innocent or not.

I have so many feelings about this as the child of Taiwanese American immigrants. I never experienced this time in history but I heard many, many stories about it. I also had some difficult and very lonely and painful school years, so I relate a lot to Ray and her desire to lash out and hurt others as a way of expressing her frustration and sadness. Really wonderful game. Also the Vaporwave comment killed me 😂

Silent Hill: Taiwanese Edition

I like how they tell their story very much and the visual's very pretty. good game😊

life has many doors, edboy! I lost it there. totally turned the mood from horror to humor. Props to ya, Manly.

moral of the story, don't rat out your comrades.

at 25:00: "When I cannot put myself together and forget everything..." "I open my eyes and welcome a barren world.." right after commercial add: "LEEEEET THE SUNSHINE IN! LEEEET THE SUNSHINE IN" Wtf?! xD

The producer put his name in the graffiti at the bad ending lol. It's the right one with the 我♡王光X. I don't know how to pronounce the last character lol but it means I ♡ Light Wang basically.

We knew this wasn't going to end happy, but the good end is acceptable. I'm also surprised Wei survived, I figured us sacrificing him was from our guilt of hi being executed or simply dying in prison. Fang reaching some peace is a nice end, even with you predicting much of the plot. It's a good story, and at times depressingly realistic. Certainly worth the price.

One thing I'd like to note is that Fang's comment about her not liking how her mother acts, but they act like complete parallels; her mother reported the father for bribery and got him arrested after she found out he cheated on her, and fang's suspicions of ms. yin having an affair with Mr. chang led her to report the secret book club hoping that only ms. yin would be caught.

*has exams but sees Manly's new video* CLICK!

Well, that first ending was quite depressing. Fuck man the other one was too.

hiding in the comments cafe- hamburgers tea soft drinks ramen hot dogs lots of fries sweet potatoe fries coffee 👍

23:23 So that's the updated sentence. Before this, Ms. Yin said something about Chang 'striking a child' which makes me think he abused/used Ray.

The ending hit me really hard for reasons I can't quite explain. Also, that violin in the ending credits is really nice.

And here things unfold and at last we get to the third meaning of "detention". Very well crafted. The commentary greatly helped me work out what was going on.

Going Home lyrics, it kinda relates to whats going on... Going home, going home I'm just going home Quiet light, some still day I'm just going home It's not far, just close by Through an open door Work all done, care laid by Going to fear no more Mother's there expecting me Father's waiting, too Lots of folk gathered there All the friends I knew All the friends I knew I'm going home Nothing's lost, all's gain No more fret nor pain No more stumbling on the way No more longing for the day Going to roam no more Morning star lights the way Restless dream all done Shadows gone, break of day Real life begun There's no break, there's no end Just a living on Wide awake with a smile Going on and on Going home, going home I'm just going home It's not far, just close by Through an open door I am going home I'm just going home Going home, going home

This is such a sad game and it reminds me of Cry of Fear only in Chinese with good scary Floklore. And seriously what is with the forbidden book situation? Was it really a thing in China or something? I heard banning books, but never anything this extreme that could lead to jail or death. What book was it that was so forbidden? Catcher in The Rye?

damnnnnnn this story is not that scary, its just the story behind it makes me creeps out WOOOOOOW MANLY AWESOME PLAYTHROUGH

Manly 43:36 : I understand it all now ; Still me : WTF is going on??

Thank you so much for putting this out. It made my day. I was dying to see the end

So sad to think that ppl were imprisoned or killed just for wanting to learn or have freedom

The ending is so poetic with him returning to exactly the place where the game started

so wei was in love with ray?

I was actually about to sleep, but then I saw that you posted a video. So sleep is completely thrown out the window at this point.

