YMMV / Muppet Monster Adventure

• Anticlimax Boss: The final boss with Uncle Petri Von Honeydew, The Master of Ceremonies, feels slightly anticlimactic for the last act of the game. Like all the other bosses in the game, he only has one phase and only takes three hits. Once you figure out the timing of his attacks, he's an absolute pushover.
• Awesome Music: Who composed the soundtrack? A then-unknown Michael Giacchino, that's who! High points include...
  • "The River Vile" is one of the catchiest tracks in the game.
  • "Gallery" which is the song that plays in the unlockables gallery - but is also a song by Robin and a group of Ghouls as they sing about their determination to not fail and how they enjoy scaring people respectively.
  • "Peacock Purgatory", a beautifully eerie and whimsical piece to set off the adventure to.
  • "Hub", a surprisingly jazzy piece for what amounts to a glorified level-select menu.
  • "Shivering Timber Shoals", a bombastic piece that starts out as a spooky pirate-themed song with flute and piano solos but then eventually transitions into a triumphant, big band remix of The Muppet Show's theme song.
• Breather Boss: The Wocka Wocka Wearbear is the easiest and quickest fight in the game. All you have to do is run around a short circular platform and spin into four separate spinwheels to cause a boulder to fall on him three times. His attacks are causing slow falling acorns to drop on you which you can easily dodge and, after three attacks, causing a beehive to fall and release a swarm of bees which you can easily jump over. You can easily spin all the wheels before he is able to use the bees. In the first phase, you can just hold the run button as you go around hitting the wheels, ending the first phase in seconds. The second phase has him create four pits in the platform you can fall through, but they are easy to jump over and you can end the phase before he finishes making them all. The third phase adds a buzzsaw you have to jump over, but it's still pretty easy. Most players can beat him in two minutes on the first try.
• Friendly Fandoms: With Spyro the Dragon. You would think that fans of the purple dragon would dislike the game for being a little TOO familiar to the original Spyro trilogy, but instead, that's precisely why Spyro fans love it, with several Spyro Youtubers recommending the game or doing playthroughs.
• Goddamn Bats: The gravestones in Grave Matters and the cacti in Molten Mayhem. They're fast, hard to hit, and pretend they're just part of the scenery until they spot you.
  • The snowmen in Ice to Meecha! and For Peton's Sake. They throw their snowball projectiles at a fast rate, they start attacking you from a pretty far away, and, to make things even more tough, they're invincible, meaning that you can't even safely clear a room that has them in it.
  • The piranhas in the underwater segments. They're small, are often in groups, spam the same biting sound effect when they're trying to attack you, and have a tendency to swarm if they spot Robin. They're also difficult to hit due to both their size and the mechanics of Robin's underwater attack.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: This would not be the last time the Muppets had an adventure in a haunted mansion.
• Most Wonderful Sound:
  • Whenever Pepe tells you that you've opened a new level or boss.
  • The chime that plays when you collect a Muppet Token. If you complete a challenge that rewards you with a Muppet Token, the sound when one appears.
• Scrappy Mechanic:
  • The health pickups are cute little Muppet hearts with wings... that actively avoid being picked up, and are often placed in areas where you could get hurt trying to catch one. Though they seem to get confused and don't move much if you spin into them.
  • Your underwater spin doesn't actually count as an attack from the moment you press the spin button - there's a minor several frame delay and it's only until Robin enters a spin animation that he can actually hurt underwater enemies. This makes dealing with the piranhas and pufferfish littered throughout several of the underwater levels a lot harder than you'd think.
• That One Achievement:
  • Racing Willie in Escape Claws. He's wicked fast and it doesn't help that the level has a lot of bottomless pits, leaving you little room for error.
  • Racing Percy in Arabian Frights is equally grueling. He has a faster jump than Robin, especially during the stair segments of the race, meaning that you have to do almost a perfect run for his Token.
• That One Boss: The Ghoulfriend's boss fight where you slide down a hill three times and try to avoid the holes she punches in the earth. Not surprisingly, each part is more difficult with the third involving penguins pushing a block of ice your way. If you hit any obstacle on your way down the slope, it's a one-hit kill and you have to start the fight all over again.
• Ugly Cute: Thanks to both the graphical limitations of the time and the whimsical art style of the Muppets, most of the monsters in this game still have a cuddly charm to them. Robin's monster forms in particular.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The soundtrack has a late 90s/early 2000s feel to it. Most notably, the music for the hub uses CatDog-inspired sound effects.

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