History YMMV / BrainDead13

* PolishedPort: The UsefulNotes/PhilipsCDi, [[UsefulNotes/ThreeDOInteractiveMultiplayer 3DO]] and UsefulNotes/PlayStation ports of the game have higher video qualities than the MS-DOS, Windows, UsefulNotes/AtariJaguar, and UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn ports, though the former first three each have two [=CDs=] instead of one; but only the UsefulNotes/{{iOS|Games}} port, which does not require any [=CDs=], has a higher video resolution that surpasses all of the earlier versions. Also, the 3DO port has two versions of Disc 1: the original one, and "Version 1.1", which fixes a bug that would sometimes cause a crash in Vivi's Salon in the original release. The [=iOS=] port did the same in December 2010 by upgrading its version from 1.0 to 1.1, which added support for [=iOS=] 3.0 and 4.2 and fixed various bugs.

* SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing: The UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn port of the game (at least in the European and Japanese releases) is given a highly selective dubbing, which retains all the NonDubbedGrunts from the original voice actors, even when it appears in the same clip that has the verbal voice acting. One example is the Japanese dub, which is pretty well done, even though it may contain bits of {{Woolseyism}}. Compare the original version of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MFzXoBzHZg the intro]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0LPEbjisWI Vivi's Funeral Salon]] to the Japanese dub of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adBpHQ8C7V4 the]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJOkOEzhdGg intro]] and of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4OyEw7-QLE Vivi's Funeral Salon]].

* EvilIsSexy: Vivi the {{vampires|AreSexGods}}s.

* HilariousInHindsight: At one time in the confrontation scene in the long stairway, Fritz kills Lance by [[FlayingAlive scalping him]] with his HookHand and ''[[GenuineHumanHide using said scalp as a hat]]!'' It's pretty gross, but believe us, Fritz is no VideoGame/{{Kirby|SuperStar}}.
** Also, earlier in said scene, during Fritz's long trip down the stairs, he loses many things from his trenchcoat, among them a [[PornStash porno magazine with a picture of Vivi's clothed breasts on the cover]]. A vampiress in a porno magazine... somehow it kinda predates dhampyr Rayne of the ''VideoGame/{{BloodRayne}}'' series [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140220035715/http://www.actiontrip.com/features/atstop10videogamechicks.phtml appearing in the "Gaming Grows Up" page of the October 2004 issue of]] ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' by nine years... and at least Vivi wasn't topless unlike Rayne.

** PortingDisaster: The Jaguar port, on the other hand, has a very low video resolution and blocky graphics than all the other ports of the game.
* {{Squick}}: Several of the deaths.
** Moose giving Lance a wedgie that ''splits him in half'' and ''rips out his spine and pelvis''.

** Another example is the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAo5XmyRmn8 German]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzW4ZdRTtFA dub]] of the game, which sounds a bit mediocre than the original. And another example is the French dub, which looks okay ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I6GKbrOvUA the]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkjhjZ_Dgqc intro]] is another example in this French dub).

** Vivi the {{vampires|AreSexGods}}s and her... ''[[{{Pun}} titillating]]'' appearance, assets and MaleGaze... and one suggestive magazine in the FreezeFrameBonus that can be a bit much for children; how this game got a K-A rating in spite of ''all this'' is a mystery for the ages.
*** What's even stranger is that Japan's game rating organization (pre-CERO) slapped each box of the game (exported from America) with an "all ages" (全年齢, ''zen nenrei'') rating on a green sticker, hoping that its audience of children would be less sensitive to mind-numbing bloodless violence and sexuality than America's children (due to cultural differences).

