History YMMV / Metro2033

*** Even more so if you look at the door before finishing the two tasks to safe Cursed. There are 3 ghosts of soldiers standing in front of it. They won't kill you only push you back if you try to go through that door. They essentialy prevent you from trying to sneak away while the rest defends the station. It's easy to see them as ghosts of those who died defending curse, still helping the living.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Metro 2033}} Oy vey, where to start?]]

** Too bad the whole sequence degenerates into HighOctaneNightmareFuel soon after.

** The "shrine to hope" in Cursed. After Khan tells you that you have to go on without him he takes you through a small hole in the wall and you come out in a small, circular room filled with candles and the pictures of the fallen of Cursed. It actually gave this troper a flicker of ''hope'' after all the darkness and despair he'd seen while playing the game.

* GoddamnBats: Appropriately enough, Demons. Only encountered above ground, spend most of their time flying around above you, annoying as hell when they decide to dive-bomb you.

*** Death of [[spoiler: Boris]]

** Also in the book, when Artyom [[spoiler:says farewell to his stepfather, who stays to defend [=VDNKh=], even though the tunnels will be collapsed, to contain the "threat" of the Dark Ones]]

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Metro 2033}} Oy vey, where does one start?]]

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Metro 2033}} In a word: tons.]]

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/{{Metro 2033}} Where do we even begin?!]]

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Pretty much everything. Most of the game consists of fighting mutants in abandoned underground tunnels while experiencing unexplained visions.
** Voices in the pipes. Don't listen for too long though. Seriously, don't.
*** Why? what's so wrong about laughing childre-OHMYGODWHATTHEFUCKWASTHAT!?!
** Two-headed skeleton in D-6. Fresh one.
** [[BlobMonster Biomass.]]
*** In the book: [[ItCanThink intelligent]] [[ItGotWorse Biomass]].
*** [[FridgeHorror ...and then you think about it some more]], and come to realize that the Biomass in-game is also rather intelligent as well. After all, it is smart enough to attack the reactor control room in order to stop the control rods from being raised (and therefore depriving it of power).
** Human opponents have long and disturbing death cries. [[{{TooMuchInformation}} A sound of people coughing up their organs after a home-made black powder pipe-bomb goes off inside the bonfire they were sitting around and fills them up with shrapnel]] is unsettling.
** The book is full of them too. Glukhovsky has a good way of setting the mood and making use of NothingIsScarier.

*** [[FridgeHorror ...and then you think about it some more]], and come to realize that the Biomass in-game is also rather intelligent as well.

** Human opponents have long and disturbing death cries. [[{{TooMuchInformation}} A sound of people coughing up their organs after a home-made black powder pipe-bomb goes off inside the bonfire they were sitting around and fills them up with shrapnel]] is [[{{Understatement}} unsettling]].

*** EnthrallingSiren anyone? He claims to have heard "''a beautiful song''" and in Russian dub he begs the [[HellGate gate]] "to sing to him alone".

** It is actually a NarmCharm for a native Russian language speaker.

** Also in the book, when Artyom [[spoiler:says farewell to his stepfather, who stays to defend VDNKh, even though the tunnels will be collapsed, to contain the "threat" of the Dark Ones]]

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Trolley Combat. After one of the hardest stealth sections in the game (especially if you didn't know about the [[EasyLevelTrick shortcut]]), you get to go on one of the machine-gun equipped carts that you were dodging five minutes ago and murder everything in sight. Whilst [[CrowningMomentOfFunny honking the]] [[MostWonderfulSound horn.]]

* NightmareFuel: Pretty much everything. Most of the game consists of fighting mutants in abandoned underground tunnels while experiencing unexplained visions.