Pawapoke Dash / YMMV

Awesome Music:
- "First Semester" is a very hopeful and catchy Outer Success main theme to start the story with.
- "Save the Father!!" plays towards the end and is much more serious, reflecting the protagonist's determination to restore his dad's human form.
- The first match theme, "It's a Confrontation!", gives the static Card Baseball interface some much-needed energy. There's also a 8-bit version that plays in multiplayer and a remix in Pawapoke 10 that was used until 12.
- The second match theme, "I Can't Afford to Lose!" sets a RPG final boss mood for the climax of Ball Father. It was likewise remixed for Pawapoke 10-12. Also listen to this eurobeat and stadium fanfarre remixes.
Demonic Spiders: Regarding Hell Dungeon:
- Any enemy that can fire projectiles. Sometimes you end up taking a hit when they haven't even appeared on the screen.
- One enemy type teleports in the same room as you in groups to perform ambushes.
Good Bad Bugs: If you set the Sound Test to track 49 and press R, it will break and display dummy entries beyond track 58.
Heartwarming Moments:
- Hero Dash's family reunion in the end of Hell Dungeon.
- Ball Father coming back to life and greeting Hero Dash in the main story's true ending.
Player Punch:
- Wanko's bad epilogue is her in dog form lying dead inside a pipe at the empty lot, after she bid farewell to her classmates pretending she would just move to another school. Her good ending has her reveal her past as a dog killed in a traffic accident, and how the goal set by the Baseball God after temporarily reviving her in hybrid form was impossible. She at least drops her bark Verbal Tic like she did become a real girl and vanishes completely to later appear happily watching the protagonist from heaven in the epilogue.
- If the protagonist fails to help Rurika, she and her mother are taken away by a debt collector to a distant island. The epilogue shows the protagonist reading a letter from her with an oddly distressed look on his face... While it may seem like they're living in peace, on a close look the first column of characters in the letter makes up a hidden S.O.S. message. Japanese articles and interviews regarding the release of Power Pro-kun Pocket R in 2021 often mentioned this as the game's Signature Scene due to its shock value.
That One Side Quest:
- To date Momoko you must simply visit her on the same week of each month, but if you forget it even once her route is failed. This can easily happen while keeping track of all the other things in both gameplay and story, especially if one suspends the game to come back later.
- The most annoying Game Over screen to unlock in the gallery is the one from failing Hell Dungeon by letting the turn limit run out. You have to walk back and forth between the first two floors over and over while recharging the fullness meter for a whole hour, and on top of that the resulting game over illustration is just the same as the other one (with different text).
What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: It's an all ages rated game about elementary school students and aspects like the Card Baseball system and even it having "Dash" for a title instead of a number are said to have been to make it more appealing to children. However, it features a melancholy Coming of Age Story and half of the love interest's stories end on a bittersweet or even sour note regardless of the player's actions. The series' Surprisingly Creepy Moment elements remain present as well, and some lewd commentary from Ball Father was actually censored in the emulated version released as a pre-order bonus for Pawapoke R on the Nintendo Switch.

YMMV / Pawapoke Dash

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