YMMV / Paradise Killer

• Accidental Aesop: "Building paradise is a hard (yet fulfilling) task made impossible if you're doing it for the wrong reasons."
• Alternative Character Interpretation: Mostly due to the branching dialogue trees and trial options. Lady Love Dies can be a authoritarian Knight Templar who's fully on board with the Syndicate's atrocities, a crime-weary veteran who lies in court to spare her friends the axe, a painfully honest defender of the innocent, a Defector from Decadence and/or The Atoner who is sick of how the Syndicate operates, or any combination of the five.
• Awesome Music: As to be expected from a game that lovingly drapes itself in Vaporwave aesthetic. Highlights include the main theme Paradise (Stay Forever), Breeze With U, To The Heart, Knife & Crystal, and The Sarcophagus.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Crimson Acid has won the most fans of anybody, due to her memorable character design, genuinely heroic personality, and assets both human and caprine.
• Fanfic Fuel: All of it.
  • How did humans kill the gods?
  • Why does Orange accept Blue's crimes so easily?
  • What happened on Island 8, and why does the Syndicate censor it?
    • What happened on all the previous islands?
  • What's the real relationship between demons and gods?
  • Are there still other gods out there in the universe?
  • What were the expeditions to find the gods in the real world like?
  • How do the pyramids that resurrect gods work?
  • What is Perfect 25 like? Is it the perfect paradise like Carmelina says it is? Did the events of the game have a positive or negative effect on it? What do the Syndicate members in Perfect 25 think of what happened during the game?
• Genius Bonus: Crying Grudge isn't speaking an alien language or gibberish or Black Speech. His subtitles are written in cuneiform. The oldest known written language. That'd make him a Mesopotamian god.
• Moral Event Horizon: Out of all the conspiracies and plotting involved in the murder of the Council, it's hard not to feel particularly sickened by Carmelina Silence birthing a child and raising him his entire life in a cramped room to serve as her disposable assassin. Even worse, it can be surmised from his lack of an escape plan that she (and by extension Yuri) intended him to die after completing the murders.
• Player Punch: Depending on where you are in the story, going into the blood-soaked Opulent Ziggurat can be a grim reminder that the Syndicate are still mass murderers no matter how nice they are to Lady Love Dies.
  • The Trial itself. You've spent the whole game interacting, even befriending a good portion of the cast, and depending on your accusations, each and every one of them can die, by your hand, no less.
• Writer-Induced Fanon: The writers have not said who the bar commentators are, but they went through a thread discussing it and jossed every answer except for Isiah (who has the same job as the orange-highlighted man) and Complex (who has every reason to spend a night chatting with Isiah on Island 25). The latter are also the only characters with names who aren't dead or important to the plot in some other way.

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