History YMMV / Aveyond

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Prince Edward of Candar from ''Ahriman's Prophecy''. He is [[BigBad Zorom's]] older brother whom the latter attempted to assassinate for a bid to the throne, and this failed attempt at his life is what led to the events of the game. Despite the importance of this backstory, neither Edward nor any of the citizens in Candar make any mention of this incident when the heroes visit the kingdom, and Edward merely serves as a generic PrinceCharming for a CinderellaPlot side quest that has nothing to do with the main storyline.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Prince Edward of Candar from ''Ahriman's Prophecy''. He is [[BigBad Zorom's]] older brother whom the latter attempted to assassinate for a bid to the throne, and this failed attempt at his life is what led to the events of the game. Despite the importance of this backstory, neither Edward nor any of the citizens in Candar make any mention of this incident when the heroes visit the kingdom, and Edward merely serves as a generic PrinceCharming for a side quest that has nothing to do with the main storyline.

** In ''Aveyond 4'', fans were quite baffled that the Hi'beru and Phye were even included as Ingrid's potential {{Love Interest}}s, because 1) Phye was only introduced in the last portion of the game and barely spoke to Ingrid at all, and 2) Hi'beru had a much more meaningful interaction with Rowen. Not to mention, it's quite an odd choice that ''Ingrid'', who has a SingleTargetSexuality for Boyle, is the one who has the multiple LoveInterest options instead of Boyle himself, who doesn't want to have anything to do with her and needs to find a True Love to be free from Ingrid's curse.

-->'''Ahriman''': It shall be done. Show this paltry world the power of the daevas!

-->'''In LOT''': Fellow vampires, the time has come to take the Overworld as our own. Too long have humans, our ''dinner'', ruled that land.
-->'''In TDP''': Followers of darkness, too long have we been forced to live in the shadow of light. It is time for us to rise and rule the land above!

* NightmareFuel: SurpriseCreepy or not, Qetesh's appearance was quite jarring and was even projected in the magic mirror with an ominous red light around him. What's worse is that Hercules (whom you might recognize from the Aveyond orb series) is lead to believe that he's holy.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The game might be nothing to write home about, but Aaron Walz's score for each installment is consistently beautiful. Special mention goes to Aveyond 2's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khpAyjW6UJk "Flying on a Dragon"]], the song that plays when the main characters are, well, flying on the dragon.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The game might be nothing to write home about, but Aaron Walz's score for each installment is consistently beautiful. Special mention goes to Aveyond 2's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khpAyjW6UJk "Flying on a Dragon"]], the song that plays when the Ian, Iya and co. are, well, flying on the dragon.

** The voice pack kicks it up a notch what with the uh...[[LargeHam "acting"]]. And the stereotypical vampire accents are not helping.

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* ThatOneLevel: The Halaina dungeon from ''Aveyond 4'' is a major cause of frustration for many players. Not only do you have to slog through the confusing layout of the maze (with no speed boost), you must complete numerous riddles and puzzles that requires you to go back and forth to the same room over and over again. Also, if you accidentally walked into a passage at the wrong time, you'd be given a lengthy dialogue event before being sent back to the previous room. It's particularly frustrating since this is a part of the game's main quest. It gets so bad that someone had to make an individual walkthrough for this specific level.

* CrackPairing: Amaranthian user daeva_agas ships Rhen/Agas from Aveyond 1 and Mel/Gyendal from Aveyond 3 and has spawned a number of fanarts surrounding those couple. Both pair soon gained some following from the website.

** The daevas from Aveyond 1. In the game, they barely said anything aside from delivering [[OneLiner threats]] before the battle starts. Only two of them actually said anything substantial: Indra, who [[ScryVSScry made the suggestion to turn Rhen to the dark side]], and Agas, who really dislikes Dameon ([[HeelFaceTurn for a good reason]]). Following the popularity of the fanfiction written by Amaranthia forum user [[FandomVIP Kaz]], ''The Agas Saga'', other forum users were inspired to develop their own versions of [[ItsALongStory the daevas' character and background]].

* SophomoreSlump: Aveyond 2 is probably the least well received title in the Aveyond series, most likely due to the uninteresting protagonist, lazy facesets and a twist that doesn't make much sense. There are definitely far less fanarts and fanfiction for the second game than there are for the first and third.

* DemonicSpiders: The Ginger Bears in ''Aveyond 4'' are a nightmare to fight. They have attack moves that can not only hit the entire party at once but also hit them ''hard'', with the chance of inflicting [[StatusAilment bleed]] on the party members. They also have a pretty good defense and HP, so they're really hard to kill. Despite being a lot harder to fight than most of the random monster encounters (even the ones from the final map), however, they only give 150XP and have pretty much no loot. Most players would rather evade these creatures, because engaging them in battle would simply be frustrating and pointless.

** In ''Aveyond 1'', Rhen's canon love interest is Dameon, but aside from the briefly flirting with her when they first met, he rarely says or does anything important throughout the whole journey. In fact, an earlier build actually allows the party to avoid recruiting him altogether (although he would suddenly show up in the FinalBoss battle anyway), making their status as the designated OfficialCouple even more bizarre. In any case, many players have complained that Rhen falling in love with him [[spoiler:that she would be tempted to join the dark side alongside him]] feel very forced.