History YMMV / Omori

* TheInverseLawOfFandomLevity: This is a cleverly disguised and surprisingly sad and depressing game which grapples with heavy topics like loss, grief, self-harm, etc. Despite this, fans are constantly making out-there shitposts like Kel being [[TrademarkFavoriteFood obsessed with burgers]].

* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: After six years in development, the struggle to move the game from RPG Maker VX to MV, the cancellation of the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS version, and the lack of communication between developers and backers, many expected the game to be another Kickstarter failure that didn't deliver what it was promised. Thankfully this wasn't the case: the game came out on Christmas Day 2020, and it got a lot of positive reception from backers and players alike.
* AwardSnub: Despite being one of the most acclaimed [=RPGs=] of its likeness, and coming out late enough in 2020 to be eligible, the game won none of the UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Game of the Year 2021 awards.

** The AwfulTruth of what caused the friend group to split up. [[spoiler:As you gather the photos detailing how exactly Mari died, you learn that she didn't kill herself; ''Sunny'' did. Even though Sunny is only a PlayerCharacter, and her death is a backstory event with no playable component, it will feel as if ''you'' personally killed her years ago, as if ''you'' have been suppressing memories up until now. Especially if you named Sunny after yourself.]]

** Also in the junkyard, Hero summons a hamster named Ems to eat a wheel of cheese blocking the gang's path, before departing and saying she'll be [[ChekhovsGun there when they need her]]...[[BaitAndSwitch which never shows up or gets referenced again]]. She DOES show up in one of the sandwich club rooms later in the game, but she doesn't do anything for you.
** While in Sweetheart's Castle, you'll come across a weird sous chef Mole who asks you for... [[LethalChef bizarre ingredients.]] What happens when you finish it? Cue the game and sous chef glitching out before everything snaps back and the chef is replaced.
** In Orange Oasis, you can teleport to a side area called Rain Town by examining a sparkly tile of lake water. There's only one thing you can do here, and that's to turn the rain valve to the right to ease up the rain and complete a SurprisinglyEasyMiniQuest. [[spoiler:Turn it to the ''left'' and the cute little critters here turn into creepy little Somethings as the rain turns into a stormy night, flooding Rain Town and locking you out of the area permanently(if you are on the main route; you can go back to it when Headspace is reset in the Hikkikomori Route.]] Regardless of your actions here, they have no real bearing on the plot.

** Some players view [[spoiler:Dream Basil's watermelon death in Black Space as this. For context, you first encounter Basil in Black Space tending to watermelons. To escape this room, Omori has to open watermelons and find the key inside one of them. After doing this six times, Basil crumples like the watermelons into sliced bits. Only then does the seventh watermelon reveal the key. [[https://youtu.be/p1PLY_In5uI?t=202 Video evidence reveals several players laughing from the sheer randomness]]]].

*** Firstly, he is widely believed to be autistic. Even before [[spoiler:Mari’s death]], he likely had trouble reading social cues (When Aubrey flirts with Omori, the latter doesn't really understand, but just gives a thumbs up anyway), was rather quiet ([[spoiler:Basil speaks for Sunny in the rain section of the Memory Lane]]) and inexpressive, despite feeling emotions deeply (the game’s files for Basil’s photos of Faraway town reveal his dread of Mari leaving him to go to college, and of course his inability to express his anger led to [[spoiler:the impulsive acts that caused her death]]), isn't too comfortable with others initiating physical touch (he seems rather surprised and confused at [[spoiler:the current friends' group hug once Aubrey starts to cry]]), and possibly stimmed with the help of his old plushie collection.

** Rococo, the alien artist. A minor character who had the unfortunate pleasure of dating [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Sweetheart]] for the sake of [[LastOfHisKind repopulating his destroyed world]], only to get dumped and banished into the walls of her castle. [[TheWoobie His tragic backstory]] and [[SugarWiki/AwesomeArt impressive artwork]] makes him memorable to say the least.

** What happens after [[spoiler:Sunny proceeding to tell his friends what happened to Mari]] is a popular concept to tackle. [[spoiler:Hero is the most prominent example of this, with different interpretations of his reaction including him forgiving Sunny, him not forgiving Sunny, him being angry at Sunny but forgiving him over time, him lashing out at Sunny, etc.]]

** There's also a respectable overlap with fans of ''VideoGame/{{LISA}}'', due to shared themes and sharing the distinction of being successful big name commercial RPG Maker games. The two tend to get grouped together with other games as "''VideoGame/{{EarthBound|1994}}''-inspired games about depression."

* GameBreaker: The Kel nuke strat: equip Kel with the Chicken Ball, make him Ecstatic, give him enough Coffee, proceed to use Run'n'Gun, and you'll see yourself dealing thousands of damage to the point of OneHitKill pretty much [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill everything.]] [[spoiler:The console-exclusive boss rush bonus round, where you face Aubrey, Kel, and Hero, will use the same combo on ''you'' to obliterate either Basil, your only other party member, or Omori if you're [[LuckBasedMission unlucky]] enough.]]

