History YMMV / TheSecretWorld

** Meeting Sarah in Tokyo can be one of these. In the tokyo flashback sequence, you relive her memory of the damage control team's response to the Tokyo incident. [[spoiler: In the original sequence, it is implied that you are simply experiencing a memory, or going back mentally in time to live the experience. It turns out in Tokyo that Sarah relives the memory every time a player character does, and as a result has been almost driven mad by reliving the memory over and over]]

** Meeting Sarah in Tokyo can be one of these. In the tokyo flashback sequence, you relive her memory of their response to the Tokyo incident. [[spoiler: In the original sequence, it is implied that you are simply experiencing a memory, or going back mentally in time to live the experience. It turns out in Tokyo that Sarah relives the memory every time a player character does, and as a result has been reliving the memory over and over]]

** Meeting Sarah in Tokyo can be one of these. In the tokyo flashback sequence, you relive her memory of their response to the Tokyo incident. [[spoiler: In the original sequence, it is implied that you are simply experiencing a memory, or going back mentally in time to live th experience. It turns out in Tokyo that Sarah relives the memory every time a player character does, and as a result has been reliving the memory over and over]]

* PlayerPunch: "The Vanishing of Tyler Freeborn." It turns out that [[spoiler: the Fog is an airborne strain of the Filth; anybody who breathed it in is infected- meaning that the entire surviving population of Solomon Island is effectively doomed, and nothing you do to help them will change that. Just to drive the point home, the same mission also forces you to fight and kill Filth-Infected replicas of Helen Bannerman, Deputy Andy (including pet kittens), Scrapyard Edgar, Headmaster Montag... and all of them carry on reciting lines appropriate to their characters as they try to kill you.]]

* ThatOneSidequest: There are two Investigation missions that require the player to transcribe Morse code. The first one is in audio form, and is played at normal speed, making it almost impossible for someone not educated in it to follow.[[note]]There is accompanying video, but it plays too fast to be useful as a visual aid.[[/note]] The second one is in blinking light form, and while slower than the first one, still takes quite a bit of trial and error to transcribe correctly.

* FridgeBrilliance: [[spoiler: Having Dracula as a vampire hunter at first seems to be a TakeThat against Bram Stoker, but remember that Vlad Tepes III's nickname is ''The Impaler'' having him as a Vampire hunter instead of the Father of all Vampires makes sense after all why would a Vampire use impalement as a method of execution. It may also count when you consider Vlad's local reputation in Romania where he's a national hero.]]

* FanNickmane: "Flappy" for the bird of the zero point pathogen, final boss of the whispering tide event.

* DemonicSpiders: Ak'ab: Giant moth-monsters that, while they do little damage, have lots of health, move around a lot during the fight (increasing the odds you bump into more of 'em), spawn thick on the ground, patrol over wide areas, and generally combine all the worst parts of every MMO enemy into one.

* MemeticMutation: "Later, Gator."

* MisBlamed: Tørnquist has stated that the game does not have any connection to ''TheLongestJourney'', some people have spread information that it was originally to be a ''TheLongestJourney'' spinoff of some kind.

* TearJerker: The intro to "The Sad Song."
* TheWoobie: Marianne Chen; last surviving member of a CDC team sent to investigate the emergence of the Filth in Solomon Island, she's had to watch the rest of the team die horribly- either from the arrival of the Fog or direct exposure to the Filth. Effectively abandoned by her superiors and left all alone in a badly-defended basecamp overlooking the swamp where her teammates died, she now lives in daily terror of ''something'' crawling up the hill and murdering her in her sleep- or being infected, hence the reason why she hasn't taken off her hazmat suit since the Fog first swept in. The player is literally the ''only'' human contact she's had in the last few weeks, and it really shows in her dialogue.

** The Innsmouth equivalent of a group of kids playing monster hunters [[FlatWhat hunt down and kill monsters because there are so many of them.]]

* IronWoobie: Most of the

* DemonicSpiders: Ak'ab: Giant moth-monsters that, while they do little damage, have lots of health, move around a lot during the fight (increasing the odds you bump into more of 'em), spawn thick on the ground, patrol over wide areas, and generally combine all the worst parts of every MMO enemy into one.

* StoicWoobie: Hayden Montag. As a child, his studies in magic accidentally killed his mother and eleven other innocent bystandards- crimes for which Hayden turned himself in. As an adult, he's headmaster of Innsmouth Academy... and by the time you meet him, most of his faculty and students have been murdered by the monsters that have invaded Solomon Island, leaving him and two others to keep vigil over a school overrun with monsters. And, beyond a few absent-minded mutterings, he weathers the storm calmly and analytically.

* StoicWoobie: Hayden Montag. As a child, his studies in magic accidentally killed his mother and eleven other innocent bystandards- crimes for which Hayden turned himself in for. As an adult, he's headmaster of Innsmouth Academy... and by the time you meet him, most of his faculty and students have been murdered by the monsters that have invaded Solomon Island, leaving him and two others to keep vigil over a school overrun with monsters. And, beyond a few absent-minded mutterings, he weathers the storm calmly and analytically.