History YMMV / LastYearTheNightmare

** On the Classmate side, expect to receive some flak from your teammates if you've decided to craft any kind of lethal explosive (such as the Molotov, the Pipe Bomb, and the Proximity Mine). These weapons are notorious for their tendency to take down at least one student with the Fiend when they explode - [[EpicFail assuming they even manage to hit the Fiend in the first place.]]

** On the Classmate side, expect to receive some flak from your teammates if you've decided to craft any kind of lethal explosive (such as the Molotov, the Pipe Bomb, and the Proximity Mine). These weapons are notorious for their tendency to take down at least one student with the Fiend when they explode - [[EpicFail assuming they even manage to hit the Fiend in the first place.]]
* UnexpectedCharacter: Could quite possibly be the first time you see a unique character like Raj in a horror game.

** On the Classmate side, expect to receive some flak from your teammates if you've decided to craft any kind of lethal explosive (such as the Molotov, the Pipe Bomb, and the Proximity Mine). These weapons are notorious for their tendency to take down at least one student with the Fiend when they explode - [[EpicFail assuming they even manage to hit the Fiend in the first place.]]

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Chad. His personality is definitely memorable, and he's the funniest out of all the survivors.

** On the Classmate side, expect to receive some flak from your teammates if you've decided to craft any kind of lethal explosive (such as the Molotov, the Pipe Bomb, and the Proximity Mine). These weapons are notorious for their tendency to take down at least one student with the Fiend when they explode - [[EpicFail assuming they even manage to hit the Fiend in the first place.]]
* UnexpectedCharacter: Raj, given the fact he doesn't fit in the horror genre like the original five classmates do.

** On the Classmate side, expect to receive some flak from your teammates if you've decided to craft any kind of lethal explosive (such as the Molotov, the Pipe Bomb, and the Proximity Mine). These weapons are notorious for their tendency to take down at least one student with the Fiend when they explode - [[EpicFail assuming they even manage to hit the Fiend in the first place.]]

** Also, Raj will always calls the Fiends ''"Criminals"'' and will mention something about the law and justice.

* NeverLiveItDown: Elastic Games is never, ever going to hear the end of those jokes about "Last Year" being [[{{Vaporware}} the scheduled release date of the game instead of the title.]]

** The Shocker, an electric stun-gun that Medics on the Survivor team can craft. If tapped repeatedly, they can stun-lock the Killer, leaving him completely helpless against Assaults on the Survivor team. The Shocker has since been changed to only have 2 charges, but it's still pretty difficult to play around.

** "''Last Year'' is like ''[[VideoGame/FridayThe13thTheGame Friday the 13th]]'', [[RecycledInSpace but you can kill Jason!]]" [[labelnote:Explanation]]In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbmHn-IOug8 IGN's report on the Last Year demo at PAX East 2018]], many comparisons were drawn between Last Year and ''VideoGame/FridayThe13thTheGame''. According to one reporter, one key difference between the games was that the students could fight back and kill the Killer in Last Year. [[CriticalResearchFailure This quickly drew the ire of anyone who had even basic knowledge of Friday the 13th, as it was common knowledge that killing Jason is entirely possible in F13 (albeit only under one set of very specific circumstances).]] Many fans took to sarcastically referring to Last Year with said comparison. Nowadays, though, most fans have concluded that IGN meant that fighting the Killer was meant to be a regularly used mechanic in Last Year, as opposed to a rare InstantWinCondition that only extremely coordinated groups of players could pull off.[[/labelnote]]

** Memes about all the Killers having an inexplicable, disproportionate amount of hatred for Chad compared to the rest of the Survivors are also popular.
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Generally, any time the Survivors have enough firepower to turn the tables on the Killer and make ''him'' flee for his life for a change. Or, even better yet, channel [[Film/It2017 The Losers' Club beating up Pennywise]] by cornering him and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beating the living daylights out of him]] with their improvised weapons.

** On the Survivor side, expect to receive some flak from your teammates if you've decided to craft any kind of lethal explosive (such as the Molotov, the Pipe Bomb, and the Proximity Mine). These weapons are notorious for their tendency to take down at least one student with the killer when they explode - [[EpicFail assuming they even manage to hit the killer in the first place.]]

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: The Scout class provides the shotgun and it's OP, taking the killer down in just 4 hits. That being said, you do have to hit the killer ''successfully'' four times. This weapon does require a lot of scrap.
* TheTetrisEffect: After playing a couple rounds, you might find yourself avoiding skylights and ventilation grates in real life.

