History YMMV / TheMessenger2018

--->'''Ninja Elder:''' Our champion returns! How is adventure treating you?\\

* BrokenBase: The GenreShift to [[spoiler:a {{Metroidvania}}]] halfway through the game. Some people feel this is a welcome surprise and enhances what is already a great game, while others feel it causes FakeLongevity since there really isn't any new equipment the player gets after the halfway point of the game.

* GoodBadBugs: If you [[KaizoTrap die immediately after collecting]] the [[spoiler: music note from Corrupted Future, you'll respawn at the beginning and won't have to face the instant-kill monster.]]

* TheScrappy: Quarble is immensely annoying, due to being a constant {{Jerkass}}, with no [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold heart of gold]] to make up for it, about your ([[NintendoHard most likely repeated]]) deaths and having a rather ugly design on top of it. A very common question on forums is whether or not there's an option to turn him off (there's not, which is something that only makes players hate him more).

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1eswfKYUzk "Quillshroom's Horrors"]], the haunting theme of Quillshroom Marsh. It is so good [[MediumAwareness the mushrooms themselves sing it !]]

* TheScrappy: Quarble is immensely annoying, due to being a constant {{Jerkass}} about your ([[NintendoHard most likely repeated]]) deaths and having a rather ugly design on top of it.

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
** Multiple times throughout the game, [[IdiotHero the Ninja]] will either say or do something ridiculous, only to be called out by someone else, usually the Shopkeeper. And because the Ninja usually doesn't have any snarky quips at hand, he's rendered speechless and we're treated to [[VisibleSilence an ellipsis in the dialogue box]] each time. It may as well be his catchphrase.
** The Shopkeeper's cabinet OverlyLongGag. The gag reaches its peak at the end of the Tower of Time, right before the boss fight - the Shopkeeper is ''conspicuously absent'', and you're probably tempted to try and open the cabinet since she's not there. If you try, however, the Shopkeeper ''immediately'' comes in through the door and mocks you for thinking it'd be ''that easy'', and you can go through the whole cycle again. And then the gag comes back again when you finally get the chance to open the cabinet but try to leave. On top of this, the cabinet ultimately turns out to be [[spoiler:a closet of blue robes. The player is probably just as underwhelmed as the Ninja is.]]
** The Shopkeeper thinks the conical straw hat the Ninja wears as part of his future outfit to be so cool that the next time you visit her, ''she's wearing the hat now too.'' And briefly gets into an argument with the Ninja over it.
** Barma'thazël acting like a cartoon supervillain at the start of ''Picnic Panic'' and ''hiding in some bushes'' to keep tabs on the Ninja is pure gold. His overly convoluted plot with multiple backup plans is also amusing.
** Also in ''Picnic Panic'', the final battle involves [[spoiler:Barma'thazël and the Dark Messenger doing the thing to fuse together. The Alchemist briefly shows up to gloat, but then realises the situation is actually serious, and dips out to grab the Shopkeeper, who is incredulous about the idea of them actually pulling it off until she sees it. Then she notices that the fusion has the conical straw hat, declares that she ''refuses'' to do the thing without resolving the disparity in fashion, and dips out to fetch and wear her own conical hat before doing the thing. Lo and behold, the Arcane Golem that rises to fight Barma'thazël's fusion is ''also'' wearing the conical hat.]]

* TheScrappy: Pretty much no one who played the game enjoys Quarble, due to being a constant {{Jerkass}} about your ([[NintendoHard most likely repeated]]) deaths and having a rather ugly design on top of it.

** [[https://youtu.be/J38c6NzbFoI "Ninja's Respite"]], the theme for Ninja Village, gives you the feeling that you're about to start something ''incredible''

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLlMKFEUr_A A "Home Amongst the Clouds".]]
** The music from the final level, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbSQ1NDs70w "A Melody to Break the Curse".]]