YMMV / Detention (2017)

• Fridge Horror: By the time Ray meets up with Wei in the Good Ending, the school is in ruins. Just how long was Ray going through that hellish loop? Considering how the game takes place during the 60s and Wei is a middle aged man, it's likely decades of repeating the events leading up to her suicide.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff:
  • The game is pretty popular on Mainland China and well-received, with many giving a respectful view of the political tones in the game. Mainland Chinese sales of the game account for roughly 70% of total sales.
  • Inverted later on, as the game was massively review-bombed by Chinese players after anti-government messages sneaked in by a developer were found on the studio's follow-up game, Devotion.
• Jerkass Woobie: Ray, who has a troubled home life with neglectful parents and gets more and more unstable as the game progresses. She sold out her classmates and teachers out of petty, selfish jealousy, which resulted in the deaths — or worse — of them all… and is never going to be allowed into Heaven, or even to be reborn, cursed to wander as a spirit forever. And that's if she gives the right answers at the end!
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Mr. Chang is portrayed as a kind and caring person. But if his relationship with Ray really was reciprocated, then he was abusing his position as a counselor to take advantage of a vulnerable young girl — one he's supposed to be helping with her issues, even! Doing so unwittingly helps cause the whole mess, but the blame is squarely placed on Ray's shoulders (though admittedly, getting multiple people executed by a totalitarian government is much worse than getting into an iffy but consensual relationship with a student), instead of sharing it with the authority figure who abused his position. Also counts as Values Dissonance.
• Values Dissonance:
  • The relationship between Ray and Mr. Chang is treated as largely positive and healthy, and Ray is viewed as the unsympathetic one for what she did when it ended. However, this is a romantic relationship between a vulnerable teenager and the much older teacher/counsellor who was meant to be helping her with her family and academic issues; a relationship instigated by the teacher himself, no less. Players tend to view Chang as a problematic character to say the least.
  • To get the Golden Ending, you must answer the questions of Ray's lingered spirits correctly. One of the questions she asks is whether to "quietly accept" or "try to take them back". Most Western players would choose "quietly accept" and interpret it as taking responsibility for her actions, while "try to take them back" implies the opposite. However, as the game is heavily steeped in Buddhist themes (which the average Westerner might not be familiar with), the whole purpose of this part is for Ray to remember what she did back then, not what she would choose to do from now on, so the correct choice is actually the latter. Choosing "quietly accept" in this context means to forget again, while "try to take them back" refers to her memories.

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