YMMV / Bad Day L.A.

• Bile Fascination: The game is only known due to its mostly negative critical reception, mostly getting scores below 3 out of 10, and especially after being shitted on by Civvie 11.
• Designated Hero: Anthony is whiny, pretentious, and frequently shows a disregard for other people. The game is supposed to be about him becoming a better person through adversity, but it happens so slowly that the player is unlikely to care.
• Ethnic Scrappy: Many of the characters are one-note racial stereotypes who only exist to make jokes about their nationality and/or race and nothing else.
• Special Effects Failure: The game looks absolutely cheap and outdated, even by budget game standards. Not only that much more visually impressive and technically advanced games like Doom³ and Half-Life 2 came out two-years prior, but the first Gears of War would come out two months before this game came out. The game sound-design is also very piss-poor, with poor audio mixing, crappy and wimpy sound effects, and heaving usage of stock-sounding music.
• Spiritual Licensee: Civvie 11 described it as feeling like a video game adaptation of a Seltzer and Friedberg film, thanks to its reliance on Vulgar Humor, ethnic stereotypes, and jokes that are obviously a product of the time the game was produced.
• The Scrappy: Anthony. Not only is he a complete self-centered Jerkass who only cares about himself, but he is also an obnoxious, poorly-written pastiche of Dave Chappelle with a grating, high-pitched voice who frequently spouts-out an barrage of unfunny one-liners.
• Uncertain Audience: One of the biggest criticisms of the game. The game is far too violent and inappropriate for younger gamers but far too stupid and juvenile for anyone over 17.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The protagonist is an expy of Dave Chappelle, other supporting characters are parodies of Paris Hilton and George W. Bush, the Wanted Meter is based on the color-coded (and oft-mocked) Homeland Security Advisory System instituted after 9/11 and quietly replaced during the Obama administration, and much of the humor is based on the fears and political controversies of the mid-2000s, including terrorism, Latin American immigration, and same-sex marriage.

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