YMMV / Super Gem Fighter

• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • The Toy Shop Dhalsim stage has stuff you'd expect in a Christmas movie, like Balrog and Cammy staring into the toy store's display window. And then off to the side is Jon Talbain waving a White Flag in fear as B.B. Hood angrily holds a gun to his head. Merry Christmas!
  • Dan's ending counts as this, given that he receives an extremely mean-spirited letter from Sakura where she calls his entire fighting style completely useless and that all of it's techniques "look retarded", topped off with her cheerfully calling Dan a loser, especially since the two are usually portrayed as being on great terms with each other.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Ibuki's kunai throw and Kasumi Suzaku moves have her briefly change into Rolento's outfit. Then comes Street Fighter X Tekken which has Rolento as a playable character, and guess who he's paired up with. (It's not Sodom.) Also in her ending, she encounters Guy. In the opening of Super Street Fighter IV, she's once again tangling with Guy.
  • Similarly, as part of the game's focus on humor, Ryu's Shinku Tatsumaki Senpukyaku becomes the Bofu Tatsumaki Senpukyaku, which whips up a mild rainstorm (complete with a rain cloud over Ryu's head). Come Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Ryu gains a Super Mode known as Hado Kakusei, and if he uses his Shinku Tatsumaki Senpukyaku while in this state, the attack creates a thunderstorm.
  • When Ryu's Hadoken is fully leveled up, it turns into a larger electric projectile capable of multiple hits and increased stun (much like the Denjin Hadoken), which is more or less how Ryu's Denjin Renki V-Trigger in Street Fighter V functions. Similarly, Ken's flame-attribute attacks here would be mirrored by his EX moves and Heat Rush V-Trigger in V, notably his use of the Shakunetsu Hadoken that usually goes to Ryu.
  • One version of Akuma's Shun Goku Satsu in this game actually shows brief flashes of him attacking his victim — the exact same depiction the move would get many years later in Street Fighter V.
• Ho Yay:
  • One of Sakura's Mighty Combos summons two really burly guys who wouldn't look out of place in Cho Aniki to grab the opponent and carry them off-screen to... do something to them, then promptly eject them back onto the battlefield. Notice they have hearts in their eyes when they're brought back. Now notice it can be done on the male characters as well as females. This includes Akuma as well.
  • On the other end, Sakura's aerial grab has her mount the opponent and drop them to the ground while sitting on their face, looking a bit flustered by her own move afterwards. Fighters hit by this also get a lovestruck look on their face and hearts in their eyes, meaning both the guys and the girls seemingly enjoyed getting sat on by Sakura.
  • One of Chun-Li's Flash Combos ends with her, in a schoolgirl outfit, handing a love letter to her opponent. No matter their gender (or species, in the case of Morrigan, Felicia, and Hsien-Ko), the opponent will be swooning with hearts in their eyes upon reading the contents of Chun-Li's message.
• Polished Port: Surprisingly, the WonderSwan version of the game's considered a great port.
• Unexpected Character: Within a roster of playable characters from Street Fighter and Darkstalkers, Red Earth's Tessa is a surprising inclusion, given that her source game had only been released the year before and wouldn't make it out of Japan for another fifteen years.
• Values Dissonance: There's no way the translation would manage to get past Sakura calling Dan's fighting style "retarded" in the latter's ending if it wasn't for said ableist slur being commonplace in 1997.