History YMMV / BlackAndWhite

* NightmareFuel: Every time a follower of yours dies, a thin, creepy voice whispers "deeath". This is made worse by the fact that if you have a common name like John, that voice will start to whisper YOUR NAME! Expect an OhCrap moment.

* ThatOneBoss
** Black & White Creature Isle brings us Naxo the Rhino, whose [[TrialByCombat trial requires your creature to defeat him in combat.]] Along with being able to heal himself to full several times, he's capable of using [[MindOverMatter telekenesis]] to strike your creature from a distance, as well as tossing rocks from outside the arena that deal massive amounts of damage should they collide with your creature.

*** Land five quest will require you to [[UrbanSegregation segragate men and women into different towns]].

** The lands in the sequel (except for the tutorial ones and the final one) all have one Quest that is extremely tedious, with the tribute reward being miniscule compared to the time and effort required to complete the quest.

*** Land three Quest is clicking on every Tutorial sign on the map. This will quicky devolve into a hunt for the [[LastLousyPoint last lousy signpost]].

*** The Quest in Land five will task you with [[OmnicidalManiac killing every living thing]]. That includes trees, all humans and all the animals. You'll have to purge the land completely, alignment notwhistanding.

*** Land three Quest is clicking on every Tutorial sign on the map. This will quicky devolve into a hunt for the [[LastLousyPoint last lousy signpost]]
*** Land four requires you to deforest the land. Meaning you have to remove every single tree on the map. However, the quest doesn't specify that the trees have to be completely destroyed. Uprooting them and throwing them into sea won't work, and will actually make completing the quest impossible, [[GuideDangIt since the sea counts as part of the map and you can't destroy the trees at the bottom of the sea.]]

** The lands in the sequel (except for the first one and the final one) all have one Quest that is extremely tedious, with the tribute reward being miniscule compared to the time and effort required to complete the quest.

*** Land five quest will require you to[[UrbanSegregation segragate men and women into different towns]].

* ThatOneSidequest: "The Shaolin" is a StealthBasedMission... for a deity who manifests as a gigantic SparkFairy. The low margin of error to tail the titular HermitGuru undetected, combined with [[FakeDifficulty cumbersome camera controls]], all but guarantee many, many failed attempts.

** All of the Japanese levels in the sequel. The first level has next to no ore, the Japanese will quickly get very aggressive with a large army, and if you take long enough, they will use a siren wonder. If you think the Creature is gonna help, forget it. Unless you have maxed out the Creature's Soldier tree, and given him a lot of miracles, especially heal, well your creature will repeatedly fall. The second level has you under endless attack and one achievement mandates only attacking at night, and the Japanese creature can easily beat yours. The final level has the Japanese attack you non stop, and they will make use of their wonder.

* CompleteMonster: [[TheCaligula The Aztec leader]] in the second game is a brutal [[TheConqueror conqueror]] who has already brought most of the world under his rule. With the Greeks left as the only opposition against him, he orders their [[FinalSolution genocide]], unleashing his armies to slaughter their citizens and having his creature summon two volcanoes to destroy their cities. Once the Greeks [[BackFromTheBrink return from the brink]], the Aztec leader draws up new plans to exterminate them again, summoning another volcano to decimate the Greek city when they reach the Aztec homeland.

* AnnoyingVideoGameHelper: The Guides are sometimes very intrusive in the "help" they provide, particularly when they [[CameraAbuse bash themselves against the screen]] or natter on at length about obvious topics.

** In both the first and the second game, abusing terrain and the zoom feature at specific places lets you throw anything (rock, person, fireball..) a few thousand miles into the sea.

* FridgeHorror: The Gods' Playground has a very tiny village consisting of three girls, two boys and two men. If you play there for long enough, you'll eventually have a decent-sized population... [[IncestIsRelative who will all be closely related to each other.]][[note]] Not all that bad, really, since that has happened many times in RealLife (all humans are descended from one woman (the Mitochondrial Eve) and one man (the Chromosomal Adam) who lived millennia apart, so there are at least two, "unrelated" cases of one person being the direct ancestor of the entire species.)[[/note]]

* FridgeBrilliance: Almost always when you get formal control of the game after all of the tutorials, it might seem odd that you almost always are seen as evil because the town center has a flame. This is because however, an awful lot of mandated actions result in evil, such as you crushing archers with barrels or using flaming bales of hay. As a result, an awful

* EarWorm: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0x4Kw_y4fg The sailor song]]. Also "''Deeeeaaaath...''"

* MostAnnoyingSound:
** For pity's sake, villagers, we know you need more resources. we'll get to it in a second, so ''SHUT UP!'' It's exacerbated by the fact the AI makes it nigh-impossible to keep their needs balanced: if you satisfy their need for food, they start wanting to have babies, which means they need more houses, and then they need more food, which makes you want to fireball them, which makes them beg for mercy...
** The ''Deeeeeaaaath...'' whisper when a villager dies, which is quite frequent if you're evil or otherwise bad at keeping them alive.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR9NnGcB094 sailor song]]. The interminable, unskippable, thrice-repeated sailor song. Any Good god who weathers those ''Eidle-eidle-eeee''s without flinging the sailors into the ocean has earned its halo.
** The Guides have a few helpful pointers that they're prone to repeating ''ad nauseam'', whether or not they happen to be blindingly obvious. Particularly bad when paired with a ButThouMust
--->''"No, let's try rotating first."''

** For pity's sake, villagers, we know you need more resources. we'll get to it in a second, so ''SHUT UP!'' It's exacerbated by the fact the AI makes it nigh-impossible to keep their needs balanced: if you satisfy their need for food, they start wanting to have babies, which means they need more houses, which makes you want to fireball them, which makes them beg for mercy...

** For pity's sake, villagers, we know you need more resources. we'll get to it in a second, so ''SHUT UP!''
** And also 'Deeeeeaaaath...' if you're evil or suck at keeping your villagers alive.
** "We need more offspring" and "We need more buildings" are the two worst ones. Why? Because those jerks ''are never satisfied''! No matter how much they breed or how big your village gets, they will continue to whine.
*** People who have played the game for a long time will notice that satisfying some desires just makes other desires more prominent. "Well, we've got all of this food, but there's no way we could eat it all, and it seems such a waste. Hey, I know, let's ask god for babies." and then "We have so many babies, we need homes for them, let's ask god!" and THEN "We have all of these homes, but no wood left. Hey, God!" [[OverlyLongGag AND THEN]] "We've got all of this wood. But our storehouses look really unbalanced now. Hey Go-" and then you [[KillEmAll burn down the entire village.]]
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR9NnGcB094 sailor song]]. The interminable, unskippable, thrice-repeated sailor song. Any good god who weathers those ''Eidle-eidle-eeee''s without flinging the sailors into the ocean has earned its halo.