YMMV / Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (SNES)

• It's Hard, So It Sucks!: The game's unforgiving difficulty is infamous. Many of the enemies can kill you in a single hit, and a majority of them are on the already surprisingly-long first stage. It doesn't help there are no continues whatsoever.
• It's Short, So It Sucks!: And once you get the hang of the gameplay, you'll find there's only four levels.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: It's essentially the Game Boy and NES versions with a fresh coat of paint, minor tweaks to the second and third levels, and that's it.
• Narm: While the Wet Bandits are expositing their plans to Kevin about how they're going to murder him, Kevin has a completely blank expression on his face, as he stares directly at the player. Then (without any change in expression) he extends a hand to pinch a woman's butt and get her to knock out the Bandits. The result is that what was a tense and suspenseful scene in the movie becomes hilarious here, like Kevin is bored and just letting the two yammer before he makes his escape.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Two of Kevin's deaths in the Plaza Hotel are to get sucked into a vacuum cleaner, or into the dish washing machine. Getting caught by the Concierge or the detective (the man in the gray coat) will also result in them strangling Kevin — and both can be encountered unexpectedly in other areas of the hotel (the former in an unassuming hotel room, the latter in the Newsroom), where they're likely to get you the first time around.
  • Kevin's flight through Central Park. Enemies in this level include rats covered in what looks to be blood, criminals hiding in the bushes who pop out to take a swing at you, a bomb maniac, and a pack of dogs that comes out of nowhere. And Kevin's just a kid, wandering through this place alone at night.
  • In the final cutscene when he reunites with his mother, the shadows around Kevin's mouth◊ make it look like he's giving her a Slasher Smile.
• So Bad, It's Good: Between the quirky sound effects, the strange clash with the sprites, and the unintentional comedy, it's very hard to take this game seriously.
• The Problem with Licensed Games: This is another one for the heap: Electronic Gaming Monthly once named it the "Worst Movie-To-Game". The Sega game for the movie is held in infinitely higher regard and is superior in every way.
• That One Level: The Plaza Hotel is the first level, and it's the game's hardest. There are multiple enemies and hazards that will One-Hit Kill Kevin if he touches them, with one even ready to insta-kill you as soon as you start the stage if you don't immediately start heading right (and that's not even the only possible ambush on that stage). It's also the game's longest level by far. Combine this with the fact that Kevin starts with three lives and gets no continues whatsoever will have the player redo the first level over and over again until they finally complete it.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The game takes off from Kevin being caught by the Concierge and fleeing the hotel, omitting any potential for levels from the first half of the film. It also completely marginalizes the iconic traps of the franchise to a few rooms in the penultimate level. The Game Boy and NES versions also have this same exact problem.