History YMMV / ShadowsOverLoathing

* DreamLand: It isn't especially clear ''what'' the Curses you enter are, thanks to the Scythe's Curse letting you enter previous Curses. They may be the Dream Lands of the formerly-cursed items, who are possibly intelligent to some extent (though to a lesser extent than the Old Ham Mill). They may be merely alternate dimensions the Cursed items have access to, since the Compass doesn't appear again in its own setting and the Cursed Scythe is being wielded by the Scarecrow; however, the Book ''does'' seem to be in its own setting. Lastly, the characters in the other Curse settings try to help you counter the Cursed Scythe; perhaps they all fear its reality-cleaving (or Dreamland-cleaving) powers.

* ThatOnePuzzle: The curse attached to the haunted sickle. The puzzle itself isn't particularly complex, you simply have to [[ItMakesSenseInContext collect parts to build a lawnmower while being hunted by an interdimensional scarecrow]] across the various time periods and locations that you visited when solving previous curses (the fedoral hat reserve, the baseball field, the murder mystery train, ect.) and each time the scarecrow 'kills' you, you're transported to a different locale which can be done on command by taunting the straw psychopath. The problem is that the area you end up in after each death is RANDOMIZED so if you need to get to a specific place to talk to a certain NPC or obtain a specific item, you'll have to keep hitting the taunt button over and over again until you reach the correct time period to progress the puzzle. What makes it worse is that if you spend too long in one area, the scarecrow will show up to murder you and send you to a different area all over again.

** The Doughboy Rolling Pin, The Cosmic Sieve, and The Detuned Guitar. All three of these weapons have a unique property where they deal 2, 4, and 5 damage to all enemies on the field respectively with the drawback being that the player can't apply any sort of upgrades or attachments to the weapons like the sharpening stone or the blowtorch. HOWEVER, their damage can be increased with any perks, effects, or items that increase magical or ranged weapon damage and those damage increases can stack heavily; especially in the late game. If one devotes their entire character build to buffing those weapons, they can wind up dealing FOURTY damage to everything on the field and trivialize all combat encounters. The Doughboy Rolling Pin is a particularly glaring example as it's fairly easy to obtain this weapon in the first chapter while the other two are obtained though more luck-based means.

** The "Call For Backup" skill lets your familiar act three times. Paired with the Mosquito familiar, this translates to "Deal damage and heal the player three times, or- with more action points, perhaps ''six, nine, twelve, etc. times''".
*** Or better yet, when paired with the beautiful goldfish it causes the entire party's stats to be boosted three times or more with enough action points and if the goldfish has been sufficiently leveled it can result in some insane combos; as demonstrated [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1iI2BZKQw here when Molly wipes out the final boss of the game with approximately 2628 bullets in one turn]].

** The "Call For Backup" skill lets your familiar act three times. Paired with the Mosquito familiar, this translates to "Deal damage and heal the player three times, or, with more action points, perhaps ''six, nine, twelve, etc. times''".

* GameBreaker: The Doughboy Rolling Pin, The Cosmic Sieve, and The Detuned Guitar. All three of these weapons have a unique property where they deal 2, 4, and 5 damage to all enemies on the field respectively with the drawback being that the player can't apply any sort of upgrades or attachments to the weapons like the sharpening stone or the blowtorch. HOWEVER, their damage can be increased with any perks, effects, or items that increase magical or ranged weapon damage and those damage increases can stack heavily; especially in the late game. If one devotes their entire character build to buffing those weapons, they can wind up dealing FOURTY damage to everything on the field and trivialize all combat encounters. The Doughboy Rolling Pin is a particularly glaring example as it's fairly easy to obtain this weapon in the first chapter while the other two are obtained though more luck-based means.

* GameBreaker: The Doughboy Rolling Pin, The Cosmic Sieve, and The Detuned Guitar. All three of these weapons have a unique property where they deal 2, 4, and 5 damage to all enemies on the field respectively with the drawback being that the player can't apply any sort of upgrades or attachments to the weapons like the sharpening stone or the blowtorch. HOWEVER, their damage can be increased with any perks, effects, or items that increase magical or ranged weapon damage and those damage increases can stack heavily; especially in the late game. If one devotes their entire character build to buffing those weapons, they can wind up dealing FOURTY damage to everything on the field and trivialize all combat encounters. The Doughboy Rolling Pin is a particularly glaring example as it's fairly easy to obtain this weapon in the first chapter while the other two are obtained though more luck based means.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Every single companion you've recruited comes to back you up against the final boss. All of them, to a man/woman, stood alongside you and fought an EldritchAbomination beyond comprehension.

* GoddamnedBats: The shadow creatures, for two reasons: you can encounter them in every area, and they can't take more than 5 Physical damage in one go. While there's enough elemental-damage-dealing weapons, spells and items lying around to not make them [[DemonicSpiders a true threat]], at the end of the day you'll end up adjusting your loadout just on the off-chance that you stumble upon them.

* ThatOnePuzzle: The curse attached to the haunted sickle. The puzzle itself isn't particularly complex, you simply have to [[ItMakesSenseInContex collect parts to build a lawnmower while being hunted by an interdimensional scarecrow]] across the various time periods and locations that you visited when solving previous curses (the fedoral hat reserve, the baseball field, the murder mystery train, ect.) and each time the scarecrow 'kills' you, you're transported to a different locale which can be done on command by taunting the straw psychopath. The problem is that the area you end up in after each death is RANDOMIZED so if you need to get to a specific place to talk to a certain NPC or obtain a specific item, you'll have to keep hitting the taunt button over and over again until you reach the correct time period to progress the puzzle. What makes it worse is that if you spend too long in one area, the scarecrow will show up to murder you and send you to a different area all over again.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Handfuls of Holy Water only deal damage to Evil enemies. You don't meet anyone evil enough to count, just A) people down on their luck, B) hurt/mutated wildlife, or C) [[BlueAndOrangeMorality incomprehensible aliens.]]
* GoddamnedBats: The shadow creatures. While they come in a wide variety of enemy types ranging from floating spheres to small devils to evil cows, one common trait shared amongst them is that they can't take more than five physical damage at a time. This may not sound so bad on paper since it can be circumvented by using attacks that deal other damage types such as cold or sleaze, but considering the majority of special attacks and weapons deal physical damage that effect becomes an absolute nightmare to deal with especially in the late game where the shadow creatures can cripple your offensive capabilities even with the right equipment. To make matters worse, they can pop up in random encounters across every single area and chapter which means you'll have to deal with them almost CONSTANTLY.

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: If you can meet the skill checks in your final confrontation with [[spoiler:Terrence Poindexter]], you [[spoiler:invent an entirely new kind of Jazz, Completely Random Jazz, by using a pair of dice to determine your next move. The kicker comes when Poindexter, anticipating your next move, dodges, and you're right there to catch him, because this time ''you ignored the dice''.]]

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Handfulls of Holy Water only deal damage to Evil enemies. You don't meet anyone evil enough to count, just A) people down on their luck, B) hurt/mutated wildlife, or C) [[BlueAndOrangeMorality incomprehensible aliens.]]

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: If you can meet the skill checks in your final confrontation with [[spoiler:Terrence Poindexter]], you [[spoiler:invent an entirely new kind of Jazz, Completely Random Jazz, by using a pair of dice to determine your next move. The kicker comes when Poindexter, anticipating your next move, dodges, and you're right there to catch him, because this time ''you ignored the dice''.]]