* ThatOneLevel: Moose's entire scenario. It starts when you enter Moose's room and, immediately on entering it, you notice a stone football [[DinnerDeformation getting thrown into your mouth]] if you don't avoid it. Once you get past that football, you have to dodge another football, along with Moose's grabs, shoulder charges, [[BatterUp baseball bat attacks]], being flung by a basketball net as a catapult, and the grab from below his head, all in the first quarter of this scenario (followed by a lot of DeadlyDodging of the lightning rods in the second quarter; finding a way to destroy Moose in the third quarter; and dodging Fritz as usual in the final quarter)! Failure to avoid any of these attacks in the first quarter of this scenario will send you all the way back to where you entered the room in the split-second that the same stone football is getting thrown into your mouth again!
** Also, TheMaze (which has many of these ''literal'' [[{{Pun}} dead]] ends if you don't go in the right direction, accompanied by deadly {{mushroom|Man}}s, {{s|caledUp}}nakes, [[ImAHumanitarian man-eating]] frogs, spike traps and deadly vines); and the [[LivingStatue giant statue]] at the end of it, which can require a whole lot of situations where you can't just "press X to not die", but you LITERALLY have to make it more like a BIG "[[PressXToNotDie Mash the X Buttons a Whole Lot of Times to Not Fall or Get Doused in or Sprayed by Acid,]] [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice Impaled,]] [[SquashedFlat or Squashed Flat]]" situation.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: It's a game where the protagonist gets to die in all sorts of graphically violent ways, which has made it extremely hard to understand why this was given a K-A rating [[note]](Kids to Adults, the mid-90's equivalent to the Everyone rating)[[/note]]. (Some could argue that the various death scenes are so cartoonish that they don't evoke too much fear, especially since Lance resurrects afterward, but it can still get pretty intense.)
** Then there's the whole issue with Vivi the {{vampires|AreSexGods}}s and her... ''[[{{Pun}} titillating]]'' appearance, [[BuxomIsBetter figures]] and MaleGaze... and one suggestive magazine in the FreezeFrameBonus that can be a bit much for children; how this game got a K-A rating in spite of ''all this'' is a mystery for the ages.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Vivi is the most remembered character in the game [[CuteMonsterGirl for]] [[VampiresAreSexGods obvious]] [[BuxomIsBetter reasons]].

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: It's a game where the protagonist gets to die in all sorts of graphically violent ways, which has made it extremely hard to understand why this was given a K-A rating [[note]](Kids to Adults, the mid-90's equivalent to the Everyone rating)[[/note]]. (Some could argue that the various death scenes so cartoonish that they don't evoke too much fear, especially since Lance resurrects afterward, but it can still get pretty intense.)

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: It's a game where the protagonist gets to die in all sorts of graphically violent ways, which has made it extremely hard to understand why this was given a K-A rating [[note]](Kids to Adults, the mid-90's equivalent to the Everyone rating)[[/note]] then. (Some could argue that "it's because it looks so silly" but many of the deaths were not exactly all that light nevertheless so in other words the fact that this game was given a K-A rating might be considered to be really... baffling to put it mildly.)
** Then there's the whole issue with Vivi the {{vampires|AreSexGods}}s and her... ''[[{{Pun}} titillating]]'' appearance, [[BuxomIsBetter figures]] and MaleGaze... and one suggestive magazine in the FreezeFrameBonus that can be too suggestive for children, yet we may never understand why all of these didn't stop the game from getting a K-A rating!

** Then there's the whole issue with Vivi the {{vampires|AreSexGods}}s and her... ''[[{{Pun}} titillating]]'' appearance, [[BuxomIsBetter figures]] and MaleGaze... and one suggestive magazine in the FreezeFrameBonus that can be too suggestive for children, yet we may never understand why all of these are ''[[SarcasmMode totally safe for kids]]'' with a K-A rating! [[SarcasmMode Very subtle, ReadySoft.]]

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: [[MsFanservice Vi]][[ImpossibleHourglassFigure vi]]and her salon is the most well known part from the game.

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: [[MsFanservice Vi]][[ImpossibleHourglassFigure vi]] is the most well known character from the game.

* EarWorm: Pretty much of the soundtrack. And it's on the playlist [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL750B06C836664C1B&feature=plcp here]].

* PolishedPort: The UsefulNotes/PhilipsCDi, [[UsefulNotes/ThreeDOInteractiveMultiplayer 3DO]] and UsefulNotes/PlayStation ports of the game have higher video qualities than the MS-DOS, Windows, UsefulNotes/AtariJaguar, and UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn ports, though the former first three each have two [=CDs=] instead of one; but only the {{iOS|Games}} port, which does not require any [=CDs=], has a higher video resolution that surpasses all of the earlier versions. Also, the 3DO port has two versions of Disc 1: the original one, and "Version 1.1", which fixes a bug that would sometimes cause a crash in Vivi's Salon in the original release. The [=iOS=] port did the same in December 2010 by upgrading its version from 1.0 to 1.1, which added support for [=iOS=] 3.0 and 4.2 and fixed various bugs.

