

Chekhov's Gun: Almost anything that looks peculiar, or seemingly useless item collected, or object you can interact with in the first minutes, you can bet it will play a major part much later.The Last Visit reveals those eyes to simply belong to a vicious feral cat, while Robin is hiding elsewhere in the house. Cat Scare: At the ending of the game, when you examine a hole in one wall of the basement, glowing eyes appear, staring at you, before Robin suddenly jumps out.Canon Discontinuity: The Last Visit invalidates the secret ending.Justified due to the poorer conditions inside the house, with rusted and broken doors inside and immovable obstacles around the grounds of the manor.

The Last Visit restricts the player to only a few areas of Blackwood Manor.At the end of the main game the entrance to the hidden part of the basement is revealed to be at the fireplace of the living room, but Michael doesn't realize that until he lights the fireplace at the beginning on the third day and by the evening the firewood has been burned out.The main game restricts access to several areas of the manor and its grounds in the first two days, until the player acquires the keys to unlock them on the third day.Scratches provides examples of the following tropes:
