History YMMV / VVVVVV

** Not optional, however, is the Gravitron. 60 seconds of crazy, confusing dodging.

** The Gravitron is this in No Death Mode, since the checkpoints every 5 seconds are also gone. Normally, being hit also clears the screen of all the obstacles while knocking the timer back to the most recent multiple of 5 seconds, giving you a brief lull during which you have a chance to reposition yourself and prepare for the upcoming wave. But since getting hit once in No Death Mode ends the game...

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uJBxODNKYA&hd=1 Piercing the Sky]], from the 2.0 Upgrade
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yRSkV9Bmhw Paced Energy]]. Also from 2.0

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: What's Officier Vermillion's first words after finally making it through the Gravitron (which typically involves dying a few dozen times)? An enthusiastic "Let's do that ''again!''"

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uJBxODNKYA&hd=1 Piercing the Sky]] from the 2.0 Upgrade
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yRSkV9Bmhw Paced Energy]] Also from 2.0

** The "A New Dimension" level featured in the 2.0 update has "Remember Me?". It's "Veni, Vidi, Vici", [[UpToEleven made to be harder]]... and ''mandatory''.

** [[FridgeHorror It gets scarier]] when you find out that Viridian's luck was extraordinary: Had he teleported to a place without a teleporter nearby, had his [[EscortMission escortee]] teleported to another place, or [[spoiler: in the final level, he would teleport somewhere else than near the Dimensional Stability Generator,]] then the result would be different.

* HellIsThatNoise: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY9-Suw8RG0 "Phear"]], despite being unused.

** Also [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18pqyuWqtb8 "Positive Force"]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQv2INJKXUM&hd=1 "Potential for Anything"]], and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAcSg11JIYE&fmt=18 "Popular Potpourri"]], the credits theme.

* AngstWhatAngst: The most Captain Viridian gets sad is when he loses his crew, and that's only for the first five minutes of the game. Later, when he [[spoiler:destabilizes the dimension]], he is momentarily alarmed... but then he quickly chippers up and runs through the funky-colored rooms as if nothing happened.

** "...Not As I Do" has a trick you need to figure out in order to complete it, but even once you figure out ''how'' to do it, you still have to do it, and the timing and back-and-forth motions required make this level hard enough to...let's just say there's at least one Troper who's still stuck on that level, having never seen the rest of the game due to it.

* BrutalBonusLevel: The v2.0 and Nintendo3DS versions of the game come with, not one, but ''eighteen'' full size player-made levels that are more or less harder than the main game.

* TheTetrisEffect: This game follows you into your dreams!

** Lampshaded in that there is a message at the beginning stating ''"Ha! Nobody will ever get this one."''

* CrowningMomentOfFunny:
** "I'm helping!"
** Some of the more snarky screen names might count. As an example: One screen is called "What Lies Below?" If you fall, the screen below that is named "Spikes Do!", with a stream of the word "Lies" below the spikes.
** "I Changed My Mind, Thelma..."
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmzLF40tIRc#t=6m55s Vitellary wanting to take a checkpoint back to the ship to study]], too.
** "[[FusionDance COMBINE!]]"
---> "Or, you know... we could have just warped back to the ship...."

* ColorCodedCharacters: Vermillion is the fiery action guy and is in the level with the time limit. Violet's the TeamMom and love interest of Verdigris. Verdigris is stuck in the screen wrapping level, and if you imagine walking through it in first person, it can be potentially nauseating. Victoria is a worrywart and prone to tears. Vitellary is the biological term for egg yolk. Viridian, however, is harder to explain.
** Also, if you pair the characters according to what makes white on the additive color wheel, you get:
*** Captain Viridian and Officer Vermillion: the adventurous duo
*** Doctor Victoria and Professor Vitellary: the science lab partners
*** Doctor Violet and Chief Verdigris: the ship's maintenance crew (navigator and engineer respectively)

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: Game studio Nicalis developed a Nintendo3DS version of the game. Considering their work on ''VideoGame/CaveStory 3D'', this was greeted warmly.

* TheWoobie: Victoria comes off as this, or TheScrappy, depending on how you interpret her actions.

** "Not As I Do..." has a trick you need to figure out in order to complete it, but even once you figure out ''how'' to do it, you still have to do it, and the timing and back-and-forth motions required make this level hard enough to...let's just say there's at least one Troper who's still stuck on that level, having never seen the rest of the game due to it.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: Game studio Nicalis is currently developing a Nintendo3DS version of the game. Considering their work on ''VideoGame/CaveStory 3D'', this is fairly promising.

** The "A New Dimension" level featured in the 2.0 update has "Remember Me?". It's "Veni, Vidi, Vici", [[UpToEleven made to be harder.]]

* TheWoobie: Victoria comes off as this, or TheScrappy, depending on how you interpret her actions.

** Also [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18pqyuWqtb8 "Positive Force"]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfYH6C_jlfA&hd=1 "Potential for Anything"]], and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAcSg11JIYE&fmt=18 "Popular Potpourri"]], the credits theme.

** [[spoiler: Victoria, however, can actually sadden him with her own contagious negativity if you take her on the EscortMission.]]