History YMMV / Tamagotchi

* HilariousInHindsight: Kenji Watanabe, the character designer for the original Tamagotchis, initially wanted to scrap Mametchi because he felt it was too "cute" compared to what he thought the Tamagotchis should look like. Decades later, Mametchi would be overshadowed by new Tamagotchis that were even ''cuter'' than him.

** The Uni's inability to be turned off outside of letting the battery run flat is near-universally reviled, with frustrations stemming from people wanting to take a break from their Unis but not willing to kill their Tamagotchi just to do so, worrying about damaging the battery through this method, and wondering why Bandai decided to give the [[Franchise/{{Digimon}} Vital Bracelet and Digital Monster Color]] ways to be turned off but not doing the same for the Uni.
*** The Uni has also received multiple updates, one of them including an option to adjust volume, but as of writing there are still no features to turn off the Uni, which doesn't help.

** The Happiness meter Introduced in Tamagotchi Plus Color. Replacing the original Happy meter, it's measured in points (0-100, represented by 20 colored squares). It affects not only how the Tamagotchi grows, but also how it behaves and reacts to the user. The problem is ''raising'' the Happiness takes a huge amount of time, it lowers very quickly, and it can only be filled halfway during the first three stages of life, [[GuideDangIt which the instructions don't warn you about]]. The end result is a lot of Tamagotchis sadly sulking in the corner of their room, with players not understanding what they're doing wrong.

** When your Tamagotchi dies.

* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: The [[[[VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}} original Game Boy game]] is notorious for how easy killing a Tamagotchi is (even moreso than the [[NintendoHard Ocean]]) and thanks [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness to being part of the Vintage era]] they can die from old age. The entire Game Boy trilogy's death scenes are also infamous for their disturbing ways of playing out, even to some adults.

* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: The original Game Boy game is notorious for how easy killing a Tamagotchi is (even moreso than the [[NintendoHard Ocean]]) and thanks [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness for being part of the Vintage era]] they can die from old age. The entire Game Boy trilogy's death scenes are also infamous for their disturbing ways of playing out, even to some adults.

** Obtaining the special characters on Entama/Uratama. For the former, it requires the user to get at least 200 points in the respective skill points to get the best job by the time the character graduates from school on day 9... then all up to 999 points by day 11. Unless cheats like codes manipulations are used, it requires the user to spam either the game or the GUTS-up item for a long time. Even with tools like [=EnWareHouse=], it still takes a long time to fill up your guts points. On the V4 and V4.5, it's easier, since the school minigame has no RNG and they give a lot of free skill points for you to reach the 350 points requirement more easily.

* CheeseStrategy: Want to quickly increase happiness without going through tedious minigames? You can simply spam the default snacks. Starting from the Connection series, getting toothache isn't even a care mistake and snacks do no harm to your Tamagotchi characters otherwise (although in the Tama-Go overfeeding will cause your Tamgotchi to be obese, you can simply give them some medicine). It's also doable in Angel so you can quickly improve Angel Power. The only modern Tamagotchi where you can't do it would be 4U where even the default snack fills hunger.

** The overall toy; many people have had less trouble taking care of a real animal than a Tamagotchi or anything similar. It's particularly bad with the vintage releases - as the Tamagotchi grows older, the rate at which its hearts begin to deplete grows until the point where they're needier than the babies. Later installments have significantly reduced the stress of taking care of a Tamagotchi, adding features like daycare, removing features like discipline and make the Tamagotchi overall easier to take care of.

** The Baby Stage, while intended to be a "tutorial" stage for the toy, is infamous among the fanbase. While your Tamagotchi can't die in this stage, its hearts drop ''very'' quickly. Depending on the toys, they will also require you to turn the light off for them or cry.

** Obtaining the special characters on Entama/Uratama and V4/V4.5. For the former, it requires the user to get 200 points in the respective skill points by the time the character graduates from school on day 9... then all up to 999 points by day 11. Unless cheats like codes maniulations are used, it requires the user to spam either the game or the GUTS-up item for a long time. For the latter, it "just" requires 350 points in the specific field and a total of 450 in all three fields in 5 days, but there are no effortless ways to get skill points, meaning you have to spam games. It also doesn't help that the children and teens are more complex, often causing the user to get an unwanted child or teen that will not lead to their desired character.

* CheeseStrategy: Want to quickly increase happiness without going through tedious minigames? You can simply spam the default snacks. Starting from the Connection series, getting toothache isn't even a Cake Mistake and snacks do no harm to your Tamagotchi characters otherwise. It's also doable in Angel so you can quickly improve Angel Power. The only modern Tamagotchi where you can't do it would be 4U where even the default snack fills hunger.

