History YMMV / ChocobosDungeon

* {{Narm}}: Somehow, all the big threats and monologuing antagonists become considerably less impressive when you factor in that they're talking to a ''chocobo''.

* BadassDecay: Leviathan has a big role in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'', [[spoiler:being the King of Eidolons/Summoned Monsters]]. Then he's a whiny BonusBoss in ''Chocobo's Dungeon 2''. He's much less whiny in ''Final Fantasy Fables'', though. This characterization continues in Chocobo [=GP=] where most characters tend to forget hes even around, and his wife Azura is very much the one wearing the pants in their relationship.

** Komegas in ''2'' are an almost literal example: robot spiders that can shoot through you and hit your partner, and are very strong. If you're not up to fighting BonusBoss [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV Omega]], you'll have to get through all of these and ''pray'' Omega doesn't show.

* SurpriseDifficulty: Especially shocking for those used to [[VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon its sister series]], ''Chocobo's Dungeon'' leans a lot more into standard {{Roguelike}} fair[[note]]most notably, losing a vast majority of your items if you die[[/note]] and is a lot less forgiving of recklessness than it's overall 'kiddie' appearance would indicate. Being walled by the first boss of ''Every Buddy'' isn't that uncommon to hear.

* HilariousInHindsight: In ''Fables'', Raffaello mentions that [[spoiler:he worries about his other half, who turns out to be the Destroyer]], and he spends his time crushing flowers. ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' would go on to have a flower be one of the main characters. [[spoiler:And like Raffaello, hold a big secret himself.]]

** ''Chocobo [=GP=]'' has several, but the biggest stand out is Accelerated Alexandria, a fast paced remix of "Melodies of Life" from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX''

*** One of the last characters revealed for Chocobo GP was Mecha Chocobo, a boss mirage from VideoGame/WorldOfFinalFantasy. Even in-game, the rest of the cast are surprised by it's inclusion and remain convinced that someone in Square's marketing department saw the design and forced it into the game based solely on its appearance.

*** One of the last characters revealed for Chocobo GP was Mecha Chocobo, a boss mirage from VideoGame/WorldOfFinalFantasy. Even in-game, the rest of the cast is convinced that it was only added because someone in Square's marketing department saw the design and forced it into the game based solely on its appearance.

*** One of the last characters revealed for Chocobo GP was Mecha Chocobo, a mirage enemy from VideoGame/WorldOfFinalFantasy. Even in-game, the rest of the cast is convinced that it was only added because someone in Square's marketing department saw the design and forced it into the game based solely on its appearance.

*** One of the last characters revealed for Chocobo GP was Mecha Chocobo from VideoGame/WorldOfFinalFantasy.

** ''Chocobo GP'' brought in a surprise by having the Black Mage of the game be Vivi Ornitier from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' (rather than the ''Chocobo'' series' own Black Mage Croma), joined alongside Adelbert Steiner.

* BadassDecay: Leviathan has a big role in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'', [[spoiler:being the King of Eidolons/Summoned Monsters]]. Then he's a whiny BonusBoss in ''Chocobo's Dungeon 2''. He's much less whiny in ''Final Fantasy Fables'', though.

** ''Chocobo GP'' brought in a surprise by having the Dark Mage of the game be Vivi Ornitier from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' (rather than the ''Chocobo'' series' own Dark Mage Croma), joined alongside Adelbert Steiner.

* UnexpectedCharacter: ''Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon: Every Buddy!'' allows even bosses to be buddies in your trek through dungeons. Who would've ever guessed that some of those bosses/buddies would be the bosses from the original ''Chocobo no Fushigi na Dungeon'' and ''Chocobo's Dungeon 2'' (Devil Chocobo, Cryshale, Skullhammer, Glazguz and Eta) as extra bonuses?

** In ''Fables,'' Claire's dungeon is among the worst of these. With ranged enemies, enemies that can easily outrun and overtake you, elementals that always take at least two hits to defeat, and monster houses all over the place that throw all of them at you at once (often impossible to avoid, if the staircase appears in the center of it all), there's no room for error. Even if you play a perfect game, enemy placement can put you into all sorts of unwinnable situations.

* SurpriseDifficulty: Especially shocking for those used to [[VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon its sister series]], ''Chocobo's Dungeon'' leads a lot more into standard {{Roguelike}} fair[[note]]most notably, losing a vast majority of your items if you die[[/note]] and is a lot less forgiving of recklessness than it's overall 'kiddie' appearance would indicate. Being walled by the first boss of ''Every Buddy'' isn't that uncommon to hear.

** [[spoiler:Croma is killed right in front of Shirma by the one she thought to be a friend.]]