History YMMV / FridayNightFunkinLullaby

** Throughout the entirety of "Death Toll", there's an extra button specifically made to deal with Hell Bell, as it will make some ghastly tolls to hinder your progress. This button must be pressed whenever Hell Bell make these noises in order prevent your health from getting a massive drain. It doesn't help that Hell Bell [[SpamAttack gets more spammy with its attack]] as the song goes on. Luckily, this mechanic is one of, if not ''the'' easiest mechanic in the mod to handle compared to other songs, since you only need to press the button to avoid Hell Bell and nothing else.

** Hypno will try to hypnotize Girlfriend by swinging his pendulum to the beat of the music, which you're meant to counteract by pressing the spacebar at the same tempo. While this isn't too much of an issue in "Safety Lullaby", which is mercifully slow-paced, "Left Unchecked" really shows how intrusive this can become in a faster song, as the multi-tasking required is painfully difficult without being adept at hitting the arrows with only one hand. Worse yet, Hypno repeatedly advances the hypnosis with a distracting Psyshock, which could end a player too close to the edge, and a [[HellIsThatNoise loud droning noise]] becomes more and more audible the further it is, which can lead a player to panic and fail. Hell mode amplifies this by doubling the tempo of the pendulum's swinging, demanding even more focus be diverted from hitting notes to prevent the hypnosis.

** Throughout the entirety of "Death Toll", there's an extra button specifically made to deal with Hell Bell, as it will make some [[HellIsThatNoise ghastly tolls]] to hinder your progress. This button must be pressed whenever Hell Bell make these noises in order prevent your health from getting a massive drain. It doesn't help that Hell Bell [[SpamAttack gets more spammy with its attack]] as the song goes on. Luckily, this mechanic is one of, if not ''the'' easiest mechanic in the mod to handle compared to other songs, since you only need to press the button to avoid Hell Bell and nothing else.

** Somehow, [[Fanfic/PokemonLostSilver Gold's]] appearance in "Monochrome" manages to be even worse. Right off the bat, you're greeted by his [[EvilSoundsRaspy raspy,]] [[HellIsThatNoise croaking voice]] before his [[BodyHorror graphically mutilated body]] comes out of the shadows, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou staring right at the screen]] with empty eye sockets bleeding some sort of black substance. During the song itself, almost all of his poses have depict him writhing in agony and doing an inhumanly wide GhostlyGape, he frequently [[JumpScare jumpscares]] the player with a loud scream, and his similarly mutilated Celebi will occasionally appear to lower your health with Perish Song. [[spoiler: And when you think it can't get any worse, the V2 Build extends the song by having the Unown finish his transformation and tear his head off his torso even as he's pleading for it to end, causing the song to get far more intense, the song's name to go absolutely nuts, and the {{jump scare}}s to become far more frequent.]]

** Throughout the entirety of "Death Toll", there's an extra button specifically made to deal with Hell Bell, as it will make some [[HellIsThatNoise ghastly tolls]] to hinder your progress. This button must be pressed whenever Hell Bell in order prevent your health from getting a massive drain. It doesn't help that Hell Bell [[SpamAttack gets more spammy with its attack]] as the song goes on. Luckily, this mechanic is one of, if not ''the'' easiest mechanic in the mod to handle, compared to other songs.
** In "Pasta Night", you actually get to play as three characters: MX, Lord X, or Hypno himself. Choosing one of them makes you deal with the other two's gimmicks: MX uses his POW Block to mess with the note scroll by making it go up and down, Hypno uses his pendulum, which is basically the same mechanic in his songs copied and pasted, and Lord X...nothing. This makes playing as Lord X the hardest out of the three. as you have to deal with ''two'' mechanics, while playing as MX or Hypno only makes you deal with one mechanic, that being each other's.

