YMMV / Immortals Fenyx Rising

• Anti-Climax Boss: If the player takes the time to upgrade their weapons and abilities to their maximum levels, the final encounters against Ligyron and Typhon are completely trivial, both going down in only a few hits.
• Base-Breaking Character: Zeus. Many people thought that his redemption arc was a unique take on the character and appreciate that he ultimately regrets everything he's done. However, another camp says that he is beyond redemption for his crimes.
• Complete Monster:
  • Typhon is the father of monsters who was sealed away by Zeus for attempting to overthrow him and the Olympians and rule over the cosmos. Upon being freed, Typhon—planning to merge the mortal realm with Tartaros to create a new world in his own image—goes on a rampage that throws the world into chaos. Attacking the gods of Olympos, Typhon subjects those he captures to unsavory fates and corrupts many soldiers into disposable minions to enforce his rule, with four legendary Greek heroes being the most prominent examples. When Fenyx opposes him, Typhon has their half-brother Ligyron retrieve ingredients to make a poison able to kill the gods; Typhon later betrays Ligyron and attempts to eat him in front of his sibling. While claiming the gods deserve to die for their flaws, Typhon's narcissistic inability to see those same flaws within himself and his desire to destroy everything and everyone to bring about his twisted idea of perfection make him even worse.
  • Myths of the Eastern Realm DLC: Tao Wu, "The Harbinger", is one of the Four Perils who turned against Heaven. Tao Wu would orchestrate the events that would create The Scar by massacring Gong Gong's people, before manipulating him to shatter the highest mountain of the Eastern Realm. This causes the cataclysmic event that has turned humans into clay; unleashed monsters to run amok in the mortal realm; and brings Heaven into ruins, while it slowly destroys both worlds. When Tao Wu learns of Nuwa trying to seal the Scar away, he revives Ku, using him to lure Nuwa and Gong Gong to his domain before trapping the heroes, mocking them for unknowingly helping him unleash The Scar before trying to kill them and let the world be reduced to chaos.
• Designated Hero: One of the complaints many fans have about the game is that it's just really hard morally speaking to get behind Fenyx's quest to save the gods. Even if one doesn't know the original myths, the game does not shy away from the fact that the Olympians in particular were Jerkass Gods through and through, and in fact, tends to play it up so much that many players find themselves wondering why they shouldn't just let Typhon win, or at least try to defeat the Big Bad but also leave the gods in their powerless states. As for Fenyx themselves, s/he don't even seem to be that upset with the evil that the gods do, and in fact, appear to like it, even telling Ares that the murder and torture he champions makes him their favorite as well as telling Aphrodite it was okay to help start the Trojan War, a bloody and gruesome conflict to suit her own vanity. What sort of justification does Fenyx go by for continuing to help beings like that? Because it makes for an excellent story. That's right. Centuries of cruelty, destruction, and acts of horrific consequences brought upon mortalkind, sometimes for reasons of extreme pettiness, but to Fenyx, it's absolutely worth it for a good tale to tell by the fire.
• Game-Breaker: Phosphor's Clone, which creates a clone of Fenyx where they're standing. It can trivialize puzzles involving weighted switches, allowing you to skip over pushing blocks.
• Genius Bonus: The game is full of references to Greek mythology that don't always get clarified for the player, rewarding those already familiar with the myths.
• Funny Moments:
  • Some of the animations that play when Fenyx retrieves an item, from getting smacked in the face with Charon coins to attempting to karate-chop a chest open only to hurt a wrist.
  • When Fenyx and Hermes first find Phosphor, they have a brief argument over what to do with him; Fenyx wants to help him get better while Hermes wants to kill him, as a creature of Typhon. Then Hermes proclaims he's getting a vision and begins to sarcastically guess how their argument is going to go... only to talk himself into siding with Fenyx through a long back-and-forth with himself, complete with dramatic camera zooms. A befuddled Fenyx decides to just roll with it.
  • The description for the monster scale crafting item from The Lost Gods: "Have you ever wondered what it would be like if your whole body was covered in fingernails? Now you have! You're welcome."
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • Zeus finds out that Hermes and Aphrodite had a child and when he asks if it's a boy or girl, Prometheus says "No..." Zeus says he's okay with their child being non-binary. Fridge Brilliance in it's where we get Hermaphrodite from.
  • Hephaistos is genuinely grateful to Fenyx for befriending him, the other gods generally avoiding him due to seeing him as ugly.
  • In A New God, Athena sincerely thanks Fenyx for being her childhood friend, since Typhon turning her into a kid was the only time she ever had a childhood.