* AnimationAgeGhetto: There's really no other explanation for why this has a K-A rating.

** Also, earlier in said scene, during Fritz's long trip down the stairs, he loses many things from his trenchcoat, among them a [[PornStash porno magazine with a picture of Vivi's clothed breasts on the cover]]. A vampiress in a porno magazine... somehow it kinda predates dhampyr Rayne of the ''VideoGame/{{BloodRayne}}'' series [[http://www.actiontrip.com/features/atstop10videogamechicks.phtml appearing in the "Gaming Grows Up" page of the October 2004 issue of]] ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' by nine years... and at least Vivi wasn't topless unlike Rayne.

* AllAnimationIsDisney: To some extent. The character designs resemble the works of Creator/DonBluth while the animation itself looks like it came out of [[CoolWorld Ralph Bakshi's colors]].

** Also, TheMaze (which has many of these ''literal'' [[{{Pun}} dead]] ends if you don't go in the right direction, accompanied by deadly {{mushroom|Man}}s, {{s|caledUp}}nakes, [[ImAHumanitarian man-eating]] {{frogs|AndToads}}, spike traps and deadly vines); and the [[LivingStatue giant statue]] at the end of it, which can require a whole lot of situations where you can't just "press X to not die", but you LITERALLY have to make it more like a BIG "[[PressXToNotDie Mash the X Buttons a Whole Lot of Times to Not Fall or Get Doused in or Sprayed by Acid,]] [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice Impaled,]] [[SquashedFlat or Squashed Flat]]" situation.

* PolishedPort: The {{Philips CD-i}}, [[UsefulNotes/ThreeDOInteractiveMultiplayer 3DO]] and UsefulNotes/PlayStation ports of the game have higher video qualities than the MS-DOS, Windows, UsefulNotes/AtariJaguar, and UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn ports, though the former first three each have two [=CDs=] instead of one; but only the {{iOS|Games}} port, which does not require any [=CDs=], has a higher video resolution that surpasses all of the earlier versions. Also, the 3DO port has two versions of Disc 1: the original one, and "Version 1.1", which fixes a bug that would sometimes cause a crash in Vivi's Salon in the original release. The [=iOS=] port did the same in December 2010 by upgrading its version from 1.0 to 1.1, which added support for [=iOS=] 3.0 and 4.2 and fixed various bugs.

* PolishedPort: The {{Philips CD-i}}, [[UsefulNotes/ThreeDOInteractiveMultiplayer 3DO]] and PlayStation ports of the game have higher video qualities than the MS-DOS, Windows, AtariJaguar, and SegaSaturn ports, though the former first three each have two [=CDs=] instead of one; but only the {{iOS|Games}} port, which does not require any [=CDs=], has a higher video resolution that surpasses all of the earlier versions. Also, the 3DO port has two versions of Disc 1: the original one, and "Version 1.1", which fixes a bug that would sometimes cause a crash in Vivi's Salon in the original release. The [=iOS=] port did the same in December 2010 by upgrading its version from 1.0 to 1.1, which added support for [=iOS=] 3.0 and 4.2 and fixed various bugs.

* PolishedPort: The {{Philips CD-i}}, [[ThreeDOInteractiveMultiplayer 3DO]] and PlayStation ports of the game have higher video qualities than the MS-DOS, Windows, AtariJaguar, and SegaSaturn ports, though the former first three each have two [=CDs=] instead of one; but only the {{iOS|Games}} port, which does not require any [=CDs=], has a higher video resolution that surpasses all of the earlier versions. Also, the 3DO port has two versions of Disc 1: the original one, and "Version 1.1", which fixes a bug that would sometimes cause a crash in Vivi's Salon in the original release. The [=iOS=] port did the same in December 2010 by upgrading its version from 1.0 to 1.1, which added support for [=iOS=] 3.0 and 4.2 and fixed various bugs.

*** What's even stranger is that Japan's game rating organization (pre-CERO) slapped each box of the game (exported from America) with an "all ages" (全年齢, ''zen nenrei'') rating on a green sticker, hoping that its audience of children would be less sensitive to mind-numbing bloodless violence and sexuality than America's children (due to cultural differences). The proof is in the pudding [[http://image.gamespotcdn.net/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/2/196812_14924_front.jpg here]].