YMMV / Chzo Mythos

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Yahtzee implies in 6 Days that 7 Days was actually Malcolm's version of the events, and that he was possessed by the Welder and killed the whole crew. He neither confirms nor denies it in the commentary.
  • Fans are divided on whether Chzo itself is a Magnificent Bastard Chessmaster who arranged the entirety of the events in the series, or (as claimed by an admittedly possibly unreliable character in "The Expedition") a barely sentient creature acting on blind instinct.
• Angst? What Angst?: The Trilby clones in 6 Days sure do take their situation in stride. Possibly justified if they were programmed to be accepting of what they are.
• Awesome Music:
  • The harpsichord theme in Trilby's Notes. The theme is repeated at the climax of 6 Days A Sacrifice, as Theo walks through DeFoe Manor, collecting the items that belong to the welder.
  • The theme at the beginning and ending of 5 Days A Stranger, as well as the theme at the start of 7 Days A Skeptic. Both taken from RPGMaker 2000 they may well be, but that doesn't make them any less awesome or appropriate for the games.
  • The introductory theme in 7 Days A Skeptic is a MIDI version of One Man's Dream by Yanni.
  • "The Welder," a midi remix of Black Celebration by Depeche Mode, which plays throughout the climax of 7 Days.
• Fan Nickname:
  • "7 Days a Space Adventure!"
  • "1 Day a Retcon" for Trilby's Notes, to bring it in line with the pattern of the other titles.
• Fridge Brilliance: In Notes, the random "insanity effects" responses, particularly the lines and page of "it hurts" over and over, aren't just there to screw with the player. The game is, literally, Trilby's notes. When the game won't respond with anything but "it hurts" or "father why", it's what Trilby is actually writing while he tries to put all of his experiences on the page. He's writing a proper Apocalyptic Log, complete with a sprinkling of Madness Mantra and the account of his own death.
• Funny Moments: It's Dark Humor, to be sure, but there's something hilarious about how casually Theo gets shoved down the empty elevator shaft and the Optimoligist guy just walking off without saying a word.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In 5 Days, Trilby tricks Simone into believing that he's mentally ill and racked with guilt, wanting her to give him back his tie so that he can hang himself with it. While it's all a ruse and the reason he wants his tie back is because he hid his emergency lockpick inside it, his monologue is actually quite frightening, with lines such as "most evenings I cry until I vomit, several times". Flash forward to Trilby's Notes, and he is actually a physical and mental wreck from his experiences in DeFoe Manor.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Trilby's Notes introduces the character Cabadath, aka "the Tall Man", who bears a striking resemblance to The Slender Man, so much so that many people believe he was a direct inspiration for the latter, despite Slender Man's creator denying such.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "I JUST WANTED TO GO INTO SPAAAAAAAAAAACE!"
    • "I JUST WANTED [INSERT GOAL HEEEEEEEREEE!]"
  • "it hurts," too.
• Narm: The twist ending in 7 Days is a bit lame to begin with, but "I JUST WANTED TO GO INTO SPACE!" would be hilarious even if the context had been better executed.
• Nausea Fuel:
  • The alternate hotel in Trilby's Notes. It's covered with blood and gruesome corpses dismembered beyond recognition, one of the worst being bloody handprints being found on the inside of an oven. However, it gets worse when you notice that most of the guests and staff, including the clerk, have vanished from the normal hotel, and the blood and gore spread across the alternate hotel seems rather...fresh. Word of God states that the alternate hotel is indeed an alternate dimension, and the rest of "our world's" staff just wasn't captured by The Tall Man... that's All There in the Manual.
  • And before that, Taylor's room in 7 Days. When you finally get in, it turns out he's been butchering the crew and stitching the parts together into a new body for John DeFoe. The "leftovers" are everywhere, including Serena's severed head, still wearing her glasses, lying on a table.
  • And all of that is still nothing compared to the horrors the main character in The Expedition experiences, when he gets trapped in the body of Chzo.
• Nightmare Fuel: Has its own page.
• So Bad, It's Good: Not the games themselves, but the Let's Play of the Mythos had various challenges and mini-contests between some of the episodes. One was to find the worst fan-made work for the series. Yahtzee himself participated, having found a community college made film based on ''5 Days A Stranger''. It's about as cheesy and poorly acted as you'd expect, they can't pronounce "Trilby" correctly, for one thing.
• Surprisingly Improved Sequel: Trilby's Notes is by far the best game in the series, Retconning the worst mistakes of the previous two games and becoming very, very creepy.