YMMV / Night Book

• Funny Moments:
  • When asking Max for help, he'll dismissively say it can wait until tomorrow — at which point you have a horrifying Ominous Visual Glitch where Loralyn is replaced with dozens of screaming versions of herself. Max immediately says he'll be right over.
  • There's something bizarrely funny about monstrous and primordial spirits threatening your loved ones and demanding your servitude...by facetiming you.
• Narm: If you tell the Kya-nem that you're not their vessel, Loralyn will fiercely say that she'll never serve them...and then, in the very next line, nervously and pleadingly ask what they want her to do. It's a jarring clash of two line-reads that ruins both of them.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The paranoia fuel of how easily Loralyn summoned the spirits — just reading a single line of text. It could happen to anyone...
  • The horrifying glitches on the screens, with distorted images of people screaming and twisting. Even the characters get unnervied.
  • If Loralyn refuses to serve the Kya-new, they make her father kill himself on live video as she helplessly watches and begs them to stop. They then threaten her unborn child, sending her images of babies and pregnant women when she falters.
  • Most of the endings. We have her being possessed and monotonously promising to lay waste to the island, her having her baby killed, with the shadow forcing its way through her throat as she tries to scream, and killing her own husband to free herself from the Kya-nem. Even most of the better endings leave death and ruin in their wake.
• Scrappy Mechanic: You can use tab to skip previously seen scenes. This is all well and good...but if you reach the same scene through a different route, the game counts this as a new scene, and its unskippable. This means you can easily see the same scene multiple times, and be unable to skip it because you made slightly different choices beforehand.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Loralyn is a normal person being attacked by spirits, and it shows, with her spending a good chunk of the game sobbing, pleading, screaming and even vomiting with horror. Her sheer terror comes through in every moment, and you just want to give her a hug.
  • Worst of all in the aptly named "Horrific" ending, where Loralyn loses her father, her child and her husband, and is enslaved to the Kya-nem forever. Her life is utterly ruined, forever, with no way out...all due to reading an old book.