YMMV / Seven Mysteries

• Complete Monster:
  • Original game: The Headmaster of the school, fearing that his academy will be shut down once word of a haunting spirit gets out, sets out to keep it all a secret to protect his reputation. Blackmailing Sang and his friend Linh to act as his "secret keepers" after they murdered Thuy and several other students, the Headmaster has them kill any first year transfer student who might be aware of the hauntings, having them dispose of the bodies in a secret room, of which there are dozens of corpses. Depending on the ending, the Headmaster can have Sang kill protagonist Tuan or frame Tuan for the murders, getting him Wrongfully Committed to an asylum.
  • The Last Page remake: The unnamed demon is a sadistic entity who placed a curse on the academy. Killing the students there for fun, the demon poses the deaths as accidents and suicides. Possessing the body of the lonely Sang in order to devour his soul, the demon blackmails the academy's Headmaster to allow him to continue his murders, killing any transfer student who might know of the hauntings. Creating illusions to break Neal and Nathan's minds, the demon burns the school to get Neal's attention, before forcing him to kill his friend Sang. Should Neal not kill Sang, the demon has the city's inhabitants disappear, with only Nathan left to witness the city's slow descent into literal darkness.
• Ho Yay: The diary entries imply that Linh was Sang's Morality Chain and the only person he seemed to care about. The Last Page makes it up to eleven with Sang and Linh/Neal having a really intense two-boy friendship
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Sang started off killing because the Headmaster forced him, but after a while he began to enjoy it too much. After a while, Sang was just too far gone to stop. Linh's diary notes that he even repeated school just to keep on killing.
  • Also, the Headmaster, forcing students to murder witnesses just because he wanted to avoid shutting down the school.
  • In The Last Page, the demon initially seemed to be fairly benevolent, despite being a demon, and wanted to help Sang save innocent people from dying. He is very reasonable and kind throughout. That is, until he actually makes his deal with Sang, and then not only reveals that he was manipulating Sang from the start, but gloats that he was behind the murders and framed Jinny for it, and will devour Sang's soul- for the rest of the game onward, he shows himself to be as vile as one would expect a demon to be.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Sang's Thousand-Yard Stare everytime he gets really angry or is about to kill someone.
  • The nightmarish visions Ghost Thuy inflicts on her victims, forcing students to see visions of how other students died and inflicting the pain to them.
  • The pile of rotten corpses in the storage room.
  • When the demon leaves Sang's body in The Last Page.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: All the characters are more likeable and less flat in The Last Page.
• Squick: Tuan walking around with a bloody eye as everything becomes blotchy and red. It's actually Thuy inflicting a vision on him, but still squicky nonetheless. Even more in The Last Page thanks to the Epileptic Flashing Lights.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: The main criticism of the original game is that none of the characters were sympathetic or likable and that all of the gore and killing felt it lacked any good meaning or taste. Also, nearly everyone dies, and mostly in very gory and meaningless ways that serve little purpose other than shock value. Especially the True Ending.

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