YMMV / Berl And The Candy House

• Alternative Character Interpretation: The Margarete that appears in Berl's dream in the Bonus Room. Is her spirit conversing with Berl? Or it's a result of Berl's guilt at Hans choosing to save her over his sister?
• Ass Pull: Hans being alive and well in Ending 1. However Kapitel 4 explains that Maria brought him back to life using the remains of Margarete's powers.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Hans finds Mike as a severed head and Lezia without legs and slowly bleeding to death. An official comic shows that Mike was decapitated over a Disproportionate Retribution while Lezia's legs were cut by Margarete while she was trying to escape the house.
  • In Kapitel 1, when Hans approaches the Candy House, he's surprised to see Margarete is not there, because it was more likely she'd be waiting him instead. A comic reveals that indeed Margarete was waiting for him, but Berl, Lezia and Mike arriving at the Candy House changed her plans.
• Moral Event Horizon: Margarete crosses it when she kills Mike and eats Lezia. While this might be because of her witch-induced insanity and her pathological craving for meat, a comic reveals she killed Mike out of mere annoyance that he knocked the door to the Candy House instead of Hans.
• Nightmare Fuel: The side-story "Foolish Girl", detailing Lezia's final moments. Due to the magic of the house, she's briefly trapped with the ghosts of Maria Magdalene's victims as she runs and calls for Mike's help. Suddenly she hears Mike's voice and she turns around to see him as a giant disembodied head. She loses her mind and runs, finding herself in the kitchen. Hopeful, she climbs the stairs, is about to reach the exit.....and Margarete pulls her back, angry that "her dinner" is running away. The last thing she sees is her legs being chopped as she screams in horror.
• Nintendo Hard: The aptly named Tod Mode.
• Ugly Cute: Haschen. Seriously, it's not the prettiest stuffed rabbit you've ever seen (he's basically a black ball with rabbit ears, dear God!) but what counts is how endearing he can be, especially in Kapitel 2 when you see his devotion to Berl.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Make no mistake: Margarete is awful. But as Berl points out, this isn't something she chose, nor does she have any ability to stop herself. Part of Hans's agony comes from realizing that even if Margarete could somehow be prevented from killing, she would still have her insane craving for human meat.