History YMMV / TheWitchsHouse

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: Ellen. At the age of seven, she murdered her parents and burned their house to the ground. After that, she killed many people and fed their souls to a demon in exchange for a way to avoid death. Ellen befriended Viola for the sole purpose of stealing her body. After the switch happened, Ellen cut off her legs, gouged her eyes out, and force-fed her a throat-burning drug so that she would despair as she died. Ellen then leads Viola's father to unknowingly shoot his daughter dead, laughing after it happens and getting off scot-free. The real punch to the gut is that she succeeds ''because the player helped her.'']]

** [[spoiler: the witch's glowing red eye sockets when she catches you]].

* DracoInLeatherPants: A lot of fans have a tendency to paint Ellen as someone whose completely innocent, and instead shifting the blame onto either her parents, or the cat demon, or both. While it's easy to argue that her parents were partially responsible for it, the cat demon however, is a different story; despite being vague and cryptic, the demon didn't really do anything to Ellen except made offers of magic power in exchange for souls, and Ellen willingly accepted the offers. While the book goes into more detail in attempt to make readers feel sorry for her, it also shows her having early signs of sociopathic behavior, before and after she met the demon, such as not flinching nor showing any signs of guilt or regret for murdering hundreds of people, announcing herself to be AboveGoodAndEvil, being maniacally selfish in her end goals, and finally reveling in sadistic glee at Viola's suffering; all of this was her doing, not something of demonic influence.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[spoiler: Was Ellen just a product of her environment and was just desperate to avoid death? Or was she always this diabolical? The diaries and other info suggest it's the latter; While being neglected by her parents was unfortunate, she never showed any regret or remorse for killing people and offering their souls, and there's no indication that she was being controlled or manipulated by the demon either. Her speech implies that she's wise for her age, so she should've known better. Viola was the first one who showed genuine kindness and care to her, and she only repaid her with unnecessary cruelty. All of this implies that Ellen was never a broken child, nor warped by supernatural forces, but instead had always been a sadistic, sociopathic, self-centered brat.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: Can be interperted as this. If you return to the garden after getting the purple doll head and go to the room on the right, you'll see [[spoiler:that the red grasses hanging from the cieling. Though they may or may not have been attempting suicide, as other clues in the room seem to indicate the house may have done it.]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[spoiler: Was Ellen just a product of her environment and was just desperate to avoid death? Or was she always this diabolical? The diaries and other info suggest it's the latter; While being neglected by her parents was unfortunate, she never showed any regret or remorse for killing people and offering their souls, and there's no indication that she was being controlled or manipulated by the demon either. Her speech implies that she's wise for her age, so she should've known better. Viola was the first one who showed genuine kindness and care to her, and she only repaid her with unnecessary cruelty. All of this implies that Ellen was never a broken child, nor warped by supernatural, but instead had always been a sadistic, sociopathic, self-centered brat.]]

* ALternateCharacterInterpretation: [[spoiler: Was Ellen just a product of her environment and was just desperate to avoid death? Or was she always this diabolical? The diaries and other info suggest it's the latter; While being neglected by her parents was unfortunate, she never showed any regret or remorse for killing people and offering their souls, and there's no indication that she was being controlled or manipulated by the demon either. Her speech implies that she's wise for her age, so she should've known better. Viola was the first one who showed genuine kindness and care to her, and she only repaid her with unnecessary cruelty. All of this implies that Ellen was never a broken child, nor warped by supernatural, but instead had always been a sadistic, sociopathic, self-centered brat.]]

* NightmareFuel: This is to be expected in a horror game. There are numerous gruesome deaths ending in Game Overs (decapitation by giant spider, killed in revenge by tadpoles that are angry you fed their father to a snake). Not to mention, [[spoiler: the witch's glowing red eye sockets when she catches you]].

* EarnYourHappyEnding: Played with. [[spoiler: The only ''real'' happy ending, given the True End Reveal, is to work through most of the game without dying, then letting the "witch" catch you in her chase scene, presumably allowing Viola to return to her original body. Hopefully. Maybe.]]
* KarmicDeath: An easily missable EasterEgg: [[spoiler: When you return to the garden, you'll see everything has wilted. The yellow flowers that ordered an assassination on the white flower are dead with one of them being eaten by a clock]].

* NothingIsScarier: There is one room which is completely dark and can only traverse if you have a certain item. Even with said certain item, however, you only have a small bit of light as you walk through very narrow halls. [[spoiler: And as you make your way back to the door, you drop it, causing the last few seconds of that stage to be completed in complete darkness, with the sounds of statues moving all around. It's even worse if you decide to open the menu, because you'll see the normally innocent-looking Viola look absolutely demonic.]]

* NothingIsScarier: There is one room which is completely dark and can only traverse if you have a certain item. Even with said certain item, however, you only have a small bit of light as you walk through very narrow halls. [[spoiler: And as you make your way back to the door, you drop it, causing the last few seconds of that stage to be completed in complete darkness, with the sounds of statues moving all around.]]

* TheWoobie: [[spoiler:Viola. The poor girl is tricked into trading her body with a 'friend'. Said 'friend' cuts off her legs, gouges her eyes out, and takes away her voice by force-feeding her a throat-burning drug, simply because she wanted to ''make her suffer before dying''. Viola is then shot to death by her beloved father, and the witch laughs at her corpse.]]

* NightmareFuel: Yep.

* PlayerPunch: Viola finds a cute frog, but has to feed it to a giant snake to proceed. Later, she meets its tadpoles, who accuse her of murdering their father. And just before entering the witch's room, she finds the corpse of the black cat that's been accompanying her through the house. [[spoiler: Both endings show it alive, although the pseudo-third ending reveals it was a demon. There's also the true ending.]]

* PlayerPunch: Viola finds a cute frog, but has to feed it to a giant snake to proceed. Later, she meets its tadpoles, who accuse her of murdering their father. And just before entering the witch's room, she finds the corpse of the black cat that's been accompanying her through the house. [[spoiler: Both endings show it alive, although the psuedo-third ending reveals it was a demon. There's also the true ending.]]

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: Ellen. At the age of seven, she murdered her parents and burned their house to the ground. After that, she killed many people and fed their souls to a demon in exchange for a way to avoid death. Ellen befriended Viola for the sole purpose of stealing her body. After the switch happened, Ellen cut off her legs, gouged her eyes out, and drugged her so that she would despair as she died. Ellen then leads Viola's father to unknowingly shoot his daughter dead, laughing after it happens and getting off scot-free. The real punch to the gut is that she succeeds ''because the player helped her.'']]

* TheWoobie: [[spoiler:Viola. The poor girl is tricked into trading her body with a 'friend'. Said 'friend' cuts off her legs, gouges her eyes out, and drugs her with the full intention of leaving her to die. Viola is then shot to death by her beloved father, and the witch laughs at her corpse.]]

* TheWoobie: [[spoiler:Viola. The poor girl is tricked into trading her body with a 'friend'. Said 'friend' cuts off her legs, gouges her eyes out, and drugs her so that she could leave Viola to die. Viola is then shot to death by her beloved father, and the witch laughs at her corpse.]]

* TheWoobie: [[spoiler:Viola.]]

* PlayerPunch: Viola finds a cute frog, but has to feed it to a giant snake to proceed. Later, she meets its tadpoles, who accuse her of murdering their father. And just before entering the witch's room, she finds the corpse of the black cat that's been accompanying her through the house. [[spoiler: Both endings show it alive, although the psuedo-third ending reveals it was a demon. There's also the true ending.]]