History YMMV / WinterVoices

* FreudWasRight: Winter Voices seems to think that he's a genius: the [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant shadows]] constantly spout vaguely sexual and very disturbing things at the Heroine, though this only becomes relevant in Episode 4.

* BaseBreaker: Whether or not the game's [[AuthorAppeal love]] of PurpleProse is well done or overbearing with the side effect of making the game less accessible.

** Perhaps unintentionally, but the BlindIdiotTranslation sometimes results in this. For example, one skill is called "Weed" which has led to some MemeticMutation that The Heroine is a stoner and the metaphorical battles are just her highs.

* {{Narm}}: Not usually, though one review lampshades that because the battles are either hallucinations or your character having a physical breakdown, passers-by see a woman standing in the street, walking around, flinching, and waving her arms around like a lunatic, and probably writing down everything that happens in the Combat Diary. These implications make the enemies much less threatening.

* NightmareRetardant: Some of the enemies can border this, though it reaches its high during Episode 4 due to the marine themes it employs. One of the enemies [[DemonicSpider (one which will cause you a lot of trouble)]] is best described as a big, blue inflatable wavy-arm novelty lawn ornament

* {{Squick}}: Using similes like a diseased animal vomiting to describe [[spoiler: rape]] makes the scene in which it is described incredibly uncomfortable. Though, considering the subject matter, it's entirely deliberate.

* GeniusBonus: Ever [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative curious about pre-industrial Germanic neo-paganism, volva practice and Satanism]]? This game's for you.

* NightmareFuel: The whole game, really, is about the refusal to mature and a young woman suffering from an unspecified mental illness Those Who Have No Name is especially daunting as it shows just how dangerous the world outside your village is. And then you notice that you can't go back on the map, only forward, to harder and harder battles, to the point where you actually [[ParanoiaFuel become afraid to sleep.]]

* WhamLine: Several. Right after the play first begins their journey, a Hunter tells them that if they want to get to the river they'll have to take a ''three week detour'' that many die while taking. The PlayerCharacter doesn't take it well, and it's the first of many.

* NightmareFuel: The whole game, really, is about the refusal to mature and a young woman suffering from an unspecified mental illness, though Though Who Have No Name is especially daunting as it shows just how dangerous the world outside your village is. ''And you can't go back''.

* WhamLine: Several. Right after the play first begins their journey, a Hunter tells them that if they want to get to the river they'll have to take a ''three week detour'' that move die while taking. The PlayerCharacter doesn't take it well, and it's the first of many.

* WhamLine: Several. Right after the play first begins their journey, a Hunter tells them that if they want to get to the river they'll have to take a ''three week detour'' that move die while taking. The PlayerCharacted doesn't take it well, and it's the first of many.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The general consensus on the game is that the artwork, the music, the story and the idea are great and promising, but the gameplay and the pacing are quite lacking.

* {{Pretentious}}: Can be inferred by seeing how much dialogue their is about nothing.

* {{Pretentious}}: Can be inferred by seeing how much dialogue their is about nothing.