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** [=NoJack=] [[labelnote:Explanation]]Jack-O-Lantern is inexplicably unobtainable in the American version of 2 without importing from 1. That didn't stop the fanbase from trying to find him for *decades*. The hunt to find Jack got so bad, there's a cash bounty for anyone who can prove they spawned him. Naturally, he's now a MemeticTroll for denying proper 100% completion.[[/labelnote]]

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** [=NoJack=] [[labelnote:Explanation]]Jack-O-Lantern is inexplicably unobtainable in the American version of 2 without importing from 1. That didn't stop the fanbase from trying to find him for *decades*.''decades''. The hunt to find Jack got so bad, there's a cash bounty for anyone who can prove they spawned him. Naturally, he's now a MemeticTroll for denying proper 100% completion.[[/labelnote]]

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* DifficultySpike: The final boss of both games are notorious for how difficult they are to the rest of the game.



** The Wizard card doubles your damage, essentially giving you a free Z-Charge. Combined with an appropriate Lizardman card and most enemies can become 2-3 hit kills.

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** The Wizard card doubles your damage, essentially giving you a free Z-Charge.Z-Charge that stacks with actual Z-Charging. Combined with an appropriate Lizardman card and most enemies can become 2-3 hit kills.



** The Banshee card. It's cheap to use, has amazing range, does good damage, ignores defense and helps expedite grinding. 2 made it even better by making it a weapon card.



** [=NoJack=] [[labelnote:Explanation]]Jack-O-Lantern is inexplicably unobtainable in the American version of 2 without importing from 1. That didn't stop the fanbase from trying to find him for *decades*. The hunt to find Jack got so bad, there's a cash bounty for anyone who can prove they spawned him. Naturally, he's now a MemeticTroll for denying proper 100% completion.[[/labelnote]]



* ThatOneBoss: Helena and The Enchanter in the first game. Both the deities if you don't know their WeaksauceWeakness. And the White Tiger in the first game.
** The Firefox, Beelzebub & Behemoth before [[spoiler:the fight with King Leod [=VIII=] ]] sure as hell count.

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* ThatOneBoss: ThatOneBoss:
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Helena and The Enchanter Thalnos in the first game. Thalnos is notable that even with proper strategies he's difficult, leading some to think ''he's'' the actual final boss.
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Both final bosses and Body of the deities God from 2 if you don't know their WeaksauceWeakness. And the White Tiger in the first game.
WeaksauceWeakness.
** The Firefox, Beelzebub & Behemoth before [[spoiler:the fight with King Leod [=VIII=] ]] sure as hell count.in Alanjeh Castel, Middle Tower, thanks to janky hitboxes to their attacks.

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** The Demon Swordsman in multiplayer. Instantly discard your opponents hand if you hit them, and is why the lass boss in the Sacred Battle Arena is such a pain.

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** The Demon Swordsman in multiplayer. Instantly discard your opponents hand if you hit them, and is why the lass last boss in the Sacred Battle Arena is such a pain.pain.
* MemeticMutation:
** [=CatoBless=][[labelnote:Explanation]]Scaz, a speedrunner for Lost Kingdoms, couldn't pronounce Catoblepas correctly, pronouncing it as cat-o-bleep-iss, something that's close to the Bepis meme. Papaya, another speedrunner, thought he meant Cato-bless cause they thought the monster's attack was a ''sneeze''. Shortly afterwards, [=MooseEatsBear=], yet another speedrunner, got his first good time on 1 by having a Catoblepas stunlock the God of Destruction. Thus the Catoblepas became a MemeticBadass and a fan favourite.[[/labelnote]]
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** The Blue Dragon. In *1*, it restores you to 100% health and shuffles everything back into your deck except for the copy you played. Two of them equals immortality. The effects ended up being split in *2*, with hefty drawbacks, nerfing it substantially.

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** The Blue Dragon. In *1*, 1, it restores you to 100% health and shuffles everything back into your deck except for the copy you played. Two of them equals immortality. The effects ended up being split in *2*, 2, with hefty drawbacks, nerfing it substantially.
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** The God of Destruction is a huge game breaker in *1*. It brings everything on the field (including yourself and your own monsters) to [[OneHitPointWonder 1 HP]].

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** The God of Destruction is a huge game breaker in *1*.1. It brings everything on the field (including yourself and your own monsters) to [[OneHitPointWonder 1 HP]].

