History YMMV / SevenMysteries

* AuthorsSavingThrow: ''The Last Page'' is this, with the improved story and characters.

* HoYay: The diary entries imply that Linh was Sang's MoralityChain and the only person he seemed to care about. ''The Last Page'' makes it UpToEleven with Sang and Linh/[[AdaptationNameChange Neal]] having a really intense two-boy friendship

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: 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.

** Original game: [[spoiler:[[DeanBitterman 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. {{Blackmail}}ing 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 [[HeKnowsTooMuch 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|Up}} Tuan for the murders, getting him WrongfullyCommitted to an asylum.]]

** Original game: [[DeanBitterman 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. {{Blackmail}}ing 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 [[HeKnowsTooMuch 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|Up}} Tuan for the murders, getting him WrongfullyCommitted to an asylum.
** ''The Last Page'' remake: [[OurDemonsAreDifferent 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. [[DemonicPossession Possessing]] the body of the lonely Sang in order to [[SoulEating devour his soul]], the demon blackmails the academy's Headmaster to allow him to continue his murders, killing any transfer student who [[HeKnowsTooMuch might know of the hauntings]]. Creating illusions to [[MindRape 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.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The main criticism 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.

* MoralEventHorizon: 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 anted to avoid shutting down the school.

** Sang's ThousandYardStare everytime he gets really angry or is about to kill someone.
** Those nightmarish visions Ghost!Thuy inflicts on her victims, forcing students to see visions of how other students died and inflicting the pain to them.

** When the demon leaves Sang's body 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 EpilepticFlashingLights.

** Averted in ''The Last Page'' which gives a better story about the curse and disappearances and the characters are more likeable and developed.
* FlatCharacter: One of the main complaints of the game, is that some of the characters are not dynamic or well-developed... On top of that, most can all be described in one word - TheSpock Tuan, DeadpanSnarker My, SpoiledSweet Thuy, TheStoic Sang, OnlySaneMan Linh... The LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters don't help, either.

** Averted in ''Redux'' which gives a better story about the curse and disappearances and the characters are more likeable and developed.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: All the characters are more likeable and less flat in ''Redux''.

* {{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.

** The pile of rotten corpses in the storage room.