YMMV / Ooblets

• Complacent Gaming Syndrome: The teapot that lets you make drinks is expensive, but once a player buys it, they'll likely be relying on Beanjuice as their primary means of energy restoration. The Springbeans that make it are cheap to buy and give multiple beans per harvest, each of which can be ground into Ground Springbeans by Ooblets while the player does other things, making it an easy drink to make in bulk. They give a standard-but-useful 40 Energy per drink, and they ALSO grant a speed boost, making them extremely practical as well.
• Game-Breaker: Any Ooblet with a stun skill lasting more than one turn can absolutely destroy the "Signatures Only" Dance Barn tournaments, provided they also have a signature that lets them gain points—Nuppos and Glanters are good examples. The first rounds are played as one-on-one battles, and it's possible completely stunlock your opponent out of gaining any points whatsoever. The downside of this, however, is that if you're up against an opponent with stun skills, they can keep you from doing anything yourself.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: Ooblets came under fire in 2019 when it announced the game would be an Epic Games Store PC exclusive, but the main cause of the controversy wasn't the announcement itself, but from how it was handled. Their official announcement was presented in a condescending and immature way, their thoughts being summed up as "Don't act like a toxic, entitled gamer about it and there are better things to get mad about anyway," with a lack of professionalism and tact that's best exemplified by them taking the time to make a custom animation of the player character doing the floss. They then decide to leave themselves open to a potential angry mob by taking further questions on their official Discord, which resulted in a myriad of out-of-context and some faked screencaps spreading around the Internet to make the devs look far worse than they actually were, claiming gamers are the worst kind of people and they "belong in gas chambers". At that point, even after they were able to clear up how much genuine harassment they've received and how many of those screencaps were faked, the damage had already been done and the first thing most people remember about this game is the disastrous fallout of its exclusivity announcement.
• That One Sidequest: Gleamy Rockstack is much more obnoxious to get than every other Gleamy Ooblet in the game. Why? Most of the time, when you sleep in your bed to change the day, it shows you a preview of all the Ooblets available throughout the world on that day, letting you know ahead of time what gleamies are available. However, Rockstacks don't actually spawn into the world on a new day—the only spawn by breaking rocks near the top of Mt. Tippytop with the pickaxe. This requires walking 3/4ths of the way up Tippytop, which also requires making sure you wear the Mountain Coat and Mountain Hat clothing (easy, but if you want to wear a custom outfit the rest of the time, you've got to constantly swap back and forth between them). There are ten rocks to break, and they cost 40 energy each to break—even if you come with your energy bar totally full, you're going to NEED to eat or drink food to break them all, and you're still liable to be left at low energy afterwards. And since Gleamy Rockstacks still have a low spawn rate, you've still got to break all ten rocks, once an in-game day, for your best shot at finding one.
• Ugly Cute: Many Ooblets fall into this category, such as Bittle and Snurfler.

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