YMMV / Most Wanted

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Sam Massey. A sympathetic Action Girl and a competent cop or a judgmental Jerkass who lets personal issues interfere with her work and doesn't know how to back off? The fact that the player can choose to emphasize either or both of these characterization doesn't help the matter.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • With this large of a cast, this is pretty much inevitable. Cassandra Leigh, Officer McKenzie and the Crime Lab trio are the most notable ones.
  • Officer McKenzie's popularity shot up by a significant amount when it was revealed that she is Jake McKenzie's sister.
  • Ryan Summers, because of his attractive design and the fact that he and Cassandra often make cameos in other books. It's reached the point that the Ryan/Cassandra Crack Pairing has become kind of Ascended Fanon, outside the book they originally appeared in. ^note Other books show that Ryan and Cassandra have been playing lovers, complete with brand-new official art just for their romantic scenes◊, although their actual offscreen relationship is very much YMMV.
• Fan-Preferred Couple:
  • Sam/Dave is the most popular couple among the fanbase despite the fact that Sam got 4 romantic options in the game.
  • Ryan and Cassandra are a major example of Ships That Pass in the Night. Despite their lack of real interaction with each other in Most Wanted, it's reached nigh-Ascended Fanon status in other books.
• Growing the Beard: While The Freshman is considered to be Pixelberry having a stubble over their last products, Most Wanted and The Crown & the Flame are the books that proved to the audience the company can write a novel that isn't focused on romance and having solid ongoing plots.
• Memetic Mutation: When is Most Wanted 2 coming out?^Explanation A sequel has been announced by Pixelberry, only for its release to be notoriously sidelined. It's gone to the point that a new book being released will have some complaints about the staff having forgotten about said sequel (even worse if it's a new book that's not well-received). The meme died out when Pixelberry announced that Most Wanted 2 has been cancelled.
• No Yay:
  • Tull has a weird thing for Sam, including commenting on her chest size, casually implying that he is planning to attempt to rape her, and aggressively hitting on her to her visible disgust every single time they interact. The fact that poor Bill ended up dead for trying to protect Sam from Tull's perversion and he likes to taunt her with this doesn't help.
  • Tull's obsession with Hayley, complete with a Stalker Shrine. Gets even worse once it's revealed that he's her father, adding a layer of Incest Subtext.
• Rewatch Bonus: Naturally, being a Mystery Visual Novel. Most notably everything about John Tull and Hayley Rose's behavior.
• Ship Tease: Sam and Dave, to a truly agonizing degree. Probably the worst example is on the plane towards the end, when they're holding hands and staring into each other's eyes and everything indicates that they're finally about to share a Big Damn Kiss...and then the plane crashes.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Everything about Bill's death, especially if you buy premium scenes. His dying words (telling Sam he's proud of her) are pretty heart-wrenching too.
  • Hayley may be a murderer, Manipulative Bitch, and overall a pretty terrible person, but it's hard not to feel sorry for her when her father gets killed right in front of her. Crosses into Jerkass Woobie territory as well.
  • Sam and Dave's farewell, particularly if you ship them.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Hayley Rose / Tull spends exactly one chapter after The Reveal as an antagonist whose most notable acts of villainy occurred off-screen and then quickly got killed off when she surrendered. Time will tell whether or not the developers will fix this in another installment.