History YMMV / BillyHatcherAndTheGiantEgg

** As tradition, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lVdk4KfZGo&hd=1 Chant This Charm]] is both the ending theme and a recurring leitmotif. This alone would make it satisfying to hear in the end credits, but it's also adorable and corny. For game like ''Billy Hatcher'', would you have it any other way?

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP95m-SN79U Billy's Courage]] balances ominous backbeats, a harp, and a choir of children into a fitting song for Dark Raven that doesn't forget the game's whimsical nature. It's a fitting sendoff.
** Many of the level melodies incorporate whistling reminiscent of chicken coos, and it works better than you'd expect. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbhHYNcXidw Volcanic Orchestra]]" balances it with a typical harsh-sounding volcanic level theme, creating something both grand and charming.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEGwyQDMUhY Lullaby of Snow Mountain]]" uses bells and wind instruments to sell Blizzard Castle's cold, mysterious atmosphere.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WroZbZPfM8 Pinball-like Echo]]", its daytime counterpart, uses similar instruments to make you feel like you're rolling through a winter wonderland.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIVJhNm2T3g boss theme]] hams up the funny-looking bosses and makes it satisfying to toss eggs at them.
** As tradition for a Sonic Team game, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lVdk4KfZGo&hd=1 Chant this Charm]] is both the ending theme and a recurring leitmotif. This alone would make it satisfying to hear in the end credits, it's also adorably corny. For game like ''Billy Hatcher'', would you have it any other way?

** Blizzard Castle 3 tasks you with completing a snowman. It's certainly a charming objective, but with snow everywhere and not much required platforming, it's a brisk level.

** Hatching an egg. It first makes a jingle when it's at full size, then you have to charge Billy's crowing move to make it hatch. After he does so, the egg makes a pleasant popping sound...and bonus points if there's a cute little animal inside.

** The Elder Chicken crowing to summon the sun, which is followed by a jingle that incorporates "Chant this Charm" in a subtle way.

** While rolling around with the egg is fun, jumping with the egg is anything but. Both the egg and Billy need to make it onto a platform, so near-misses can cost you a lot of time and whatever you wanted from the egg. Not helping matters is that, for some reason, Billy rapidly revolves around the egg as he jumps; at best, you're facing the wrong direction, and at worst, Billy's falling down a pit despite the egg making it just fine.
** Red rail puzzles expect you to throw the egg on the start of the rail, then catch it at the end before it falls off the stage. The problem? Throwing the egg has basically one of two speeds: so fast that you can't catch the egg, and so slow that the egg [[GameBreakingBug noclips through the rail]]. [[EasyLevelTrick You can easily bypass these by jumping onto the rail using it as a blue rail]], but you can't expect a new player to realize this.
** Egg Rings have little in the way of reference point for the direction in which you want to throw yourself, making it easy to either overshoot or undershoot your throw. At best, you'll sometimes accidentally toss yourself back to the previous area, but most of the time you'll end up falling to your demise at light speed. They're at their worst in Circus Park, which naturally have you traverse a lot of them over pits, some of them swinging on an axis.
* SweetnessAversion: With saturated colors, cartoon sound effects and silly instrumentation, ''Billy Hatcher'' is clearly meant for a much younger demographic than Sega's usual fare, which turns a lot of older gamers away.

** Dark Corvo summons clones of the previous bosses. While most of their attacks are simple to avoid, Glur's homing water bubbles and Saltim's rapid-fire bomb attack can be tricky to dodge. Yet his worst attack is when he makes clones of ''himself'': the clue for which Dark Corvo's the real one is easy to miss[[note]]You're supposed to pay attention to the order in which the clones appear (the last one's always him) but it happens so quickly that you'll miss it if you don't point the camera at Dark Corvo, or if you so much as blink[[/note]], they can swarm Billy and destroy his egg, and their erratic movements make them hard to keep track of anyway. Hope you find Dark Corvo in time too, otherwise it starts all over again. It speaks volumes when Sand Ruins, already one of the harder levels in ''Billy Hatcher'', warns you about him.
* ThatOneLevel: Circus Park 1 doesn't clown around: you have to hatch a Golden Egg in a grand show of the game's worst mechanics: jumping, Egg Rings, and red rails galore, with difficult enemies and little fruit. Make sure you know the [[EasyLevelTrick red rails' "quirk"]] before you go into this level, or you'll pull your hair out over this one.

