History YMMV / AliceInSpacelandSeries

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: [[spoiler: Cirno promising that after she makes sure Alice is okay, she will help Renko find a way to revive Maribel. Renko wonders why Cirno would even bother helping her, even in spite of all that she's done, and while Cirno [[SmallNameBigEgo is a little boastful about it]], her response hardly migitates the "d'aaaawwww" factor.]]
---> '''Cirno''': Isn't it obvious? Compared to me, you are incredibly weak. [[YouAreNotAlone The strong have to help out the weak in their time of need.]] And who's stronger than the strongest?

** ''Alice in Spaceland'' had two encounters with [=McGillicutty=] that were hard. One had a crapton of Asteroids enemy fighters firing at you like they were SpaceInvaders or something. Another had a three-on-one fight. Both were pretty hard, but if you're playing Hard Mode and beat the third encounter...get ready for the [[spoiler: Combined Itanimulli Asteroid Fighter!]]

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Though she kinda wasn't really a part of Renko's plans and she happened to oppose Cirno and Eiki Shieki alongside her, one can't help but feel sorry for Maribel when she faded away.]]

** In the first ''Alice in Spaceland'', after all the hell you've been going through ([[NintendoHard especially if you're playing on Hard]] [[HarderThanHard or Lunatic Mode]]), you'd be surprised that Zio's pathetically easy if you [[spoiler: just get him to continuously circle you. The only thing that will be a considerable threat to you in the fight is a lone, respawning F.O.E. You can do the same thing in the final fight in ''3'', but the Zio following you has a weird way of reacting to your direction. That, and there's a second Zio attacking you constantly, so pulling the same trick will not go as smoothly.]]

** Spaceland Adventure actually isn't too hard, unless you're really careless at times. Like Alice Xi, it's devoid of these...until you get to [[spoiler: Wave -1. Since your seven hit ship is destroyed thanks to [[TheManBehindTheMan Renko Usami, the other world Reimu]], you now have to avoid and shoot blazingly fast enemies without being able to turn yourself now, and you've gotta avoid craptons of bullets, and then fight Ezam, the main antagonist of the Ezam series. [[NoDamageRun All without being hit once.]] Thankfully, Renko herself is absolutely easy thanks to the fact that, because she has been in Spaceland for a while, [[ZeroEffortBoss her bullets cannot, and will not, harm you.]]]]
** Spaceland Adventure 2 has either Sinistar [[spoiler: especially if he goes Super Sayan]], or [[spoiler: Havoc MK III.]] One moves ludicriously fast as the battle drags on, and the other...you should get the idea of his track record by [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast just looking at his name.]]

** Oddly, Alice Xi [[BreatherBoss is devoid of these.]] The bosses are considerably easier, and you won't really lose any lives unless you're not paying attention, not using a trick on some of them, or quick to react.
** Cirno Xi continues this tradition by bringing Havoc back into the fray (in his MK II incarnation), but there's another boss who is hard to defeat, and that's [[PhysicalGod Xurthis Itanimulli]]. There are laser bars coming from the walls constantly, the boss itself moves erratically, [[EverythingTryingToKillYou THE WALLS CAN KILL YOU IF YOU RUN INTO THEM LONG ENOUGH]], and the gravity shifts a lot. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Oh, and you have bullets to dodge.]] [[SarcasmMode Have fun with that.]]

** Alice in Spaceland had two encounters with [=McGillicutty=] that were hard. One had a crapton of Asteroids enemy fighters firing at you like they were SpaceInvaders or something. Another had a three-on-one fight. Both were pretty hard, but if you're playing Hard Mode and beat the third encounter...get ready for the [[spoiler: Combined Itanimulli Asteroid Fighter!]]
** Alice in Spaceland 2 has Weegee. Yes, that Weegee. His hard to dodge projectiles can really be a bother, and if you're playing on Hard Mode...yep, he first goes Super Sayan (this happens on any mode), and then combines with Malleo (the Weegeefied version of Mario, who is a boss in Alice Xi) to form a [[OhCrap 'hyper' version]], which is much harder than the first form, and takes [[MarathonBoss what feels like an eternity to kill.]]
** Alice in Spaceland 3 starts off pretty lax, but once you hit 'The Crossroads', kiss a lot of your lives goodbye. Especially when you reach Havoc, a security system you will come to loathe and hate, you're bound to lose a ton of lives. [[FromBadToWorse Then he comes back in Cirno Xi, now at Mark II.]] [[spoiler: And even worse, he comes back again as the regular FinalBoss of Spaceland Adventure 2!]] Of course, he pales in comparison to [=McGillicutty=]. The fight before him was hard enough, but when you have a five-on-one fight and auto-aiming against you, all bets are off. Your lives are GOING to go down.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: [[spoiler: Again, the way the series ended invalidated the start of a potential story arc that would have involved Cirno looking for Alice and a way to revive Maribel for Renko, but instead was permanently placed on the backburner in favor of another tepid Creator fight.]]

** Spaceland Adventure actually isn't too hard, unless you're really careless at times. Like Alice Xi, it's devoid of these...until you get to [[spoiler: Wave -1. Since your seven hit ship is destroyed thanks to [[TheManBehindTheMan Renko Usami, the other world Reimu]], you now have to avoid and shoot blazingly fast enemies without being able to turn yourself now, and you've gotta avoid craptons of bullets, and then fight Ezam, the main antagonist of the Ezam series. [[NoDamageRun All without being hit once.]] Thankfully, Renko is abosolutely easy thanks to the fact that, because she has been in Spaceland for a while, [[ZeroEffortBoss her bullets cannot, and will not, harm you.]]]]

** Alice in Spaceland 3 starts off pretty lax, but once you hit 'The Crossroads', kiss a lot of your lives goodbye. Especially when you reach Havoc, a security system you will come to loathe and hate, you're bound to lose a ton of lives. [[ItGotWorse Then he comes back in Cirno Xi, now at Mark II.]] [[spoiler: And even worse, he comes back again as the regular FinalBoss of Spaceland Adventure 2!]] Of course, he pales in comparison to [=McGillicutty=]. The fight before him was hard enough, but when you have a five-on-one fight and auto-aiming against you, all bets are off. Your lives are GOING to go down.