YMMV / Blank Dream

• Awesome Music: The entire soundtrack is chillingly beautiful. Vanity and Memories are two standout examples.
  • The melancholic feel of Joshua^* plays to viewing the characters' memories will make you sigh with nostalgia. Don't overdo it though, it may reduce you to sobbing wreck.
• Breather Level: The Realm of Blood. After having previous realms kill you at every turn, this one has nothing even remotely harmful, as the path is clearly laid out for you, and going off the path merely takes you back to the first room.
• Disappointing Last Level: If you're trying to go for a good ending, this trope comes into play, as your final goal is to find the mirrors of your friends, go back to the center hub, tell them you found their mirror, then go back to the mirror you just found. Since most of the traps have subsided, it comes across as tedious instead of scary or challenging. Note that this only applies to the gameplay; the story still goes strong, and each mirror found is a Wham Episode in itself.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: If Pixiv is to be believed, Mishiro/Ayato and Utsuro/Yuzu are very popular pairings.
• Funny Moments: If you interpret one Utsuro's speech the right way◊, it becomes an excellent stealth Take That! to that "vampire thing".
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • In the Small Happiness and Blank Dream endings, Mishiro's mother, in tears over the thought that she lost her daughter, finally realizes that she was way too hard on Mishiro and gives her a heartfelt apology.
  • Yuzu resolving her wish to see Utsuro one last time, finally being able to move on, and happily telling Mishiro to light some incense over her grave as a way of saying hello.
  • Arguably the biggest one of all comes in the Blank Dream ending: Mishiro seeing Ayato's painting... and finally smiling for the first time in the game.
• Moe: All of the girls are drawn in very endearing way and each one has her special appeal, Mishiro with her timid and shy aura, Yuzu with her dorkiness and energy and Utsuro with her calm stoic nature.
• Tear Jerker: The entire game is overall a big one, but a few moments really stand out:
  • The mirror with the bullies. They've already done some pretty terrible things to Mishiro, like forcing her to do their homework and making her pay them for every wrong answer. This time, though, she finally snaps after they make fun of her hobby of wearing Elegant Gothic Lolita dresses, causing her to cut one of the bullies' hands with a knife. Because of this, Mishiro's mother became very strict with her, causing Mishiro to fall into depression. That's bad enough, but it goes From Bad to Worse if you choose to stay there. Mishiro lets loose and murders all of the bullies, trapping her in the Mirror World and causing her to go insane. For anyone who has been bullied in the past, it's downright painful to watch.
  • Ayato's Heroic Sacrifice, where he pushes Mishiro out of the way of a car barreling down the road, only to get hit himself. Sad enough on its own, but what makes it worse is that the driver was Ayato's mother, who deliberately tried to kill Mishiro and ended up hitting her own son instead.
  • Yuzu fell heads over heels for Utsuro, who died not too long after they finally became friends. This devastates Yuzu so much that she obsesses over finding a method to see Utsuro again, even if it involves committing suicide to see her in the afterlife, which ultimately is what happens.
• The Woobie: Mishiro Usui. She has to kill herself, in addition to relieving her depressing memories, multiple times in order to erase herself from existence.

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