YMMV / Judgement Silversword

• Awesome Music: The demakes of "Survive" from Eschatos in the Steam, Switch, and PS4 rereleases that takes the place of the second and third stage themes in Silversword, which "Survive" itself is a remix of. Unlike the other tracks, they each last a good minute and a half before looping and are suitably dramatic for how late in the game they are. Sadly no official release of these tracks or YouTube rips of them exist.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Complete Cardinal Sins and defeat the True Final Boss and you get an ending crawl that is not only in surprisingly fluent English^note note that just before said final boss, the stage is heralded with the words "PULUTO — START" and the boss with the word "Apocarypse" but tells about a Biblical-sounding doomsday scenario that, other than the first seven stages being named after the Seven Deadly Sins, doesn't seem to have to do with anything else in the game. The crawl ends by telling of a forthcoming "final judgement" and ultimate battle, and the words "To Be Continued", but the game's Spiritual Successor Eschatos does not seem to take place in the same universe.
• Narm Charm:
  • It's hard not to crack a grin when the game turns an existing 1-Up on the screen into your next life if you get killed with no lives left. Sure, you get a message in Engrish — "NICE RECOVER!" — but the game still saved you from a heartbreaking Game Over.
  • "WARNING - HERE COMES THE JUDGE!" Twice as hilarious if you're familiar with the classic variety show Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (Is he gonna SOCK IT TO ME?).
• That One Boss:
  • Mirror Shield REH has a lot of health, has some very vicious patterns, and to make matters worse, when it seems like you've killed it, it goes into a second form that shoots out three-bullet spreads and gets faster the more you wear it down. Things go From Bad to Worse in Area 26, when you have to confront Mirror Shield RAH and ROH, who have the same attacks and are fought at the same time!
  • The boss of the aptly-named Wrath/Saturn stage in Cardinal Sins; it's a ghost of Magnificence with ever-increasing rank that can only be tamed by shooting at a mirror hovering around it, which also cancels bullets. The objective, as stated in-game: "Don't die." You're ranked based on how many times you die, with the S rank only being obtainable by not dying at all. Its most vicious attack is its green homing laser attack, which is nearly impossible to avoid if the rank is high up. Many an overall rank has been dropped below S-, the required rank to face all four forms of the Mirror of Cardinal Sins, solely because the player died too many times on Wrath.