YMMV / Eastward

• Aluminum Christmas Trees: It may seem odd that the currency of the game is salt, but this has historical precedent as ancient Roman soldiers were sometimes paid in salt. In fact, this is where we get the word salary.
• Player Punch: The entirety of Chapter 2. You've ended up in a nice forest with a simple but friendly village, and feel very welcome after being banished from your previous home. Then you have to go after a creature that's been disrupting the farm, which seems simple enough, but in doing so, you end up reactivating an old factory that decides the village isn't sufficient enough and brings the MIASMA to destroy it, killing everyone who didn't get away in time.
• That One Achievement: The "Pixball Master" is which isn't difficult but a real hassle to get since you must get every pixball creature and its variants which means getting even the rarest of them at very least twice if you're incredibly lucky. You'll basically need to farm salt in Chapter 7 to buy tokens as you'd need enough luck to win the lotto several times over by getting everything with only the tokens the game gives to you through chests. One last catch? You have to beat the Earth Born mini-game at least once to get every single pixball monster available— not that the game makes any effort to tell you that.
• That One Boss: Solomon's second fight, the Monkollywood Train, is one of the tougher ones. At first he'll just occasionally shoot bombs at you while standing still, but on his second phase he'll start spawning enemies and throwing more bombs while running on his train... The fight's difficulty escalates pretty quickly and requires careful moving and patience to beat without taking a ton of damage.