History YMMV / AliceSoft

* BaseBreakingCharacter: With a character like Rance, it's inevitable. Plenty consider him to be a CrazyAwesome breath of fresh air from the generally uninspired VisualNovel protagonists, while just as many consider him to be an immature series of rape jokes and nothing else. Whether he's a RoundedCharacter who shows large amounts of depth and CharacterDevelopment across the series or a FlatCharacter is also a recurring argument. The fact that a woman created him the way he is also often comes into play when discussing his habits and why he is like that.
** As the staff begin to leave the team, plenty are up in arms about their replacements.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Uesugi Kenshin actually beat out [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Saber]] on the first Visual Novel Character Poll she appeared on.

* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales : [[EagleLander Eagle Douglas]] from ''Daiteikoku'' is incredibly popular in the US, to the point of overshadowing the less popular Sarah Britten and Katherine.

* ThatOneBoss: Oda Nobunaga in ''Kichikuou Rance''. As he is a demon in this game, he can only be damaged by Rance, Kentarou or one of the recruitable demons. While this isn't that bad, the arena size of 400 means that the unit attacking him needs to have 400 troops or less in order to damage him while Nobunaga himself has over 2000 troops and is incredibly damaging. At the same time, Nobunaga sends out his two ninja assassins Gekkou and Shinobu to attack Leazas, causing them to occasionally permanently kill off one of your units between turns. One of these units can be Rance, which results in an automatic game over, making it an indirect TimedMission.

* [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Americans Love Sengoku Rance]]: ''Sengoku Rance'' is widely regarded as the best Alicesoft game period in the United States, while it is merely considered a particularly good installment in the ''Rance'' series in Japan, where ''Kichikuou Rance'' still holds the title for best in the series.
* [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales Americans Love Eagle Douglas]]: [[EagleLander Eagle Douglas]] from ''Daiteikoku'' is incredibly popular in the US, to the point of overshadowing the less popular Sarah Britten and Katherine.

* StrangledByTheRedString: Several see the relationship between Rance and Sill to be this, to the point where discussing the quality of the writing of their romance to be a FandomBerserkButton.

** Aristoles Calm, Commander of the Second Helman Army is also this. He's a good man who wants to rid his nation of corruption just as much as his best friend Patton does, but his love for Sarah Helman, Queen of Helman, makes him try to change it from the inside rather than start a revolution like Patton did. As a result of their different methods of achieving the same ideals, the two friends are forced to fight on opposite sides, with no hope of a peaceful resolution to the conflict. This gets taken to its logical extreme in ''Kichikuou Rance'', where the player can save him from his canonical death and recruit him ''only'' by [[ShaggyDogStory killing the entire Patton Faction and using Sarah as a hostage to force him into servitude]]. There's no way to give him anything better than a ''very'' BittersweetEnding.

* ComeForTheXStayForTheY: [[AccidentalPun Come]] for the H scenes, stay for the rich storytelling and complex gameplay.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: The original ''Rance'' games were considered amazing at the time for being H-games that featured actually sophisticated gameplay rather than just sex scenes. By today's standards, not only are the graphics dated, but the gameplay is hugely underwhelming and boring, to the point of making the first three game nearly unplayable by modern gamers. This is being fixed by remaking the first three games, and completely overhauling the first game's gameplay.

** The Demon King ending of ''Kichikuou Rance'' has Rance being breeding humans like cattle, something far worse than anything else he's ever done.

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: Kakaro in ''Mamatoto'', who along with raping all of his female subordinates, including his son's girlfriend and his own daughter, tricks his son into conquering the world for him, brutally murders all of the relatively sympathetic rulers of enemy countries before giving them a chance to negotiate and allows himself to become possessed by a demon and destroy the very same world his son struggled to conquer solely to get revenge over being humiliated in his youth. The final punch comes immediately after he is defeated, where he screams at Nanas that he was never anything more than a puppet to him.]]

* BaseBreaker: With a character like Rance, it's inevitable. Plenty consider him to be a CrazyAwesome breath of fresh air from the generally uninspired VisualNovel protagonists, while just as many consider him to be an immature series of rape jokes and nothing else. Whether he's a RoundedCharacter who shows large amounts of depth and CharacterDevelopment across the series or a FlatCharacter is also a recurring argument. The fact that a woman created him the way he is also often comes into play when discussing his habits and why he is like that.

* BrokenBase: The recent announcement of ''Beat Blades Haruka'' receiving a commercial release internationally has caused this. While the fanbase is for the most part ecstatic about the potential for the company to finally open itself up to foreign waters, others are disappointed that the launch game isn't a ''[[BreakoutCharacter Rance]]'' title, especially due to the partnership leading to the indefinite halting of two nearly completed fan translations.

