History YMMV / TheLastDoor

* {{Fanon}}: While the pixel graphics leave it ambiguous, fanart tends to depict the pixel of hair in Jeremiah's face as one-eye covering BlindingBangs.

* NightmareRetardant: The style deadens the horror for some people. Odd word choices in the English translation also contributed, though the Collector’s Edition largely rectified that. There is also the fact that, while there are effective jumpscares, you can stick around in the room long after the PsychoStrings have faded out with no repercussions on at least two occasions.

* TheWoobie: Jeremiah Devitt qualifies - his entrance into events consists of finding his best friend’s dead body hanging from a rafter, finding his old teacher gone insane, and being buried alive. He ends up in therapy for the first one, and experiences several flashbacks of the last one throughout Chapter 4. Nor does his backstory help - his dad abandoned him at the boarding school, Father Ernest demands he stop asking if his father's written to him, and the other students seem to consider him the odd one before Anthony transfers in and befriends him.

** Dr. Wakefield is also a woobie, confronting various terrors in the name of finding his friend and [[spoiler:losing another close friend in the process before heroically sacrificing himself to save Devitt.]]

* NightmareRetardant: The style deadens the horror for some people. Odd word choices in the English translation also contributed, though the Collector’s Edition largely rectified that.

* TearJerker: The dying crow from the first chapter. You are introduced to it while a huge flock of its friends are gorily pecking the everloving shit out of it, but the part that stings is when you have to pick up the broken bird as an item. It'll spend the whole time you're carrying it making miserably pained, pitiable squawks, clearly in agony, and its ultimate purpose is to be unceremoniously dumped in a food bowl, left to be eaten by the resident cat. There is an achievement for stopping it's misery, but since killing it isn't ''necessary'' to progress, chances are players stayed unaware of the possiblity and put it in the bowl, only for it to end up being EatenAlive.

* TearJerker: The dying crow from the first chapter. You are introduced to it while a huge flock of its friends are gorily pecking the everloving shit out of it, but the part that stings is when you have to pick up the broken bird as an item. It'll spend the whole time you're carrying it making miserably pained, pitiable squawks, clearly in agony, and its ultimate purpose is to be unceremoniously dumped in a food bowl, left to be eaten by the resident cat. There is an achievement for stopping it's misery, but since killing it isn't ''necessary'' to progress, chances are players stayed unaware of the possiblity and put it in the bowl, only for it to end up being eaten alive.

* TearJerker: The dying crow from the first chapter. You are introduced to it while a huge flock of its friends are gorily pecking the everloving shit out of it, but the part that stings is when you have to pick up the broken bird as an item. It'll spend the whole time you're carrying it making miserably pained, pitiable squawks, clearly in agony, and its ultimate purpose is to be unceremoniously dumped in a food bowl, left to be eaten by the resident cat.

** Dr. Wakefield is also a woobie, confronting various terrors in the name of finding his friend and [[spoiler:losing another close friend in the process before heroically sacrificing himself to save Devitt.]]

* Fanon: While the pixel graphics leave it ambiguous, fanart tends to depict the pixel of hair in Jeremiah's face as one-eye covering BlindingBangs.

* {{Nightmare Retardant}}: The style deadens the horror for some people. Odd word choices in the English translation also contributed, though the Collector’s Edition largely rectified that.

* {{Violation of Common Sense}}: Yes, Devitt, the only option is to join the creepy cult. Not to run screaming off the stage.
* {{The Woobie}}: Jeremiah Devitt qualifies - his entrance into events consists of finding his best friend’s dead body hanging from a rafter, finding his old teacher gone insane, and being buried alive. He ends up in therapy for the first one, and experiences several flashbacks of the last one throughout Chapter 4. Nor does his backstory help - his dad abandoned him at the boarding school, Father Ernest demands he stop asking if his father's written to him, and the other students seem to consider him the odd one before Anthony transfers in and befriends him.
** Dr. Wakefield is also a woobie, confronting various terrors in the name of finding his friend and [[spoiler:losing another close friend in the process before heroically sacrificing himself to save Devitt.]]

* TearJerker: The dying crow from the first chapter. You are introduced to it while a huge flock of its friends are gorily pecking the everloving shit out of it, but the part that stings is when you have to pick up the broken bird as an item. It'll spend the whole time you're carrying it making miserably pained, pitiable squawks, clearly in agony, and its ultimate purpose is to be unceremoniously dumped in a food bowl, left to be eaten by the resident cat.

* IdiotBall: DeWitt and Wakefield continually walk into situations that most sane people would run screaming away from. While they have their reasons to push on, there's often the feeling that continuing on into that creepy, dark cave is a really bad idea, ButThouMust.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: There's a few, primarily in Chapter 3, which have no apparent connection to the overarching plot and appear to be there just to make the player question Jeremiah's sanity. Or to flesh out how completely unhinged everything having to do with Jeremiah and the Witnesses is. The One More Song sequence in the Old Nichol manor house and the apparent fate of Daphne are standouts.