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** The Blue Dragon. In *1*, it restores you to 100% health and shuffles everything back into your deck except for the copy you played. Two of them=Immortality. The effects ended up being split in *2*, with hefty drawbacks, nerfing it substantially.

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** The Blue Dragon. In *1*, it restores you to 100% health and shuffles everything back into your deck except for the copy you played. Two of them=Immortality.them equals immortality. The effects ended up being split in *2*, with hefty drawbacks, nerfing it substantially.


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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: The chief criticism of the games are the unusually thin characterizations for every character, bar Tara.

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** The balance of the first game is pretty much snapped in two if you disregard the large deck size limit, and instead build a small deck comprised of nothing but your most powerful attack cards and "recover used cards" cards.



** The first game pretty much became broken when you disregarded the large deck size limit and instead made a small deck composed of nothing but the most powerful attack cards in the game and "recover used cards" cards.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot Tara being raised by the Band of the Scorpions is never touched upon aside from a passing comment by a villager, and they're never brought up again after [[spoiler:they're all killed by the God of Harmony.]]

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Tara being raised by the Band of the Scorpions is never touched upon aside from a passing comment by a villager, and they're never brought up again after [[spoiler:they're all killed by the God of Harmony.]]
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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:The God of Harmony in Lost Kingdoms 2. The history of the God of Creation, Harmony, and Destruction is recounted in the Cathedral library near the end of the game. The God of Creation and Destruction got into a bloody war where they enslaved humans, but it was Harmony who finally sealed both of them away as Runestones on separate continents. He then used his body as a barrier between them so that they never meet again. The God of Harmony you fight in-game is actually The Body, basically what amounts to an animal working off its instincts. Unfortunately, part of its process to regrow is consuming human souls. He doesn't seem quite mentally developed enough to understand why harvesting human souls might be looked down upon, but from his perspective he's resolving centuries of bloody conflict among the humans by "granting them eternal peace." He also seems genuinely confused and hurt when you reject his offer by killing him.]]
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** The Firefox, Beelzebub & Behemoth before [[spoiler:the fight with King Leod [=VIII=] ]] sure as hell count.

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** The Firefox, Beelzebub & Behemoth before [[spoiler:the fight with King Leod [=VIII=] ]] sure as hell count.count.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot Tara being raised by the Band of the Scorpions is never touched upon aside from a passing comment by a villager, and they're never brought up again after [[spoiler:they're all killed by the God of Harmony.]]

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** The God himself is a huge game breaker. It brings everything on the field (including yourself and your own monsters) to [[OneHitPointWonder 1 HP]]. Can make any boss easy to [[CherryTapping Cherry Tap]].
*** Can make ''you'' easy to cherry tap too if you aren't careful. Don't use it against the Demon Fox.

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** The God himself of Destruction is a huge game breaker.breaker in *1*. It brings everything on the field (including yourself and your own monsters) to [[OneHitPointWonder 1 HP]]. Can make any boss easy to [[CherryTapping Cherry Tap]].\n*** Can make ''you'' easy to cherry tap too if you aren't careful. Don't use it against the Demon Fox.



*** Of note, the Blue Dragon. Restores you to 100% health and shuffles everything back into your deck except for the copy you played. Two of them=Immortality.
** There's also the casting from HP system in the 1st game. [[GlassCannon You could cast any spell in your deck for free if you were at 1HP.]]

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*** Of note, the ** The Blue Dragon. Restores In *1*, it restores you to 100% health and shuffles everything back into your deck except for the copy you played. Two of them=Immortality.
them=Immortality. The effects ended up being split in *2*, with hefty drawbacks, nerfing it substantially.
** There's also the casting from HP system in the 1st game.game, where the game would stop your HP falling below 1 when using cards. [[GlassCannon You could cast any spell in your deck for free if you were at 1HP.]]
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* EarWorm: The first game's soundtrack is riddled with these. Shame there's no OST for sale.
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* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: The first game was an interesting concept, while the second game pulled it off surprisingly well.

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* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: The first game was an interesting concept, while but it had a few annoying problems like not being able to replay stages until the game has been cleared. The second game pulled greatly improved many of the problems with the first game and it off surprisingly well.was better received.
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** The Firefox, Beelzebub & Behemoth before [[spoiler:the fight with King Leod [=VIII=] ]] sure as hell count.
* JustForFun/XMeetsY: You can basically say that this game is what would happen if ''{{Franchise/Pokemon}}'' and ''Manga/YuGiOh'' were to combine to become a VideoGame. Pokemon because you can capture the creatures you encounter and Yu-Gi-Oh! because you summon creatures from cards. You will even challenge others that can summon the creatures too sometimes.