* MagnumOpus: ''Kichikuou Rance'' singlehandedly saved the company from bankruptcy and is one of the best selling eroges of all time. It helps that it condenses over a decade's worth of content into a single, epic game.

* BaseBreaker: With a character like Rance, it's inevitable. Plenty consider him to be a CrazyAwesome breath of fresh air from the generally uninspired VisualNovel protagonists, while just as many consider him to be an immature series of rape jokes and nothing else. Whether he's a RoundedCharacter who shows large amounts of depth and CharacterDevelopment across the series or a FlatCharacter is also a recurring argument.

* MemeticSexGod: The main characters of each game slowly become this as time goes on. By the latest ''Rance'' game, he has every important female political figure madly in love with him, and most of their subordinates along with them.

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler: Kakaro in ''Mamatoto'', who along with raping all of his female subbordinates, including his son's girlfriend and his own daughter, tricks his son into conquering the world for him, brutally murders all of the relatively sympathetic rulers of enemy countries before giving them a chance to negotiate and allows himself to become possessed by a demon and destroy the very same world his son struggled to conquer solely to get revenge over being humiliated in his youth. The final punch comes immediately after he is defeated, where he screams at Nanas that he was never anything more than a puppet to him.]]

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Uesugi Kenshin actually beat out [[FateStayNight Saber]] on the first Visual Novel Character Poll she appeared on.

* ThatOneBoss: Oda Nobunaga in ''Kichikuou Rance''. As he is a demon in this game, he can only be damaged by Rance, Kentarou or one of the recruitable demons. While this isn't that bad, the arena size of 400 means that the unit attacking him needs to have 400 troops or less in order to damage him while Nobunaga himself has over 2000 troops and is incredibly damaging. At the same time, Nobunaga sends out his two ninja assassins Gekkou and Shinobu to attack Leazas, causing them to occasionally permanently kill off one of your units between turns. One of these units can be Rance, which results in an automatic game over, making it an indirect TimedMission.
** [[spoiler: Kakaro]], the final boss of ''Mamatoto'' is ''incredibly difficult. Not only are his health points and defense much, much greater than anything you've ever fought before, but his body is separated into multiple parts besides the "main" one, all of which have different highly damaging attacks, one of which hits the entire party. While taking these additional parts out may seem to take first priority, they respawn ''the turn after they're destroyed'', meaning the best solution is to simply ignore them and tough it out. Along with this, he spawns about five incredibly strong foot soldier units every turn and, since your best fighters will be concentrating their attacks on the main body, will only increase in number as the fight goes on. This, combined with the insane health and defense of the main body itself, once again makes the fight into a TimedMission where the player has to figure out how to do enough damage to kill him before he wipes out your entire party with his infinitely spawning henchmen.

* TheScrappy: Nonstisch Himmler from ''Daiteikoku'' is likely an intentional example. He only does anything of particular note in one route of the game, but it happens to be the route where he snaps and becomes a total asshole.

* DisapointingLastLevel: [[spoiler: Hell]] in ''Daibanchou'' is a short series of battles before an easy boss fight. After the NintendoHard game you just played through, this comes off as a little underwhelming.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: ''Tons''.
* DissapointingLastLevel: [[spoiler: Hell]] in ''Daibanchou'' is a short series of battles before an easy boss fight. After the NintendoHard game you just played through, this comes off as a little underwhelming.

* MarthDebutedInSmashBros: ''Widenyo'' was the english speaking debut of several franchises, but special mentions go to Tsubasa and Ragou, who were cameo characters in ''Daiakuji'' from different games but appear in ''Widenyo'' in their ''Daiakuji'' incarnations, leading most english speakers to assume ''Daiakuji'' is the debut game of both, when in reality it is true for neither.

** Rance's mourning of Sill if she dies in ''Kichikuou Rance'', where he breaks down into tears, places his most prized possession, a beautiful rare pink shell onto her grave and says that it always reminded him of her hair. He then admits that he always tried to reign himself in when she was around and, now that she's gone, he's not going to let anything hold him back. This can potentially lead to him JumpingOffTheSlippery slope, murdering Miki to gain her power, and destroying ''everything'' as the Demon King.

* MemeticLoser: Pretty much every {{Bishonen}} in the Rance series who isn't [[EnsembleDarkhorse Rick]] is constantly mocked by the english speaking fanbase. This also applies to Kayblis, though he's intended to come off as pathetic in-universe as well.