** At the beginning of the game, Kel asking Basil [[spoiler:if they should just pretend he isn't there in order to act natural for his photos.]]

** The way that Basil and Sunny hold hands in [[BirdsOfAFeather shared tranquility]] while looking at photographs. [[spoiler:It's even more telling is that Basil's SanitySlippage worsens when he finds out that Sunny and his mother are moving, and he's extremely hurt by the fact that his best friend is leaving him. Basil also couldn't comprehend that Sunny pushed Mari down the stairs, and is convinced that a monster named Something did it instead.]]
** For those who don't dig Sunny/Basil for the same reasons many others do; Kel showing Sunny little besides kindness and affection, both in the present and back when he was a BrattyHalfPint, him knocking on Sunny's door and trying to help him more than ''anyone'' else, and even him being stated by Sunny's mom to sound lonely; makes their OppositesAttract dynamic surprisingly sweet.

* IronWoobie: Kel is the least visibly affected of the group, [[spoiler:having diminished the ''visibility'' and avoided his parents' negative attention with a cheerful front. Mari's death still hit him hard, and an optional scene reveals that he felt isolated and alone when the gang drifted apart and had to endure his brother falling into months of depression. That’s not even getting into his parents taking Hero’s side when Hero lashed out at Kel for trying to comfort him. However, despite all of that, he is the member of the group that has recovered the best and doesn’t let his pain keep him down or from trying to reconnect with Sunny.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: Sweetheart seems to be vain and narcissistic, but she doesn't seem bad. That is, until it's revealed that she sentences anyone who crosses her to starve in her dungeons, and if you go deep enough, you'll find the skeletons of those who starved to death there. She imprisons those who do something as small as refuse to date her. As a result, a player is practically cheering when [[spoiler:either Humphrey eats her, or Perfectheart turns Sweetheart into her personal servant]].

** Kel is somewhat estranged from his parents. They always favored Hero over him, and it reached a breaking point where [[spoiler:Hero made Kel cry for trying to comfort him about Mari's death, and their parents thought Hero needed more help]]. As a result, Kel is very curt with his mother, who is guiltily trying to be nice to him -- such is a surprisingly down-to-earth depiction of a child growing distant from his parents as he comes of age.
** The FinalBoss fight. [[spoiler:Take away the supernatural elements and it's basically a remorseful, suicidally depressed, and guilt-wracked kid trying to fight the belief that his past transgressions put him BeyondRedemption, that his friends will never forgive him if they find out the truth (something that the game intentionally leaves ambiguous in the good ending) and that [[ForgivenessRequiresDeath he deserves to kill himself]], and [[DrivenToSuicide he does just that]] if you choose not to continue after being [[HopelessBossFight inevitably defeated]].]]

%%** If you choose to save Basil, [[spoiler:the trauma of covering up Mari's death causes him to snap and attack Sunny, mistakenly believing that the Something haunting them is about to attack his friend, and accidentally ''stabs him in the eye''. All Sunny can do is fend him off, unable to calm down because of Basil being more of a physical threat than Something ever was. Fortunately, they made such a ruckus that their friends were able to call emergency services and get them both to the hospital for treatment. Basil starts crying TearsOfRemorse when seeing the bandages in the good ending, due to the incident having permanently damaged the real Sunny's vision and likely hampered their friendship with each other.]]

** There's people out there who consider [[spoiler:Basil]] to be an obsessive, possesive {{Yandere}} who [[spoiler:chose the suicide cover up just to have Sunny for himself]], just because he begs Sunny not to leave him alone again, choosing to ignore that [[spoiler:he was as traumatized and shocked as Sunny, possibly mentally unwell long before the accident, and definitely being so afterwards; he chose to distance himself from Sunny after his shutting in, to the point of ''not knowing he was moving away until Kel told him'', and that he was under heavy stress and grief after his grandma's implied death and it all culminated in his breaking down.]]

** "Universally Loved", which is the achievement for [[spoiler:getting all the possible flowers on the good ending.]] The difficulty of this achievement is because it's a huge GuideDangIt, as much of the sidequests are off the beaten path and easy to miss, and unlike the Headspace sidequests, you have to keep track of the Faraway Town sidequests on your own.

* ThatOneBoss: Sweetheart at the end of Three Days Left. Once her HP starts going down, she copies Space Ex-Boyfriend's gimmick and becomes ''permanently'' Happy for the rest of the fight and upgrades it as it goes on, thwarting any strategy dependent on her having any other Emotion and nullifying the attack boost you get from being Angry. Sweetheart’s worst attack is a nasty party-wide strike she uses often, and she also has a party-wide Angry-inducer, so if you can't switch emotions fast enough she'll enjoy a damage advantage while also being a lightning-fast, CriticalHit-slinging maniac. All of this can be mitigated if you got some rain clouds before [[PlotTunnel entering the Castle]], but they and most other mood-altering toys are finite in number at that point in the story (you can only find '''two''' at most, and one requires defeating an OptionalBoss in a very difficult and unintuitive way). You may end up needing to grind off the enemies in her Castle to even the playing field. And as if that was not bad enough, she reappears in the BossRush, with all her attacks souped-up, and is so difficult that the game [[SuspiciousVideoGameGenerosity feels the need to give you]] several Life Jams (the revival item) just before her battle (thankfully, rain clouds are plentiful at this point, negating her strongest suit).

