History Trivia / ChzoMythos

* OldShame: The Website/SomethingAwful LetsPlay of the Mythos was quite scathing of ''5 Days'' and ''7 Days'', and had its complaints about ''Notes'' and ''6 Days'' as well. Yahtzee himself joined the thread fairly early on, took its criticism very gracefully, agreed wholeheartedly with nearly all of it, and noted that it was a growing experience for him. Overall Yahtzee doesn't believe the series is all that good, but he's not ashamed of it.

** ''7 Days a Skeptic'' was supposed to be a straightforward sequel to ''5 Days a Stranger'', with Trilby meeting Jim again after finding out John [=DeFoe=] is still a threat, but it was scrapped for being a basic retread of the first game.
* TheWikiRule:
** [[https://chzomythos.fandom.com/wiki/Chzo_Mythos_Wiki Chzo Mythos Wiki | Fandom]]
** [[https://chzo.fandom.com/wiki/ITHURTS Chzo Mythos Wiki | Fandom (ItHurts)]]

* FanNickname:
** "7 Days a Space Adventure!"
** "1 Day a Retcon" for ''Trilby's Notes'', to bring it in line with the pattern of the other titles.

** ''7 Days a Skeptic'' was supposed to be a straightforward sequel to ''5 Days a Stranger'', with Trilby meeting Jim again after finding out John [=DeFoe=] is still a threat, but it was scrapped for being a basic retread of the first game.

* OldShame: The Website/SomethingAwful LetsPlay of the Mythos was quite scathing of ''5 Days'' and ''7 Days'', and had its complaints about ''Notes'' and ''6 Days'' as well. Yahtzee himself joined the thread fairly early on, took its criticism very gracefully, agreed wholeheartedly with nearly all of it, and noted that it was a growing experience for him. Could count as a subversion overall, because, while Yahtzee doesn't believe the series is any good, he's not ashamed of it.

* ReferencedBy: Intentional example since it's the same creator. ''VideoGame/TheConsumingShadow'', a Yahtzee game released in 2015, has Chzo as one of the potential {{Eldritch Abomination}}s you need to fight, the Tall Man as an EliteMook, and [[PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo the Ministry Man player character is strongly implied to be Trilby]]. The Ministry is also central to his novel ''Literature/DifferentlyMorphous''

* ReferencedBy: Intentional example since it's the same creator. ''VideoGame/TheConsumingShadow'', a Yahtzee game released in 2015, has Chzo as one of the potential {{Eldritch Abomination}}s you need to fight, the Tall Man as an EliteMook, and [[PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo the Ministry Man player character is strongly implied to be Trilby]].

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In the commentary for ''6 Days'', Yahtzee mentions he originally wanted every playthrough to be completely random: Every time a player started a new game, the order of days would shift so sometimes you'd play day 4 before day 3 and so on. He scrapped the idea because he wanted to be "ambiguous, not impenetrable."

* FanNickname: 7 Days a Space Adventure!

* OldShame: The Website/SomethingAwful LetsPlay of the Mythos was quite scathing of ''5 Days'' and ''7 Days'', and had its complaints about ''Notes'' and ''6 Days'' as well. Yahtzee himself joined the thread fairly early on, took its criticism very gracefully, agreed wholeheartedly with nearly all of it, and noted that it was a growing experience for him.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In the commentary for ''6 Days'', Yahtzee mentions he originally wanted every playthrough to be completely random: Every time a player started a new game, the order of days would shift so sometimes you'd play day 4 before day 3 and so on. He scrapped the idea because he wanted to be "ambiguous, not impenetrable."

* OldShame: The SomethingAwful LetsPlay of the Mythos was quite scathing of ''5 Days'' and ''7 Days'', and had its complaints about ''Notes'' and ''6 Days'' as well. Yahtzee himself joined the thread fairly early on, took its criticism very gracefully, agreed wholeheartedly with nearly all of it, and noted that it was a growing experience for him.