History YMMV / KidChameleon

** Bloody Swamp, the absolute worst of the [[AdvancingWallOfDoom Murder Wall]] levels and the hardest level in the game. The death course is intricately designed to slow down the player as much as possible, containing ghost block barriers, rubber block corridors, shooting block puzzles, and horizontally-moving platforms. It's infamously hard amongst those who have played the game, easily capable of eating up every single life and continue a player has accumulated to that point. Not helped at all by the fact that after you've died on it once, you're back to playing it as plain old Kid Chameleon and no helmets. Not even the Cyclone retrieved in the previous level isn't that much of a help either. Many players choose to take the much safer path.

** [[ThatOnePuzzle The Forbidden Tomb]] is a puzzle level where the player has to destroy the blocks on the right side of the level to reach the flag below them. The reliance on power-ups to smash the blocks may be a contributing factor, but the main obstacle is time: there are no clock bonuses for this lengthy puzzle.
*** This is averted once you know the EasyLevelTrick (a hidden Red Stealth Helmet), which can be finished in under 40 seconds.

** Dead-end Elsewheres are the level equivalent to GoddamnBats, but Elsewhere 28 is by far the worst of the bunch. You need to uncover vertical staircases using the Cyclops mask, yet avoid the lava column in the center of the stage (with two more on the sides higher up in the level). This requires critical precision on the use of EyeClops's hidden-reveal waves and jump timings. Otherwise, you fall back to the beginning.

** Bloody Swamp, the absolute worst of the [[AdvancingWallOfDoom Murder Wall]] levels and the hardest level in the game. The death course is intricately designed to slow down the player as much as possible, containing ghost block barriers, rubber block corridors, shooting block puzzles, and horizontally-moving platforms. It's infamously hard amongst those who have played the game, easily capable of eating up every single life and continue a player has accumulated to that point. Not helped at all by the fact that after you've died on it once, you're back to playing it as plain old Kid Chameleon and no helmets.

** Dead-end Elsewheres are the level equivalent to GoddamnBats, but Elsewhere 28 is by far the worst of the bunch. You need to uncover vertical staircases using the Cyclops mask, yet avoid the lava column in the center of the stage (with two more on the sides higher up in the level).

** Bloody Swamp, the absolute worst of the [[AdvancingWallOfDoom Murder Wall]] levels. The death course is intricately designed to slow down the player as much as possible, containing ghost block barriers, rubber block corridors, shooting block puzzles, and horizontally-moving platforms. It's infamously hard amongst those who have played the game, easily capable of eating up every single life and continue a player has accumulated to that point. Not helped at all by the fact that after you've died on it once, you're back to playing it as plain old Kid Chameleon.

** Forced Entry, which contains the imfamous [[AdvancingWallOfDoom Murder Wall]]. If you managed to still have the Berserker helmet from the previous level and ram the metal blocks in hopes of another warp teleporter, you'll reach a dead end with a sign that says "TOO BAD."

* UnwinnableByMistake:
** The Final Marathon. There are reports that state the level will randomly freeze or glitch. It can be presumed either defective cartridge or that this level contains too many items and enemies more than how much RAM the system can handle. No reports of this happens on the re-releases.

** The Final Marathon. The game will glitch and freeze randomly and it happens at the spot before collecting the Skycutter or Cyclone powerup. This may happen on certain cartridges and no reports of this happens on the re-releases.

** Forced Entry, which contains the imfamous [[AdvancingWallOfDoom Murder Wall]]. If you managed to still have the Berserker helmet from the previous level and ram the metal blocks in hopes of another warp teleporter, you'll reach a dead end with a sign that says "TOO BAD."

* TierInducedScrappy: You wouldn't think Juggernaut, a tank that shoots skulls, would be a bad powerup, but RuleOfCool doesn't override how [[CripplingOverspecialization overly specialized]] it is. Its odd shape allows it to jump into horizontal crawlspaces and prevents it from entering narrow gaps; while the former can help in certain moments, the latter is an obstacle that is encountered time and time again with this mask. Despite being a tank, its no more durable than any of the other masks, failing to offset its poor speed and hill-climbing ability. [[ClassicVideoGameScrewYous Not coincidentally]], the Juggernaut mask is often found in the very levels it would be inappropriate, with Forced Entry being a prime example (see ThatOneLevel).

* CultClassic

* AwesomeMusic: Pretty much the whole soundtrack. Highlights include [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGIkOY6vJL4 the city area]], the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYvuYL5zuao pyramid area]], the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuRQeCKr3DI fantasy area]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYxrPEChoXo the cave area]], and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpI89Uh7vzE main theme]].

* GameBreaker [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], as the best powerups in the game - namely the Cyclone and Skycutter - are also the rarest. While one can bypass entire levels with either of these two powerups, they would have to do so avoiding hazards in order to make the most out of them.

* TierInducedScrappy: You wouldn't think Juggernaut, a tank that shoots skulls, would be a bad powerup, but RuleOfCool doesn't override how [[CripplingOverspecialization overly specialized]] it is. Its odd shape allows it to jump into horizontal crawlspaces and prevents it from entering narrow gaps; while the former can help in certain moments, the latter is an obstacle that is encountered time and time again with this mask. Despite being a tank, its no more durable than any of the other masks, failing to offset its poor speed and hill-climbing ability. [[ClassicVideoGameScrewYous Not coincidentally]], the Juggernaut mask is often found in the very levels it would be inappropriate, with Forced Entry being a prime example (see ThatOneLevel).