  • At the end of "The Lost Gods", Poseidon — who remembers Ash's name for once — and Hades resurrect Ash after her Heroic Sacrifice. Poseidon then offers to take her to Olympos to meet Fenyx in person, saying that while Zeus will complain she earned a Happily Ever After.
• Magnificent Bastard: Prometheus is the titan of forethought who was punished by Zeus for stealing fire from the gods. Disgusted that Zeus turned humans into stone, Prometheus had Atlas free Typhon from his imprisonment. This allowed Typhon to bring chaos onto the world, forcing Zeus to come to Prometheus for help, but instead got told the story of Fenyx, hoping to stall Zeus long enough for Fenyx to arrive and kill Zeus. Though his plan failed, it was only due to Fenyx deciding to forgive Zeus. Zeus was so impressed with the story Prometheus told that he decided to free him from his imprisonment, but not before having Prometheus listen to Ligyron's re-telling of Fenyx's journey.
• Play the Game, Skip the Story: A lot of the game's reception boils down to this. The actual gameplay was warmly received, but the story, particularly the cheesy dialogue, did not get the same praise, with the running commentary from Zeus and Prometheus being considered the worst of it.
• Quicksand Box: It is very easy to set out to handle a god request only to quickly get sidetracked by all the myth challenges, vaults, fighting monsters, taming mounts... Zeus even comments on it from time to time complaining about how Fenyx needs to get on with their real quest already.
• Rooting for the Empire: Typhon is the Big Bad and an Obviously Evil titan who wants to remake the world In Their Own Image, but a number of players side with him because everything he says about the gods being awful people and bad for mortals is, frankly, right.
• Scrappy Mechanic:
  • Unlike previous Ubisoft sandboxes, there are no towers which uncover points-of-interest on the map. There are sync points which only reveals the map itself, but not any points on said map. Instead you must enter Far Sight mode and slowly scan the surroundings in all directions, a feat made finicky on the gamepad. Worse is the fact that only locations like vaults and chests can be marked in this way. Bosses, mounts, and the like all remain unmarked and there's no in-game checklist that makes it easy to find what you've overlooked.
  • The Wraith attacks on the overworld can be an annoyance if you're trying to complete a myth-challenge or open an epic chest, only for a mini-boss to invade the area which means either fighting the Wraith or leaving the place until the danger has passed. Thankfully, defeating the Wraiths in their respective lairs permanently ceases all further attacks.
• Tainted by the Preview: The use of James Brown's "I Got Ants In My Pants" in the second trailer was met with much criticism from fans who felt it was out of place for a preview showing off an open world adventure game set in ancient Greece.
• That One Level:
  • The story objective in King's Peak requires you to ascend the tall mountain on the island. This involves circling the island a few times and solving some mandatory Myth challenges while trying to navigate around cold zones that almost instantly drain all of your stamina. The path being obscured by broken bridges, pathways that have you navigate down the mountain to continue ascending higher, etc. frustrate many players.
  • In the "A New God" DLC, the Trial of Beauty's Initiation. You need to throw Phosphor's clone onto platforms after they pass through various hazards, but the way the obstacles are set up, it's often impossible to see where the statue is going to land and there's no safety net if you miss by even a little. You need to be extremely lucky to get the statue right where you want it without it also bouncing off a platform into the abyss. And if that happens anyway? The angles prevent you from seeing just how much you missed by. Considering you start the DLC fully upgraded, it's often easier to cheese the obstacle courses and just tank the damage from the hazards yourself.
• The Woobie: Hephaistos, which is pretty accurate to the myths. He was thrown out of Mount Olympus as a baby over something he had no control over (that is, his appearance), and even when he was allowed to start interacting with the gods again he was constantly ridiculed and treated as if he was less than them. He turned his pain into creativity and forged great works for all of the gods and never even got any thanks for it. Although, he did venture into Jerkass Woobie territory when he took Hera hostage and forced Zeus to let him marry Aphrodite, and continues to insist that Aphrodite remain his wife even though she doesn't love him, it's hard to blame the guy for wanting just one thing for himself. Later on you find out that when Typhon transformed the gods and stole their essence, Hephaistos was the only one he didn't do it to... Hephaistos did it to himself because his painful memories became too much to bear. In fact, Heph has done this to himself multiple times in the past, the difference was this time Typhon destroyed the clues he always used to lead himself back, ensuring that it would be permanent without outside intervention. Oh, and the way Typhon did that? He corrupted Steropes and Brontes, Hephaistos' apprentices and two of his very few friends, and forced them to turn on him. Damn.