History YMMV / VA11HALLA

** After Gaby breaks the news of [[spoiler:Lenore's death and Jill's unwitting role in it to her, she falls into a guilt-racked depression and Dorothy spends an entire night at her home to help her calm down. Usually she charges a premium price for such a service but she willingly throws away a lucrative night's earnings after seeing how much her friend was hurting.]]

** Virgilio's endings: [[spoiler:Virgilio, no longer ObfuscatingStupidity, opens up a curry stand and reveals definitively to Jill that he was the White Knight who saved Sei and Stella (who later join Jill for lunch) from a corrupt superior as children.]]

* HarsherInHindsight: ''VA-11 HALL-A'' contains some references to ''VideoGame/YIIKAPostModernRPG'', including a character cosplaying as Vella, which hasn't aged well with the latter game's less-then-stellar reception after its release. Granted, this was back when ''YIIK'' was still in development, so Sukeban Games wasn't aware of how much backlash the final project would end up with.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Dorothy]] has a preteen appearance (although she's mentally and chronologically 24) and among the cast is easily the most vulgar and open about her sex life. This has made some players and reviewers uncomfortable, especially as she frequently invokes [[LoliconAndShotacon paedophilia themes]]. Other people either don't have a problem with it or think that it's funny.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Dorothy won second place in the 2017 popularity contest by a large amount, losing only to Jill (who won by a landslide). This happened again in the 2019 popularity contest, where she was again in first place. Though women tended to prefer Dana, she was still a close third even in that category.

* HarsherInHindsight: The game contains some references to ''VideoGame/YIIKAPostModernRPG'', including a character cosplaying as Vella, which hasn't aged well with the game's less-then-stellar reception after its release. Granted, this was back when it was still in development, so Sukeban Games wasn't aware of how much backlash the final project would end up with.

** Getting the Good Ending where [[spoiler: Jill and Gaby manage to come to terms with Lenore's death while drinking a toast to her memory, finally allowing Jill to move on. The last still also implies she and Dana are now a couple as they prepare to take a vacation together]]

* TearJerker: [[spoiler: The revelation of Lenore's death is a hard scene to sit through. It comes out of nowhere in what seems like a normal shift (to the point that the music stops playing as soon as Gaby states what happened), and both Jill and Gaby are broken up about it, yelling at each other and shifting the blame between them. Made worse by the clear grief Jill goes through in the following days, pelting herself for being such a "piece of shit" and not apologizing to Lenore for their nasty breakup, and only letting up on herself after a talk with Sei and Stella at the bar and a night of cuddling with Dorothy.]]

* BaseBreakingCharacter: [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Dorothy]] being both the youngest-looking character in the game (although she's mentally and chronologically 24) and easily the most vulgar and open about her sex life has made some players and reviewers uncomfortable, especially as she frequently invokes paedophilia themes. Other people either don't have a problem with it or think that it's funny.

* HarsherInHindsight The game contains some references to ''VideoGame/YIIKAPostModernRPG'' including a character cosplaying as Vella that hasn't aged well with the game's less-then-stellar reception after its release. Granted, this was back when it was still in developpement so Sukeban Games weren't aware of how much backlash the final project will end up with.

* HarsherInHindsight: The game's lore about the Hong Kong police being brutal against protestors over the local government passing anti-android laws becomes much harsher in light of the 2019 Hong Kong Protests over the Hong Kong government's extradition plans since it will allow the mainland Chinese government to arrest anyone critical of the regime without a fair trial and the Hong Kong police were critizied for their brutal attacks on protesters. To make things awkward, it was around this time that the game had a crossover with Chinese mobile game VideoGame/GirlsFrontline when the 2019 protests happened.
** The game contains some references to ''VideoGame/YIIKAPostModernRPG'' including a character cosplaying as Vella that hasn't aged well with the game's less-then-stellar reception after its release. Granted, this was back when it was still in developpement so Sukeban Games weren't aware of how much backlash the final project will end up with.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Dorothy won second place in the popularity contest by a large amount, losing only to Jill (who won by a landslide).

