History YMMV / EarnestEvans

* CompleteMonster (includes ''VideoGame/ElViento'' & ''VideoGame/AnnetFutatabi''): [[BigBad Zigfried "Zig" Munchaunsen]], in actuality the [[EldritchAbomination Dark God Nyarlathotep]], is an enigmatic spreader of chaos. Zig would assist Earnest Evans and Annet Myer in stopping the demonic Hastur numerous times so that he won't get in the way of his plans of [[KillAllHumans annihilating mankind]]. In ''Annet Futatabi'', Zig partners with the Nexuses army to take over the Renvrandt kingdom, where he creates mutants from the army's prisoners to [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer the world]], later turning the country’s princess Aisha into a mutant and forcing Annet to fight her. Seemingly defeated, Zig is last seen selling weapon blueprints to the Nazis in order to carry out UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's dreams of worldwide destruction.

* UncannyValley: Earnest, Earnest, '''EARNEST'''. His movement, specifically.

* CompleteMonster (includes ''VideoGame/ElViento'' & ''VideoGame/AnnetFutatabi''): [[OverarchingVillain Zigfried "Zig" Munchaunsen]], in actuality the [[EldritchAbomination Dark God Nyarlathotep]], is an enigmatic spreader of chaos. Zig would assist Earnest Evans and Annet Myer in stopping the demonic Hastur numerous times so that he won't get in the way of his plans of [[KillAllHumans annihilating mankind]]. In ''Annet Futatabi'', Zig partners with the Nexuses army to take over the Renvrandt kingdom, where he creates mutants from the army's prisoners to [[TakeOverTheWorld conquer the world]], later turning the country’s princess Aisha into a mutant and forcing Annet to fight her. Seemingly defeated, Zig is last seen selling weapon blueprints to the Nazis in order to carry out UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's dreams of worldwide destruction.

* AwesomeMusic: It's Motoi Sakuraba, what do you expect?

** Even if the context for the levels is absolutely flimsy at best, at least the Mega CD version of the game has a story to loosely justify the insanity (albeit entirely in Japanese and with no subtitles). The Mega Drive version on the other hand [[AdaptationInducedPlotHole cut all of the story out]] [[AllThereInTheManual and rewrote it to claim it was a sequel to]] VideoGame/ElViento [[IdenticalGrandson (as well as say this Earnest is the grandson of that game's Earnest).]] The result was that absolutely nothing has any sort of context, resulting in the entire game becoming a BLAM moment. Notably, [[BadExportForYou this is the version that came out in the West.]]

** Even if the context for the levels is absolutely flimsy at best, at least the Mega CD version of the game has a story to loosely justify the insanity (albeit entirely in Japanese and with no subtitles). The Mega Drive version on the other hand [[AdaptationInducedPlotHole cut all of the story out]] [[AllThereInTheManual and rewrote it to claim it was a sequel to]] VideoGame/ElViento [[IdenticalGrandson (as well as say this Earnest is the grandson of that game's Earnest).]] The result was that absolutely nothing has any sort of context, resulting in the entire game becoming a BLAM moment. Notably, this is the version that came out in the West; the CD version [[NoExportForYou remained Japan-only.]]

** Even if the context for the levels is absolutely flimsy at best, at least the Mega CD version of the game has a story to loosely justify the insanity. The Mega Drive version on the other hand [[AdaptationInducedPlotHole cut all of the story out]] [[AllThereInTheManual and rewrote it to claim it was a sequel to]] VideoGame/ElViento [[IdenticalGrandson (as well as say this Earnest is the grandson of that game's Earnest).]] The result was that absolutely nothing has any sort of context, resulting in the entire game becoming a BLAM moment.

** Even if the context for the levels is absolutely flimsy at best, at least the Mega CD version of the game has a story to loosely justify the insanity. The Mega Drive version on the other hand [[AdaptationInducedPlotHole cut all of the story out]] [[AllThereInTheManual and rewrote it to claim it was a sequel to]] VideoGame/ElViento [[IdenticalGrandson (as well as say that Earnest is the grandson of that game's Earnest).]] The result was that absolutely nothing has any sort of context, resulting in the entire game becoming a BLAM moment.

** Even if the context for the levels is absolutely flimsy at best, at least the Mega CD version of the game has a story to loosely justify the insanity. The Mega Drive version on the other hand [[AdaptationInducedPlotHole cut all of the story out]] [[AllThereInTheManual and rewrote it to claim it was a sequel to]] VideoGame/ElViento [[IdenticalGrandson (as well as say that Earnest is the grandson of that game's Earnest.)]] The result was that absolutely nothing has any sort of context, resulting in the entire game becoming a BLAM moment.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Level 5 has Earnest dumped onto a moving train filled to the brim with banditos, he has to get a golden idol haphazardly placed on one carriage's roof, he battles a monster made of coal and escapes via a biplane stashed on another carriage. He never seems to mention this crazy experience to Annet and Zigfried again.
** Even better: This occurs right after Earnest gets knocked unconscious in the previous cutscene. How that leads to him, now conscious, being dumped onto a train ''from outside in '''midair''''' is anybody's guess.

* BadExportForYou: The U.S. version had the entire story stripped out of the game and replaced with a shoddy ExcusePlot in the manual. Note that the game was reverse-ported to the Genesis from the Sega CD.

* UncannyValley: Earnest, Earnest, '''EARNEST'''

* CrazyAwesome: The entire damn game from the ''VideoGame/{{QWOP}}''-style movements of Earnest to the ridiculously weird enemies that explode when he kills them.

* SoBadItsGood

* UncannyValley: Where to start.

* UncannyValley: '''AND HOW'''

* SoBadItsGood

* CrazyAwesome: The entire damn game from the ''VideoGame/{{QWOP}}''-style movements of Earnest to the ridiculously weird enemies that explode he kills them.

* CrazyAwesome: The entire damn game from the VideoGame/{{QWOP}}-style movements of Earnest to the ridiculously weird enemies that explode he kills them.

** Even better: This occurs right after Earnest gets knocked unconscious in the previous cutscene. How that leads to him being dumped onto a train ''from outside in '''midair''''' is anybody's guess.