YMMV / Gyossait

• Anvilicious: Guns in this universe are the work of a deranged, murderous god, picking one up makes Oyeatia's head burst into flames (making him literally hot-headed), and shooting a single living thing with one ensures you get the bad ending. Not very subtle.
• Awesome Art: He even made a video about how he did it.
• Awesome Music: A rare example where the creator makes it himself.
• Fridge Brilliance: Also counts as Fridge Horror. Uzaza's stronghold is covered with suspicious red vines, and the boss himself has giant red tendrils radiating out of his giant face. He also possesses the Heart of Gyossait...those "vines" may be giant blood vessels!
  • Also, nobody likes killing the girl who wants to grow flowers. But she's a follower of Uzaza. . . who uses human blood to grow burning metal flowers that amount to machine guns. She's not a gardener, she wants to become a murderous living weapon.
• Good Bad Bugs: Once in a great while, hitting the "killswitch" doesn't actually kill anybody. It has no effect on the game one way or another, but at least nobody died now! And you don't have to listen to the Madness Mantra.
• Goddamned Bats: Fucking wind-blowing trees. Those "skittering" enemies aren't much better.
• Moral Event Horizon: Uzaza arguably crosses it when he begins to turn people into monsters and use their blood to fuel his gun-flowers. Then again, he DID have Gyossait's heart at the time, so he might have been just straight up crazy rather than purely malevolent.
• Nightmare Fuel: Oh, so much of it. Justified, as the game was literally based off the author's nightmares! To elaborate:
  • Imagine a universe where the creator gods can at a whim change the nature of the world to the point that the entire game took place in a world where, in comparison, a Fire and Brimstone Hell would be a more pleasant place. And the powers can easily leak to ambitious person such as Uzaza, which leads to...
  • Uzaza's ascend to godhood is not pretty. At all. Half of the game has his giant visage regularly remind you that due to you (Oyeatia) and Gyossait's neglect, he's taking a rule toward the remains of humanity. And again, it's not pretty, given human sacrifice for both sustenance and defense is as regular as breathing.
• Tear Jerker: The ending. Especially in the good ending, where Gyossait and Oyeatia give up their godhood to die as mortal lovers. The music does not help.
  • Uzaza's death is another one. He may have gone off the deep end, but he makes it clear that he was trying to protect humanity, and having been dicked over by not one but two gods - one of which went on a murderous rampage and the other simply abandoned his creation - and left to struggle in a post-apocalyptic world full of chaos and monsters, it's not hard to understand why he chose to do what he did. He also gets some poignant dialogue as he dies:
  "I became strong... waited for you to come back... I only wish it was for us."
• That One Level: Fittingly enough, the level just before the final boss is this on a good ending run. It has a lot of those skittering enemies which turn the game into a Luck-Based Mission, windblowers which love to knock you into hazards, and a new sort of enemy which fires multiple shots in a row without any prior warning sign.
• Viewer Species Confusion: Due to the tiny sprites, it's hard to make out what Oyeatia's mortal form is supposed to look like. He's actually a human wearing white armor with a red visor. You even see him take his helmet off in the good ending. However, some players have thought that he's some kind of horned alien with a single red eye.