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You'll never want an A again...

LAst WEEK is a Thai horror game, created with RPG Maker XP by Mayko Games. It is about a girl named "Napa", who has had a recuring nightmare since childhood. She has decided to visit the ruined school that appears in her dream. But something inside is trying to drag her into the past... and it will never let her go.

This game has a prequel, LAst WEEK: Another Incident, that takes place 10 years before and centers around "Ratri", a student of Vitheesart (A.K.A. the ruined school), who was chosen for a strange ritual of the school. Having forgotten what had happened before, now she is in a strange building that has no exit. Before everything is over she still carries the fading hope to move forward, to seek the path to survive, and to see her friends again...

The game can be downloaded for free here, and in English here. For the prequel: here, or here.


LAst WEEK and its prequel provide examples of:

  • Abandoned Area: In the first game, the school is this, at it has been completely closed down and left to ruin by the present day.
  • Always Night: Almost every scene in LAst WEEK and its prequel are during nighttime, the notable exceptions are the Good and True Endings in the first and second games, respectively.
  • Apocalyptic Log: Scattered across the school are letters from someone detailing the school's tragic history.
  • Benevolent A.I.: Played Straight at first in Another Incident by A2, who helps Ratri by providing her information. It's later played with by having him upgraded into A2 Ultimate, which provided him the ability to control the Calendar system but removed all 'unnecessary' data and functions, including his kind emotions and memory about Ratri. He now suggests that Ratri should accept her fate, since he calculated a 100% chance that she would die anyway, but see Screw Destiny below.
  • Bitter Sweet Ending:
    • 'Good Ending : Sacrifice' in LAst WEEK. In this ending, Napa chooses to sacrifice herself to save Ratri but doesn’t kill the school principal, so the ritual in Vitheesart can continue.
    • Also in 'Good Ending : Hope' in Another Incident. If Ratri couldn't solve the final problem fast enough, her friend Pim will fade away thanks to Napa's arrival in the past, but the school principal was killed anyway.
  • Break Her Heart to Save Her: Non-romantic variation—Pim valued her grades very highly and respects the Computer Instructor, but the Instructor broke their heart by dragging down her grade to try and save her from being chosen for a ritual that sacrificed high-grade students.
  • Corrupt Corporate Executive: The school principal was willing to engage in Human Sacrifice just so he could keep his job as the head of the best school in the district.
  • Cypher Language: Used purposefully as a puzzle! In both games, you'll certainly encounter some "encrypted" codes, which are just Thai words typed without turning on a Thai input method (like l;ylfu (This is "สวัสดี" (Sawasdee), hello in Thai).
  • Darkness Equals Death: Are your flashlight's and camera's batteries dead? Is your candle burnt out? You will be gone soon...
  • Dragged into Drag: Darkly played with the unnamed boy's fate; he was cross-dressed into Rurkrean by force so he could be sacrificed.
  • Determinator: According to Word of God, the Computer instructor repeated the loop to help Ratri 413 times. Are you Akemi Homura?
  • Enter Solution Here: In Another Incident, there is the puzzle to get a code to unlock a door to kill the school principal via the monster, which is in binary code. You must use a ASCII Code table to translate it, assuming you're not a computer geek.
  • Fate Worse than Death: Everybody who Ratri meets in the Zero building doesn't die, but is worse off. The girls who are the sacrifices will get their life sucked out and will be stuck in the building forever.
  • Face–Heel Turn:
  • Heroic RRoD: In Another Incident, your Sprint Meter doubles as a Life Meter; if you run too much, the exhaustion will kill you.
  • Improbable Weapon User: In order to defend themselves from what they find in the school, Napa uses a shovel. In Another Incident, Ratri finds and uses a metal pipe (mostly against Reandee).
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Kanya in Another Incident. She always mocks our protagonist, but in the end before she is gone (presumably dead), she comes to rescue Ratri from Tawan and tells her to keep going and doesn't listen to anyone, even herself.
  • Jump Scare: Better prepare your heart before playing, as you will get a scare before the Game Over when you meet Reandee or Rukrean, or if you run out of HP. As seen by how this Let's player plays LAst WEEK and Another Incident, you will likely see it a lot.
  • Karmic Death: In both games' True Endings, the school principal is killed by the very same monster that killed all previous sacrifices. This is also assumed to happen in Another Incident's Happy Ending.
  • Kill It with Fire: Another Incident's Burning Building Ending. After killing the monster, Ratri can decide to Pay Evil unto Evil by burning down the whole school, which kills her AND the school principal in the process.
  • Killed Mid-Sentence: The computer instructor is killed thanks to the building demolishing, while telling Napa what date she needs to go... AND it happens to be the critical point to the ending you will gain!
