YMMV / Space Quest VI: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier

• Contested Sequel: While it's usually agreed to be a step down from Space Quest V: The Next Mutation, most conversation instead focuses on whether the game IS good or not. The former while cite the return to form with Roger being a janitor again, the humor being closer to earlier games than V, as well as a decent selection of puzzles and visuals. The latter dislike that game hits the Reset Button on Roger's captaincy and jettisons his crew completely, as it was considered a high point of the previous game. Some find the humor in this game off, the visuals to be a rather ugly mess of 2D and 3D especially by the end. The game's overall unpolished feel due to the Troubled Production, which has led VI to have some of the most obtuse puzzles in the series. Needless to say, VI is a pretty divisive game.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Some fans chose to ignore this and V, due to it not being worked on by both Guys from Andromeda.
  • People who love V will view that as the true end of the series and ignore VI, due to the previously mentioned quality issues and the Sequel Reset bumping Roger back to square one after the last game ended on a high note.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The narrator makes several snarky comments about the viability of another Space Quest game. Yeah, about that... Not helped by the DeepShip's computer bidding the audience goodbye...several times in succession.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Stooge Fighter III is a parody of Street Fighter II. The actual Street Fighter III would show up two years after this game's release.
• Squick: How does Roger escape Stellar's body? Why, no other than by flashing his ship's headlight through a large zit on her nose, which then gets popped so that Roger shoots out in a dollop of pus.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The awkward relationship between Roger and Stellar is constantly a plot point, as Roger can't accept a date with her because he must marry Beatrice as foretold in IV, else he will cease to exist due to a time paradox. Even the narrator makes fun of it. It would be perfect if Beatrice herself shows up to take the situation to a more hilarious direction... but she doesn't.

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