History YMMV / LegendOfMana

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: More like Crowning ''Soundtrack'' Of Awesome, particularly the themes of the three main stories and the boss fight tracks. Fans of KingdomHearts will recognize YokoShimomura's style.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: More like Crowning ''Soundtrack'' Of Awesome, particularly the themes of the three main stories and the boss fight tracks. Fans of KingdomHearts will recognize YokoShimamura's style.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: More like Crowning ''Soundtrack'' Of Awesome, particularly the themes of the three main stories and the boss fight tracks.

*** Is Escad [[SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers too cynical]] and too blinded by his hatred for Irwin that he crosses the line, or is he, despite his attitude and actions, right in seeing Irwin as nothing more than a CompleteMonster?
*** ''Is'' Irwin a CompleteMonster who never cared about Matilda in the first place, like Escad says? Or is he simply [[spoiler: [[WellIntentionedExtremist going too far]] in his attempts to [[LoveMakesYouEvil make Matilda happy?]]]]

* ContestedSequel - This game did some things very, very well. It did some things very, very poorly. When you play it, you will either forgive the flaws, or you won't.

*** An incredibly awesome person uploaded the '''entire soundtrack''' to Youtube. And you can listen to it [[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD2DBD4902CF76A45 here]].
* DemonicSpiders - Zombones. They have a long reach, no attack windup animation, and one of their attacks squashes your character flat and then s/he can't move until un-squashing. Well, Zombone can spam the squash attack and you can get killed without ever having had a chance to fight back. Oh, and you only get 3 exp crystals for killing one.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop - The ends justify the means, even if your ultimate goal is TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.

* GameBreaker - Prodigious Gold Coin farming, combined with some smart ItemCrafting, can net you your very own weapon that can slay gods even on No Future Mode. If you exploit the crafting system for all it's worth, the InfinityPlusOneSword and ArmorOfInvincibility you can end up with make the game pathetically easy.

* GoddamnBats - Depending on your weapon equipped, any monster can either be a walkover or massively irritating, but high controller throwing points go to monsters that can confuse you ([[InterfaceScrew reverses your controls]]), drop your Charge Meter to zero, squash you, freeze you in place, or set you on fire.
* GuideDangIt - EVERYTHING to do with crafting -- the information you're given when you receive your crafting tools is so inadequate as to be laughable in the face of this kind of complexity.
** Heres exactly how you create best weapon of one type in the game. You need to capture a Pet that have specific ability that is necesary to get the material you need. Then, you need to grind in specific place and bringing along said pet to get money to buy the ridiculously expensive material in ridiculous amount. Then, you need to grow a number of specific fruit, and farm certain item and coins for your weapon. Then, you need to grind for something that RandomlyDrops for the weapon material, but the chance is ridiculously tiny. Finaly, you need to follow a set of Forge/Temper step that take hours to complete. Heck even after using guide, [[NintendoHard its still hard to understand the process]]. Imagine doing this all without a guide. That involve knowing where to farm, Understanding how the system work, and understanding the effect of each Material and their result and figuring the step you need to take to make the weapons. Then the fact that the material and step in making each weapon is different according to teh material and weapon type.

* ThatOneBoss - Boreal Hound. His level scales with the players and he has multiple attacks that can only be dodged if you're lucky. Plus he goes invulnerable when he's charging his attacks - and he charges so frequently it's tough to finish a combo to stun him and pull off your own big move. He's moderately difficult even on the normal EasierThanEasy mode, and if you meet him in No Future Mode? You'll need that gamebreaker sword...

* PlayerPunch - One per major story arc, as horrible things keep happening to the characters you grow to care for either as a direct result of your actions or because you weren't strong enough to protect them.
* TearJerker - Most of the arcs have at least one or more major ones. The Junkyard and the Jumi Storyline especially are often cited as a source of actual tears.
* ThatOneSidequest - Dodging [[MookBouncer Shadoles]].
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot - Seriously. The three main plotlines needed an overarching meta-arc to tie everything together and the ending needed to be better than [[spoiler: the Sproutlings fixed the Mana Tree. AWinnerIsYou!]]

