History YMMV / PrincessWaltz

* LesYay: Chris thinks Shizuka is breathtakingly beautiful upon first meeting her. A case of Chris BecomingTheMask, or is [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Shizuka capable of turning straight women lesbian?]]

%%* WhatAnIdiot: It's implied that only virgins are allowed to join the Waltz, since it's a competition for the prince's hand. There are numerous cases of princesses winning a spot and celebrating... ''by having sex''. At least two girls explicitly had to drop out because they got pregnant. Booze was involved both times, mind.

* FoeYay: [[CoolBigSis Shizuka]] and [[BloodKnight Angela]] do not get along, they respect each other and well, the tension is there.

* TheScrappy: Angela does a ''lot'' to make herself easy to hate. You ''will'' want to break something after the first fight with her. While she generally gets rounded off later on, April takes her place.

* WhatAnIdiot: It's implied that only virgins are allowed to join the Waltz, since it's a competition for the prince's hand. There are numerous cases of princesses winning a spot and celebrating... ''by having sex''. At least two girls explicitly had to drop out because they got pregnant. Booze was involved both times, mind.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: [[spoiler:There's only one ending - Arata ends up with Chris. Your decisions throughout the game only determine whose sex scenes you get. They're otherwise meaningless.]]

* FoeYay: [[CoolBigSis Shizuka]] and [[BloodKnight Angela]] do not get a long, they respect each other and well, the tension is there.

** FridgeBrilliance: Chris spent most of her life trying to deny she was a girl thanks to her desire to become Emperor. In addition to the situation with Shizuka, Chris also becomes embarrassed like a boy would when she accidentally walks in on Nodoka and her classmates changing for gym; usually a girl would have no more reaction to the sight of girls in their bras and panties than a guy would have at the sight of boys in briefs or boxers. It's possible Chris might have tried so hard to think and act like a boy that she started getting some "boy desires".
** Or, y'know, Chris is just bi.

* AssPull: While it turns into a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome pretty quickly, it's hard to deny that [[spoiler: the shy ShrinkingViolet Riko having been Liesel in disguise for the entire game]] is completely out of nowhere.
** Though it could also be FridgeBrilliance. Besides, [[spoiler: if Shizuka and Arata's mother were incognito for years, that means Liesel being a sleeper agent is not out of the question, and since it's implied she's been on Earth for awhile, she already has a marked advantage due to having already sussed out the terrain of the battlefield.]]
** There's a subtle metagame hint if you notice that [[spoiler: unlike the other schoolgirls, Riko reacts not to Chris, but Arata. This means little in-character - but due to the game revolving around Arata, it implies that Riko might be more important than expected.]]

* FetishRetardant: The first sex scene between Arata and [[spoiler: Chris]] can come off as this. They're driven nearly insane with lust by a side effect they weren't aware of, and their bodies just basically go at it without being able to stop themselves.

* AssPull: While it turns into a CrowningMomentOfAwesome pretty quickly, it's hard to deny that [[spoiler: the shy ShrinkingViolet Riko having been Liesel in disguise for the entire game]] is completely out of nowhere.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI7uN_9wdPg&feature=relmfu Battlefield of Steel]] is the default fight music, but it never seems to get old, no matter how many times you hear it. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RolnyHJFjoc Daybreak]] is the song that plays during a few of the story's CMOA's.

* {{Padding}}: The writers took a leaf out of [[{{Franchise/Nasuverse}} Nasu]]'s book; the fight scenes definitely don't use one word when seven will do.

* {{Padding}}: The writers took a leaf out of [[{{Nasuverse}} Nasu]]'s book; the fight scenes definitely don't use one word when seven will do.

* TheScrappy: Angela does a ''lot'' to make herself easy to hate. You ''will'' want to break something after the first fight with her.
* WhatAnIdiot: It's implied that only virgins are allowed to join the Waltz, since it's a competition for the prince's hand. There are numerous cases of princesses winning a spot and celebrating... ''by having sex''. At least two girls explicitly had to drop out because they got pregnant.

** FridgeBrilliance: Chris spent most of her life trying to deny she was a girl thanks to her desire to become Emperor. In addition to the situation with Shizuka, Chris also becomes embarrassed like a boy would when she accidentally walks in on Nodoka and her classmates changing for gym; usually a girl would have no more reaction to the sight of girls in their bras and panties than this male Troper would have to the sight of boys in briefs or boxers. It's possible Chris might have tried so hard to think and act like a boy that she started getting some "boy desires".

* WhatAnIdiot: It's implied that only virgins are allowed to join the Waltz, since it's a competition for the prince's hand. There are numerous cases of princesses winning a spot and celebrating...''by having sex''. At least two girls explicitly had to drop out because they got pregnant.
* {{Woolseyism}}: At one point when talking to Suzushiro as Iris, Arata/Chris use 'ore,' which is an absurd pronoun for someone like Iris to use. English can't do that. Instead, they change it to make it as though instead of slipping with what pronoun they're using, they accidentally refer to themselves in the plural with 'we.'

* TearJerker: [[spoiler:Chris forcing herself to be killed by Arata in order to save him.]] That was one of the saddest scenes in the entire game not to mention the fact that it gives you a bad end right after it happens.

* FetishRetardant: The first sex scene between Arata and [[spoiler: Chris]] can come off as this. They're driven nearly insane with lust by a side effect they weren't aware of, and their bodies just basically go at it without being able to stop themselves. It's like a rape scene except ''both'' participants are being raped.

* FanDisservice: The first sex scene between Arata and [[spoiler: Chris]] can come off as this. They're driven nearly insane with lust by a side effect they weren't aware of, and their bodies just basically go at it without being able to stop themselves. It's like a rape scene except ''both'' participants are being raped.

* LesYay: Chris thinks Shizuka is breathtakingly beautiful upon first meeting her. A case of Chris BecomingTheMask, or is [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer Shizuka capable of turning straight women lesbian?]]

* FanDisservice: YourMileageMayVary on this one, but the first sex scene between Arata and [[spoiler: Chris]] can come off as this. They're driven nearly insane with lust by a side effect they weren't aware of, and their bodies just basically go at it without being able to stop themselves. It's like a rape scene except ''both'' participants are being raped.

* {{Moe}}: Regardless of the seriousness of the story being an {{Eroge}} it's still in there, all though not many would have expected it to come from ''[[LittleMissSnarker Liesel]].''

* FetishFuel:
** Somehow, this game makes the thought of sensibly clothed women beating the shit out of each other more hot than some of the H-scenes.
** In as similar vein, this game should give lingerie and undergarment fans a reason to {{Squee}}. Angela pulls off an absolutely stunning version of BlackBraAndPanties, while Suzushiro looks rather good in sarashi wrappings.

* AssPull: While it turns into a CrowningMomentOfAwesome pretty quickly, it's hard to deny that [[spoiler: the shy ShrinkingViolet Riko having been Liessel in disguise for the entire game]] is completely out of nowhere.