YMMV / Hello Puppets!

• Complete Monster: Mortimer Handee was the puppet host of Mortimer's Handeemen who was brought to life by voodoo magic, and decided to plot to Take Over the World and turn humans into puppet hosts. Killing his creator and most of the staff, Mortimer has the studio converted into his lair, luring in numerous people to kill and use as hosts, sometimes letting the psychopathic Riley Ruckus operate on them, even allowing fellow puppets to be experimented on by her. Having personally put the innocent puppet Scout on the protagonist, Mortimer confronts them personally during their escape attempt, challenging Scout to one last game of cat and mouse to further torment the player, and has his mutant dog Rosco attempt to kill them, his polite facade disappearing rapidly as they escape, threatening to kill Riley and then the protagonist himself.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In one of the posters, Mortimer can be seen gifting a young girl her very own puppet; just like he does to the player.
• It's Short, So It Sucks!: The game can be beaten in under two hours, even for first-timers.
• Special Effect Failure: During the ending, after Scout dies, the stitches holding her to the player's hand just disappear. Some clipping issues also arise from this due to their hand no longer being locked to the closed fist position.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Two perfectly good characters in fact. Nick Nack and Daisy Danger make no major appearances in the game despite being shown extensively as part of the main cast, with the former only appearing in a brief scene and the latter not appearing at all. Sadly, this was because the money ran out before they could be properly implemented and ultimately the decision was made to simply leave them out rather then attempting to include them as they were. Slightly lessened with the announcement of Hello Puppets: Midnight Show, which rescues Nick Nack from this trope by prominently featuring him as an antagonist. Daisy also features prominently in Midnight Show.
• Ugly Cute: Scout, while looking a little strange, still looks like she could fit on the cast of a puppet show.