History YMMV / Phoenotopia

* BreatherBoss: The more powerful Big Robot in [[spoiler:the Hidden Village]]. Its only improvement over the first is that it drops a line of bombs when it charges. This makes it harder to push onto a trapdoor before it reactivates, but by the time you reach it, you have the Javelin and Jet Boots, both of which make dodging all of its attacks trivial.

* AwesomeMusic: Honorable mention goes to the ending music, but the entire soundtrack qualifies. You can listen to it [[http://sillythewilly.bandcamp.com/album/phoenotopia-ost here]].

* ThatOneBoss: The Kobold boss. Even after you figure out how you're supposed to fight it (see GuideDangIt on the main page), it starts dropping ActionBomb enemies when it's low on health; these make it all but impossible to stun the boss at the right time without tanking the explosion, and if you don't stun it, [[ThatOneAttack well...]]

* ViewerGenderConfusion: Gale. It's straightened out by NPC dialogue fairly early, but her {{Retraux}} sprite leaves her gender ambiguous until then.

* DemonicSpiders: The hostile golems, especially the red ones. They all hit hard and fast and can take a ton of punishment, but the red ones are immortal (unless dropped into a pit, which is only provided when you have to kill them to progress) and ''much'' faster than Gale.

* AwesomeMusic: Honorable mention goes to the ending music. You can listen to it [[http://sillythewilly.bandcamp.com/ here]].

* BreatherBoss: The golem boss in [[spoiler:the Hidden Village]]. Its only improvement over the one in Thomas' Lab is that it drops a line of bombs when it charges. This makes it harder to push onto a trapdoor before it reactivates, but by the time you reach it, you have the Javelin and Jet Boots, both of which make dodging all of its attacks trivial.

* GoddamnedBoss: The golem boss in Thomas' Lab. Its laser attacks are easy enough to dodge once you're used to them, but how long you can last before letting them pin you against the wall and force you to get hit is entirely dependent on the AIRoulette. (This isn't an issue with the one in [[spoiler:the Hidden Village]], as you have the Jet Boots by then, and can jump over multiple laser attacks at once.) It used to be worse in this department, but an AntiFrustrationFeature was added to let players figure out its weakness before continuing the fight after the first barrage.

*** Wait for one to grab a bomb, then shoot the bomb with the slingshot before it's dropped (rarely doable because your aim is usually ''just'' too slow to go to the right place in time, but there's an achievement for killing one this way).

** Happens again with Unit 66, who looks feminine, but has been referred to by [[WordOfGod Quills]] as "he".

* ThatOneBoss: The Kobold boss. Even after you figure out how you're supposed to fight it (see GuideDangIt above), it starts dropping ActionBomb enemies when it's low on health; these make it all but impossible to stun the boss at the right time without tanking the explosion, and if you don't stun it, [[ThatOneAttack well...]]

** Happens again with [[spoiler:Unit 66]], who looks feminine, but has been referred to by [[WordOfGod Quills]] as "he".

* DemonicSpiders: The hostile golems, especially the red ones. They all hit hard and fast and can take a ton of punishment, but the red ones are immortal (unless dropped into a pit, which is only provided when you ''must'' kill them to progress) and ''much'' faster than Gale.

* DemonicSpiders: The hostile golems, especially the red ones. They all hit hard and fast and can take a ton of punishment, but the red ones are '''immortal''' (unless dropped into a pit, which is only provided when you ''must'' kill them to progress) and ''much'' faster than Gale.

** Happens again with [[spoiler:Unit 66]], who looks like a woman, but has been referred to by [[WordOfGod Quills]] as "he".