  • Lock and Key Puzzle: Occurs frequently, such as a regular key and door, seeking a head for headless body statue by killing the science teacher, and, of course, searching for a metallic calendar to move to the next day.
  • Mascot: Reandee and Rukrean for Vitheesart. Oh, and they are the thing you NEED to avoid! Oh, and they can also control anybody who wears them!
  • Meaningful Name:
    • Napa means "Sky", mostly used in meaning of "Day". Ratri means "Night". Nice contrast, as they're both protagonists!
    • Reandee means "Good studying". And in this game, this mascot is "good at studying" students' lives.
    • Tawan means "the sun".
    • Vitheesart means "the subject of the way" (it comes from two words, "วิถี", way in Thai and "ศาสตร์", subject in Thai)
    • According to Word of God, LAst WEEK is written in this form instead of LAST WEEK because the creator wants to represent “the first” (as in, the first ranking school of Vitheesart) in form of that “st”.
  • Mistaken for Murderer: In the first game, Napa thinks that the guard is the murderer. He isn't and ends up dead. And Mali thinks Napa killed him, so she kills Napa because he was her father.
  • Multiple Endings: A lot in both games.
  • No Body Left Behind: In Another Incident, there's Pim's death in the Good Ending, and Ratri's deaths in Correct End - Father's Revenge, Bad Ending 1 - Burning Building, and Bad Ending 2 - Desperate Future, none of which leave a corpse.
  • Nonindicative Name: The Good ending in Another Incident; the school principal was killed, the ritual was stopped for good, but Pim is gone.
  • No One Gets Left Behind: Averted! In LAst WEEK: Another Incident, Laila is killed by the monster and tells Ratri to leave her. This is also averted further in regard of the calendar system, as only the person who changes the calendar will go to the next day, leaving everyone else there behind.
  • Our Time Travel Is Different: Not quite a "Time machine", the Calendar system is more like a "Time controller" system. It's a complex mystic calendar system, that has metallic calendar plates that have dates written on it to go to a certain day. Though this is mostly used for travelling to another day, it can be used as a real Time Machine to go back into the past, exactly what the Computer instructor and Napa do in the True/Normal end routes.
  • Plot Coupon : The metallic calendar plates—you need these to activate the Calendar system and move to the next day. They're also used later to go back in time.
  • The Perfectionist: The school's principal has this as the motivation behind their actions, as in his past, the school was nearly closed because it wasn't perfect enough, thanks to the education's low quality and having only a few students.
  • Powered by a Forsaken Child: How does Vitheesart's school stay as the number one school? Human Sacrifice, by sending a Grade 4 (Thai equivalent of Grade A) girl to be consumed by a monster in a ritual that occurs every ten years that 7 is last digit with some side effect of time distortion.
  • Reincarnation: In the prequel Another Incident, no matter what the player does to change the timeline, Pim will die anyway, since Napa is Pim’s reincarnation.
  • Sadistic Teacher: With the exception of the Computer instructor, every teacher at Vitheesart supports the ongoing Human Sacrifice, which is of course detrimental to the students' well-beings. After the timeline changes to fix everything, the teachers become less sadistic.
  • Screw Destiny:
    • In Another Incident. After its upgrade, A2 says to Ratri that she will die no matter what. You can let her say that, even if their fate is to be dead, she'd prefer to die trying rather than waiting for it. This will cause his program to recalculate and allows the emergency door to be opened.
    • This can also be averted later in the same game. If you tell Pim about the A2 prediction, after they walk out of the Zero building and find the school principal, Pim will try to kill him but instead kill Ratri, and then Ratri's dad's massacre will occur...
  • Shout-Out: There are a lot of scenes identical to ones from Five Nights at Freddy's, especially the date change scene.
  • Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Napa fixed/fixes everything by using the Calendar system to travel into the past. If you do it right, she will stop the ritual by killing the school principal. This removes Ratri's dad's event, prevents/prevented a lot of girls from being trapped, and even prevented the school from being closed!
  • Theme Naming: When written in English, the name of four sacrificial girls(Kanya, Laila, Tawan, Ratri) has five letters with two syllables.
  • Timed Mission: In Another Incident, the final puzzle will require you to enter a code to open the door that contains the monster in a limited amount of time before Pim fades away.
  • Viewer-Friendly Interface: A2, a computer with Benevolent A.I. that the player interacts with, uses a large font that takes up most of the screen.
  • You Can't Fight Fate: No matter what your ending is, Pim will die anyway, either by Ratri's Papa Wolf, vanishing thanks to Napa's arrival, or by a normal accident, because she has to reincarnate into Napa.

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