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  • Alas, Poor Villain: NULL may have tried to kill the player and destroy the game, but it's hard to blame him for trying to escape, considering what has happened to him. His eventual deletion is almost a Mercy Kill by the time you get to it.
  • Author's Saving Throw: Shadow of the School was eventually nerfed to be MUCH easier to deal with in the Quality to Camp update, alleviating complaints about unfair deaths caused by him.
  • Awesome Art: The game's graphics manage to perfectly fit the original 1999 Edutainment Game theming the original already excelled at, and the new graphics are effectively indistinguishable from Mystman12's original sprites and models.
  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Several of the Gainax Endings serve as this, most infamously the alternate Bunker ending and both versions of the normal Story Mode ending.
  • Demonic Spiders:
    • Even despite his nerfs, Shadow of the School is a SUPER dangerous threat, being one of the main ways you'll die in the nighttime sections.
    • Monstrosity used to just be a second Baldi in the Terminex update, however, when he got overhauled in the Overhaul update, he became a threat that could rival pre-nerf Shadow of the School. The main problem is that, not only is the school VERY dark at night, but he's also DEAD silent, making it easy to get jumped by him. Adding onto that, not only is he already capable of blending in with the dark, but he also doesn't have a vignette when nearby, unlike almost all other characters that can kill you. Good luck.
    • Green and Red BaldBots are a major headache for those attempting the Basement. The green ones, when approached, trigger an alarm that causes a ton of super fast red BaldBots to run around the place at lightning speed, killing the player instantly on contact.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Good Bad Bugs: By clicking on an item fast enough, it's possible to duplicate the item and collect multiple of it.
  • Nintendo Hard: Oh lord.... If you're going for 100% completion, expect to be here a while.
  • Paranoia Fuel: What could be behind the corner of the hallway in the nighttime school? Could it be nothing? Monstrosity? A trap set by Nightmare Drumster? You can't see much of ANYTHING in the dark hallways. And you have no way of knowing WHAT that something is unless you peek.
  • Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: At first, Shadow of the School was one of the most reviled characters across both Terminex and Overhaul, due to his ability to detect rule breaks from behind walls, and his One-Hit Kill on contact. Then the Quality to Camp update gave him a MUCH needed Nerf, by making it so he's only hostile after seeing a rulebreak in front of him, and waiting a little before actually attacking.
  • Shocking Moments: THE ENTIRE THING IS FULL OF THESE. An entire second cast at night that serves as an unforgiving challenge? An endless survival mode with its own exclusive content? A mode where you play as Baldi on his birthday and enter a basement full of Killer Robots that look exactly like him? Canon's NULL style returning, including a boss fight? AND THIS IS ONLY THE FIRST MODE?!
  • Signature Scene: The entire nighttime sequence serves as the EXACT moment the game reveals it's true colors, and it's hard to talk about the rest of the game without mentioning it.
  • Special Effects Failure: Like some other Roblox games, the game has to take a moment to load new graphics as they're used. While very efficient in terms of load time, it does lead to awkward moments where something goes fully gray or fully transparent for a moment before the sprite loads in.
  • That One Boss: NULL/Red Spoopballoon, once again, serves as the Superboss of the Brutal Bonus Level, and he's just as dangerous as last time.
  • The Scrappy: It's safe to say pretty much nobody loves Winders, likely due to his annoying inventory clearing mechanic, punishing the player gravely just for accidentally bumping into him.
  • Visual Effects of Awesome: The graphics manage to feel more like an early edutainment game than an actual Roblox game, which is an impressive feat to pull off.

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