YMMV / Green Hell

• Awesome Music: The main theme sets the tone of the game, featuring ominous acoustics and jungle instruments which break down into an empowering electric guitar and orchestra.
• Asshole Victim: Alvarez is quite the unpleasant Jerkass, blaming Jake for the former’s freak accident and cursing him out, even going as far as to use Country Matters on Jake’s then dying wife and threatening to kill Jake if he gets out of his situation. However, he has thankfully been long dead and the only thing that’s left of him are his skeletal remains, his voice recordings, and his grappling hook.
• Demonic Spiders: Pretty much all the aggressive mammals (jaguars and pumas) and venomous animals (snakes, scorpions, and spiders), as they are difficult to see especially at night and attack completely without warning. Add to the mere fact that lacerations and venom wounds are very dangerous injuries and can kill you within minutes, so if you don't have the treatment ready then you're basically screwed. Jaguars and pumas are especially annoying as they don't stop attacking you unless you kill it or cross a river, and are also one of the fastest enemies in the game.
• Game-Breaker:
  • Planting a multitude of fruit and nut trees will provide you an unlimited supply of carbohydrates and fats, and rainy season/planting near ponds/rivers will provide them constant hydration.
  • Building a mud filter near a river or pond, provided you have a bidon, will guarantee an unlimited amount of clean water and during rainy season will constantly provide water, overshadowing the boiling treatment or water collector completely.
• Goddamned Bats: Leeches aren't fatal, but will regularly attach to your player and gradually reduce your sanity. They're the most common ailment in the game, and there's no way to prevent them, so expect yourself to be removing them a lot. They're also rather small and sometimes not even visible at first glance, requiring a thorough investigation.
• Most Wonderful Sound: The piano chord that plays whenever you complete a structure.
• Narm:
  • Jake will occasionally shout an expletive while using his fire-starting tool, even though there's no visual indication that he's having any sort of difficulty. It's quite bizarre to do a bunch of random tasks in silence, then start a fire and hear Jake suddenly shout, "BITCH!" for no apparent reason.
  • In an early story mode scene Mia talks to Jake in person rather than over the walkie-talkie, so she becomes inaudible when Jake is too far away. If you want, you can make Jake run off into the jungle while she's trying to have a conversation. Jake doesn't react to this and keeps talking as if they're still in the tent together, making it seem as if he's rambling to himself about "romantic canned beans" like a madman. You can also do the above fire-starting while Mia is talking, so it sounds like he's shouting "BITCH!" at her.
• Self-Imposed Challenge: There are no mandatory scripted combat encounters in the game, and enemy tribesman spawns are actually relatively infrequent on the default difficulty, so with some luck and a little stealth, it's entirely possible to finish the game without killing anyone. There's even an achievement for beating the game on Normal difficulty or higher without killing anything.
• Scenery Porn: The jungle environment is very well-detailed, and if you manage to get past the hell you get put through in the game, you’ll have the pleasure of experiencing some absolutely beautiful flora, fauna, and waterscapes.
• Squick:
  • The things you can eat in this game have no bounds, from raw snails to maggots to plant leaves to poison dart frogs to human meat to animal feces. Euugh...
  • The leeches that attach to your skin are pretty gross to look at, and you have to remove them on a regular basis which makes it worse. But if you think that’s bad, just wait until you get a parasitic worm wiggling underneath your skin. Fortunately they’re entirely avoidable unlike leeches, but still.
  • The other injuries don’t shy away from the Body Horror and are all in disgustingly realistic detail, from festering, pus-filled infections to gaping, bloody lacerations, to bulging boils that you get from insect stings.
  • Combining two of the above points, if a wound becomes infected due to poor or delayed treatment, the next appropriate treatment is dropping a bunch of living, wriggling maggots into your open, infected wound. They'll eat the necrotic tissue and leave the healthy tissue alone, but it's still a measure that's unpleasant to have to resort to.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: Jake's arms and legs have realistic skin but are completely hairless, making them look a little creepy.

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