** "Its a fucking ''bar'', Gold."[[labelnote:Explanation]]After assets showing Gold was to appear in "Pasta Night" with a similar bowtie to Hypno's, an artist came up with the idea that [[https://twitter.com/skitkattl/status/1585151754404245504?t=VHaz_ysSsWro25Zb5sn1_Q&s=19 Hypno acts as his legal guardian]] and took Gold with him. The car ride there is filled with the typical banter ome would expect from a jaded adult and an eleven-year-old, and the result has seen many fanmade dubs by other fans of the mod.[[/labelnote]]

* FanonDiscontinuity: WordOfGod is nearly completely ignored that the mod has the SuddenDownerEnding that Girlfriend and Boyfriend have both been abducted by Hypno and a lot of fan art actually has Girlfriend NoSell Hypno's attempts. Considering she also managed to beat [[VideoGame/VsSonicExe Sonic.exe]], this was inevitable. Eventually, the mod would go against this itself, with "Lost Cause" giving a more ambiguous ending that doesn't make the final call on if Hypno manages to hypnotize Girlfriend again or not.

* AntiClimaxBoss:
** In the unfinished build, the song gained for beating every other song in the mod, including the [[MarathonLevel 6-minute-long "Brimstone"]] and the [[ThatOneLevel brutally difficult Lost Silver week]] is "Purin"... a slow-paced and gimmickless song where the player spends long amounts of time completely silent. The difference in difficulty in the initial released build can be attributed to being meant as not as a BrutalBonusLevel, but a mid/early game song obtained by buying the relatively cheap Lit Candle, with the function being re-implemented in the finished build.
** "Bygone Purpose", one of the last songs purchasable in the shop, is incredibly easy. The song is incredibly slow with the mechanic (every note being a different scroll speed) overall not being too difficult to deal with thanks to the speed the song goes in.

* TearJerker:
** "Bygone Purpose" reveals that [[spoiler:Hypno used to have a trainer who was bullied [[DrivenToSuicide into suicide]], most likely turning Hypno into the monster we see now.]]
** Despite how horrific he looks the whole time, Gold's situation in "Monochrome" is also incredibly bleak. He's never had a bad intention in his life and still doesn't in death, yet he's forced into having his mutilated corpse puppeteered by Unown in order to sing with Boyfriend. Once he finally tries to object with a strained "NO MORE" halfway in, he instead [[spoiler:has his head brutally torn from his body, the Unown only gaining even further control over him]]. And to think all of this is happening to [[TroubledChild an 11-year-old boy!]]
** "Amusia", while terrifiying and also [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic hella rockin]], ends with a somber tune as DISABLED stands in a lone spotlight, most likely [[DespairEventHorizon having officially lost all hope as a result of once again being denied the ability to Sing.]]

** Shinto's transformation in "Shitno". Unlike many of the sprites of the mod, this one is seemingly animated in stop motion and it looks relatively realistic to the point where it is ''haunting''. It's creepy movements alongside her GlowingEyesOfDoom makes for one of the creepier opponents of the mod.

** In "Insomnia", if you get under 90% accuracy for even a mere 5 seconds, Silver’s Feraligatr will awaken and kill you, thus meaning you can barely mess up or else your head will get crushed. This gets even worse in Hell Mode, where the mechanic starts when you get under 99% accuracy, aka, you need to be an absolute champion at the game and not miss at all to get past. Fortunately, the song itself is pretty slow and more so just acts as an endurance test with both it’s length and mechanic, preventing itself from reaching ThatOneLevel territory.

* CreepyCute:
** The fandom loves treating Gold this way. If it's not angst art, most fanart of him is flat out adorable in contrast to the frights in the mod. It's emphasized when a Twitter user finds [[https://twitter.com/ArtsCryptid/status/1584258296906911744 this particular]] piece of unused content for "Pasta Night" where Gold would've been a background character, now wearing a red bowtie and is strung up by two balloons spelling out "HI" in the Unown language.
** Freakachu is normally a terrifying sight with its mutilated, frostbitten body and permanent SlasherSmile, but the freeplay icon for "Frostbite" shows it taking a piggyback ride on Red's back, looking like it's having the time of its life.

