Alice in Spaceland Series/YMMV


 * Anticlimax Boss:
 * In the first Alice in Spaceland, after all the hell you've been going through (especially if you're playing on Hard or Lunatic Mode), you'd be surprised that Zio's pathetically easy if you
 * The Nonoba Admins and Cirno in Alice Xi are also pathetically easy if you know where to camp at (in Cirno's case, you'll need to shift positions every time she changes her bullet patterns).
 * Goddamned Bats: Some of the enemies can verge on being this if you're careless.
 * Growing the Beard: The first games were simple and rather unimpressive, but as time went on, the creator improved upon the game mechanics little by little, and the game is a bit more visually impressive at times. Compare the very first Alice in Spaceland with Spaceland Adventure 2.
 * That One Boss: Most of the games have a boss you will inevitably get stuck on.
 * Alice in Spaceland had two encounters with McGillicutty that were hard. One had a crapton of Asteroids enemy fighters firing at you like they were Space Invaders or something. Another had a three-on-one fight. Both were pretty hard, but if you're playing Hard Mode and beat the third encounter...get ready for the
 * Alice in Spaceland 2 has Weegee. Yes, that Weegee. His hard to dodge projectiles can really be a bother, and if you're playing on Hard Mode...yep, he first goes Super Sayan (this happens on any mode), and then combines with Malleo (the Weegeefied version of Mario, who is a boss in Alice Xi) to form a 'hyper' version, which is much harder than the first form, and takes what feels like an eternity to kill.
 * Alice in Spaceland 3 starts off pretty lax, but once you hit 'The Crossroads', kiss a lot of your lives goodbye. Especially when you reach Havoc, a security system you will come to loathe and hate, you're bound to lose a ton of lives. Then he comes back in Cirno Xi, now at Mark II.  Of course, he pales in comparison to McGillicutty. The fight before him was hard enough, but when you have a five-on-one fight and auto-aiming against you, all bets are off. Your lives are GOING to go down.
 * Oddly, Alice Xi is devoid of these. The bosses are considerably easier, and you won't really lose any lives unless you're not paying attention, not using a trick on some of them, or quick to react.
 * Cirno Xi continues this tradition by bringing Havoc back into the fray (in his MK II incarnation), but there's another boss who is hard to defeat, and that's Xurthis Itanimulli. There are laser bars coming from the walls constantly, the boss itself moves erratically, THE WALLS CAN KILL YOU IF YOU RUN INTO THEM LONG ENOUGH, and the gravity shifts a lot. Oh, and you have bullets to dodge. Have fun with that.
 * Spaceland Adventure actually isn't too hard, unless you're really careless at times. Like Alice Xi, it's devoid of these...until you get to
 * Spaceland Adventure 2 has either Sinistar, or   One moves ludicriously fast as the battle drags on, and the other...you should get the idea of his track record by just looking at his name.