History YMMV / WeHappyFew

* TakeThat: Player fanbase example. When Arthur fights a former co-worker who plagiarized from him, a few LP'ers including Critikal and [=ChristopherOdd=] made shots at IGN thanks to the ''VideoGame/DeadCells'' plagiarism fiasco (involving former IGN writer Philip Miucin, who plagiarized various videogame reviews, including one from one of his colleagues at IGN) as it was fresh in people's memories at the time of their Let's Plays.

* FanDislikedExplanation: According to WordOfGod, Joy is mainly their commentary on anti-depressants (and/or opioids). This was criticized for feeding into the myth of how anti-depressants and other medications are nothing but no-good drugs made to produce artificial happiness. Ignoring how anti-depressants are, y'know, ''actually incredibly important'', the fan-preferred explanation is that Joy is a metaphor for how countries (particularly police states) cover up their atrocities and poor situations with propaganda instead of admitting the truth and compliance in these things--even fans who go with the drug addiction metaphor will point to opioids instead of anti-depressants.

* TakeThatCritics: Player fanbase example. When Arthur fights a former co-worker who plagiarized from him, a few LP'ers including Critikal and [=ChristopherOdd=] made shots at IGN thanks to the ''VideoGame/DeadCells'' plagiarism fiasco (involving former IGN writer Philip Miucin, who plagiarized various videogame reviews, including one from one of his colleagues at IGN) as it was fresh in people's memories at the time of their Let's Plays.

* DiagnosedByTheAudience: WordOfGod is that Percy is on the Autistic Spectrum but he was never diagnosed because Autism hadn't been properly discovered in the 40's. He was often described as "dim" or "slow" by many characters. He always mentioned the dates and times of events he described, he wasn't very good at reading people's emotional states, and not only was he a rubbish liar, he didn't seem to understand why telling a girl's mum that ''he'' was in a tree outside her bedroom instead of his brother doesn't actually help. Understanding why people are upset was also not one of his strengths, as he reacted with confusion when Arthur got mad at him for spending the whole day riding the tube up and down without telling anyone where he was. He also had a limited vocabulary, a bad stammer, and he often used words or phrases wrong. Also the only person he felt comfortable talking to was Arthur. Additionally Arthur mentions that Percy didn't like toys because they were just imitations and he wasn't fond of ''anything'' that wasn't the real thing - which has a hidden meaning in how Joy doesn't provide ''real'' happiness.

%%** The existence of [[spoiler:deific pocket dimensions and Arthur's apparent guardian Yam]], however... Passerby at that moment could be forgiven for thinking you're playing a [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs completely different game]].

* AcceptableTargets: Player fanbase example. When Arthur fights a former co-worker who plagiarized from him, a few LP'ers including Critikal and [=ChristopherOdd=] made shots at IGN thanks to the ''VideoGame/DeadCells'' plagiarism fiasco (involving former IGN writer Philip Miucin, who plagiarized various videogame reviews, including one from one of his colleagues at IGN) as it was fresh in people's memories at the time of their Let's Plays.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: After receiving complaints from players about how easy it was to forget retrieving power cells and canteens from the item storage as well as tedious, the 1.4 build reassigns power cells and canteens to the gadget pocket instead of the ingredient pocket so that they are no longer automatically stashed in the item storage with the other ingredients when "Place All" is selected.

* CriticalResearchFailure: For British players (particularly those with even vague knowledge of the time period), it can become painfully obvious that the game's script was never checked over by actual Brits. While Creator/MontyPython shout-outs that predate the troupe by a good five years could be excused as RuleOfFunny, there are less excusable things such as the phrase "Don't be a big girl's blouse" being mangled into "Don't be a '''great''' girl's blouse", consistently referring to crowbars (or, to use uncommon vernacular, a 'jemmy') as 'jimmy bars', policemen consistently referred to as 'bobbies' (instead of the more realistic 'police' or 'coppers', given Arthur's southern accent), and World War 2-era pay telephones containing up to twenty sovereigns (instead of shillings or tuppence), when a single sovereign in that era would have the same purchasing power as £40 or $50 in the modern day.

* DiagnosedByTheAudience: Well, not that ambiguous, since WordOfGod is that Percy is on the Autistic Spectrum but he was never diagnosed because Autism hadn't been properly discovered in the 40's. He was often described as "dim" or "slow" by many characters. He always mentioned the dates and times of events he described, he wasn't very good at reading people's emotional states, and not only was he a rubbish liar, he didn't seem to understand why telling a girl's mum that ''he'' was in a tree outside her bedroom instead of his brother doesn't actually help. Understanding why people are upset was also not one of his strengths, as he reacted with confusion when Arthur got mad at him for spending the whole day riding the tube up and down without telling anyone where he was. He also had a limited vocabulary, a bad stammer, and he often used words or phrases wrong. Also the only person he felt comfortable talking to was Arthur. Additionally Arthur mentions that Percy didn't like toys because they were just imitations and he wasn't fond of ''anything'' that wasn't the real thing - which has a hidden meaning in how Joy doesn't provide ''real'' happiness.

* WhatAnIdiot: Arthur gets a moment in the release trailer, when he spits out his Joy not two feet in front of some Bobbies that should have been in his line of sight two seconds ago, with predictable results.