YMMV / Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure

• Best Boss Ever:
  • The Giant Squid battle. A long, drawn out battle of wits complete with a stormy backdrop, torpedoes, unprecedented teamwork, and firing a giant ship's mast not once but twice! The fact that a Pirates of the Caribbean-esque theme plays in the background makes it even more awesome.
  • The Final Boss, Barbaros himself is no slouch either, it's a long fight worth the grand finale of the game. You're (apparently) hopelessly outgunned by the boss and you have to use your smarts to turn the tables on your favor.
• Captain Obvious Reveal: Many players correctly predicted the big twist at the end of the fifth world as soon as they completed the first level. Given that Barbaros is an ominous golden pirate skull, loves to let out an Evil Laugh, hates Wiki, and claims to be the most feared pirate on the world, the revelation that he is the Big Bad and had been manipulating Zack throughout the entire game won't surprise most older players.
• Fridge Brilliance: The locks on treasure chests look like Wiki's head, because Wiki originally cursed Barbaros.
• Most Wonderful Sound: The sound that plays when all obstacles in the level have been cleared.
• Scrappy Mechanic: Bonelich's music minigames and the sword duels in the penultimate stage are often targeted as this, resulting from the way the game expects the player to find out how to properly control something with only a position picture for reference and people being unable to figure out how to do so.
• Surprise Difficulty: Despite the light and graphics, the latter puzzles are incredibly hard even for skilled gamers.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: The background music for "The Great Chase!" sounds nigh to "Black Pearl" from Pirates of the Caribbean.
• That One Level:
  • Mad Science. There are several ways to mess up the level and make it unwinnable and it takes a while to find out how to even progress through the level.
  • Dragon Scales, for the same reasons as Mad Science.
• That One Sidequest: Finding all the secret treasures. The game provides incredibly vague riddles on how to find them, and even if you know how to get them, it can be easier said than done. Unless you have a guide or Let's Plays at hand, you're pretty much screwed, since Oracle Dolls don't account for hidden items.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Wiki's a girl... maybe? It doesn't help that after the final battle Wiki's voice talking to Zack sounds like a young woman. The character entry on Wiki uses "he" though.

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