Beware of unmarked spoilers further down the page.
- Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
- The defeat of Roper Klacks. You hand him an ordinary calculator, he pushes a few buttons, and he's somehow sucked into it. No explanation for why or how it happens. The best theory is that magic and tech are known not to play nicely together and since Klacks is a mage......
- Every time Cortez talks about art. He seems to just ramble on about it, talking about how modern art or film is inferior to his opinion of "true" art or film. Then, he abruptly segues into what April really wants to talk about. Not truly irrelevant to the plot as with the film discussion they are at the Mercury Theatre and with the art discussion they are at the Roma Gallery.
- Heartwarming Moments:Crow: Would Crowboy do it?
April: He would but he would be very careful. - Hilarious in Hindsight:
- The Longest Journey predicted Twitter
. - There's a throwaway line implying that a MacGyver reboot had been produced. This was long before the actual 2016 reboot.
- The Longest Journey predicted Twitter
- Nightmare Fuel: The "little old lady" you meet in the woods on your way to Roper Klacks. Granted, in-between her hissing voice, uncanny gait and more Last-Second Word Swap's than you can shake a stick at it was somewhat of a foregone conclusion, but when The Gribbler does show her true colours it's still utterly disturbing.
- Narm:
- The majority of the character animations looked awkward and uncanny valley-ish even back when it was new. They have not aged well... this spells doom for any attempts to pull off dramatic scenes.
- The dark silhouette of young April during her second trial looks distractingly similar to the titular Mysterious Alien Creature from Mac and Me...
- Once Original, Now Common: This game is rated "M" due to swearing, sexual innuendos, and a puzzle involving spiking a man's coffee with aphrodesiacs. Within just 10 years, people commented that it's surprisingly tame for an "M" rated game.
- Shocking Moments: What April finds when she finally enters through the mystery door, the one you can see back in the first chapter but was locked. It is the old lady who is narrating April's story in the beginning of the game. The nature of this encounter was matter of speculation for the fans until Dreamfall Chapters provided more context.
- That One Puzzle: The infamous rubber ducky puzzle, which takes place in the first chapter of the game.
- What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: As one may notice from the picture of the cover box, the game is rated "M", but it's still easy to scoff it as there's nothing too grim or edgy about the game's unassuming female protagonist and its whimsical fantasy world. Once you spend some hours, it becomes clear the game lives up to that rating. Sexual innuendo and heavy swearing are frequent, the conversation between Burns and April being the obvious example. By modern standards, it's still tamer than what you've come to expect from a game that's rated M, but this game is not kid friendly by any definition.
