Line #34 YMMV/Metro2033


1	!!The Video Game
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3	* AdaptationDisplacement: The game is vastly more available and well known than the book, at least outside the former Eastern Bloc. Some Steam versions of the game actually try to avert this by including digital copies of the novels.
4	* AluminiumChristmasTrees: The Abzats using heavy machinegun barrels converted for shotgun use has real life precedence in Russia. The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KS-23 KS-23]] shotgun makes use of barrels intended for 23mm AA guns with minor manufacturing flaws. It is pump-action instead of automatic, though.
5	* {{Anvilicious}}: (Remember, Administrivia/TropesAreTools.)
6	** The fine print on the anvil says : "War and nukes are BAD."
7	** Another anvil more particular to Artyom's own story: [[spoiler: "Don't try to destroy something you don't understand simply because you are afraid of it."]]
8	** You're stuck in the middle between a war of Nazis vs Communists and both of them want to kill you as well as each other. "Political extremism and totalitarianism are bad whether it's far left or far right."
9	* CultClassic: Should have been a straight-up classic, but THQ did a shoddy job of marketing it.
10	* GoddamnedBats:
11	** Appropriately enough, {{Demon\|icSpiders}}s. Only encountered above ground, spend most of their time flying around above you, annoying as hell when they decide to dive-bomb you. If you're particularly unlucky, a Demon can even stunlock you by divebombing you while you're still recovering from being divebombed ''until you're dead.''
12	** And the Lurkers. They swarm, take up ammo, and can dive into their instant-kill rat-holes at a moments notice. They also scream loudly and unsettlingly, either screeching like bats, or roaring like lions, neither of which are pleasant at all.
13	* HarsherInHindsight:
14	** In 2014, eastern Ukraine descended into war, which is probably one reason why the ''Metro'' franchise was temporarily put on hold after the release of ''Last Light.'' One aspect of this war [[LifeImitatesArt is that]] [[https://news.vice.com/article/how-ukraines-war-became-big-business-for-the-underworld bullets are now being used as currency]] in the Russian-controlled separatist regions.
15	** The Russian aligned Donetsk People's Republic also has a special forces battalion named [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Sparta%22_Battalion Sparta Battalion]], named after (and using the insignia of) the ranger organization in the game. Ironically, Dmitry Glukhovsky, the author of the books, is [[https://www.pcgamer.com/metro-2033-author-put-on-russian-government-wanted-list-for-condemning-invasion-of-ukraine/ wanted in Russia]] due to being against the war.
16	** Miller's line, "Invisible Watchers? How can you still believe in this crap after all this time," takes a different turn when it's revealed that [[spoiler: the Invisible Watchers are real and Miller is in on the secret]].
17	* {{Narm}}:
18	** The English dub in general is this.
19	---> '''Bourbon''': Some call them demons, but I call them bitches.
20	*** It is actually more a case of NarmCharm for a native Russian language speaker, at least in the respective dub. In Russian, Bourbon calls them суки (Suki), which means "bitches". Сука (Suka) is the singular.
21	** Sometimes, you will hear enemy humans yell "DAMN! DAMN! DAMN!"
22	** The death of [[spoiler: Boris]].
23	--> [[spoiler:'''Stepan''': BORIS! My friend! WHY?... The bastards! Boris, I swear on your memory - they won't rest while I'm alive!"]]
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25	*** [[spoiler:And yet Stepan doesn't mind that you loot Boris' corpse for ammunition and morphine.]] [[spoiler:Considering how no one complained all the times you did before, it may be common practice.]]
26	** The whole conflict between the Communists and the Nazis is loaded with narm. Even assuming that ideology can overcome the need for basic survival, how {{serious\|Business}}ly the followers of each side take it starts bordering on absurd. It feels like both sides are UsefulNotes/WorldWarII WarReenactors, only they shoot at each other with ''actual'' bullets.
27	* NightmareFuel: [[NightmareFuel/{{Metro 2033}} Oh my, where to start?]]
28	** NightmareRetardant: You quickly learn that nosalises aren't big enough to fit in the narrow pipes the game likes to make you crawl through, and lurkers won't follow you in (for no particular reason), so these sections lose a lot of their tension. [[spoiler: This makes one JumpScare in the Lenin Library very effective, when a Libraran's arm reaches for you out of a side-vent.]]
29	* RemadeAndImproved: The ''Redux'' version of the game, which is essentially a complete remake of the original using the improved engine, gameplay, and graphics of ''VideoGame/MetroLastLight'', is far better received overall by both fans and critics. It helps that the clunky controls and bugs present in the original have since been removed, many of the game's levels have been expanded upon and streamlined, and all of the [=NPCs=] have unique looks now from either using their ''Last Light'' models (for characters who appeared in both ''2033'' and ''Last light'') or newly created models entirely, thus averting OnlySixFaces.
30	* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: Contrary to [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames the usual norm]], the game received many positive reviews and is a good seller on Steam. ''Redux'' takes this further by having a metascore of 90/100, indicating critical acclaim.
31	* ThatOneLevel:
32	** Front Line: Some unexpected platforming, and inconsistent autosaving means that when you die, you may or may not go back a long way.
33	** Trolley Combat. There is a stage where the path is blocked, and you have to shoot enemies off to one side until your railcar blows up for no obvious reason. The solution seems to be to restart the level and hope that it doesn't happen again.
34	** The Library. There's a part where you're on a fetch quest, your enemies are Librarians, and there's no real sense of where to go because you may end up backtracking to the beginning of the section. Also, hope you decided to stock up on ammo, because Librarians eat bullets like candy if you accidentally piss them off. Also, the entire level takes place outdoors, so if you didn't stock up on filters, it's a TimedMission.
35	* UnintentionalUncannyValley: The children in the English dub are [[VocalDissonance clearly]] voiced [[DawsonCasting by adults]]. This probably wouldn't be bad if not for the fact that the photorealism of the designs and the actors' poor attempts at sounding like children badly clash against each other.
36	* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: While the original game is no slouch on the graphical front, ''Redux'' uses the new 4A engine, and it looks ''gorgeous.''
37	%%(ZCE)* TheWoobie: Admit it. Artyom needs a few hugs.
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Context YMMV / Metro2033