History YMMV / GuardianTales

** Future Princess with Liberator's Weapon Skill is one of the most notorious attacks in PvP for one simple reason: If the attack scores a direct hit, it WILL stun the target. Expect Arena opponents to become much more defensive when it can be used, and endless coliseum teams with Future Princess as the leader.
** Beth's normal attack has a large area of effect, making it hard to dodge in PvP while dealing insane amounts of damage. While equipped with Predator, it also decreases the target's Dark resistance on hit and gives her a shield based on 10% of the damage dealt. Not that it makes much of a difference, because you'll probably be dead within seconds of her getting ahold of you.

* DifficultySpike: World 5: City of Shen is where the enemies' damage output starts to increase, further getting to a point where upgrading your heroes' gear (weapons/shields/accessories) becomes even more mandatory. This is also the point where the level cap starts to slow down, but the stat boosts with each level get larger. Oh, and if you are playing as the Knight, he/she is at an elemental disadvantage as more and more of the enemies are Dark-type, and Dark-type characters deal more damage to Basic-type characters.

*** Possibly subverted as there is one more way to defeat it. After you remove his melee and range immunity, ignore him and move forward. Just before the room with Lorainne, there is a hidden passage which leads to the room with invader lab side-quest. You will also see powder kegs in this room. If you throw ten powder kegs at Beta Weapon without coming under it's red vision, then you can defeat it without needing to fight it.

** Lana proves to be very popular despite not being summonable and thus playable at the time of this writing, thanks to a combination of her [[HotBlooded Hotbloodness]], FunPersonified personality and an OnceASeason tradition began since the first one as she challenges you to a race for a Star Piece.

** Lana proves to be very popular despite not being summonable and thus playable at the time of this writing, thanks to a combination of her [[HotBlooded hotbloodness]], FunPersonified personality and an OncePerSeason tradition where you meet her in every world since the first one and she challenges you to a race for a Star Piece.

* GuideDangIt: Some of the actions required to [[spoiler:prevent NPC deaths]] in World 13 can be counter-intuitive, or might not occur to the player at all given that player choices didn't have this much of an impact before. The ones that players usually make a mistake on are:
** In 13-1, failing to [[spoiler:stop to pick up and save the lost kid will result in Lilith's secretary, Eris, doing it herself, which causes her to be shot dead by the terrorists for her trouble.]]
** In 13-3, during the sequence where you team up with the policeman from before, [[spoiler:the policeman will split up with you at one point to hold off another group of terrorists. A WrongGenreSavvy player will mistake this for a HeroicSacrifice moment, leading to them sealing off the escape route at the first opportunity and truly dooming the policeman to die.]] What the player actually has to do is [[spoiler:[[NoOneGetsLeftBehind delay the terrorists as much as possible until the policeman rushes back to rejoin the group]], at which point you can finish the sequence having saved everyone,]] and even [[FireForgedFriends managed to win the policeman's friendship in the process.]]

** [[SequentialBoss Phase 2 of the World 11 Boss]] has two, which make an otherwise epic encounter quite frustrating for players without a ''lot'' of investment or [[GameBreaker Future Princess.]]
*** The left hand of the boss will perform an aimed slam attack that leaves a crystal wall obstacle behind. This attack will track until one second before it hits, leaving only an extremely small window where you can safely dodge it. Heroes with a way to increase their movement speed can simply outrun it, but heroes lacking such means must either learn the difficult timing required to evade, or be able to tank and recover from the hit. If your chosen Hero does not have a self-heal and your healer already bit the bullet, then...
*** The right hand is the worse offender, as it's attack combines a delayed horizonal strike on the entire upper half of the arena with dark bombs ''randomly'' spawned roughly around the lower half. The dark bombs can spawn in a random pattern that restricts the player's movements so much they might end up in a position where they are unable to evade the swipe no matter what they do. If you touch them, they will explode and cause significant damage and knockback. This knockback can send you into another attack, whether it is the incoming swipe, another bomb or even a follow-up attack, as the bombs linger for another attack cycle after the swipe is performed. The bombs can ''also'' spawn ''right on top of you'', immediately dealing you the damage and knockback with no way to evade, as the bombs spawn with no forewarning unlike most attacks in the game. [[ArtificialStupidity This also means your AI allies are incapable of even attempting to dodge them.]] It is, in fact, entirely possible to [[DisasterDominoes have a bomb spawn on you, knock you into the incoming swing, which will]] ''[[DisasterDominoes then]]'' [[DisasterDominoes knock you into another bomb]], which can potentially bring a squishier hero from full to zero in no time flat through no fault of your own except [[LuckBasedMission being unlucky.]]
*** Notably, the 3rd phase of this boss also has an attack with a random element to it, but the target area is properly forewarned, giving you a chance to react properly even against an unfavorable turnout, resulting in the phase to be more manageable than the 2nd phase.

** Become the Best Criminal. While the enemies are incredibly easy; you have to kill civilians and gain demon dollars. However, there is a catch; with every star you gain, the more debuffs are applied to you; critical chance reduction, weapon skill cooldown increase; and debuffs being enhanced. While this is easy, the boss that appears when you get "Public Enemy" status (Erina) is [[EasyLevelsHardBosses extremely difficult]]; because you have all the debuffs active she can one-shot you, and she's Light-type which means Dark-type heroes are ineffective. The one saving grace is that Erina follows a strict pattern of moves, so if the player is able to identify the pattern, a skilled player is fully capable of even taking her down solo so long as they can avoid making too many mistake; pattern aside, the enhanced debuffs on the player still make this a deadly foe to face. [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority Not for nothing was she named National Security Chief.]]

* AssholeVictim: Frankly, very few people shed tears when Laura turned the tables and sacrificed her bullies, who tormented her because they can, and even murdered her pets in doing so.

** Become the Best Criminal. While the enemies are incredibly easy; you have to kill civilians and gain demon dollars. However, there is a catch; with every star you gain, the more debuffs are applied to you; critical chance reduction, weapon skill cooldown increase; and debuffs being enhanced. While this is easy, the boss that appears when you get "Public Enemy" status (Erina) is [[EasyLevelsHardBosses extremely difficult]]; because you have all the debuffs active she can one-shot you, and she's Light-type which means Dark-type heroes are ineffective.