* PlayerPunch: The death sequence on any Tamagotchi is drawn out to be as heartbreaking as possible. particularly on the originals where the Tamagotchi lays down ill while a heart monitor plays and gradually slows until the flatline. This is turned up to eleven on the Game Boy edition, where you're forced to watch your Tamagotchi's last moments while sad, solemn music plays.

** The overall toy; many people have had less trouble taking care of a real animal than a Tamagotchi or anything similar. It's particularly bad with the vintage releases - as the Tamagotchi grows older, the rate at which its hearts begin to deplete grows until the point where they're needier than the babies.

** Obtaining the special characters on Entama/Uratama and V4/V4.5. For the former, it requires the user to get 200 points in the respective skill points by the time the character graduates from school on day 9... then all up to 999 points by day 11. Unless cheats like codes maniulations are used, it requires the user to spam either the game or the GUTS-up item for a long time. For the latter, it just requires 350 points in the specific field and a total of 450 in all three fields in 5 days, but there are no effortless ways to get skill points, meaning you have to spam games. It also doesn't help that the children and teens are more complex, often causing the user to get an unwanted child or teen that will not lead to their desired character.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Seeing two Tamagotchis marry.

* PlayerPunch: The death sequence on any Tamagotchi is drawn out to be as heartbreaking as possible. particularly on the originals where the Tamagotchi lays down ill while a heart monitor plays and gradually slows until the flatline. This is turned up to eleven on the Game Boy edition, where you're forced to watch your Tamagotchi's last moments while sad, solemn music plays.

** The Ocean takes the crown for being one of ''the'' hardest Tamagotchi releases to raise - it may be popular for its rarity, but it definitely isn't beloved for its gameplay. Every character on the device is unusually fragile (Even Ningyotchi loses hearts quicker than a teenager and will be lucky to outlive something like a Nyorotchi, two major differences compared to '''every''' other special adult on the vintage pets), the predator system means that a close eye needs to be kept more than usual so the Tamagotchi doesn't die, and the RNG-based game has a chance to empty all of the happy hearts and water quality. Most young Tamagotchi on vintage releases naturally get sick once a stage about 12-24 hours before evolution - Kuragetchi and the teens naturally get sick ''multiple times every day''. Failure to raise the discipline bar beyond 5/7 before evolution time results in death, [[GuideDangIt and nothing in the manual warns you of this]].

* WereStillRelevantDammit: The Tamagotchi Smart is full of this, something Bandai admitted to in press regarding the device. The food and items are now ordered through an app instead of visiting a store, a new smartspeaker character named Smaspitchi tells the user about events and sales, the house is cleaned by a Roomba-like vacuum cleaner robot, the games are now "Tama Work" gig jobs, and the Tamagotchi marries through a dating app.
** The Pix has elements of this as well, though more downplayed than the Smart. The Pix can order food and items from an app, but can still visit the traditional restaurant and shop. The Pix also lets the user upload photos to the Tama's social media account, and then see other characters reacting.

** Memetchi has recently became a somewhat controversial character, on the one hand, many fans like her for being a cute, adorable, innocent alien who just has trouble controlling herself when angered, on the other hand however, some fans have seen her as a bossy BrattyHalfPint & a {{Jerkass}} due to her actions in the episode "The Power of Gossip" and being a manipulative & spoiled jerk to others in that said episode. Being a KarmaHoudini at times doesn’t help at all.

* PlayerPunch: The death sequence on any Tamagotchi is drawn out to be as heartbreaking as possible. particularly on the originals where the Tamagotchi lays down ill while a heart monitor plays and gradually slows until the flatline. This is turned UpToEleven on the Game Boy edition, where you're forced to watch your Tamagotchi's last moments while sad, solemn music plays.

* TastesLikeDiabetes: It's a series for girls and is based off of toys that are primarily aimed at girls. You've got a whole array of characters who look absolutely adorable and huggable. It's all pretty unbearably cutesy to begin with, but then there's Himespetchi with her saccharine daydreams about Mametchi, whom she loves so much that she's gone into StalkerWithACrush territory (without being ''too'' creepy, this being a children's show).

* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: The original Game Boy game is notorious for how easy killing a Tamagotchi is (even moreso than the [[NintendoHard Ocean]]) and the frustrating mechanics of the games and thanks [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness for being part of the Vintage era]] they can die from old age. The entire Game Boy trilogy's death scenes are also infamous for their disturbing ways of playing out, even to some adults.