* HilariousInHindsight: Stella's full name, Stella Hoshii, translates to "Stella Star," the same name as the heroine of the [=1970s=] Sci-Fi film ''Film/{{Starcrash}}''.

* HarsherInHindsight: The game's lore about the Hong Kong police being brutal against prostetors over the local government passing anti-android laws becomes much harsher in light of the 2019 Hong Kong Protests over the Hong Kong government's extradition plans since it will allow the mainland Chinese government to arrest anyone critical of the regime without a fair trial and the Hong Kong police were critizied for their brutal attacks on protesters. To make things awkward, it was around this time that the game had a crossover with Chinese mobile game VideoGame/GirlsFrontline when the 2019 protests happened.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Dorothy]] being both the youngest-looking character in the game (although she's mentally 24) and easily the most vulgar and open about her sex life has made some players and reviewers uncomfortable, especially as she frequently invokes paedophilia themes. Other people either don't have a problem with it or think that it's funny.

* BaseBreaker: [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Dorothy]] being both the youngest-looking character in the game (although she's mentally 24) and easily the most vulgar and open about her sex life has made some players and reviewers uncomfortable, especially as she frequently invokes paedophilia themes. Other people either don't have a problem with it or think that it's funny.

* HeartwarmingMoments:

* TearJerker: [[spoiler: The revelation of Lenore's death is a hard scene to sit through. It comes out of nowhere in what seems like a normal shift (to the point that the music stops playing as soon as Gaby states what happened), and both Jill and Gaby are broken up about it, yelling at each other and shifting the blame between them. Made worse by the clear grief Jill goes through in the following days, pelting herself for being such a "piece of shit" and not apologizing to Lenore for their nasty breakup, and only letting up on herself after a talk with Sei and Stella at the bar and a night of cuddling with Dorothy.]]

* HeartwarmingMoments: Getting the Good Ending where [[spoiler: Jill and Gaby manage to come to terms with Lenore's death while drinking a toast to her memory, finally allowing Jill to move on. The last still also implies she and Dana are now a couple as they prepare to take a vacation together]]

* TearJerker: [[spoiler: The revelation of Lenore's death is a hard scene to sit through. It comes out of nowhere, and both Jill and Gaby are broken up about it, yelling at each other and shifting the blame between them. Made worse by the clear grief Jill goes through in the following days, pelting herself for being such a "piece of shit" and not apologizing to Lenore for their nasty breakup, and only letting up on herself after a talk with Sei and Stella at the bar and a night of cuddling with Dorothy.]]

* RuleThirtyFourCreatorReactions: They're probably okay with NSFW fanart, since they have an entire [[http://blog.waifubartending.com/tagged/lewd-report segment]] on their official Tumblr showcasing them.

* BaseBreaker: [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Dorothy]] being both the youngest-looking character in the game (although she's mentally 24) and easily the most vulgar and open about her sex life has made some players and reviewers uncomfortable, especially as she frequently invokes {{Lolicon}} themes. Other people either don't have a problem with it or think that it's funny.

* HeartwarmingMoments: Getting the Good Ending where [[spoiler: Jill and Gaby manage to come to terms over Lenore's death while drinking a toast to her memory, finally allowing Jill to move on. The last still also implies she and Dana are now a couple as they prepare to take a vacation together]]

* HeartwarmingMoments: Getting the Good Ending where [[spoiler: Jill and Gaby manage to come to terms over Lenore's death while drinking a toast to her memory, finally allowing Jill to move on. The last still also implies she and Dana are now a couple as they prepare to take a vacation together]]

* BaseBreaker: [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Dorothy]] being both the youngest-looking character in the game (although she's mentally 24) and easily the most vulgar and open about her sex life has made some players and reviewers uncomfortable, especially as she frequently invokes {{Lolicon}} themes. Other people either don't have a problem with it or think that it's funny.