* TheWoobie - Too many to name. Larc, Matilda, Irwin, ''every single Jumi'', Elle, Bud and Lisa, Rachel...

*** An incredibly awesome person uploaded the '''entire soundtrack''' to Youtube. And you can listen to it [[http://www.youtube.com/user/PeyserConley#g/c/D2DBD4902CF76A45 here]].

* TheWoobie - Too many to name. Larc, Matilda, Irwin, ''every single Jumi'', Elle, Bud and Lisa, Rachel...

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Lil' Cactus.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Cap'n Tusk insisting that Elle go ahead and sing. The voices of harpies cause nautical disasters. Tusk keeps his ship afloat anyway (with a little bit of monster-slaying help from you, of course).

** The Lord of Jewels. CompleteMonster, or was the entire Jumi arc a {{plan}} to [[spoiler:save the Jumi race from extinction]] on his part?
** The entire world of Fa'Diel has an InUniverse ACI: is it really real, or AllJustADream? (The opening cinematic also seems to suggest that [[spoiler: the world is permanently destroyed and you're just replaying [[DyingDream its last memories]], and thus the NewGamePlus is just a giant cosmic ResetButton]].)

* NightmareFuel - The junkyard is a depository of broken toys. These toys were all animated to fight in a great war in the past. These toys are still alive. And the Junkyard is HUGE.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel - The junkyard is a depository of broken toys. These toys were all animated to fight in a great war in the past. These toys are still alive. And the Junkyard is HUGE.

** The Lord of Jewels. CompleteMonster, or was the entire Jumi arc just a massive XanatosGambit to [[spoiler:save the Jumi race from extinction]] on his part?

** Heres exactly how you create best weapon of one type in the game. You need to capture a Pet that have specific ability that is necesary to get the material you need. Then, you need to grind in specific place and bringing along said pet to get money to buy the ridiculously expensive material in ridiculous amount. Then, you need to grow a number of specific fruit, and farm certain item and coins for your weapon. Then, you need to grind for something that RandomlyDrops for the weapon material, but the chance is ridiculously tiny. Finaly, you need to follow a set of Forge/Temper step that take hours to complete. Heck even after using guide, [[BeyondTheImpossible its still hard to understand the process]]. Imagine doing this all without a guide. That involve knowing where to farm, Understanding how the system work, and understanding the effect of each Material and their result and figuring the step you need to take to make the weapons. Then the fact that the material and step in making each weapon is different according to teh material and weapon type.

* LesYay: Pearl blushes and gets self conscious in front of the female hero, and Esmerelda develops a tiny BodyguardCrush towards her as well. Granted this is also the case with the male hero; the only effect gender selection has on anything in the game is occasional references to hairstyle. Sandra exchanges suggestive dialogue with various female Jumi, and then there's her relationship with Florina. Daena is said to love Matilda like a sister, but there's a little room for speculation.

* YourMileageMayVary - It's a game you either love or hate.

** Heres exactly how you create best weapon of one type in the game. You need to capture a Pet that have specific ability that is necesary to get the material you need. Then, you need to grind in specific place and bringing along said pet to get money to buy the ridiculously expensive material in ridiculous amount. Then, you need to grow a number of specific fruit, and farm certain item and coins for your weapon. Then, you need to grind for a RandomlyDrop with ridiculous drop rate for the weapon material. Finaly, you need to follow a set of Forge/Temper step that take hours to complete. Heck even after using guide, [[BeyondTheImpossible its still hard to understand the process]]. Imagine doing this all without a guide. That involve knowing where to farm, Understanding how the system work, and understanding the effect of each Material and their result and figuring the step you need to take to make the weapons. Then the fact that the material and step in making each weapon is different according to teh material and weapon type.

*** An incredibly awesome person uploaded the '''entire soundtrack''' to youtube. And you can listen to it [[http://www.youtube.com/user/PeyserConley#g/c/D2DBD4902CF76A45 here]].

* EarWorm: "Blue Gloom", played partway through the Jumi storyline.