History YMMV / SonicLabyrinth

* NightmareFuel: Death by falling[[note]]Which can happen in the Labyrinth Of The Factory and Labyrinth Of The Castle[[/note]] functions as a surprisingly effective JumpScare. You get a brief second to react when Sonic teeters on the edge, but once you lose that chance (and often you will), the game suddenly stops, cuts away to [[https://youtu.be/3I7Qbe__FLg?t=128 a short cutscene]] of Sonic falling down the screen in dead silence, and then [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill landing in a pit of lava and spikes]] as the particularly [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc36d_mT3S4 loud and creepy death music]] bursts in out of nowhere.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' games are famous for letting the characters run around fast, so a game where the main premise takes that away was a pretty big turn-off for many players right from the get-go.

* SoOkayItsAverage: The game's controls work well enough and it is hardly unfaithful to the spirit of ''Sonic 1'', which was more methodical and had Sonic move faster while rolling, but it certainly lacks excitement. Some of its levels are too confusing and restrictive when they should have been designed to be fun for pinballing around in.

** Zone 3-2 is a series of small islands connected together by one-way floating platforms. By the nature of the level, you truly cannot speed things up at all -- lest you accelerate off one of the many unguardeds ledge and plummet to your doom -- and it's a teleporter maze on top of that.

* AnticlimaxBoss: The final boss starts with a very basic attack pattern of flying towards Sonic and then trying to crush him. After a few rolls it is reduced to a disembodied head but the only change is that it sometimes fires bullets towards the top of the screen.

* ScrappyMechanic: One of the colors in the screen will flash repeatedly while a powerup is being used, making it tiresome for the eyes. More often than not the game becomes borderline unplayable due to large parts of the screen flashing. Fortunately, the flashing was removed in the 3DS Virtual Console release.

** Zone 3-2 is a series of small islands connected together by one-way floating platforms. By the nature of the level, you truly cannot speed things up at all, and it's a teleporter maze on top of that.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: A ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' game that takes away the very things that made Sonic stand out from the crowd to begin with? Yeah, probably not the greatest of concepts. Even if the game is just SoOkayItsAverage at best, the mere concept of a slow Sonic game where he can't run fast at all was a major turn-off for many players from the start, and is the main reason the game continues to get mocked to this very day, regardless of its actual quality.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Say what you will about this game, [[AwesomeMusic/SonicTheHedgehog the music is still awesome.]]

* ItsShortSoItSucks: Other than the boss levels, the game has a total of 12 short acts. It barely lasts over twenty minutes if you don't get lost much.

** Zone 3-2 is a series of small islands connected together by one-way floating platforms. By the nature of the level, you truly cannot speed things up at all, and it's a teleporter maze on top of that. If any level in the game deserves being called "Anti-Sonic", it's this borefest.
** Zone 4-3 doesn't restrict your movement as much, but it is a maze that's more difficult than even 3-2. At least it is the final one.

* IdiotPlot: Instead of [[JustShootHim just killing Sonic]], Dr. Eggman chose to... merely slow him down with a pair of heavy boots instead. Of course, this is the guy [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 who once]] saved Sonic from falling into a lava pit just so he could pit him against one of his machines.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: A ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' game that takes away the very things that made Sonic stood out amongst the crowd to begin with? Yeah, probably not the greatest of concepts. Even if the game is just SoOkayItsAverage at best, the mere concept of a slow Sonic game where he can't run fast at all alone was a major turn off for many players from the start and it's the main reason why the game continues to get mocked to this very day, regardless of the game's actual quality.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In the end of level 4-2, the camera moves up and shows a giant clock. If you complete the level with at least 2 minutes left on the timer, it rings and birds come out of it. Since this is only the next-to-last level, players are more likely to wonder what's this celebration about than notice they just activated an EasterEgg.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: A ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' game that takes away the very things that made Sonic stood out amongst the crowd to begin with? Yeah, probably not the greatest of concepts. Even if the game is just SoOkayItsAverage at best, the mere concept of a slow Sonic game where he can't run fast at all alone was a major turn off for many players from the start and it's the [[NeverLiveItDown main reason why the game continues to get mocked to this very day,]] regardless of the game's actual quality.

* NeverLiveItDown: ''Sonic Labyrinth'' really is average at best, but it has become infamous as the one game where Sonic can't run (which misses the point) and a lot of people pretend the entire game is Zone 3-2.