YMMV / Gunpoint

• Anti-Climax Boss: Gessler, once you deal with his little door surprise, goes down just like a basic guard since he's an out of shape CEO with no real fighting experience. Doesn't stop it from being satisfying to cave his smug face in, though, and the game offers eight fun ways to kill or otherwise defeat Gessler.
• Awesome Music: A variety of electro-jazz tunes perfect for a Film Noir heist action-comedy video game. For your enjoyment, "The Five-Floor Goodbye" (the game's main theme, also used on the trailers).
  • Possibly only topped by the music for the final level, appropriately called "Leviathan", a hauntingly horrifying track that reuses some elements from other songs to wrap things up with a bow, making it clear that this is the final mission, while also making it clear that it will not be easy to take down Gessler.
• Crosses the Line Twice: There's an achievement that can be unlocked by punching a guard 100 times. The amount of punches required to kill a guard is ten.
• Demonic Spiders: Professionals, particularly when aiming for a Gentleman ranking or otherwise minimizing violence. Professionals have night vision, are incredibly quick to react, and aren't intimidated by the Resolver. While they can be pounced on and knocked out, doing so risks invalidating certain clauses of missions and lowering the overall rating.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: One of the achievements from the game (which came out in 2013) is called Let It Go.
• It's Short, So It Sucks!: A common complaint with this game, as the story missions can beaten in around 3 hours. The level editor helped mitigate that a bit.
• Scrappy Mechanic: Batteries and bullets don't replenish between missions. While the former can be mitigated via battery pick-ups, bullets can never be replenished, no matrer what. This is problematic for replaying the final level, as one of the eight rewarded ways to deal with Gessler is shooting him.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Mark Jackson, the husband of Melanie Rooke. Near the end of the game, you're given what's supposed to be a Sadistic Choice; Melanie Rooke knows who killed Selena Delgado - Hightower, the person who left Conway to deal with the police - and she wants you to get the evidence that Gessler, Intex's CEO and that killer's employer, is dirty, and edit it slightly so that Mark Jackson also takes the fall, before telling you about where you can find Hightower. Mark Jackson protests this plan (for obvious reasons) and cites the fact that he's an innocent man getting caught up in a power play between two ruthless corporate leaders. There's a few problems with this, though. First of all, Selena was murdered because Jackson was cheating on his wife with her and taking bribes from Gessler to spy on Rooke. Selena got caught in the crossfire because Gessler figured out Jackson was going to take the bribe money and jump the country with Selena; thus, by killing Selena, Jackson is basically stuck. Jackson is in no way innocent, conducting corporate espionage and adultery. Not only that, Jackson set up Katie as the fall girl for all this, and this led to Katie getting incarcerated before she ultimately killed herself. Even Rooke points this out when the choice has to be made. The second problem is that Rooke really isn't a terrible person. This one scenario is the only point where she holds information above Conway's head and forces him to work for her lest she keep it secret, and that's only because her ass is in the fire due to Jackson potentially getting away with her money. Every other time you speak with her, she's shown to be a good employer who cares about her workers. She's heartbroken by the suicide of Katie, and despite the fact Selena was sleeping with her husband, she still shows remorse in regards to Selena's death. You're introduced to her when she deliberately helps Conway erase any footage that would get him implicated in a murder he did not commit. Contrast Jackson, who keeps secrets, openly threatened Katie's life, and acts like this has nothing to do with him despite the fact he started this whole mess taking bribes. It's pretty easy to take Rooke's side on this one.

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