Ah, awesome game, I actually found it relaxing, specially with your voice being so calm and smooth all the way. I really like the way you read dialogue and text and your voice seemed fit for this game particullary. What an interesting and beautifuly told story.

why upload so laaaate now i have to watch this instead of sleeping! gg

That was....just...a really really good story. I am FEELING things. Sad things. Good things. I'm just glad I got to watch this. Thanks for playing it, Manly! And thanks for your commentary. It really helped make more sense of some of the more specific cultural references. Also, if you liked the themes or aesthetics of the game, I really recommend checking out this music video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GHu39FEFIks.html It's Korea and not Taiwan, but it still deals with young people who get caught up in the problems of the anti-Communist movement, so if you liked the game, it might be worth checking out.

So she DID kill herself in the theater, and that's why she keeps ending up back there! I think there was an award ceremony for her turning in the book club. And after that, she recieved abuse from other students for snitching? Or that locking of the bathroom stall was done by her own mind wanting to punish her. Locking someone in the bathroom is classic Asian school kid torture-bullying.

This takes me back so long. I remember crying when I got the bad ending. I got it on purpose to know what it was like to to suffer as Ray did. When I suffered as she did I recommended it to others. And it felt satisfying to know when others saw what occurred. And it was enlightening to know the pain she went through.

I was about to go to sleep, but Manly Senpai posted! Yay!

When the bell started to play at 8:00, the song is called "Going Home" we sang it in choir, creepy now that i hear it here.

This made my night, you're awesome Manly!

The music for the credits is nicely done; good and creepy, what a horror game needs. :) And the good ending song is sad yet lovely. :)

This was ...so beautiful, and so tragically sad. I kind of need a bit of time to digest this game. thank you so much for playing it, Manly!

very beautiful game, with a bit of haunting on the side :) thanks for playing it and sharing this story with us, manly! i feel like there need to be more games that lean towards this direction of afterlife symbolism.

So heres the story i got from this game. Fang ( The girl main) and Wei (The boy main) were childhood friends. When she started going to this school, she was in almost anything and naturally became one of the smartest girl in class. Soon however, her father started drinking from the stress of his job, and treated Fang and her mother badly. She soon told her counciler this and he saw something in her, and they started secretly dating. Ms. Yin found out (I think shes his wife) and flipped out on Yang. She started spreading rumors on her and giving her bad grades, making her classmates hate her, everyone but Wei. The counciler didn't want Yang to be this way, because all he wanted was for her to be happy, so he broke up with her, and Yang got depressed. Wei saw this and asked her if she wanted him to tutor her ( as seen in that scene with Yang and Wei at the desk). He soon told her about the secret book club and asked if she wanted to join. As soon as Yang heard about Ms. Yin being the leader of this book club, she told the police ( or whatever would cause that much trouble) about this. Yang went to the office and took the note from the desk and gave it to the police. Although, Ms. Yin had already knew this would happen and already left, making sure Wei and the classmate burned the books (From that scene with them burning the books). Little did they know, Yang knew almost everything on what Wei told her, and they got found out by the police. They were taken away (Wei included). Seeing her mistake, she wanted to get Wei out of this, but he was one of the main people with Ms. Yin. She felt even more depressed and lost herself from this. This is why she is stuck in the school. She commited suicide (Which explains the jumping off the bridge). Although, i think Wei survived, that's why he was the main character. He never blamed this all on Yang, and came back to the school ( which explains the ending). This made Yang realize her true self,making her soul at peace. (I don't know if all of this is true, but that's what i got from the story. P.S. sorry about any spelling mistakes, i tried my best... :~:)

I really enjoyed that playthrough. Neat art style. Good job, Manly.

So... Um... Now that this is finished, will you play more of Angels of Death? Not that I don't appreciate your other videos. Detention is really interesting actually! It's just the fact that the suspense is killing me for angels of death.

What an ending :') Slightly jarring to watch, considering I had a teacher called Ms. Yin too. Kudos to the creators for making such a good game!

I really enjoyed this game. The plot was really good and I loved the way the story was told. The good ending is definitely bittersweet, but at least Wei was alive.

Solid game for sure. Atmosphere and ambiance really made the game as good as it is. Bonus for all the chinese/vietnamese folklore and culture references. Really interesting stuff too if you're not familiar with it. Not sure if this was Redcandle's first game, but if so I can't wait what they gonna make next. This game really put the fairly unknown studio on the map and can easily compete with other AA+ horror games. Thanks for the LP Manly.

