YMMV / Party Hard

• Breather Level: "Party Bus". It's actually impossible to die or be captured in the level, which takes place in a small space (a bus driving along the road). The NPCs can't call the cops, and the player often starts with a smoke or stun bomb right in front of them, making everyone else easy pickings.
• Difficulty Spike:
  • The "Miami Party" level. Bouncers? Check. No escape routes? Check. No place to dispose of bodies? Check. Coupled with the open area and the player character's weaknesses (has to knock out an NPC before killing them), this level is a marked step up from those that came before it.
    • Inverted if the player uses the phone at the bottom of the level. It will call in a zombie event, and the player can largely sit back and let the zombies eat everyone. Katie kills zombies in one hit, and zombies won't call the police on discovered corpses. One phone call and 5 minutes of patience will allow you to kill everyone at the party by hand. Doubles as an excellent way to earn the 20 kill combo, making this the easiest level in the game.
  • The remixed "Casino Party". Instead of the random partygoers, the level is filled with 21 people, a boatload of bodyguards (who will knock you down for good if they're stationary and catch you within eyesight), and a horde of SWAT officers surrounding a single target.
  • The Sewer Level can be this. Almost 80% of all party goers look similar or even identical to the player and the FBI will appear guaranteed after the first murder. While they can be killed or chased off, players that never dealt with them will be in for a bad surprise.
• Game-Breaker: He takes time to get the hang of, but the Ninja can blow through most levels with ease thanks to smoke bomb and katana, which allows him to quickly take out crowds of people other characters would be chipping away at for awhile. With fortune, he can also get other partygoers blamed for his murders if they're caught near his fresh pile of corpses. He also makes the remixed Casino Party and Zombie Survival levels cakewalks by simply sneaking his way through all the bodyguards and cleaving through hordes of zombies at a time with his katana, respectively.
  • When timed properly, the Police Officer can frame multiple people for a single murder with zero drawbacks. Just stab one isolated person, wait for someone to find the body and phone the police, and proceed to clear out half the party as you point fingers at one guest after another, with the actual cop on the scene none the wiser.
• Good Bad Bug: Some levels (like "Casino Party" and "Open Air") can be exploited by standing at the back of the level behind an obstacle, forcing any cop dispatched to catch you to attempt to run around this obstacle. It's possible to confuse them simply by running around the scenery over and over until they give up.
• Narm: The voice-acting tries, but the amateur nature of the actors hinders. The script they're working from doesn't help, since they are built on disjointed cliches that contradict each other. It also means you're likely to guess the twist ending from the second party.
• Sequel Difficulty Spike: The original web browser demo of the game was considerably easier than the final product. Most notably, the cops were far more likely to arrest a random partygoer if they find a body.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: A few songs on the soundtrack sound like Captain Ersatz versions of 80's hits:
  • Don't Stop Party is Rockit by Herbie Hancock.
  • My Future Broken Heart is Bizarre Love Triangle by New Order.

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