History YMMV / MetamorphicForce

** And the player's death screams are [[HellIsThatNoise something you don't want to hear alone at night]].

* MemeticMutation: the first Boss, Cabrios. [[labelnote:Explanation]]He says: "I won't let anyone step in this area!" yet you would eventually step into the said area.[[/labelnote]]

* NightmareFuel: The flyer for this game says that [[PainfulTransformation the transformations are agonizing]].

** Stage 5's boss rush theme has a ''Series/{{Double Dare|1986}}'' feel. Again, this song can be found in Gitadora (GF&DM V2) as MODEL [=DD7=], also created and arranged by Mutsuhiko Izumi.

* Squick: The death animation for regular enemies fall into this. Upon defeat, [[BodyHorror their bodies rapidly swell into a big, grotesque, black-and-blue mass that explodes into violet goo]].

** And the player's death screams are something you don't want to hear alone at night.

** Some players also noted Claude's similarity with two other fencers. You have five seconds to [[JoJosBizarreAdventureJeanpierrePolnareff guess]] [[Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles who]].

* NightmareFuel: The flyer for this game says that the transformations are agonizing.

** The boss theme from stage 2 and the first half of stage 6 sounds like the first-person levels music from the first ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'' game.
** Stage 5's boss rush theme has a ''Series/{{Double Dare|1986}}'' feel.

** Stage 5's boss rush theme has a ''[[DoubleDare1986 Double Dare]]'' feel.

** The boss theme from stage 2 and the first half of stage 6 sounds like the first-person levels music from the first ''{{Contra}}'' game.

** The Amazoness boss theme is basically a modification of one of the ''{{Gradius}} III'' boss themes.