* AwesomeMusic: Pretty much the whole soundtrack, which was done by the same people who composed ToejamAndEarl. Highlights include [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGIkOY6vJL4 the city area]], the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYvuYL5zuao pyramid area]], the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuRQeCKr3DI fantasy area]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYxrPEChoXo the cave area]], and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpI89Uh7vzE main theme]].

* TierInducedScrappy: You wouldn't think Juggernaut, a tank that shoots skulls, would be a bad powerup, but RuleOfCool doesn't override how [[CripplingOverspecialization overly specialized]] it is. Its odd shape allows it to jump into horizontal crawlspaces and prevents it from entering narrow gaps; while the former can help in certain moments, the latter is an obstacle that is encountered time and time again with this mask. Despite being a tank, its no more durable than any of the other masks, failing to [[MightyGlacier offset]] its poor speed and hill-climbing ability. [[ClassicVideoGameScrewYous Not coincidentally]], the Juggernaut mask is often found in the very levels it would be inappropriate, with Forced Entry being a prime example (see ThatOneLevel).

* ThatOneLevel: With over 100 levels and a [[NintendoHard famous difficulty]], a few of these are to be expected.

* ThatOneLevel:

** Bloody Swamp, the absolute worst of the [[AdvancingWallOfDoom Murder Wall]] levels. The death course is intricately designed to slow down the player as much as possible, containing ghost block barriers, rubber block corridors, shooting block puzzles, and tall platforms. It's infamously hard amongst those who have played the game, easily capable of eating up every single life and continue a player has accumulated to that point. Not helped at all by the fact that after you've died on it once, you're back to playing it as plain old Kid Chameleon.

** While not as difficult as the above, Forced Entry is an exercise in ClassicVideoGameScrewYous. The [[AdvancingWallOfDoom Murder Wall]] is as fast as it is in Bloody Swamp, yet [[ForcedCharacterSelection you are only given the Juggernaut to start]], which can neither climb up the hill nor fit in the gap that contains one of the level's exits. There's also two different paths one can take at the end: if you go in the lower path but don't go through the gap, you will hit a dead end with a sign that says, "TOO BAD."

* ThatOneLevel: Bloody Swamp. It's infamously hard amongst those who have played the game, easily capable of eating up every single life and continue a player has accumulated to that point. Not helped at all by the fact that after you've died on it once, you're back to playing it as plain old Kid Chameleon.
* TierInducedScrappy: You wouldn't think Juggernaut, a tank that shoots skulls, would be a bad powerup, but RuleOfCool doesn't override how [[CripplingOverspecialization overly specialized]] it is. Its odd shape allows it to jump into horizontal crawlspaces and prevents it from entering narrow gaps; while the former can help in certain moments, the latter is an obstacle that is encountered time and time again with this mask. Despite being a tank, its no more durable than any of the other masks, failing to [[MightyGlacier offset]] its poor speed and hill-climbing ability. [[ClassicVideoGameScrewYous Not coincidentally]], the Juggernaut mask is often found in the very levels it would be inappropriate, with "Forced Entry" being a prime example.[[note]]There's a hill that will slow the player down enough to be caught by the [[AdvancingWallOfDoom Murder Wall]], and a gap that the Juggernaut can't enter but contains one of the level's exits.[[/note]]

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Pretty much the whole soundtrack, which was done by the same people who composed ToejamAndEarl. Highlights include [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGIkOY6vJL4 the city area]], the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYvuYL5zuao pyramid area]], the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuRQeCKr3DI fantasy area]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYxrPEChoXo the cave area]], and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpI89Uh7vzE main theme]].

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Pretty much the whole soundtrack, which was done by the same people who composed ToejamAndEarl. Highlights include [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGIkOY6vJL4 the city area]], the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYvuYL5zuao pyramid area]], the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuRQeCKr3DI fantasy area]], and the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpI89Uh7vzE main theme]].

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Pretty much the whole soundtrack, which was done by the same people who composed ToejamAndEarl. Highlights include [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Gkbu1x78k the city area]], the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvSO2UqTsRs pyramid area]], the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70VeFZVvJI0 fantasy area]], and the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTO3zdJkOjs main theme]].

* ScrappyLevel: Bloody Swamp. If you take the wrong teleporter and end up here, just be kind to yourself and turn the console off.
* ThatOneLevel: Again, Bloody Swamp. It's infamously hard amongst those who have played the game, easily capable of eating up every single life and continue a player has accumulated to that point. Not helped at all by the fact that after you've died on it once, you're back to playing it as plain old Kid Chameleon.

* ScrappyLevel: the Bloody Swamp. If you take the wrong teleporter and end up here, just be kind to yourself and turn the console off.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Pretty much the whole soundtrack, which was done by the same people who composed ToejamAndEarl. Highlights include [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Gkbu1x78k the city area]], the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvSO2UqTsRs pyramid area]], the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70VeFZVvJI0 fantasy area]], and the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTO3zdJkOjs main theme]].