* ToyShip: Billy x Rolly is a fan favorite, even if the only hint of this was 2 seconds of the opening cinematic.

* ToyShip: It seems a decent amount of people in the fandom like the idea of Billy and Rolly. Sadly, the only thing that gave any kind of ShipTease was a 2-second clip in the opening cinematic.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
** Well, this is a Sonic Team game, so awesome music's a given. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP95m-SN79U Billy's Courage]]", full of creepy breakbeats, harp strums, and a choir of children. This can cause the final boss to become even worse NightmareFuel for some.
** Of course, some of the level themes are awesome in their own right -- for instance, there's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbhHYNcXidw Volcanic Orchestra]]", as well as some of the Blizzard Castle music ("[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEGwyQDMUhY Lullaby of Snow Mountain]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WroZbZPfM8 Pinball-like Echo]]").
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIVJhNm2T3g main boss theme]] is also quite good.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lVdk4KfZGo&hd=1 Chant this Charm]], the game's ending theme.

* BreatherBoss: Saltim is much easier than the boss before him, although his level (unlike the [[PlatformHell first level of Circus Park]]) also seems [[BreatherLevel easier and more straightforward]] than previous levels.
* BreatherLevel: The second level of Circus Park, compared to the rest of Circus Park, is easier; there's not as much hard platforming that made the first level of Circus Park hard, and it mainly has straighforward fighting enemies in it. It's also ridiculous that the second level also has the game's easiest boss in it.
** Likewise, the third level of Blizzard Castle (where the objective is to make the head of a snowman) is relatively simple, takes place in a small area, and doesn't feature many enemies. It comes as a welcome relief after [[ThatOneBoss Moles]].
* CultClassic: While the game didn't exactly light the sales charts on fire, the game still has a dedicated following, with some Sega fans clamoring for Sega to make a sequel.
* FridgeLogic: The crows, diurnal birds with horrible night vision, want to bring about a world of eternal darkness?
* GoddamnedBats: There are actual bat-like enemies, but some other crow monsters' attacks will actually push you. [[LedgeBats Woe to those who were near a cliff if this happens.]]
* NightmareFuel: The final boss battle music is basically a darker version of the main theme. What really sets it into this territory is that the children that sing the main theme are now ''ominously chanting'' in this one.

** Billy can't do anything athletic without an egg. Crushing enemies under your giant egg is satisfying and fun. Jumping with the giant egg ''is anything but fun''. Jumping to higher ledges is... '''[[RageQuit unpredictable and infuriating]]'''. Bearing in mind Billy Hatcher is a platforming game, not a boss-run, so the problems quickly start to mount up. Whenever you 'egg bounce' up to a higher platform, ''Billy almost always falls off'', leaving the egg now stuck up in a place you can no longer get to. The player is now forced to either ditch it and search for another one... or if it's the only egg available... wait for it to disappear and re-spawn. This is doubly annoying if you had already fed some fruit to that egg, and triply annoying if you wanted to hatch it.
** '''Red... Rails...''' These appear occasionally, appear in later levels, and are supposed to be used to roll eggs to the other side, usually in the form of racing them before they fall off the platform at the end. Problem is, they are infamous for [[GameBreakingBug glitching out and having the egg fall through them]]. [[EasyLevelTrick Thankfully, you can easily bypass these by jumping onto the rail using it as a blue rail]], which makes [[ThatOneLevel Circus Park Mission 1]] actually possible.
** The second phase against Dark Raven features an attack where he fires a dark energy ball at Billy, which you must turn into a ball of light by pressing the B button when it reaches him. However, it is very unresponsive unless you hit the button at the exact right time. The only way to do this reliably is to actually get hit by the ball before it starts hurtling towards Billy and spam the B button.
** The circus hoops have little in the way of reference point for the direction in which you want to throw yourself, making it incredibly easy to either overshoot or undershoot your throw. At best, you’ll sometimes accidentally toss yourself back to the previous area, but most of the time you’ll end up falling to your demise at light speed.
* SweetnessAversion: ''Billy Hatcher'' is clearly aiming towards a much younger demographic than most of Sega's intellectual properties, which has regrettably alienated a lot of older gamers from ever picking it up.

