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  • Crosses the Line Twice: During the PAX demos, some little messages such as "You might feel a slight sting" or "It was fun while it lasted" can appear while your survivor's being brutally executed.
  • Fandom Rivalry: With Dead by Daylight, due to both games being Asymmetric Multiplayer Survival Horror 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, or if two games with different playstyles in the same genre even qualify as rip-offs, are rampant among its playerbase.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: Chad. His personality is definitely memorable, and he's the funniest out of the classmates.
  • Game-Breaker:
    • The Shocker, an electric stun-gun that Medics on the Classmate team can craft. If tapped repeatedly, they can stun-lock the Fiend, leaving him completely helpless against Assaults on the Classmate team. The Shocker has since been changed to only have 2 charges, and later only one, but it's still pretty difficult to play around.
  • Memetic Mutation:
    • "Last Year is like Friday the 13th, but you can kill Jason!" Explanation 
    • There are a large amount of memes comparing the Giant to the Kool-Aid Man due to his ability to smash through walls. Even Elastic Games is getting in on the fun: In the instruction manual, the description for the Giant's wall ambush says "Can you say 'OH YEAH!'"
    • Memes about all the Fiends having an inexplicable, disproportionate amount of hatred for Chad compared to the rest of the Classmates are also popular.
  • Moment of Awesome: Generally, any time the Classmates have enough firepower to turn the tables on the Fiend and make him flee for his life for a change. Or, even better yet, channel The Losers' Club beating up Pennywise by cornering him and beating the living daylights out of him with their improvised weapons.
  • Narm: The creepiness of the Downer Ending cutscene that plays when all five Students lose is kind of softened by the fact that one of the pictures nailed to the wall looks like the Mona Lisa.
    • The execution animations for the Slasher and Spider will sometimes glitch out and result in them killing their victim by stabbing/biting them in the ass.
  • Never Live It Down: After having its release date pushed back several times, and even requiring a re-release on Steam one year after poor reception to its Discord release, Elastic Games is never, ever going to hear the end of jokes about "Last Year" being the scheduled release date of the game instead of the title.
  • Older Than They Think: Some fans of Friday the 13th: The Game are of the belief that Last Year was made as a response, when in actuality it's been in development since 2014.
  • Unexpected Character: Raj, the first Indian character to ever appear in something like this which is very rare.

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