YMMV / Emogame

• Anvilicious: Three guesses as to what The Anti-Bush Game is about. The game even contains several Author Filibusters where the action stops to explain why Bush and his policies suck.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Pretty much the foundation of half the games' humor.
  • Steven Tyler raping a bunch of emo kids? Gross. Steven Tyler getting skull-fucked to death by Chris Carrabba in retaliation? Bloody Hilarious. Chris Carrabba marrying Steven Tyler's severed head, which still has his dick running through it? Yeah, that belongs under this category. And that's just the first game. In the second, you fight Steven's possessed severed head, and one of his attacks is to pour the cum that is still resting in his gouged-out eye socket onto your head.
  • Before you face them, Scott Stapp admits that Creed was formed from the shit of Eddie Vedder. Then he elaborates that he and his bandmates have held onto that shit and used it to make an attack helicopter. The player character even has a Who Writes This Crap?! reaction to this revelation.
  • Four words: Mandy Moore finger bang.
  • About half the options available to you in the first game's MTV News segment. Among other things, you can shoot Tabitha Soren, eat Tom Green's cancer-ridden testicle, and have sex with Matt Pinfield.
  • Fred Durst raping a donkey. And in the sequel, he does it with Puddle of Mudd to form a man-train.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The first game's villain Steven Tyler is depicted as a depraved rapist. In 2022, Tyler was sued by Julia Misley, who claimed that he groomed and sexually assaulted her in The '70s when she was underage, coerced her into getting an abortion, and convinced her mother to sign over guardianship rights to him.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The plot of the first game involves protecting the world of emo from the forces of commercialism. Emo went on to become one of the defining trends in rock music for much of the Turn of the Millennium, such that the third game was apparently going to make the growing mainstream popularity of emo a major part of the plot.
  • The Anti-Bush Game features then-North Carolina Senator (and John Kerry's 2004 running mate) John Edwards as a playable character, portraying him as a populist crusader for economic justice. Four years later, Edwards was revealed to have been carrying on an extramarital affair that ultimately produced a baby, destroying his career and his marriage.
• Unintentional Period Piece:
  • Playing these games is like stepping back in time to 2002-04, what with all the pop culture references, '80s kid show nostalgia, emo treading the line between "underground" and "mainstream", Mandy Moore being an underage Teen Idol (she has since had a Career Resurrection as an actress and singer with an image far removed from her early days), and MTV still, at the very least, basing its reputation around music videos.
  • The Anti-Bush Game, as its name suggests, is a political agitprop piece that's firmly dated to 2004 by its references to the impending Presidential election and endorsement of John Kerry in that election, as well as controversies and issues from the early '00s like the war in Iraq, Bush's tax cuts, Janet Jackson's Wardrobe Malfunction, stem cell research, the Enron scandal, health care reform, same-sex marriage, and the power of the Christian Right. Notably, it doesn't contain any reference to controversies from Bush's second term in office, such as Hurricane Katrina, the housing bubble, or the onset of the Great Recession, due to the fact that none of these had happened yet. The fact that John Edwards, Kerry's running mate in 2004, appears in the game as a populist crusader for economic justice also rings Hilarious in Hindsight given how Edwards' career imploded in a sex scandal a few years later.
  • The fact that the third game had become one of these to the mid-'00s, before it had been released and after that period of time had passed, ultimately led Jason Oda to cancel it.

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