YMMV / Grezzo 2

• Annoying Video Game Helper: Emilio Fede. He's actually very powerful, but that's why ending up in his line of fire means either dying or losing half of your health. He always attempts to shoot straight at his targets, no matter if there's an unlucky player in-between.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The memorial dedicated to Osvaldo Paniccia in the level "Un magico Natale". It's perhaps the only moment in the game meant to be (somewhat) more serious.
• Broken Base: While Grezzo 2 was in general met with acclaim within the Italian internet culture, and attracted a discrete non-Italian fanbase, the game's reception was much more divisive within the Doom community. Part of it, much like the rest of Grezzo 2 fanbase, appreciated the game's over-the-top style; others completely loathed it due to being technically a disaster (the game's very lagging and purposely made full of bugs), found the game's "comedy" to be downright childish and unfunny and, most importantly, they were angered by the author ripping off resources from copyright-protected videogames or from fan creations, often without properly giving credit until he was requested to do so. Especially in the ZDoom Forum Grezzo 2 is considered an oddball of the modding community and, with very few exception, no member has anything good to say about it.
• Catharsis Factor: Players with a perverse sense of humor could find extremely relieving massacring the representatives of the Church (including God himself), their most hated Italian celebrities, or simply anyone standing in their way.
• Common Knowledge: Several articles about Grezzo 2 (including the one on Wikipedia) refer to the main character as "Piro": that's actually the author's surname, used by default in the "Player Setup" options; it's never stated in-game what the main character's actual name is. In a post on facebook where Piro mentioned the possibility of introducing more playable characters (which ultimately weren't added) he refers to the main character exactly as "Grezzo2", although he never reused that name again.
• Crosses the Line Twice: The game's gruesome humor is so exaggeratedly inappropriate, gratutious and over-the-top, at some point it's very hard to take seriously offense from it. Experienced simply get used to it and stop laughing maniacally.
• Demonic Spiders: Overall, since the vast majority of foes follow the "quantity over quality" logic, and given the massive firepower the player can potentially acquire, there aren't many foes that can be considered individually strong. Still, there are few exceptions:
  • The old men wearing diapers and attacking with beer bottles. For a relatively low-tier enemy, they are discretely powerful and very resilient. And once they're killed, they release a small but deadly fart that lasts for several seconds. The only things they drop are a heart (worth 2 health points) and the Beer.
  • The flying heads of Padre Pio are a minor example. Despite their significant firepower, they're not much more resistent than normal enemies. A couple of rockets or a few bursts are enough to take care of them.
  • Paolo Brosio. Damn him. Both resilient and powerful as hell. Luckly, he leaves a 300 points health pack when he's killed.
  • Archangels. Usually they're just an annoying flying version of armed priests, slightly more resistent. The kicker? They have the nasty habit of randomly activating a reflecting armour (represented by blue sparkles) that lasts a good minute. They're completely invulnerable in this state and if you throw at them rockets or laser projectiles, they bounce back at you. The only thing you can do is run around and dodge their attacks, until their barrier fades away.
• Fan Nickname: The "Italian Postal", especially by non-Italians.
• Game-Breaker: The Bazooka added in Viaggio a Merdjugorje but removed in the final version. It could instakill every single enemy, including Christ Child, the Final Boss.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Despite having a huge fandom in Italy, Grezzo 2 is extremely loved into overseas. Especially in Latin countries like Brazil.
• Goddamned Bats: As stated above, the majority of the enemies could fit the category, being individually weak and owing their strength to their massive numbers. There are some, however, a lot more nasty than others:
  • Those goddamned old people. They're very weak and easy to kill singularly, but en masse (as they're usually spawned) easily turn into a bane for the player.
  • Pigs, rabbits and pigeons also fit the role, the latter especially being the most hateful, while rabbits are so weak they explode in a pool of blood and gibs with a single kick.
• Good Bad Bugs:
  • Some weapons don't consume any ammo at all. This had been acknowledged by author, who admitted he didn't care about correcting it.
  • The "Spadaningia"^note "Ninja sword" deliberately misspelled and the "La robba de quand erme contadini" ^note "The staff of when we used to be peasants" in Perugian dialect, it consists of axe and shield feature parrying and blocking as secondary attack, respectively, which make the player invulnerable. If the player switches weapon while the Secondary Fire button is still pressed, the invulnerability remains; it goes away only when the player switches back to those weapons.
  • The Bong is supposed to boost the main character's speed and allow him to make enormous jumps for 60 seconds. While the jump bonus effectively expires, the speed boost doesn't; it simply stacks for the rest of the game.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • This crosses into Harsher in Hindsight, depending on taste. The author joked about how bad things happened for real to people after they were added to the game. Pope Benedict XVI resigned, Italian singer Vasco Rossi (appearing in game as a special boss) was hospitalised, Giulio Andreotti (present in game as an enemy armed with a Super Wheelchair), Italian former prime minister, died, and Marco Nero (a porn actor whose voice was used to dub the flying heads of Padre Pio) was arrested for fraud.
  • The fact that you fight against Jesus and The Father Himself in this game is hilariously prescient given that in Doom Eternal The Ancient Gods Part 2, the Final Boss to end all final bosses is revealed to be God himself.
• Misaimed Fandom: Technically the entire non-Italian fanbase is this, since the game's humor is almost entirely based around Italian pop and internet culture. It didn't stop the game from receiving a noticeable non-Italian base, much to the creator's surprise, who eventually released an English version with translated text.
• Shock Fatigue: The largest criticism by detractors. Gorn and Ludicrous Gibs are nothing new to the Doom modding community, but Grezzo 2 takes it to a ludicrous level and adds to it Toilet Humor, sexual jokes and Stylistic Suck. Even for non-Moral Guardians it can be way too much to stomach.
• So Okay, It's Average: For some who get used to the massive amount of "Holy Shit!" Quotient, or weren't really interested in that to begin with. Sure, the game's main selling point is its Black Comedy and how many times it crosses the line, but from a gameplay point of view it's nothing more than another Ultra Super Death Gore Fest Chainsawer 3000 addition to the Doom modding galaxy.
• Values Dissonance: Because of the constant humourous references to the Italian culture pop, many non-Italians (especially the American ones) tend to view Grezzo 2 as an incomprehensible, offensive mind-fuck game with likewise humour and so-called plot. Word of God pointed out that it was specifically made for Italians.

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