History YMMV / DotHackGU

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome - Too many examples to list. Haseo's arrival as a PKK in Volume 1, [[spoiler:the four-way Avatar summoning sequence against Sakaki's AIDA]], [[spoiler:Atoli ''telling off'' Sakaki after he betrayed her with MindRape]]...
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming - Vol.2 Reminisce has more of this than any other.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome - Pick a game, ''any game''.

* EnsembleDarkhorse - Alkaid and Azure Kite.

* FridgeLogic - How come no one ever brings up ripping off their headset or unplugging their PC?

* GameBreaker - The Doppelganger Items and [[spoiler: the pair of guns that Haseo gets in the Forest of Pain.]]

* MagnificentBastard - [[spoiler:Ovan]]

* MoralEventHorizon - [[spoiler:Sakaki crossed it. He then proceeded to become an admin.]]
* NightmareFuel - The Dopplegangers. When one shows up on the map and notices you nearby, it starts to slowly and confidently walk towards you while an increasingly scary music that alerts you of your impending doom starts to play and grows louder the closer it comes toward you. The screen also starts flashing red, and more so when the enemy closes in on you.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap - Atoli in ''Reminisce'', for those that considered her TheScrappy.

* TheScrappy - Piros the 3rd is generally agreed as this. Several others can fall into this trope as well.
* ThatOneBoss - AIDA <Oswald> in ''Reminisce''. It has several difficult to dodge and '''very''' damaging attacks that can easily rack up about 1/5 of your entire life bar and if you get careless you might get hit many times on a row.

* TheWoobie - Several. To name a few, Atoli and Sakubo.

* UnfortunateImplications - It's encouraged that [[spoiler: it's better for Saku to remain a split personality of Bo, instead of being reabsorbed by his mind. Real cases of dissociative personality disorder can attest how problematic this is. However, there also exist cases where the premature reintegration of the dissociative identities of the individual can be just as harmful to their psyche, as they are not prepared or ready to "part" from the other identity.]]

** Alkaid. One half thinks she's a CreatorsPet, the other half is in love with her.

*** In the R1 games being anywhere near one of the phases made players begin to have spastic fits such that they are physically unable to take their hands off the controllers unless there's someone in the room to do it for them, like Mai and Tokuouka in the first volume of Liminality. The same possibly holds true for anyone in the presence of AIDA or the Avatars.

*** The answer to that could be FridgeHorror. We later learn how isolated Atoli is so her parents might be assholes.

*** Skeith, ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGcCjcU0z8Q I'm right here]]''.
*** Innis, ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wt084CiNII Here I come]]''.
*** Magus, ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd70ohsFeP8&feature=related Differences Between People]]''.
*** Fidchell, ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9A4hO6q1JI&feature=related Chain of Fate]]''.
*** Gorre, ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmD_JHks28E&feature=related Double Prayer]]''.
*** Macha, ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnvx-zh29vg "She"]]''.
*** Tarvos, ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlB-WvA4kBg&feature=related Whereabouts of Power]]''.
*** Corbenik, ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXVMrI07gEM Dark Infection]]''.

--> '''Alkaid:''' We did some really hot, super-secret training, just the two of us! LOL

--> '''Haseo:''' Are you trying to PICK A FIGHT?

** ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0i742z07xI&feature=related Victory Must be Grasped]]''

* CrowningMomentOfFunny - Some of the "Marriage/Promise" endings, even more so if you pick someone like ''[[spoiler: Azure Kite]]''.

--> "We did some really hot, super-secret training, just the two of us! LOL"

--> "Are you trying to pick a fight?"

** AIDA <Victorian> in ''Rebirth''. Destroying its protection isn't (quite) the challenge, ''Data Draining it is''. Victorian moves erratically all over the place while spilling bullets that will entirely cancel your Data Drain gauge if one so as much scratch you. Failing to do so means the boss will have around 1/3 of his life back in a battle that might have taken about half of yours.

