YMMV / Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon

• Anti-Climax Boss: Played unfortunately straight, as most of the bosses feel unfinished, and some are mostly immobile. Especially if you have an upgraded Ion Detonator. Only Henri Crousteau feels like a proper boss fight.
• Funny Moments: Perhaps the only thing Path of the Furon did right was the humor. A notable example coming from Crypto and Pox discussing this new idea about 'video games.' Pox dismissed Mario, Sonic and Halo as ridiculous ideas, and then, being the genius that he is, suggests that they should make games based on popular movies. What could go wrong?
  • At the very beginning of the game, Pox is busy chewing out Crypto for deviating from his original mission on Earth in order to open a casino, accusing him of Going Native. Crypto offers to cut Pox in for 5% of the profits if he stops whining, to which the latter immediately agrees.
  • The Running Gag of someone pronouncing the name of Shen Long as "Shen Loooooooong". Even the bad guy does it.
  • Upon his arrival in Belleville, Crypto stops at a cafe and is served coffee by a waiter, which baffles Pox as the average humans are usually terrified of him. Crypto states that it's either because the French think all foreigners are weird, or that it may be just the beret he's wearing. When he takes it off to test his theory, the waiter recoils in sheer terror, then reverts when Crypto puts the hat back on. Pox wonders aloud why they didn't come to France when they first arrived.
  • At the start of the last stage, Crypto destroys a large red forcefield blocking his path with the Saucer's Death Ray. It is immediately replaced by a similar, green one.
    Pox: We'll need to think of something else; you can't just shoot this one, because it's green.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: By the end of the game, Crypto and Pox part ways from each other on good terms, with Crypto promising that they’ll meet again in 10 years. Path of the Furon came out in 2009 in the EU, with the remake of the first game being announced in 2019. Looks like Crypto kept his promise in a way after all.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Crypto bemoans the idea of making his casino more family-friendly, saying he hates children because they're 'too smart to gamble'. Come the lootbox fiasco brought to the spotlight in gaming roughly a decade later, in which one of the main criticisms against Loot Boxes was the real possibility of goading children playing games with these mechanics into gambling.
• Porting Disaster: The reason the PS3 version was never released in North America.
• Replacement Scrappy:
  • The Nexos to the Blisk. They look similar and even have a similar reveal (complete with Oh, Crap! moment from Pox), but don't nearly leave the same impact.
  • Veronica Stone is often viewed by the fandom as just being filler to replace Natalya, and unlike Natalya at least actually helping Crypto in the game, Veronica is merely there to get new things to broadcast and for eye-candy.
• Retroactive Recognition: Mikey Molinari is played by Rick Pasqualone, just two years before he would become known for voicing Vito Scaletta from Mafia II.
• Sequelitis: Its Obvious Beta nature met it a scathing reception and killed the series.
• Tear Jerker: When Henri Crousteau, a character easily dismissed as a French Jerk nd That One Boss to boot, is defeated, he realises the truth that led him to do what he did and sincerely apologises to Crypto before dying.
• That One Boss: Crousteau. He can empty Crypto's maximally-upgraded health bar in exactly two hits, and whittling down his health bar with the few weapons you have that can hurt him takes forever.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: For those who didn't hate Natalya in the second game, her clone suffering an off-screen death which is then brushed over can seem rather anti-climactic.

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