* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Pretty much the whole soundtrack. It's an unusual mix of jazz, pop and elevator music. And it's every bit as awesome as it sounds.
* DemonicSpiders:
** If you attempt to face a Bear as a Racing Fox, you won't last long. The Racing Dog can subvert this since it can fire missiles from a safe distance as Bears are slow and don't have much range.
** Attempting to face a group of Scorpions is going to endly very badly for you, especially if you're playing as anything less powerful than a Camel Tank. Even a lone one can still be dangerous.
** Polar Bear Tanks if you are the wrong animal.
* NintendoHard: All levels have to be completed in one life and there are no checkpoints whatsoever. This isn't too bad on earlier levels, but really starts grind as they get longer and ''longer.''
* ObviousBeta: A lot of the animals are unbalanced, there are plenty of glitches including one that prevents you from getting 100%, and there is only one major cutscene which is the intro. [[spoiler:The game tries to justify this by Dan selling the ending to get a new ship]].
* PortingDisaster: The [[Platform/PlayStation PS1]] port, ''Evo's Space Adventure'', with worse graphics, shoddy analogue programming that causes every character to move very slowly, whole levels cut out, and just generally poor design. The original team had nothing to do with it too.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq-o5mC9cnA The music played during Punch-Up Pyramid]] is a blatant copyright-friendly offshoot of the opening segment of "[[Music/{{Survivor|Band}} Eye of the Tiger]]".
* ThatOneBoss: Though not really a boss, there's only one Hippo in the whole game and it's much stronger than the wimpy Hyena you'll likely be playing as, so the strategy will be very much as if you were facing a boss nonetheless. It is possible to proceed without killing it however.
* TheScrappy: Dan is an annoying and condescending jerk who is rarely pleased with your hard work and ends up trying to take all the credit for saving the world. May have been on purpose as a Nintendo Power article has some in-universe reports with the first one calling Dan expendable and wildly unpopular.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: You never get to use the Hippo in combat despite its amazing destructive capabilities.
* ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs: This is the bastard love child of Franchise/{{Pokemon}} and Franchise/SuperMarioBros on LSD.