YMMV / Gitaroo Man

• Awesome Music: Most of the game's music is amazing.
  • The Legendary Theme, whether played on acoustic or electric guitar, always ends up being the musical equivalent of a Heartwarming Moment.
  • "Tainted Lovers", Gregorio III's song, mixes organ and shredding metal to create one of the most memorable tracks in the game.
• Breather Level: After the hellish ordeal that is Ben-K's shark form, Ben-K's robot form and The Legendary Theme (Acoustic) are two welcome breaks before you're thrown back into the deep end for the rest of the game.
• Difficulty Spike:
  • The stages with Panpeus, Flying-O, and Mojo King Bee aren't too tough if you have a good grasp of the game mechanics. Then you hit the first battle with Ben-K, and the difficulty just skyrockets from there.
  • On Master Mode, you could just start the spike from Mojo King Bee. And considering that's only the third level...
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Mojo King Bee is perhaps the most memorable minor boss in the game thanks to his funky, absurd scenario and incredibly catchy song.
• Good Bad Bug: In the original PS2 version, ejecting the disc during the fourth and sixth stages, then immediately reinserting it grants you an instant win. While there's no real need to do this in the latter stage, it may very well be the only way to pass the former stage for some players. Sadly, this was fixed in time for the PSP remake.
• Heartwarming Moments: Anytime U-1 starts playing the "Legendary Theme." The second time is utterly spectacular.
• Moment of Awesome: The penultimate cutscene. "BECAUSE I'M GITAROO MAAAAAAAAN!"
  • Also, the whole Legendary Theme sequence with Kirah.
  • Mojo King Bee's song, Bee Jam Blues has been known to cause orgies when played near large crowds of people.
    • Or, hell, the entire game.
• Narm Charm: By the truckload, throughout the entire game. The characters and dialogue are ridiculously over-the-top, but with all that Awesome Music going around, it becomes genuinely good anyway.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: The two new songs in the PSP re-release are this, not for any specific songs, but artists' style in general.
  • Metal Header is done in the style of The Aquabats!.
  • Toda Pasion sounds a lot like the works of Carlos Santana.
• That One Boss:
  • Gregorio and the Sanbone Trio. In Master Mode, arguably every boss/stage is an example of That One Boss.
  • For those who don't see it coming, the first battle with Ben-K, which is 100% Guard Phase (read: a flurry of notes from all directions), can be a particularly insidious showstopper. If they were going for the fact that you were meant to barely escape from the battle alive, Koei and iNiS did one hell of a good job.

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