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1	* AllAnimationIsDisney: To some extent. The character designs resemble the works of Creator/DonBluth while the animation itself looks like it came out of [[Film/CoolWorld Ralph Bakshi's colors]].
2	* AnimationAgeGhetto: There's really no explanation for why this has a K-A rating other than the assumption that "animated" means "it's for kids".
3	* BestKnownForTheFanservice: [[MsFanservice Vi]][[ImpossibleHourglassFigure vi]] and her salon is the most well known part from the game.
4	* BreatherLevel: The entire "Vivi's Funeral Salon" sequence, in which you encounter over a minute of dialogue before an easily-avoidable death by spider. From then on it results in more dialogue and pretty much less of the "PressXToNotDie" scenes, one of which (the "[[SimonSaysMiniGame deadly manicure]]" scene) is pretty difficult to master without noticing Vivi's clumsy finger-pointing clues. Otherwise, it's a bit of a relief in this level.
5	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Vivi is the most remembered character in the game [[VampiresAreSexGods for obvious reasons]].
6	* FauxSymbolism: One of the resurrection scenes (in case Lance dies in haunted rooms) shows the "fires of rebirth" reform Lance's body and restore him to life. This is a bit strange, as it is kind of reminiscent of ThePhoenix, which is an ancient and well known symbol of death and rebirth and portrayed as a magical bird made of living flames; the story says that when a Phoenix reaches the end of its life, it would make a cinnamon stick nest and self-immolate itself with fire, and from the ashes a new Phoenix is reborn. This could explain the "fiery" resurrection scene that Lance, like a Phoenix, can rise from the ashes of defeat and start over. Weird.
7	* HilariousInHindsight:
8	** At one time in the confrontation scene in the long stairway, Fritz kills Lance by [[FlayingAlive scalping him]] with his HookHand and ''[[GenuineHumanHide using said scalp as a hat]]!'' It's pretty gross, but believe us, Fritz is no VideoGame/{{Kirby\|SuperStar}}.
9	** During Fritz's long trip down the stairs, he loses many things from his trenchcoat, among them a [[PornStash porno magazine with a picture of Vivi's clothed breasts on the cover]]. A vampiress in a porno magazine... somehow it kinda predates dhampyr Rayne of the ''VideoGame/{{BloodRayne}}'' series [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140220035715/http://www.actiontrip.com/features/atstop10videogamechicks.phtml appearing in the "Gaming Grows Up" page of the October 2004 issue of]] ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' by nine years... and at least Vivi wasn't topless unlike Rayne.
10	* NauseaFuel: In one death scene, Fritz sticks Lance's head in a blender, then turns it on, purees his entire body, and drinks it like beer, eyeballs and all. This is just so barf-worthy.
11	* {{Padding}}: There's two sequences involving a skull-throwing witch that are ''exactly the same'', except the witch is a different color and the scene is flipped horizontally. And ''both'' are mandatory to beat the game.
12	* PolishedPort: The Platform/PhilipsCDi, [[Platform/ThreeDOInteractiveMultiplayer 3DO]] and Platform/PlayStation ports of the game have higher video qualities than the MS-DOS, Windows, Platform/AtariJaguar, and Platform/SegaSaturn ports, though the former first three each have two [=CDs=] instead of one; but only the UsefulNotes/{{iOS\|Games}} port, which does not require any [=CDs=], has a higher video resolution that surpasses all of the earlier versions. Also, the 3DO port has two versions of Disc 1: the original one, and "Version 1.1", which fixes a bug that would sometimes cause a crash in Vivi's Salon in the original release. The [=iOS=] port did the same in December 2010 by upgrading its version from 1.0 to 1.1, which added support for [=iOS=] 3.0 and 4.2 and fixed various bugs.
13	* PortingDisaster: The Jaguar port has a very low video resolution and blockier graphics than all the other ports of the game.
14	* {{Squick}}: Moose giving Lance a wedgie that ''splits him in half'' and ''rips out his spine and pelvis''.
15	%%** Several of the deaths.
16	* SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing: The Platform/SegaSaturn port of the game (at least in the European and Japanese releases) is given a highly selective dubbing, which retains all the NonDubbedGrunts from the original voice actors, even when it appears in the same clip that has the verbal voice acting. One example is the Japanese dub, which is pretty well done, even though it may contain bits of {{Woolseyism}}. Compare the original version of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MFzXoBzHZg the intro]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0LPEbjisWI Vivi's Funeral Salon]] to the Japanese dub of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adBpHQ8C7V4 the]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJOkOEzhdGg intro]] and of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4OyEw7-QLE Vivi's Funeral Salon]].
17	* ThatOneLevel:
18	** Moose's entire scenario. It starts when you enter Moose's room and, immediately on entering it, you notice a stone football [[DinnerDeformation getting thrown into your mouth]] if you don't avoid it. Once you get past that football, you have to dodge another football, along with Moose's grabs, shoulder charges, [[BatterUp baseball bat attacks]], being flung by a basketball net as a catapult, and the grab from below his head, all in the first quarter of this scenario (followed by a lot of DeadlyDodging of the lightning rods in the second quarter; finding a way to destroy Moose in the third quarter; and dodging Fritz as usual in the final quarter)! Failure to avoid any of these attacks in the first quarter of this scenario will send you all the way back to where you entered the room in the split-second that the same stone football is getting thrown into your mouth again!
19	** TheMaze (which has many of these ''literal'' [[{{Pun}} dead]] ends if you don't go in the right direction, accompanied by deadly {{mushroom\|Man}}s, {{s\|caledUp}}nakes, [[ImAHumanitarian man-eating]] frogs, spike traps and deadly vines); and the [[LivingStatue giant statue]] at the end of it, which can require a whole lot of situations where you can't just "press X to not die", but you LITERALLY have to make it more like a BIG "[[PressXToNotDie Mash the X Buttons a Whole Lot of Times to Not Fall or Get Doused in or Sprayed by Acid,]] [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice Impaled,]] [[SquashedFlat or Squashed Flat]]" situation.
20	* UnintentionalUncannyValley: Lance has FourFingeredHands, which wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't for the fact that his hands are ''very'' detailed, unlike other examples of this trope—his nails and phalanxes are drawn. The final result is unsettling to look at (especially the close-up on his hands at Vivi's salon).
21	* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids:
22	** It's a game where the protagonist gets to die in all sorts of graphically violent ways, which has made it extremely hard to understand why this was given a K-A rating [[note]](Kids to Adults, the mid-90's equivalent to the Everyone rating)[[/note]]. (Some could argue that the various death scenes are so cartoonish that they don't evoke too much fear, especially since Lance resurrects afterward, but it can still get pretty intense.)
23	** Vivi the {{vampires\|AreSexGods}}s and her... ''[[{{Pun}} titillating]]'' appearance, assets and MaleGaze... and one suggestive magazine in the FreezeFrameBonus that can be a bit much for children; how this game got a K-A rating in spite of ''all this'' is a mystery for the ages. What's even stranger is that Japan's game rating organization (pre-CERO) slapped each box of the game (exported from America) with an "all ages" (全年齢, ''zen nenrei'') rating on a green sticker, hoping that its audience of children would be less sensitive to mind-numbing bloodless violence and sexuality than America's children (due to cultural differences).

Context YMMV / BrainDead13