** Quite some fans headcanon Basil as having Borderline Personality Disorder. Symptoms he exhibits are intense fear of abandonment, suicidal ideation in response to such fear, periods of stress-related paranoia with lost contact with reality (his reasoning that [[spoiler:a monster caused Mari's death]]), ongoing feelings of emptiness, unstable relationships (such as his idealization of Sunny [[spoiler:to the point of denial that the latter even ''accidentally'' killed his beloved sister]]), and intense mood swings (going from happily greeting Sunny to [[spoiler:calling his need to move away "mean" and then brutalizing him to hospitalization]], and if the Hooligans are to be believed, suddenly crying near the lake for no apparent reason).

* EvilIsSexy:
** Sweetheart is a RoyalBrat who mistreats her boyfriend, Captain Spaceboy, and locks people in her dungeon for petty reasons. She is the local HateSink of the game, and is hated by many players, but said players still express a purely physical attraction to her, despite — or perhaps ''because of'' — her domineering personality. It helps that the game has a photo of her in a bikini in the Orange Oasis area. Notably, when a body pillow of her (and her clone Perfectheart) was released as official merchandise, it sold out ''very'' quickly.
** The Slime Girls are a trio of ethically dubious scientists conducting horrible experiments on innocent creatures. They also have a {{Stripperiffic}} battle sprite that many players regard as ''very'' attractive.

** There's people out there who consider [[spoiler:Basil]] to be an obsessive, possesive {{Yandere}} who [[spoiler:chose the suicide cover up just to have Sunny for himself]], just because he begs Sunny not to leave him alone again, choosing to ignore that [[spoiler:he was as traumatized and shocked as Sunny, possibly mentally unwell long before the accident, and definetely being so afterwards; he chose to distance himself from Sunny after his shutting in, to the point of ''not knowing he was moving away until Kel told him'', and that he was under heavy stress and grief after his grandma's implied death and it all culminated in his breaking down.]]

** There's also a respectable overlap with fans of ''VideoGame/{{LISA}}'', due to shared themes and sharing the distinction of being successful big name commercial RPG Maker games. The two tend to get grouped together with other games as "''[[VideoGame/EarthBound1994 EarthBound]]''-inspired games about depression."
** There are a small number of fans who are also fans of the similar yet niche ''VideoGame/JimmyAndThePulsatingMass'' and recommend it to unfamiliar players, due to both being ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}''-inspired indie [=RPGs=] with a cutesy exterior hiding nightmarish imagery and concepts.

* FaceOfTheBand: While there's several contributing musicians, the only one that's really known is bo en/Calum Bowen, who isn't even the main composer (being Pedro Silva/Slime Girls). Though, it certainly helps that bo en created the memetic song of the trailer/bad ending.

* {{Moe}}: The children of the Headspace group are particularly adorable: Omori is content to quietly hang with his friends, Aubrey is an all-around GirlyGirl with [[GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak a grouchy side]], Kel is impulsive and [[{{Keet}} easy to excite]], and Basil is a gentle flower boy who wouldn't hurt a fly.

** Also in the junkyard, Hero summons a hamster to eat a wheel of cheese blocking the gang's path, before departing and saying she'll be [[ChekhovsGun there when they need her]]...[[BaitAndSwitch which never shows up or gets referenced again]]. She DOES show up in one of the sandwich club rooms later in the game, but she doesn't do anything for you.

** On the first trip to Orange Oasis, the party is suddenly jumped in the train by a dog(or deer)-like Something named Dorothi. It comes out of nowhere and is never mentioned again.

** In Orange Oasis, you can teleport to a side area called Rain Town by examining a sparkly tile of lake water. There's only one thing you can do here, and that's to turn the rain valve to the right to ease up the rain and complete a SurprisinglyEasyMiniQuest. [[spoiler:Turn it to the ''left'' and the cute little critters here turn into creepy little Somethings as the rain turns into a stormy night, flooding Rain Town and locking you out of the area permanently.]] Regardless of your actions here, they have no real bearing on the plot.
** On the first trip to Orange Oasis, the party is suddenly jumped in the train by a dog-like Something. It comes out of nowhere and is never mentioned again.

** Among the non-story relevant characters, Cris/Blue-Haired Girl and Mincy are fairly popular as some of the only characters outside of the Hooligans within the same age range as the main cast. More specifically, Cris is also memorable for giving you the Seashell Necklace, one of the few Faraway Town charms which has an effect [[spoiler:and by far the most useful for the Recycultist Dungeon and the Omori fight]], while Mincy is liked for her Adorkable design and personality as well as her small arc about coming out of her shell and gaining confidence in her art. A number of fanfics exist which have one or both of them join the main friend group, often shipping them with Kel, Sunny, or even [[ShipsThatPassInTheNight each other]].