YMMV / Earnest Evans

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• Awesome Music: It's Motoi Sakuraba, what do you expect?
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Level 5 has Earnest dumped onto a moving train filled to the brim with banditos, he has to get a golden idol haphazardly placed on one carriage's roof, he battles a monster made of coal and escapes via a biplane stashed on another carriage. He never seems to mention this crazy experience to Annet and Zigfried again. Even better: This occurs right after Earnest gets knocked unconscious in the previous cutscene. How that leads to him, now conscious, being dumped onto a train from outside in midair is anybody's guess.
  • Even if the context for the levels is absolutely flimsy at best, at least the Mega CD version of the game has a story to loosely justify the insanity. The Mega Drive version on the other hand cut all of the story out and rewrote it to claim it was a sequel to El Viento (as well as say this Earnest is the grandson of that game's Earnest). The result was that absolutely nothing has any sort of context, resulting in the entire game becoming a BLAM moment. Notably, this is the version that came out in the West.
• Complete Monster (includes El Viento & Annet Futatabi): Zigfried "Zig" Munchaunsen, in actuality the Dark God Nyarlathotep, is an enigmatic spreader of chaos. Zig would assist Earnest Evans and Annet Myer in stopping the demonic Hastur numerous times so that he won't get in the way of his plans of annihilating mankind. In Annet Futatabi, Zig partners with the Nexuses army to take over the Renvrandt kingdom, where he creates mutants from the army's prisoners to conquer the world, later turning the country’s princess Aisha into a mutant and forcing Annet to fight her. Seemingly defeated, Zig is last seen selling weapon blueprints to the Nazis in order to carry out Adolf Hitler's dreams of worldwide destruction.
• Good Bad Bugs: A few levels can be skipped almost entirely with a well timed jump or, in severe cases, just running backwards from the start point.
• Narm: It depends on your opinion of each component of the game, but the energetic soundtrack and, if you're playing the Mega CD version, cutscenes that show Earnest with a degree of competency contrast laughably and horribly with the sloppy gameplay.
• So Bad, It's Good: The entire damn game from the QWOP-style movements of Earnest to the ridiculously weird enemies that explode when he kills them.

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