YMMV / The Ooze

• Complete Monster: The Directorate of The Corporation. A man shown to be a greedy sadist. The mastermind behind Operation: OMEGA, which would have released a deadly plague worldwide just so he could make billions on the distribution of the only cure. When Dr. Caine discovers the truth of Operation: OMEGA, the Directorate sadistically injects toxic waste into his body, which causes Dr. Caine’s body to melt. If the player gets a Game Over, he imprisons Dr. Caine in a lava lamp. It is extremely satisfying to see the Game Over fate befall the Directorate when the player beats the game and thwarts his evil plan.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Dr. Caine looks strikingly like an older version of Milo Thatch.
  • Some people have noted that some parts of the soundtrack sound disturbingly similar to the Danny Phantom theme song.
• Most Wonderful Sound:
  • Caine's Big "YES!" whenever he picks up a DNA helix and the "WHOO!" he makes whenever he gets a powerup.
  • Ironically, the sound of a toilet flushing that can be heard whenever you travel between levels.
• Nintendo Hard: This game is known for being a really hard game, for several reasons.
  • You can't haul a ranged attack without sacrificing a part of your body, and "punching" with extendable arms become less effective when you are smaller and more damaged.
  • Any enemy attack can One-Hit Kill you, if it hits the head.
  • If you want to obtain the good ending, you have to obtain all 50 DNA helices. They are well-hidden, and missing even one of them will lock you out from the good ending.
• Porting Disaster: While the game still runs fine, the version included in Sonic Mega Collection Plus for PlayStation 2 and Xbox suffers from a heavily mangled graphic issues, causing major discrepancies such as the title screen being a blinding green that glows with The Ooze himself rather than being a close-to-pitch black like in the original, or the ground in the Toxic Dump looking like wet mud instead of the desert orange the Genesis version had.
• So Bad, It's Good: The Japanese box art, which isn't "art" at all, but a Wall of Text selling it off as a dirty magazine (despite its CERO rating contradicting this). The manual reinforces this with a nude construction worker and a Playboy Bunny, neither of whom appear in the game proper. While the game sold dismally in Japan, in part because of this, it nonetheless became a Cult Classic in part because of the bizarre disparity between the cover and the game itself.