** AIDA <Victorian> in ''Rebirth''. Destroying its protection isn't (quite) the challenge, ''Data Draining it is''. Victorian moves erratically all over the place while spilling bullets that will cancel you Data Drain gauge. Failing to do so means the boss will have around 1/3 of his life back in a battle that might have taken about half of yours.

** AIDE <Vicotrian> in ''Rebirth''. Destroying its protection isn't (quite) the challenge, ''Data Draining it is''. Victorian moves erratically all over the place while spilling bullets that will cancel you Data Drain gauge. Failing to do so means the boss will have around 1/3 of his life back in a battle that might have taken about half of yours.

* ThatOneBoss - AIDA<Oswald> in ''Reminisce''.

* [[AwesomeBosses Best Boss Ever]]: In Vol.3 [[spoiler:many people agree that the final battle against the Three Azure Knights, Aura Knights, is the best boss fight in the series: fought at [[BloodstainedGlassWindows Hulle Granz Cathedral]], awesome music, it isn't an avatar battle and merely the fact that you are fighting three of the main heroes from the first quadrilogy of ''.hack'' games.]]

* [[Best Boss Ever AwesomeBosses]]: In Vol.3 [[spoiler:many people agree that the final battle against the Three Azure Knights, Aura Knights, is the best boss fight in the series: fought at [[BloodstainedGlassWindows Hulle Granz Cathedral]], awesome music, it isn't an avatar battle and merely the fact that you are fighting three of the main heroes from the first quadrilogy of ''.hack'' games.]]

* [[BEST. BOSS. EVER. AwesomeBosses]]: In Vol.3 [[spoiler:many people agree that the final battle against the Three Azure Knights, Aura Knights, is the best boss fight in the series: fought at [[BloodstainedGlassWindows Hulle Granz Cathedral]], awesome music, it isn't an avatar battle and merely the fact that you are fighting three of the main heroes from the first quadrilogy of ''.hack'' games.]]

* CompleteMonster - [[spoiler:Sakaki]] was merely annoying and overzealous at first, but later revelations removed any kind of sympathy fans might have had for him. Specifically, the revelation that he had been manipulating and controlling AIDA behind the scenes, and that his ultimate goal was to use AIDA as mass mind control over all of humanity. But the biggest blow against him was his treatment of Atoli, who had long been one of his strongest supporters. Turns out he had met her on a suicide website, preyed on her fears about being alone and considered worthless, effectively brainwashed her into depending on him, and then {{Mind Rape}}d her to bring out the power of her Epitaph. When all of his plans fail and he gets infected with AIDA himself, he then spends the first half of the final volume putting together a sadistic tournament for the sole purpose of making Haseo and the rest suffer (harming quite a few others in the process), and ''laughing'' at the pain he's causing.

* IKnewIt - Prior to the release of ''Redemption'', some people had already been speculating that [[spoiler:Sakubo was one person with a split personality.]]

** [[spoiler:Sakaki [[MindRape mind-raping]] Atoli may count too, considering Atoli's reaction makes her as if she's being literally raped.]]

* ThatOneSidequest - Arguably, Bikman's flyer.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap - Atoli in ''Reminisce'', for those that considered her TheScrappy. **Haseo too thanks to his CharacterDevelopment.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap - Atoli in ''Reminisce'', for those that considered her TheScrappy.

* CompleteMonster - [[spoiler: Bordeaux and Sakaki.]]
** [[spoiler: Bordeaux has a reason related to her backstory.]]

* CrackIsCheaper: Each game is ridiculously short, full priced, and you need all three of them for it to make sense.

** [[spoiler:Cubia]], as well, at least [[spoiler:in the Avatar Battle portion.]] It's not so bad until near the end, when [[spoiler:Cubia]] whips out it's strongest attack, [[spoiler:[[ThatOneAttack Chaos Gehenna.]]]] This is even considering that [[spoiler:technically you're fighting Cubia's first (two?) form(s)]], and that ONE SINGLE ATTACK can easily send you back to the very start of what is already a long battle.

** Haseo also has some moments with [[MentorShip Ovan]].