YMMV / Total Distortion

• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The guitar battle system in this game is vaguely similar to Guitar Hero.
  • Mr. Red's hairstyle and strange facial expressions bear an uncanny resemblance to the G-Man. You can even call him as such in-game!
• Just Here for Godzilla: Many players have admitted to playing the game just for the infamous "You are dead" song.
• Memetic Mutation: "You are dead, dead, dead!"^Explanation On the Game Over screen, you're treated to a hilarious song mocking your death. The song became much more famous than the game it came from, and is perfect to use for any kind of embarrassing death.
• Padding:
  • The amount of backtracking warranted a song! It doesn't help that every single puzzle resets itself as soon as you leave its room, including the Video Halls that require two canteens and a video chip to disarm each time you want to run through them.
  • Buying Food Goo and Fuel Rods, one at a time. Thankfully, the animations for buying them can be skipped, but it's still a lot of clicking. Worse is actually loading up those items into your Personal Media Tower's appliances, which can also be done only one at a time (although you get 10 units of food or fuel for each item you load in) and has an unskippable animation.
• That One Puzzle: Many mini-games are CPU-sensitive, but the worst offender has to be the Hacking Minigame for a satanic Macintosh in Hell's Garage. The objective is to coax an eyeball to fly off a ramp using a torch, at just the right amount for the ball to drop onto a lever that raises a key-shaped pillar to a lock, and you have to do this five times in succession while maintaining enough fuel for your torch while doing so. To top it all off, when you managed to download one of two video chip images from the Mac, or failed to put a blank chip in at the start, you have to play this minigame again before you can get back to the desktop.
• Signature Song: The infamous game over music is the only thing most people know about this game.
• Watch It for the Meme: The death song is much more known than the game itself. Even Joe Sparks was impressed by this.

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