Until Dawn/YMMV

These things about Until Dawn are subjective - not everyone will agree with all of them.

• All-Star Cast: The voice cast for the game has Hayden Pantierre, Brett Dalton and Rami Malek in the main roles, and even the supporting roles ultimately did become quite famous.
• Cult Classic: The game was quite acclaimed when it came out, but it is now regarded as one of the best horror games in recent memory due to the performance of the cast, the visuals, and the choices that can affect the fates of the characters.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: Matt and Jessica, since they spend so much of the game out of focus compared to everyone else.
• Fandom-Specific Plot: It is actually rather common for fans to have Josh actually really survive the night and escape the mountain rather than him become a Wendigo or be killed. Fortunately, the remake actually gives Josh a third ending where he can in fact genuinely survive the night if he shows remorse for what he did..
• Franchise Original Sin: As successful as this game was for putting Supermassive Games on the map, it also had a lot of the flaws that later games would be criticized for, such as overreliance on the supernatural plot twist, or the characters being doomed to become monsters regardless of the player's choices. This was much easier in Until Dawn since the Wendigos were foreshadowed much earlier, and were introduced much later, and the cast being doomed applied to only one member rather than the entire cast and said member can be saved in the remake. Later games would have the entire cast subjected to becoming monsters or dead, while the supernatural elements were made obvious right from the very beginning.
• Moral Event Horizon: Several members of the cast can cross it depending on your choices.
  • Josh crosses it with his actions as the Psycho. He invites the gang back up to the mountain under false pretenses and then proceeds to put them through a hellish night of fear, with Chris and Sam his main victims, despite the fact they had nothing to do with the prank against Hannah. The moment he is depicted as irredeemable is when he forces Chris to either shoot Ashley or himself in a deathtrap or both of them will be killed by descending saws. Very tellingly, Josh's subconscious condemns him as a monster over this.
  • Mike will cross this In-Universe if he opts to shoot Emily if she was bitten. Everyone will condemn him over killing Emily needlessly, with his relationships with everyone falling apart over this act and if he survives, it is openly confirmed that he will be going to prison for it.
  • If Emily was bitten and Mike killed Emily, Ashley can cross this, where after she reads the Stranger's journal and learns Emily died for nothing, she chooses not to disclose this to the group. This is reflected In-Universe as Sam will read the journal and learn the truth herself, and her relationship with Ashley will collapse in disgust since Ashley got Emily killed for nothing.
• Sleeper Hit: It did not get a lot of publicity or promotion before it was released, but it did extremely well much to the surprise of everyone.
• Special Effect Failure: During the segment where Sam gets chased by the Psycho, if the player previously picked the needle as the thing Josh feared, the Psycho will still walk slowly with the same animation if he was carrying the oxygen tank even though it is only a small needle in one hand. Similarly, if Sam gets caught with the needle, the Psycho will still use his second hand as if to hold something in place, which is how he knocks Sam out with the oxygen tank, holding it on her until she passes out.
• Values Dissonance: Several of them.
  • The fact that the one person who is guaranteed to be dead in the main game no matter the player's decisions is the Stranger, who is very heavily implied to be Indigenous would not fly very well today. The fact that he is voiced by Larry Fessenden, a white man, and who is infamous for the very poorly received depiction of the Wendigo as a half deer/half human hybrid makes it even more difficult to look at.
  • The fact that none of the main cast are Indigenous peoples themselves, and that they are all visiting the mountain that is now privately owned would come across as a lot more tone deaf, as the issues of Indigenous mistreatment is only very briefly brought up and only in some missable collectibles.
  • The fact that Josh, despite being mentally ill, is the only one who gets a bad ending, would come off as very bad now, especially given that he is treated by a freak by some of the cast, such as Ashley and Mike. Now, there would be a lot of pressure to have Josh not only flat out survive, but for him to be treated much kindlier by everyone. This is addressed in the remake in that Josh can survive as a human and he is given more sympathy in the remake.
• Win the Crowd: After years of similarly panned games filled with reliance on quick time events, this game managed to avoid many of the problems that had plagued them by trimming down the multiple-choice conversations and leaving the QuickTime events for truly crucial moments.