** During "Brimstone", Muk will occasionally use Sludge Bomb in it’s section, [[InterfaceScrew blocking the view of incoming notes]]. As revealed in a Q&A, Gengar also had a planned mechanic, with notes with Gengar’s face that needed to be hit or else the notes would become more and more transparent.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQkpMaeKR68 This fan cover of "Frostbite"]] paints Red as one; while at first glance he seems to be discouraging Blake, the fact his second verse has the words "[[YouFool If only your foolish mind knew]]", and with Red's Pokedex entry calling him a fool for exiling himself atop Mt. Silver, it could be argued Red is opposing ''himself''. And even with his final verse having the words "a happy ending like the one we both truly deserve", one also has to keep in mind that Freakachu is also there, so he may have said those words to ''Freakachu'', and not Blake. To sum everything up, Red is trapped in constant pain with nothing but [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone his guilt]] and a feral Pikachu to keep him company, making it hard not to feel for Red.

** "Okay, I got this simple explanation."[[labelnote:Explanation]][[https://youtu.be/7gyXhm_57yc A video dub]] made by ''Alexcodexx the Kinereader'' depicts Sonic.EXE/Xenophanes listing off the creepypasta mods that got cancelled (VideoGame/VsSonicExe, VideoGame/MistfulCrimsonMorning and this mod) while trying to keep a clear head, then saying outright to Mario.exe/MGYNT Mario that, above all odds, [[VideoGame/FridayNightFunkinMariosMadness his mod]] is still going, and is completely baffled by it, to which Mario.exe tells him to "Shut... the fuck... up.". Gold doesn't exactly help things when he taunts them both about who would be winning that game of TabletopGame/UNO, infuriating the pair of them.[[/labelnote]]

* CryForTheDevil: Hypno is a terrifying HumanoidAbomination that will stop at nothing once it sets its sights on someone, even employing dirty tactics to kidnap them... however, [[https://twitter.com/Banbuds/status/1462298929366769664 a pair of teaser images]] allude to the death of someone close to it, giving way to the interpretation that the kidnappings are a desperate attempt at companionship born from loneliness rather than malevolence. This is fully explored in "Bygone Purpose" in the cancelled build, which shows the sadness Hypno had to endure from losing his trainer, [[spoiler:Alexis]]. The shopkeeper, however, warns the player not to fall for Hypno's sympathetic origins.

* CryForTheDevil: Hypno is a terrifying HumanoidAbomination that will stop at nothing once it sets its sights on someone, even employing dirty tactics to kidnap them... however, [[https://twitter.com/Banbuds/status/1462298929366769664 a pair of teaser images]] allude to the death of someone close to it, giving way to the interpretation that the kidnappings are a desperate attempt at companionship born from loneliness rather than malevolence. This is fully explored in "Bygone Purpose" in the cancelled build, which shows the sadness Hypno had to endure from losing his trainer, [[spoiler:Alexis]].

** Invoked with "Bygone Purpose", which the dev admitted on Twitter that giving Hypno a sympathetic backstory was entirely his own HeadCanon for this project, and was not indicative of the actual Creepypasta he originated from.

** hi guys, i'm saster[[labelnote:Explanation]][[https://twitter.com/RexDoesStuff/status/1585407672186462209 This comic]] by [=RexDoesStuff=] depicting Gray and Shinto being interrupted in the middle of "Shitno" by Saster, one of the song's composers, with Gray being hyped and Shinto confused as hell, became popular enough among the fanbase to receive [[https://twitter.com/phantasmuh/status/1585893005998833664 a video dub]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B34BH8dCdNQ even its own separate mod.]][[/labelnote]]

** Throughout the entirety of "Death Toll", there's an extra button specifically made to deal with Hell Bell, as it will make some [[HellIsThatNoise ghastly tolls]] to hinder your progress. This button must be pressed whenever Hell Bell in order prevent your health from getting a massive drain. It doesn't help that Hell Bell [[SpamAttack gets more spammy with its attack]] as the song goes on. Luckily, this mechanic is one of, if not *the* easiest mechanic in the mod to handle, compared to other songs.
** In "Pasta Night", you actually get to play as three characters: MX, Lord X, or Hypno himself. Choosing one of them makes you deal with the other two's gimmicks: MX uses his POW Block to mess with the note scroll by making it go up and down, Hypno uses his pendulum, which is basically the same mechanic in his songs copied and pasted, and Lord X...nothing. This makes playing as Lord X the hardest out of the three. as you have to deal with *two* mechanics, while playing as MX or Hypno only makes you deal with one mechanic, that being each other's.