YMMV / Bloodwings: Pumpkinhead's Revenge

• Awesome Music: Believe it or not, this game actually has a pretty competent soundtrack that is very fitting for the mood it's trying to create. It may not be "throbbing background music that may remind you of your rapidly beating heart," but it sounds ominous and is damn good music in its own right, making you wonder why they felt they needed to lie about it. Special mention goes to Periphery's theme, which also happens to be the main theme of the game. It's almost like more effort was put into the music than the game itself at times.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Really the entire game is this to anyone who hasn't seen the film, but even if you do know the context, the ending with Pumpkinhead dancing is certainly going to confuse you.
• Bile Fascination: Pretty much the only reason this game gets any attention nowadays is because of how awful it is. Or the music, as noted above, which is actually surprisingly well-crafted.
• Demonic Spiders: Mendregs in Purgatory. They can only be killed by shooting them in the back, and it takes a long time for them to have their backs exposed. And if they attack you, they'll punch you across the room and stun you until you're cornered and then punch out all your health.
• Funny Moments: The infamous ending of the game, which inexplicably features Pumpkinhead dancing in a red void.
• Goddamn Bats: Literally, with the Skull Bats. They die in one hit, but there's so many of them in Pumpkinhead's Lair that they become tedious to fight after awhile.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The game contains a very effective Jump Scare, where an FMV is suddenly interrupted by the titular monster appearing out of nowhere and attacking the player, instantly killing you.
  • The creepy children. Pretty much anytime they speak, it's scary. They talk in unison in monotone, you don't know who, what, or where they are, for the most part, you don't know when they'll speak, and they often have creepy music playing behind them.
• That One Level: Really, every level has traces of this!
  • Periphery is no doubt going to mess you over with it heaping a ton of the game's obtuse mechanics onto you, one after another... And it also doesn't really teach you these, so good luck brute forcing your way.
  • Purgatory ramps up drastically thanks in no part to the infamous "Hell Room" where all the enemies you kill go to, and you will have to traverse this area at least once to clear the level. Add to that a quiz about the movie at the end, and you're in for an, er, "treat".
  • The Lair is the most bare bones, yet still is a general issue thanks to the fact that any item in the game could be needed to quell Pumpkinhead's soul, which, if you haven't been diligent, can and will screw you out of beating the game on that run.
• The Problem with Licensed Games: Even though the movie it's based on isn't much better either, this game somehow manages to be debatably worse.
• Special Effects Failure: Pumpkinhead wearing normal sneakers during his dance sequence. In the movies, Pumpkinhead's height and animal-like legs were achieved by the suit actor wearing stilts that slope forward and a rigging system of wires that keep him suspended upright without losing their balance. Unsurprisingly, the people doing the FMV footage decided that such an expense was unnecessary for a cheap licensed game, so they had the suit actor wearing his normal shoes. While the majority of the footage of Pumpkinhead was strategically filmed from the waist-up to avoid this from being visible, filming the dance this way was simply not an option, so we get to see Pumpkinhead in all his sneaker-y glory.

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