- Cult Classic: This game is held as one of the best games on the PS2 by virtually every person who's ever played it. All six of them.
- Even Better Sequel: Graffiti Kingdom greatly expands on Magic Pengel’s doodle customization and has a better less melodramatic story.
- Goddamned Boss: Deskel may not be the most difficult opponent, but he is definitely among the most annoying. At first glance, he comes across as a textbook "Get Back Here!" Boss, as most of the fight takes place in a narrow circuit, which he dashes around at high speeds while occasionally stopping to confront you. In practice, he's so fast when he's not actively engaged in fighting you that it's better to wait for him to loop around to where you are than to chase after him. The second phase is a bit better, as the central platform lowers to turn the stage into a regular arena, but he's still obnoxiously fast and erratic. His appearance is also incredibly bizarre, even by the standards of the game, which leads to some serious Hitbox Dissonance.
- Ho Yay: Can slip under the radar up until Tablet is explicitly referred to as a boy, thanks to his feminine appearance and voice, but he and Pixel do have their... moments, some of them coming off as coming about intentionally by way of attempts by the former to screw with the latter.Tablet: I like seeing this strong side of you.
Pixel: (grimacing) Brr! That gave me tingles. - It's Short, So It Sucks!: One of the main complaints of the game is it being rather short.
- Scrappy Mechanic: Having to level up to unlock the ability to add certain upgrades such as weapons or wings to your creations makes sense. Having to do the same to get basic quality of life features like an "undo" function, less so.
- That One Boss:
- Carlton may be a rather straightforward fight with no gimmicks beyond being a Flunky Boss, but he's also an Early-Bird Boss with a large frame that will more than likely allow him to outrange anything you can create at the time you encounter him. Conversely, his mooks are so small that anything that can match his reach will likely struggle to hit them.
- The fight against Telepin takes place on a sort of multi-tiered roulette wheel. Starting with the outermost ring, the symbols on the floor light up in a rotating sequence, and when the light stops an elemental attack corresponding to the symbol it stopped on is released, with the process repeating for the next ring inward before looping back. As Telepin's health goes down, the wheel speeds up and the attacks become more frequent. Telepin himself is fast and aggressive, resulting in a chaotic mess of a fight.
- Viewer Gender Confusion: Tablet's voice and appearance are rather feminine. It can take until Pastel calls him the Devil's son for his gender to be cleared up for some. Telepin's gender is also hard to figure out.
