YMMV / Michigan: Report From Hell

• Anticlimax Boss: The "final boss" and apparent source of the outbreak turns out to be a mentally challenged man who simply runs back and forth flailing his arms while your reporter shoots him to death. You know this is a Grasshopper game when they use a harmless Big-Lipped Alligator Moment for the final fight.
• Complete Monster: The cruel Dr. O'Connor was hired to develop a bioweapon that would be deployed against other nations. Starting his research by performing experiments on a young man before abandoning him to die, the torture at the hands of O'Connor reduced him into a psychotic child-like state. When the Gagne virus spreads all over Chicago, infecting and massacring untold amounts of civilians, O'Connor's only concern is that the mutants are still imperfect. O'Connor's madness is such that, rather than fearing for his own life, he is excited about the prospect of becoming a "new form of life" himself while chastising the ZaKa news crew for holding on to their humanity. A sociopath whose only remorse in life was to have trusted the disloyal military with his work, O'Connor made the Gagne virus out of sheer misanthropy.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: If the paradigmata LP walkthroughs are to be considered, Justine is this, mainly for having marginally better voice acting, as well as consistently being smarter than Ann and Carly during her reports.
• Narm: The English voice acting makes many of the game's attempts at horror impossible to take seriously.
  • Brisco's voice acting in particular, which is made even worse if you turn the camera to look at him during these scenes, since his facial expression doesn't change at all and his mouth just flaps up and down regardless of what he's actually saying.
    "Pamela? Pamela?! PAMELA!!!! OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHGAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!"
    • Brisco's hilariously childish displays of grief for Pamela both before and after she comes back as a monster.
    • Brisco's aggressive speech to the Chief, which sounds like he's rapping.
  • The seriousness of the Centre Building scene (which is otherwise Nightmare Fuel) is quickly eclipsed by Brisco and Ann's rather nonchalant reaction, particularly saying how beautiful the victim's name sounds as she is crying in panic.
  • When you're at the end of the hotel level, Pamela comes back, but turns out to be a monster. They knock her down, and she uses her legs to drag the body toward you. Might be scarier later on, but...
  • The final boss of the game: a harmless, mentally challenged man who runs around in a goofy fashion as your reporter shoots at him.
    "OW! THAT HURT! D-don't kill me! Pleeeaaase don't kill meeeeeeee... but I suppose you have toooo... but...b-b-but..."
  • Outside of the voice acting, that the entire city has been evacuated because of fog. Not toxic fog or anything like that, just fog.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The Center Building scene, where the team find Becky, a completely innocent woman, being ripped apart by a monster. This is made even more horrifying by Ann being far more enthusiastic to film the scene rather than saving her.
    • If the player wishes to, they can leave Ann behind by closing the elevator on her, dooming her to the same fate.
  • After being shot at several times, Gagne swells into a blob of mutated flesh, before exploding.
  • Several of the monster designs, such as Dr. Conner and Pamela post-transformation. Brisco's mutation as well, especially his Death Glare before he jumps to his death.
  • Special mention for the High Immoral ending, in which the cameraman becomes a monster and admits to being behind the virus.
• One-Scene Wonder: The only appearance of Patient Zero and the "final boss" is at the very end of the game, but is particularly memorable for his spectacularly bad voice acting even amongst an entire cast of bad voice actors.
• The Scrappy: Ann Anderson is considered the most disliked reporter due to her abrasive attitude and her eagerness to film people dying in the name of journalism. Most players would rather let her die shortly after the death of Becky Wanz, the survivor Ann promised to save, and have any other reporter take her place instead.
• Took the Bad Film Seriously: Mr. Hennings and Dr. O'Conner have some of the best voices in the game. Odd, considering the rest of the B-Movie elements.
• So Bad, It's Good: Seriously. The voice acting is so horrific that it becomes over-the-top hilarious in its most dramatic moments.
• So Okay, It's Average: The original Japanese version. It's not particularly famous, it didn't spawn any sequels, and a lot of the plot borrows pretty heavily from older horror games like Resident Evil and Silent Hill. Still, it has decently interesting gameplay, a minor following of Japanese Let's Players, and, unlike the English version, the voice acting is good enough to take the horror seriously.
• Soundtrack Dissonance: Due to an error, during enemy encounters in the PAL version, a slow soothing musical tune plays instead of a fast-paced pulsing track.
• Squick: One of the ways that characters out themselves as zombie infectees is by vomiting up enormous slugs before transforming. Ick.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: People actually liked the unique gameplay, where you're in a horror Mockumentary-esque situation. They just didn't like the lazy script and voice acting.

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