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These things about The Halloween Hack are subjective - not everyone will agree with all of them.

• Demonic Spiders: Most enemies are obscenely powerful and travel in packs, making any encounters with them horribly lethal unless you're willing to abuse the game's Useless Useful Spells to make them easier to deal with.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight/Hilarious in Hindsight: This game marks the debut of Megalovania, a song that crops up in several works Radiation/Toby Fox is associated with such as Homestuck and Undertale. In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, it would become a part of the game's soundtrack along with a Mii Gunner costume of Sans as DLC, coming full circle from an unofficial ROMhack to something an official Nintendo product, and one with plenty of Earthbound content, no less!
• Hell Is That Noise: Several tracks from the original Earthbound used for unsettling or disturbing scenes are repurposed as battle music - the Evil Ecto's battle theme is the track used for Poo's infamously-harrowing Mu Training, while the Overrecycled's battle theme is the same as Giygas.
• Signature Scene: The final boss fight against Dr. Andonuts is easily the game's most memorable moment. Ignoring the fact that it's where Megalovania made its debut, Dr. Andonuts' obscenity-laden pre-battle tirade and the difficulty are absolutely unforgettable.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: The game really wants you to know that Varik is a sadistic killer-for-hire and a cowardly wannabe-badass, with Dr. Andonuts and the game itself taking you on a hell of a guilt-trip for trying to kill the doctor. But given that Varik himself shows no cowardly or cruel traits and he only tries to kill Dr. Andonuts after he goes insane with grief and becomes a dangerous psychic anomaly, it comes off as a really hamfisted attempt at Railroading the player into looking like a bad person - something that its spiritual successors Undertale and Deltarune would do a much better job at avoiding.

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