History YMMV / ViewtifulJoe

%%* EvilIsSexy: Sprocket definitely qualifies for this, even though she's actually AffablyEvil.

* SNKBoss: Fire Leo borders on this normally (even on Kids; Sweet, perhaps not so much), and ''completely'' becomes this on higher difficulties.

* FirstInstallmentWins: While the sequels made successful sells and good reviews, everybody usually says the original is the best.

** FandomNod: This makes perfect sense when you consider that most of the fans were aware of Fire Leo's status of being ThatOneBoss and were very happy to see him get trounced so quickly after suffering to beat him in the game.

** [[EvilKnockoff Considering the]] [[GetBackHereBoss two bosses]] [[BossRush he's wedged]] [[SNKBoss in-between]], Alastor is very easy to defeat. It helps that he's not as tough as the other bosses, which leads to him losing health very fast (not to mention the whole [[GameBreaker knocking him into the lava]] technique).

** Sprocket from the anime, [[AbsoluteCleavage for a couple of big reasons]] if ya catch my drift.
* EvilIsSexy: Sprocket definitely qualifies for this, even though she's actually AffablyEvil.

** This makes a excellent game adaption of ''Film/LastActionHero'', but with {{Toku}} themes instead. See X meets Y for more.

** Try [[spoiler:KING BLUE]] on Ultra-V Mode. His health bar is '''''violet''''' when you begin the fight--about '''''[[UpToEleven ten bars of health]].''''' We're talking about the [[MarathonBoss most tedious boss fight]] in the game with some of the nastiest attacks in town turning into a MightyGlacier. Whip those Voomerangs out pronto! They'll shave off a few bars!

** [[spoiler:Dark Hero Jet Black]] is a full-out nightmare. It's already bad enough facing him for the first time when you don't know the key to beating him, but you also have to start the fight ''de-powered'' and rely either on Joe's two fists or, more likely, Silvia's boxing glove because of the added range it has. This while [[spoiler:Jet]] has crescent-shaped boomerangs whirling around him--which are damn near impossible to avoid with "Slow" disabled. If you get hit, you take ''double damage'' because you're stuck in plain ol' human form... which hurts your ranking each time you get injured... And he ''spawns another boomerang each time you land a hit.'' ''Four times.'' What happens if you take too long to hurt him or run away? He spams a super-damaging energy blast almost guaranteed to hit you. Guess what else? As soon as you wear him down and get your powers back, you launch right into the final battle with ''no chance to recover your HP.''
*** Said battle involves [[spoiler:Jet]] spawning an aura a la Fire Leo/Frost Tiger that lowers the damage your hits do. You have to counter it with the respective aura of either Joe or Silvia, forcing you to switch out from Joe to Silvia when you don't want to if he materializes the electric aura instead of a fire one. Why's that? Joe can deliver an intense series of uppercuts to [[spoiler:Jet]] as he tries to run away while Slow and Zoom are both active. And even if you manage to knock out his aura and get a shot a doing some ''real'' damage to him, [[spoiler:Jet]] summons his own dark aura to fortify himself against damage, which ''can't'' be countered, and then screws around with his very own Slow and Mach Speed effects. In Slow, it's nerve-wracking trying to avoid his sword slashes--some of which aren't able to dodged via V-Take and get you stuck in a CycleOfHurting if he lands the attacks. Worse, the gravity is effed up, forcing you to use Mach Speed to descend to the floor-just as Jet catches you to take a slash at your health. His rising sword slash is particular savage and requires a well-timed Slow to dodge. Mach Speed is pure horror, considering it allows him to become a LightningBruiser with his katana. Then there's his BeamSpam attacks all over place, including the aforementioned huge one. And finally, [[spoiler:Jet]] mimics the Red Hot/Cool Blue Kick by sending a ''multidirectional'' version of their shockwaves from his katana, which fans out into two elemental dragons and can't be dodged, only outran. Good luck, [[PrecisionFStrike motherfuckers.]] You'll need it.
*** Apparently, of ALL the videos on the internet of people facing [[spoiler:Jet]], only ONE person has managed to do it on Ultra-V, and it took him THREE TRIES thanks to recording errors. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDuDpcjA4Ys In all its amazing goddamn glory.]]
*** In all fairness, though, as a whole, the two-part battle against [[spoiler:Dark Kaiser and Dark Hero Jet Black]] isn't quite as bad as the fight against [[spoiler:King Blue and Young Captain Blue]]. At the very least, the former has the bosses split up by Acts (thus allowing you to save), whereas the latter is one long gauntlet, ''including'' the actual second act of that chapter, which is ''swarming'' with EliteMooks and stage hazards out of the wazoo.

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkxgzCqkx40 Confession]]" sounds almost identical to "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhYfP3Efz7s Reminiscing ~ The Class Trial]]" from another Creator/{{Capcom}}-published game, ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' (which first came out in 2001 for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance in Japan).

** "FINISH!" (''cue boss' [[FamousLastWords defeat dialogue]]'')