** Smoke Grenade, in which Scouts on the Survivor team can craft. The moment you throw it exactly right, it can somewhat do some damage for any killer that happens to be nearby. That can cause quite the rage apparently.

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: The Scout class provides the shotgun and it's OP, taking the killer down in just 4 hits. That being said, you do have to hit the killer ''successfully'' four times. Make sure to upgrade everything first...

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: The Scout class provides the shotgun and it's OP, taking the killer down in just 4 hits. That being said, you do have to hit the killer ''successfully'' four times, or else you crafted it AllForNothing...

* CounterpartComparison: Many have compared ''Last Year'' to ''[[VideoGame/Left4Dead Left 4 Dead]]'' due to various gameplay similarities, mainly....
** The survivors can be revived in closets after death.
** The Strangler being able to grab and pull survivors over to him with a chain and grapple them until they are incapacitated like The Smoker.
** The Giant is often compared to a Tank (being the biggest out of the current three killers, attacks by punching survivors, extremely buff and bald) and a Charger (ability to charge forward to grab a survivor.)
** Killer cannot spawn out of "Predator" mode until they get far enough from a survivor as well as being out of their sight, like in the Versus mode for ''Left 4 Dead''.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Generally, any time the Survivors have enough firepower to turn the tables on the Killer and make ''him'' flee for his life for a change. Or, even better yet, channel [[Film/It2017 The Losers' Club beating up Pennywise]] by cornering him and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beating the living daylights out of him]] with their improvised weapons.

** On the Survivor side, expect to receive some flak from your teammates if you've decided to craft any kind of lethal explosive (such as the Molotov, the Pipe Bomb, and the Proximity Mine). These weapons are notorious for their tendency to take down at least one student with the killer when they explode - [[EpicFail assuming they even manage to hit the killer in the first place.]]
** The Giant is regarded as the most situational killer out of the three due to his criminally low movement speed and stamina. His only real advantage over the other killers is his health - which is inconsequential if any of the Survivors are packing fire-based weapons.

** The Shocker, an electric stun-gun that Medics on the Survivor team can craft. If tapped repeatedly, they can stun-lock the Killer, leaving him completely helpless against Assaults on the Survivor team.
** On the Killer side, playing the Strangler or Giant on the rafter sequence of the Gym map can make it nigh impossible for all five Survivors to escape, as they can drag or throw students off the rafters respectively.
** Each killer has several ambush spots scattered around the map that the Killer can use to instantly kill any student hapless enough to wander in. Though most Survivor players are wary enough to avoid these spots, there's one Strangler vent in the basement on the Gym map placed in a chokepoint that's impossible for students to walk around, guaranteeing one kill for the Killer if he happens to be playing Strangler at the moment.
* HilariousInHindsight: This isn't the first time Zeno Robinson voiced [[VideoGame/FridayThe13thTheGame a character trying to survive against an angry slasher villain.]]

* NightmareRetardant: One of the Slasher's executions. He raises his axe above a helpless student. You cover your eyes, expecting him to split the student's head open in the most gory, horrific way possible... but instead, for some reason, he decides to pummel the kid to death by hitting them with ''the top of the axe'' over and over.
** Lessened slightly by the fact that he's doing it to the kid's neck, which would still probably be enough to break it.

** On the Survivor side, explosives such as the Molotov, the Pipe Bomb, and the Proximity Mine are almost always hated due to their tendency to take down at least one student with the killer when they explode - [[EpicFail assuming they even manage to hit the killer in the first place.]]

** On the Survivor side, explosives such as the Molotov, the Pipe Bomb, and the Proximity Mine are almost always hated due to their tendency to take down at least one student with the killer when they explode - [[EpicFail assuming they even manage to hit the killer in the first place.]]

** Each killer has several ambush spots scattered around the map that the Killer can use to instantly kill any student hapless enough to wander in. Though most Survivor players are wary enough to avoid these spots, there's one Strangler vent in the basement on the Gym map placed in a checkpoint that's impossible for students to walk around.

* OlderThanTheyThink: Some fans of ''VideoGame/FridayThe13thTheGame'' are of the belief that Last Year was made as a response, when in actuality it's been in development since ''2014.''

* FandomRivalry: With ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'', due to both games being AsymmetricMultiplayer SurvivalHorror games featuring a team of survivors trying to escape by completing objectives against one serial killer. Due to ''Last Year'' being announced before ''Dead by Daylight'', but being heavily altered after its release, debates over who ripped off whom are rampant among its playerbase.

* OlderThanTheyThink: Some fans of ''VideoGame/FridayThe13thTheGame'' are of the belief that Last Year was made as a response, when in actuality it's been in development since ''2014''