Shit mannnnnnnnnnn, early squad

This really reminds me of Silent Hill.

Hold on was the guy at the ending wei or the counselor

"Life has many doors, Edboy"

so ray's only solace was thinking that the people she switched on, plus a few others, would appreciate her committing suicide. i'd also like to think that she was stuck in this mind loop and left wandering the school until wei comes back. in the good ending, it seems like she would only focus on people who actually cared for her, such as mr counselor and wei, who would never condemn her for her actions, and finally be able to move on

Hi everybody. How are you? :D

lol Detention actually has an movieXD but it wasn't good I'll say. Watch through your Devotion and Detention game play and you're my favorite! I love how you actually pay attention to the story and getting things really fast, I love how you dig into the culture; your realized a lot of things the non of the western (or even Asian) did. You mentioned Feng Shui when playing Devotion, and yes they move things around because of Feng Shui, but only one or two gamers from Taiwan actually noticed that detail.

My only question is: When/Why did the councilor become cold to her? Was it what Yin said to him? Because it seems like he was still intending to continue the relationship when they spoke. Or did it happen after she reported Yin, but before the authorities arrested the councilor? She only ratted out Yin so I would believe that there would be some time before they found out about the councilors actions. This time line is throwing me for a loop.

I just worked 13hrs today and was going to get some sleep but a Manly video was uploaded so what's another hour. Thank you Sir Manly Badass Hero😎

Good game! Nice atmosphere and history bits

Damn... This is a Strong Game... 😕

It makes sense now as to why Wei was the able to do anything protagonist for a while.

Great gameplay and understanding of the story

this game is beautiful

ur the first non-taiwanese player who i watched that figured out the plot and the cultural meaning at the first time

For those ppl how want to listen to the game sound track again pls to to the website below m.soundcloud.com and search by keyword: weifan Or try the URL below: m.soundcloud.com/weifan-1/weifan-chang-detention-original-sound-track-32-left-alone-ending-theme-2 m.soundcloud.com/weifan-1/weifan-chang-detention-original-sound-track-34-sound-of-the-gunshot-bonus-track m.soundcloud.com/weifan-1/detention-main-theme m.soundcloud.com/search?q=weifan

Wow, what a poignant game. Definitely reminded me of The Cat Lady. But, does anyone know what the syringes hanging from the ceiling were supposed to be? They were really unsettling to me, I'm trying to think about what they could possibly mean...

The only thing that I'm still confused about is whether or not Ms. Yin and the counselor were dating/ex-lovers or Ray interpreted it that way.

Manly do a best videogames of 2016 video, I would like to hear your thoughts

2 years later and they've released the movie. It's airing now in Asia, but idk about other countries.

At 42:30 ish, i tried covering the speakers at the bottom of my phone, and the music becomes worse. It gets scarier and horrifying.

This game is interesting.

Great game! It's very moving. Kinda different from all the jumpscare games I have been watching lately :)

Love your commentary manly

What a surprise ending

Seconds after watching this, I just realized that I'm crying.

for the music at 0:28 you can listen to the full version at:ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-m5kbn_PBYpo.html

so what has become of that huge monster with that thing on its back? the one that we only saw the siluete of (probably spelled it wrong) is the one i mean

You can not escape the world without a reason... Why do you let me live in this cruel world?

This is just a very sad story, and I really liked it a lot. I also cried, which is normal for me.

Manly you missed a golden opportunity there you could have said her award was a nuisance ah ha ha

I love your videos Manly, I look forward to them all the time. Please keep up the great work.

Wow, this game was so incredible and atmospheric. I really enjoyed it.

30:42 omg it's Mirai Nikki (future diary) scene

Yay I've been waiting this upload

Lol, i don't understand the ending.

stage theme may or may not have something to do with taiwanese puppet theatre

Such creative story-telling, despite bein' bittersweet.

what happens if you choose cold indifference

Great game! Thanks for playing it :)

This was a great and tragic story.