History YMMV / AtDeadOfNight

** "Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy. Can't you see?"[[labelnote:Explanation]]A parody of Music/TheNotoriousBIG's ''Hypnotize'' ("Biggie, Biggie, Biggie. Can't you see?"). Courtesy of LetsPlay/{{DashieGames}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SlU0n-KXas&t=1935s here]].[[/labelnote]]

* ClicheStorm: Although the gameplay is unique, innovating, and refreshing, the overall plot itself has many cliches. There's an ordinary person being hunted by a psychopath in a haunted location, and the [[spoiler:villain is a victim of past abuse who actually turns out to have a sympathetic side.]]
* FridgeLogic:

*** There's a theory suggesting that to [[spoiler: Hugo, everything is a game of cat and mouse to him.]]
*** Or possibly, as suggested over in [[FridgeBrilliance Fridge Brilliance]], [[spoiler:Jimmy is [[FightingFromTheInside getting the upper hand over Hugo]] to allow Maya and her friends to escape.]]

*** The obvious answers to these are 1: The creator doesn't want [[spoiler: the player to have any more upper edges on Jimmy than they already do. If they could just straight up kill Jimmy, it would lower the fear factor.]] And 2: [[spoiler: Maya doesn't want to kill anyone]].

*** Probably because [[spoiler: they have less of a chance of surviving if they're in pairs. Think about it: if they were in a group, then they would make a lot more sound and would need to speak to each other quite a bit, giving away their location. Helping her friends escape one by one would be less risky and safer.]]

* IdiotBall: Yes, Maya, [[spoiler:going downstairs to the basement and having a friendly chat with the [[AxCrazy Ax Crazy]] man who's been stalking you, terrorizing you, and beating your head in with a baseball bat is a ''great'' idea. (She only gets away with it because she's about two seconds faster than Jimmy and is able to lock the door on him before escaping to the elevator.)]]

** "Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy. Can't you see?"[[labelnote:Explanation]]A parody of Music/TheNotoriousBIG's ''Hypnotize'' ("Biggie, Biggie, Biggie. Can't you see?"). Courtesy of LetsPlay/{{DashieGames}} [[https://youtu.be/-SlU0n-KXas?t=1935 here]].[[/labelnote]]

** After Maya pieces together the entire story, [[spoiler:she narrowly escapes an encounter with Jimmy in the basement, running back upstairs. At this point, the game saves--''for the last time''--and Maya now has to rescue all five of her friends and get out to safety. And while Jimmy had merely given her a [[TapOnTheHead Tap On The Head]] with his baseball bat before, this time it's [[KilledOffForReal game over]]. If Maya fails to elude Jimmy, we are treated to a ''lovely'' game over screen with Jimmy's leering face, combining a [[KubrickStare Kubrick Stare]] with a [[SlasherSmile Slasher Smile]], tinted bright red over a black background, making him look like an actual demon.]]

** Dr. Bose was a visiting psychiatrist who tried to treat Jimmy's disturbing behavior. Unfortunately for him, [[spoiler:Jimmy tricks him into eating a sandwich with broken glass, ruins his entire reputation by accusing him of some horrible crime, and basically drives him into suicide.]] Many players have expressed sympathy for this ghost in particular, due to his [[spoiler:odd suicide at the elevator.]]

* UncannyValley: The startlingly realistic setting and actors actually end up helping make the game creepier.

* WhatAnIdiot:
** Dr. Bose knew something was seriously wrong with Jimmy after [[spoiler: Jimmy made him a sandwich full of broken glass. Even though he received severe injury from it and kept the glass and bloody cloth to show to police, he apparently didn't report this, press charges, or use it to push for more intensive care. Instead, he chose to step up treatment by attempting to inject Jimmy with medication against his will, going so far as to chase him around the hotel to do so. Regardless of his intentions, this is not appropriate behavior for an adult, and especially not a doctor, and only gave Jimmy more cause to target him and more credence to his claims against the doctor that ultimately ruined his life.]]
*** He knew Jimmy was capable of cruel and potentially fatal acts by this point, and he also knew that Jimmy would lie and implicate others to protect himself. But even after [[spoiler:the first incident in which Jimmy lied about him to his mother]], Dr. Bose did nothing to protect himself from the potential for further false allegations, and apparently tried to continue treating Jimmy--a patient who he knew lacked empathy, was prone to acts of malice, and now had absolutely no reason to trust him or want to improve his condition.
** Harvey knew Jimmy was manipulative and responsible for multiple horrible things that had happened to people, but rather than use any of the evidence he had gathered and go to the police to bring Jimmy's actions to light or force his mother to get him treatment, he took it upon himself to punish Jimmy for the things he did. This approach only made Rose more resistant to listening to him and made him more of a target for Jimmy's "pranks". This ongoing feud and cycle of retaliation between the two ultimately escalated to the point of Harvey [[spoiler:literally trying to confront Jimmy with a gun only for Jimmy to kill him]]. While he was right that Jimmy had done horrible things and was a danger to those around him, his aggression in response served as a cover for Jimmy as no one else knew of his history. Thus [[spoiler:Harvey's murder was considered self-defense and Jimmy came out looking like the victim]].
** Arguably his mother. As much as Rose may love her son and be blinded by this love, there were many signs of problems with Jimmy that she should have taken seriously and couldn't reasonably ignore without putting her in this category. She had to have had at least some awareness given that she agreed to have Jimmy see Dr. Bose in the first place, but despite this, she continued to willfully ignore Jimmy's behaviors and blindly believe him until multiple people had already died because of him. And at the end when she could no longer ignore what he had done, rather than report him to police or try to get him more intensive psychiatric treatment, [[spoiler:she revealed truths to Jimmy that neither of them were in any position to deal with. Then she killed herself and left Jimmy in charge of the hotel where he would be free to hurt countless other people unopposed.]]

* FoeYay: There's definitely some between Maya and Jimmy, given that he's always searching for her. [[spoiler:It gets worse during the final act, where Jimmy explicitly says that Maya is different from the rest and he wants her to stay here forever.]]

*** The obvious answers to these are 1: The creator doesn't want [[spoiler: the player to have any more upper edges on Jimmy than they already do. If they could just straight up kill Jimmy, it would lower the fear facotr.]] And 2: [[spoiler: Maya doesn't want to kill anyone]].

*** The obvious answers to these are 1: The creator doesn't want [[spoiler: the player to have any more upper edges on Jimmy than they already do. It would likely lower the fear factor of the game if they could just straight up kill Jimmy.]] And 2: [[spoiler: Maya doesn't want to kill anyone]].