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** The Firefox, Beelzebub & Behemoth before [[spoiler:the fight with King Leod [=VIII=] ]] sure as hell count.
* JustForFun/XMeetsY: You can basically say that this game is what would happen if ''{{Franchise/Pokemon}}'' and ''Manga/YuGiOh'' were to combine to become a VideoGame. Pokemon because you can capture the creatures you encounter and Yu-Gi-Oh! because you summon creatures from cards. You will even challenge others that can summon the creatures too sometimes.
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* DemonicSpiders: The Vodianoi. They're fast, they hit hard and have high health and defenses. Fortunately any earth damage kills them.

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* DemonicSpiders: DemonicSpiders:
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The Vodianoi. They're fast, they hit hard and have high health and defenses. Fortunately any earth damage kills them.



** The Firefox, Beelzebub & Behemoth before [[spoiler:the fight with King Leod [=VIII=] ]] sure as hell count.

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** The Firefox, Beelzebub & Behemoth before [[spoiler:the fight with King Leod [=VIII=] ]] sure as hell count.count.
* JustForFun/XMeetsY: You can basically say that this game is what would happen if ''{{Franchise/Pokemon}}'' and ''Manga/YuGiOh'' were to combine to become a VideoGame. Pokemon because you can capture the creatures you encounter and Yu-Gi-Oh! because you summon creatures from cards. You will even challenge others that can summon the creatures too sometimes.

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* DemonicSpiders: The Vodianoi. They go down in one hit from an Earth card, but without them, you're screwed.

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* DemonicSpiders: The Vodianoi. They go down in They're fast, they hit hard and have high health and defenses. Fortunately any earth damage kills them.
** Chariobots. Their ''movement'' hurts and they're resilient as all hell get out. As icing on the cake, you can miss out on getting
one hit from an Earth card, but without them, if you're screwed.not so lucky with the mission results screen.



* GameBreaker: You pretty much needed them for the first game, or you'd be stuck at the God of Destruction, and [[LostForever you can miss them too]]. The second game dulled those cards down, but now arise cheap methods to beat both fights with [[spoiler:the God of Harmony]] (see WeaksauceWeakness below).

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* GameBreaker: You pretty much needed them for the first game, or you'd be stuck at the God of Destruction, and [[LostForever you can miss them too]]. The second game dulled those cards down, but now arise cheap methods to beat both fights with [[spoiler:the God of Harmony]] (see WeaksauceWeakness below).Way too many.



** The Wizard card doubles your damage, essentially giving you a free Z-Charge. Combined with an appropriate Lizardman card and most enemies can become 2-3 hit kills.
** The Demon Swordsman in multiplayer. Instantly discard your opponents hand if you hit them, and is why the lass boss in the Sacred Battle Arena is such a pain.



* TearJerker: Helena's ultimate death in the first game. Sol in the bad ending.

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* TearJerker: Helena's [[spoiler:Helena's ultimate death in the first game. Sol in the bad ending.]]



** The Firefox, Beelzebub & Behemoth before [[spoiler:the fight with King Leod {=VIII=}]] sure as hell count.

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** The Firefox, Beelzebub & Behemoth before [[spoiler:the fight with King Leod {=VIII=}]] [=VIII=] ]] sure as hell count.
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* TearJerker: Helena's ultimate death in the first game. Almost Sol, [[IGotBetter but he gets better]] in the [[GuideDangIt good ending]].

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* TearJerker: Helena's ultimate death in the first game. Almost Sol, [[IGotBetter but he gets better]] Sol in the [[GuideDangIt good ending]].bad ending.
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** The Doppleganger. Moves slowly and randomly around the field, but has massive HP and will kill the first thing (even you!) that it touches. Throw it right on top of a slow but hard to take down boss and it takes it down like nothing.
** The White Tiger deals massive damage to ''every'' enemy on the field. The only way it could be more broken is if it was a Neutral type.

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** The Doppleganger. Moves slowly and randomly around the field, but has massive HP and will kill the first thing (even you!) that it touches. Throw it right on top of a slow but hard to take down boss and it takes it down like nothing.
nothing. Of course, [[ObviousRulePatch some enemies were given an immunity to it's effects in 2]].
** The White Tiger Tiger, unlike the other Flash cards, deals massive damage to ''every'' enemy on the field. The only way it could be more broken is if it was a Neutral type.

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