Metro 2033 (video game)/YMMV

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  • Adaptation Displacement: The game is vastly more available and well known than the book.
  • A-Team Firing: A common complaint against the game is the lack of feedback on whether shots hit or miss. Depending on skill level, this trope may or may not be in effect because of this. Might be somewhat justified considering the quality of the firearms you find.
    • Actually, even the bastard gun is surprisingly accurate so long as you take the time and care to line up your shots and don't lean on the trigger.
  • Crowning Music of Awesome: Ending Theme.
    • The Tower. It sums up Metro's bleak, oppressive setting perfectly. It's also playing during the game's prologue.
    • And any of the game's three guitar pieces. Similar to what was done in STALKER, you can also hear guitarists playing around a fire at many of the non-hostile Metro stations.
  • Crowning Moment of Awesome: Trolley Combat. After one of the hardest stealth sections in the game (especially if you didn't know about the shortcut), you get to go on one of the machine-gun equipped carts that you were dodging five minutes ago and murder everything in sight. Whilst honking the horn.
  • Dude, Not Funny: Ulman's sense of humour. Most of the time.
  • Ear Worm: Market. It's far too awesome to forget.
  • Goddamn Bats: Appropriately enough, Demons. Only encountered above ground, spend most of their time flying around above you, annoying as hell when they decide to dive-bomb you.
    • And the Lurkers. They swarm, take up ammo, and can dive into their instant-kill rat-holes at a moments notice.
  • Nightmare Fuel: Oy vey, where to start?
  • Most Annoying Sound: The Vader Breath effect you get when wearing your mask.
    • Lurker shrieks
  • Narm:
    • The English dub in general is this.

Bourbon: Some call them demons, but I call them bitches.

    • It is actually a Narm Charm for a native Russian language speaker, at least in the respective dub.
      • In Russian, Bourbon calls them Cykи (Suki), which means bitches. Cyka (Suka) is the singular.
    • Sometimes, you will hear enemy humans yell "DAMN!DAMN!DAMN!"
    • Death of Boris

Stepan: BORIS! My Friend! WHY?... The Bastards! Boris I swear on your memory - they wont rest while I'm still alive!"

      • And yet Stepan doesn't mind that you loot his (Boris') corpse for ammunition and morphine.
      • Considering how no one complained all the times you did before, it may be common practice.
  • Nightmare Retardant: Lost Catacombs. Scary until Bourbon starts to hump the gate and scream like he's having an orgasm. Just watch any video with commentary, you'll invariably get a "He's really getting it on with that door, isn't he?"
    • Too bad the whole sequence degenerates into horror soon after.
    • Bourbon's ecstatic yelling creeped me right the fuck out. He was clearly going insane and succumbing to the malevolent influence of the catacombs. It's easy to make fun of in hindsight, but when you're immersed in the game it's one hell of a scare.
      • Enthralling Siren anyone? He claims to have heard "a beautiful song" and begs the gate "to sing to him alone".
  • Scrappy Level: The Library. There's a part where you're on a fetch quest, your enemies are Librarians, and there's no real sense of where to go because you may end up backtracking to the beginning of the section. Also, hoped you decided to stock up on ammo, because Librarians eat bullets like candy.
    • Just knife the damn things and run behind columns to get your health back. This even works on Ranger Hardcore.
    • NPCs actually instruct you to stare the Librarians in the face and back away when they approach, which means you can slip by without fighting them. Unfortunately the game can be inconsistent with this regardless of where your crosshair is facing.
      • I don't recall ever being given this advice in English; they said something about having told me earlier how to deal with them, but the line of dialogue explaining that I should stare them down was never delivered.
  • Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped: The fine print on the anvil says : "War and nukes are BAD."
  • Woolseyism: Pops up a good number of times in the novel. The translation can be overly litteral and sometimes things just flat out don't make sense when rendered into English.
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