History YMMV / MarioPartyDSAntiPiracy

** [[spoiler:Is DJ Hallyboo acting out of a genuine disdain for pirates and a misguided, extreme belief that piracy is a terrible crime? Or is he a sadistic monster who uses his role as the game's punisher of pirates as an excuse to terrorize and kill people?]]

** The aforementioned BilingualBonus note from Hudson, which can easily bring up the mental image of even the developers Nintendo is working with being exasperated about their notorious obsession with stopping copyright infringement. It can be a cathartic chuckle for [[VideoGame/SuperMario64LastImpact those]] [[VideoGame/AnotherMetroid2Remake screwed]] [[VideoGame/ProjectM over]] [[VideoGame/PokemonUranium by]] [[VideoGame/Mother4 these]] [[FanworkBan policies]].

* CrossesTheLineTwice: The Sweet Sleuth minigame. The sequence is as scary as all of the other ones, as it involves the Shy Guy asking for your character instead of candy and then eating them alive to the sound of a static-y DroneOfDread. However, several viewers admitted to [[BlackComedy being amused]] at how Luigi [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction emits a flat-sounding "ow" as he is being eaten]] and then ''[[FunnyBackgroundEvent scores a point for his own demise]]'' afterward.

* HarsherInHindsight: The series was created as a biting satire of Creator/{{Nintendo}}'s [[FanworkBan overzealous]] [[DisneyOwnsThisTrope policies]] regarding their copyright. Two months after the first episode aired, it was [[https://techraptor.net/gaming/news/nintendo-leak-reveals-extreme-measures-taken-to-track-hackers discovered]] that Nintendo actually ''stalked and intimidated'' certain homebrew developers for the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS and UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS systems.

*** Two policemen chase Joey, who is running, with their car. The driver drives at a very leisurely pace, listening to upbeat music and singing along, [[MoodDissonance while Joey is running and screaming outside]]. The cop riding shotgun is a Toad mask wearing CowboyCop who seems a ''little'' too excited to shoot Joey. And he stores his gun in a ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Happy Meal.''

* HilariousInHindsight: After the release of the "Host Hoedown" video, some [=YouTubers=] made mockups of what could happen if they used a TAS bot to bypass the UnwinnableByDesign act near the end of the minigame. Come the finale, and Joey does just that. Though, he quickly wishes he didn't.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: The fact that the videos lead to ''VideoGame/MarioPartyDS'' being VindicatedByHistory.

* AccidentalInnuendo: In the finale, [[spoiler: DJ Hallyboo]] pursues Joey while repeatedly imploring him to "dodge the balls" (that can be misheard as "touch the balls") and evilly laughing. [[spoiler: He was referring to giant inflatable soccer balls]].

* AccidentalInnuendo: In the finale, [[spoiler: DJ Hallyboo]] pursues Joey while repeatedly imploring him to "touch the balls" and evilly laughing. [[spoiler: He was referring to giant inflatable soccer balls]].

** After the GrandFinale aired, the series came back with a video about a "secret item". [[spoiler:It’s a drink that takes Luigi to ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'' before the piracy screen comes up.]]

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The arrest video was likely made to restore viewers' WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief, after being stretched thin through SerialEscalation.

* {{Anvilicious}}: The AuthorFilibuster of the finale [[spoiler:with Joey turning into an angel]] makes the author's DigitalPiracyIsOkay aesop abundantly clear.

** After the GrandFinale aired, the series came back with a video about a "secret item". [[spoiler:It’s a drink that takes Luigi to ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' before the piracy screen comes up.]]

---->'''DJ Hallyboo:''' Touch the balls! Touch the balls! [[SignatureLaugh HA HA HAAA!]]

* FridgeHorror: It's implied through Japanese text in the videos that the anti-piracy measures were added by one Japanese developer with a KnightTemplar attitude towards pirates. But all the anti-piracy measures seen in the videos have text in English, not Japanese. This implies that either one or more people on the US localization team were in on the scheme, or that they discovered the hidden anti-piracy measures and assumed that they were meant to be there.

* ParanoiaFuel: Who hasn't committed some technically-illegal or dubious act such as using pirated or emulated software, certain that it would be okay, since the "crime" itself is so minor that actually punishing the "culprit" would not be worth the effort? The "Anti Piracy Self Reporter" video plays on the fear of someone taking this "crime" seriously and actually taking measures so you'll face punishment by forcing you to call 911 and demanding that you confess.

** The aforementioned BilingualBonus note from Hudson, which can easily bring up the mental image of even the developers Nintendo is working with being exasperated about their notorious obsession with stopping copyright infringement. It can be a cathartic chuckle for those [[VideoGame/AnotherMetroid2Remake screwed]] [[VideoGame/ProjectM over]] [[VideoGame/PokemonUranium by]] [[VideoGame/Mother4 these]] [[FanworkBan policies]].

* AccidentalInnuendo: In the finale, [[spoiler: DJ Hallyboo]] pursues Joey while repeatedly imploring him to "touch the balls". [[spoiler: He was referring to giant inflatable soccer balls]].