Die Anstalt/YMMV


 * Crowning Moment of Awesome: Whether you sympathise towards Dr Wood himself or not, him fighting back mercilessly against his hallucinations using the hypodermic needle that induced them as a sword is pretty awesome regardless.
 * Crowning Moment of Funny: This Troper could not stop laughing at Sly's attempts to play Simon, especially when he smashed the machine with the maraca.
 * The second time you try to give Dub the motivation tape.
 * Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: Every time a patient is cured.
 * Fridge Brilliance: There is some inconsistency throughout the game as to which humans are drawn like regular humans and which are drawn in the distinctive pigtailed big-eyed silhouette style. But it has become clear that this is dependent on the perspective of the toy the player is dealing with at the time.
 * For Kroko, he has had the most significant/traumatic interaction with, so it makes sense, and is in fact vital, that he would remember clearly what she looked like.
 * For Dolly, only the hand of her human is seen in detail, because that is all that Dolly remembers from her own painful recollection,.
 * For Lilo, his owner is a fully detailed teenage girl when seen in the flashback, and the teacher is only a demonic hand because he sees her as a violator rather than a human being.
 * Sly's owners are the silhouettes rather than fully detailed as other owners have been due to
 * Dub's situation is similar to Sly's, but for Lilo's reasoning.
 * Dr Wood only sees adult humans in detail, because that is what he is used to from his profession.
 * Nightmare Fuel: Failing to cure a patient can be disturbing, especially if
 * There's one particular moment in Sly's story where
 * At one point in Dr. Wood's therapy, you can induce him to perform dream analysis upon the sock puppet therapist and see a dream about It might sound silly in text, but it's genuinely creepy and disturbing when viewed in-game.
 * It's also unsettling when Dr. Wood goes into "cult leader" mode and
 * How messed up Dr Wood really is depends pretty much on the order of play. If you play him at the beginning before any other patient, . But if you play him at the end when all other patients have already left the asylum,
 * Squick: This Troper was a bit Squicked out by Lilo "vomiting", among other things, a condom, after only seconds ago seeing his owner as a girl in school. Then again, she may be 18 in high school, judging by that math equation.... The condom still stands, though.
 * Actually, the age of consent is 14 in Germany and in that and other European countries with similar laws concerning the age of consent, teenagers sometimes start engaging in sexual activity a little before their 14th birthday, thinking of turning 14 as only a formality. So this counts as Values Dissonance between the German gamemakers and players from countries with less tolerance for sex.
 * Only with other teens, though; you still get your ass in jail if you're over 18 and has sex with a 14-year-old.
 * Even having justified what the owner would be doing with it, how did it get into Lilo's mouth to begin with? And for that matter, how did the mercifully unused tampon end up there?
 * Look at the blunt end of those claws Dr Wood carries around. Really look at them. You can see white dots there. Those are parts of bones. Those claws came from a real damn bird.
 * Tear Jerker: EVERYTHING.
 * Ugly Cute: When was the last time you went "aww" at a hippo with a zipper mouth?
 * Viewer Gender Confusion: It should be noted that Lilo is a German female first name (as well as the first name of a well-known animated female character in America), and yet Lilo is referred to in the shop and in the help section with male pronouns.
 * The Woobie: All of the patients.
 * The Woobie: All of the patients.