History YMMV / SteambotChronicles

** It's a WorldOfWoobie! Pablo the artist, Saffron the trotmobile fighter, even some random NPC you can find lighting the streetlamps in Nefroburg in the evening! If you follow the NPC through his route, he'll eventually stop facing a wall and tell you that he doesn't want to go home because his wife left him.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Connie sings several fully voiced ballads which are quite lovely, [[LyricalDissonance regardless of what the lyrics may symbolize in the plot]], or [[{{Engrish}} the frequent awkward rhyme, questionable piece of grammar, or bizarre repitition]].

* EsotericHappyEnding: The good ending has the villain and his right hand killed and his plot to [[NietzscheWannabe destroy society]] thwarted by the protagonist's actions. The bad ending has the protagonist ''take over'' the villain's plot and successfully execute it himself (or simply serve as a minion and allow the villain to succeed). The former is ''by far'' the more depressing of the two.

* SpiritualLicensee: ''Steambot Chronicles'' was often described as what a game developed by StudioGhibli might look like [well, before the [[NiNoKuni actual]] game that was (co) developed by StudioGhibli was made].

** The entire game could have been a [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction of the amnesiatic hero]] cliche, and the game already did in some ways by allowing players to choose Vanilla's history at one point, not to mention avoiding having him be a powerful warrior all along.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Connie sings several fully voiced ballads which are quite lovely, [[LyricalDissonance regardless of the actual lyrics]].

* EsotericHappyEnding: The good ending has the villain and his right hand killed and his plot to [[NietzscheWannabe destroy society]] thwarted by the protagonist's actions. The bad ending has the protagonist ''take over'' the villain's plot and successfully execute it himself. The former is ''by far'' the more depressing of the two.

* PlayerPunch: Quite a few, actually. There's the [[TheWoobie artist Pablo]], and in the hero ending when [[spoiler:Savory jumps in the way of a shot meant for Dandelion]]. The second case is made even more sad as it seemingly leaves [[spoiler:Basil]] in a depression so severe that he's found living under a bridge in the year after mode.

* DesignatedVillain: [[spoiler:All Dandelion and Savory wanted was justice for Chickory's death and for society to stop being so apathetic, corrupt and reliant on technology. [[MoralEventHorizon If it weren't for the bombing]], they'd be little more than a more organized and successful version of the Killer Elephants.]]

* DesignatedVillain: [[spoiler:All Dandelion and Savory wanted was justice for Chickory's death and for society to stop being so apathetic, corrupt and reliant on technology.]]

* DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaL7nwWDctU Music Revolution]], the song you get to play when you build the first electric guitar and invent RockAndRoll, deserves special mention for being so bad, that when Electronic Gaming Monthly reviewed ''Steambot Chronicles'', the reviewer wasted precious review space to complain about working on this sidequest only to get this song.

* SoBadItsHorrible: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaL7nwWDctU Music Revolution]], the song you get to play when you build the first electric guitar and invent RockAndRoll, deserves special mention for being so bad, that when Electronic Gaming Monthly reviewed ''Steambot Chronicles'', the reviewer wasted precious review space to complain about working on this sidequest only to get this song.

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** There's a trick, about halfway through the game when you get to Happy Garland, where you can bet on one particular arena matchup and use some [[SaveScumming basic luck manipulation]] to win every time, raking in obscene amounts of money for your trouble. To whit; [[DumbMuscle Samson]] will beat [[{{Dominatrix}} Saffron]] fully 2/3rds of the time, even though he has far worse odds listed, provided that you sit and watch the match (as opposed to skipping it and allowing the game to calculate the outcome based on odds). The game becomes much easier when you can afford to buy multiple copies of everything in the game.

** There's a trick, about halfway through the game when you get to Happy Garland, where you can bet on one particular arena matchup and use some basic luck manipulation to win every time, raking in obscene amounts of money for your trouble. The game becomes much easier when you can afford to buy multiple copies of everything in the game.

* SpiritualLicensee: ''Steambot Chronicles'' was often described as what a game developed by StudioGhibli might look like.

* WorldOfWoobie: And how! Even an extremely minor NPC who only appears at the beginning of evening to light the streetlamps in Nefroberg falls under this.

** The two worst offenders would have to be the leadership roles of the Killer Elephants and the [[spoiler:Bloody Mantis]]. If you assume command of the KE, that's it. No raid missions, no optional tag-along bodyguards, not even a resolution to the former leader's desire to travel to the moon! And the latter is even worse as [[spoiler:get thrown in jail immediately after the credits and never get to do ANYTHING with your new army]].

* {{Narm}}[=/=]NarmCharm: The songs are either one or the other depending on the individual listening.

* SoBadItsGood: As above, the songs.

* {{Narm}}[=/=]NarmCharm: The English versions of the songs are either one or the other depending on the individual listening.

* SoBadItsGood[=/=]SoBadItsHorrible: As above, the songs.

* SoBadItsGood[=/=]SoBadItsBad: As above, the songs.

* SoBadItsGood/SoBadItsBad: As above, the songs.

** The entire game could have been a [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction of the amnesiatic hero]] cliche, and the game already did in some ways by allowing players to choose Vanilla's history at one point, not to mention avoiding having him be [[CrouchingTigerHiddenBadass a powerful warrior]] all along.