* ThatOneAttack: Most of Dark Corvo's attacks aren't too tricky to dodge, but when he summons the Saltim shadow clone and when Dark Corvo clones himself and attacks you is when it really gets difficult.
* ThatOneBoss: Moles the walrus. He first starts by ice skidding towards you, which is easy to dodge, but then he rolls into a sphere of ice, and very rapidly starts bouncing around the room, and this attack is ''very'' unpredictable. Also, to make matters worse, every time he hits a wall, small ice spheres appear and start bouncing around the room with him. Eventually, he will stop and allow you to hurt him, but those ice spheres are still bouncing around, and while you're focusing on hurting him, those ice spheres can hit you, stunning you for a second, and he will repeat this process for the whole fight.
** [[EvilSorcerer Dark Corvo]] the crow sorcerer is even worse; a lot of his attacks are extremely hard to dodge. For example, his shadow clone of Glur shoots homing bouncy balls, and his Saltim clone rapid-fires bombs at you, which are very hard to dodge; also, when Dark Corvo clones himself and attacks you, he attacks at high speed, and there is no clue as to which is the real one, and if you don't hit the right one fast enough, he will repeat the attack. It is especially painful that Dark Corvo comes after one of the hardest levels in the game. He's so hard that ''the game actually warns you he's gonna be hard, and this is a [[NintendoHard hard game!]]''
** Let's just say [[BigBad Dark Raven]] earned the right to be the FinalBoss of this incredibly hard game.
* ThatOneLevel: Mission 1 of Circus Park... Just wow, this stage can seriously drive you mad. For those who don't know, you have to hatch a '''Golden Egg''' (which will be destroyed in one hit from a crow attack/hazard), through a narrow area with fire, red rails, spinning, and giant cat crows with very little fruits to grow the egg without killing said crows. Oh, and to make matters worse, [[GameBreakingBug the Egg will usually FALL THROUGH THE RAILS IF YOU TRY TO DO THE LEVEL LEGITIMATELY]]. The only saving grace is that you can bypass the glitchy rails by riding them like a blue one via jumping onto them, but still. Definitely the most infamous part of the game.

* EasyLevelTrick:
** Having trouble with the [[ScrappyMechanic Red Rail]] puzzles? Just jump with an egg a little bit into the rail and you can ride it like a normal Blue Rail.
** Having a hard time cleaning up the puddles of darkness to allow yourself to damage Dark Raven? Don't worry, there's an alternate way to stun him: When he fires some dark magic missiles at you, [[MisguidedMissile just guide them back at him and hit him with them]], and you'll stun him as if you cleared a pool of darkness.

* TastesLikeDiabetes: ''Billy Hatcher'' is clearly aiming towards a much younger demographic than most of Sega's intellectual properties, which has regrettably alienated a lot of older gamers from ever picking it up.

** The second phase against Dark Raven features an attack where he fires a dark energy ball at Billy, which you must turn into a ball of light by pressing the B button when it reaches him. However, it is very unresponsive unless you hit the button at the exact right time. The only way to do this reliably is to actually get hit by the ball before it starts hurtling towards Billy.

* EarWorm: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2A2IqOl8xE Tumbling Xylophone]]", heard in Forest Village during the daytime.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vgvvmszbgz0 "G! I! A-N-T! E-G! G! G! I! A-N-T! E-G! G! G! I! A-N-T! E-G! G! YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAHHH!"]]
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIBFtybQLEw song from the US commercial]] is pretty catchy too.