History YMMV / TattooAssassins

** To say nothing of the shoddily drawn on, ahem, [[BuxomBeautyStandard "Enhancements"]] given to some of the female characters. Karla in particular looks as if she's wearing a boob shaped breastplate in her profile artwork.

* NightmareFuel: One of the stages has some odd kind of canvas, poorly stretched into frames....[[spoiler: [[FridgeHorror until you realise]] that it's actually skin, one of which seems to have been torn from A.C. Current!]]
** Which leads to FridgeLogic if he's fighting on that stage. Either that was taken from a poor sap who happed to have the exact same tattoo, or the artist just added it unthinkingly.

** To say nothing of the shoddily drawn on, ahem, [[GagBoobs "Enhancements"]] given to some of the female characters. Karla in particular looks as if she's wearing a boob shaped breastplate in her profile artwork.
* WTHCostumingDepartment: Karla is supposed to be a figure skater, so why is she wearing hockey pads?

* SoBadItsGood: ''All'' of the fatalities are stupid, ''none'' of the fighters are truly threatening (besides maybe [[TheLivingDead Deke Cay]] and [[FinalBoss Koldan]]), and honestly, the concept isn't even well thought out. It's as if the developers knew how bad it was and didn't hold back on the absurdity. The glitches in the game just add to the value. If someone is finished by getting set on fire and turned into a skeleton, someone casually in a faux-Scottish accent says "Get up and fight!"

* SpecialEffectsFailure: Aside from the obvious... One of Karla's fatalities summons a zamboni to run down and tear apart the opponent. However, the zamboni ''always'' comes out on the left side, no matter where the opponent is. Since the player is on the left most of the time, this means the zamboni doesn't even touch the opponent. It also plays voice samples instead of engine sounds, so with the looping it makes a "Get up and fight-Get up and fight-G-G-G-G-GET UP AND FIGHT!" sound instead of anything resembling a motor vehicle.

** To say nothing of the shoddily drawn on, ahem, [[GagBoobs "Enhancements"]] given to some of the female characters. Karla in particular looks as if she's wearing a boob shaped breastplate in her [[https://giantbomb1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/original/0/4772/419001-karla.gif profile artwork]].

** Similarly, blaming Data East's pinball division for the flaws of ''Tattoo Assassin'' is just an attempt to denigrate {{Pinball}} in comparison to VideoGames. According to [[http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=tattoo-assassins&page=detail&id=2841 insider accounts,]] the project was plagued with ever-changing requirements, underpowered hardware, trade show demos, 12-hour workdays, and a development schedule and budget that was ''less than half'' of the typical arcade game of the time. Anyone working under those conditions would be hard-pressed to produce a playable game, no matter what their programming background was.

** Most of the characters' tattoos look like they were drawn by a six year old.

** Most of the characters's tattoos look like they were drawn by a six year old.

* SoBadItsGood: ''All'' of the fatalities are stupid, ''none'' of the fighters are look truly threatening (besides maybe [[TheLivingDead Deke Cay]] and [[FinalBoss Koldan]]), and honestly, the concept isn't even well thought out. It's as if the developers knew how bad it was and didn't hold back on the absurdity.
** The glitches in the game just add to the value. If someone is finished by getting set on fire and turned into a skeleton, someone casually in a faux-Scottish accent says "Get up and fight!"

** [[FridgeBrilliance Well, he is made of crystal.]]

* SoBadItsGood: ...[[UpToEleven Or So Hideously, Utterly, Mind-Numbingly Stupid It's Downright Epic]]. ''All'' of the fatalities are stupid, ''none'' of the fighters are look truly threatening (besides maybe [[TheLivingDead Deke Cay]] and [[FinalBoss Koldan]]), and honestly, the concept isn't even well thought out. It's as if the developers knew how bad it was and didn't hold back on the absurdity.

* WhatTheHellCostumingDepartment: Karla is supposed to be a figure skater, so why is she wearing hockey pads?

** To say nothing of the shoddily drawn on, ahem, [[GagBoobs "Enhancements"]] given to some of the female characters. Karla in particular looks as if she's wearing a boob shaped breastplate in her [[https://giantbomb1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/original/0/4772/419001-karla.gif profile artwork]].

** Unlike the classic Mortal Kombat sprites who executed a single VictoryPose after winning a match, the Assassins however perform a victory dance or some other such action on a loop.

** To say nothing of the shoddily drawn on, ahem, [[GagBoobs "Enhancements"]] given to some of the female characters. Karla in particular looks as if she's wearing a boob shaped breastplate in her [[https://cdn2us.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeekus/files/styles/article_width/public/takarla.jpg?itok=7ebzVmmR profile artwork]].

* {{Narm}}: Unlike the classic Mortal Kombat sprites who executed a single VictoryPose after winning a match, the Assassins however perform a victory dance or some other such action on a loop.

* SnarkBait: What else would keep this game from disappearing into obscurity?

* CrossesTheLineTwice

* GameBreaker: You can kick while blocking. You can kick...''while blocking''. Turtling doesn't even begin to cover it. Some reviewers will note that the most reliable way to finish the game is to jump kick and uppercut at every opportunity. Granted, this just might be due to the emulated versions being betas. See MisBlamed below.
* GoodBadBug: The "Happy Thanksgiving" "Fatality", which instead of spawning one turkey that knocks down whatever it touches, due to a coding error it spawns infinite turkeys that infinitely juggle both players. [[ThrowItIn The coder thought it was hilarious and made no attempt to fix it.]]
* MisBlamed: Due to imperfect emulation and no way to independently verify what was broken in the original game. Some of the reviews make points that are only valid in early emulated versions of the ROM, which no longer exist in current versions of MAME. For example, many of them will point out a hideously loud screech in the jungle stage that repeats every five seconds, but the volume issue associated with it was an emulation bug that has long since been fixed. Going by just this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax-_P3meUiA video review]] of an actual cabinet, the MAME ROM is missing a lot of features that most people will never get to try.

* NightmareFuel: One of the stages has some odd kind of canvas, poorly stretched into frames....[[spoiler: [[FridgeHorror until you realise that it's actually skin, one of which seems to have been torn from A.C. Current!]]]]

** Most likely the SoBadItsGood aspect of the game, as stated above.

** The glitches in the game just add to the value. If someone is finished by getting set on fire and turned into a skeleton, someone casually in a faux-Scottish accent says "Get-up and fight!"

** To say nothing of the shoddily drawn on, ahem, [[GagBoobs "Enhancements]] given to some of the female characters. Karla in particular looks as if she's wearing a boob shaped breastplate in her [[https://cdn2us.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeekus/files/styles/article_width/public/takarla.jpg?itok=7ebzVmmR profile artwork]].

* MostAnnoyingSound: In the earliest playable emulated versions, you had to contend with '''AAHH-AHH-AHH-OOH-OOH-OHH''' suddenly shattering your eardrums in the Jungle Stage. More recent MAME updates either correct the audio to ambient level or (as of 2017) simply cut all audio entirely when it's supposed to play.

** The glitches in the game just add to the value. If someone finished by getting set on fire and turned into a skeleton, someone casually in a faux-Scottish accent says "Get-up and fight!"

* SoBadItsGood: ...[[UpToEleven Or So Hideously, Utterly, Mind-Numbingly Stupid It's Downright Epic]]. ''All'' of the fatalities are stupid, ''none'' of the fighters are look truly threatening (besides maybe [[TheLivingDead Deke Cay]] and [[FinalBoss Koldan]]), and honestly, the concept isn't even well thought out.