History YMMV / TheWitchAndTheHundredKnight

* CompleteMonster: [[TheBrute Totopepe]] is a power-hungry BeastMan posing as an [[NotSoHarmlessVillain unassuming human squire]]. Seeking influence over the kingdom, he and his cohorts demonize and then persecute witches, Totopepe himself killing an innocent witch to spark the genocide. Capturing [[TheProtagonist Metallia]], Totopepe [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures her for days]], smiling and giggling the entire time. When his initial plan fails, Totopepe unleashes his giant beastman form and violently conquers the castle with his son's aid, slaughtering all in their path. Wishing to have a "royal heir", Totopepe [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapes one of the princesses]] to death, before killing her sister and carrying [[CreepySouvenir the latter's body in a sack on his back]] to remember how much he enjoyed her murder. Unintelligent and rash as he may be, Totopepe's sadistic brutality [[KnightOfCerebus takes the game to its darkest arc]].

* CompleteMonster: [[TheBrute Totopepe]] is a power-hungry BeastMan posing as an [[NotSoHarmlessVillain unassuming human squire]]. Seeking influence over the kingdom, he and his cohorts demonize and then persecute witches, Totopepe himself killing an innocent witch to spark the genocide. Capturing [[TheProtagonist Metallia]], Totopepe [[ColdBloodedTorture tortures her for days]], smiling and giggling the entire time. When his initial plan fails, Totopepe unleashes his giant beastman form and violently conquers the castle with his son's aid, slaughtering all in their path. Wishing to have a "royal heir", Totopepe [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rapes one of the princesses]] to death, before killing her sister and carrying [[CreepySouvenir the latter's body in a sack on his back]] to remember how much he enjoyed her murder. [[ObfuscatingStupidity Unintelligent and rash as he may be]], Totopepe's sadistic brutality [[KnightOfCerebus takes the game to its darkest arc]].

* JustForFun/XMeetsY: ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' meets ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}''. [[spoiler:The Bad Ending adds ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'' for good measure]].

** Alternatively, the endings are named correctly, but from the perspective of [[spoiler:the actual Witch and Hundred Knight. In the Normal and True Ending, they are left alone and will eventually be together again, but in the Bad Ending, they are killed.]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: [[spoiler:Lucchini. Horrible monster who happily slaughtered hundreds of innocents and viciously betrayed everyone who ever cared about him in order to support his psychotic father's insane grab for power? Or a tragic hero who did everything in his power to make sure Metallia was in the right place to avert the apocalypse, even if it meant destroying everything that was precious to him? There's evidence to support both views.]]

* TheScrappy: Just about anyone who doesn't find Mitten to be the most adorable thing ever will hate her guts. Especially since her entire episode [[ShootTheShaggyDog ends in tears]].

* GameBreakingBug: NIS America localized the game in the US and European regions, but the game came with a nasty bug that's sporadically kick you back to the [=PS3=]'s XMB (main menu) with no real pattern, which could potentially lead to loss of save data. There's a massive variable, as some experience it all the time, when others don't even notice the bug because it never occurs in their playthrough, which means whether it really counts as a game-breaking bug depends on personal experience, but also means fixing it is pretty much impossible as NIS can't replicate it to figure out why it actually happens.
** This appears to have been fixed in the [=PS4=] version.

** Special mention goes to the "Dolly Gaze" reapers encountered in chapter 9, which deal more damage than some bosses and have very large health pools.

** [[UpToEleven One upping both of them however,]] are the Amataya Sewers and [[spoiler: Ancient Amataya City]] in Chapter 10. The former isn't very large, but it has '''no pillars at all''' and the only enemies in it are Witch Soldiers, which means you have to traverse the entire sewer in a single run without any way of restoring you Gcals other than your very limited items. The latter is a sprawling labyrinth of lever-locked doors, multiple levels and one way jumps, in addition to having veritable mazes between pillars and nothing but Witch Soldiers to keep you company. Keep in mind, you have to do these stages ''back to back.''
** [[spoiler: Chapter 12]] is the single most difficult part of the entire game, [[FakeDifficulty for all the wrong reasons.]] All the enemies are about twenty levels higher than where you'll probably be by the time you reach it and their stats are even higher than their level would suggest, it requires you to build up massive amounts of Karma, which can be difficult if you've been using the Marginal Gaze facet up til this point, it's host to some of the most unforgiving boss fights in the entire game and an [[InterfaceScrew extremely dark color filter is put over everything that makes some areas virtually impossible to go through due to a lack of visibility.]]

** This appears to have been fixed in the PS4 version.

* GameBreakingBug: NIS America localized the game in the US and European regions, but the game came with a nasty bug that's sporadically kick you back to the PS3's XMB (main menu) with no real pattern, which could potentially lead to loss of save data. There's a massive variable, as some experience it all the time, when others don't even notice the bug because it never occurs in their playthrough, which means whether it really counts as a game-breaking bug depends on personal experience, but also means fixing it is pretty much impossible as NIS can't replicate it to figure out why it actually happens.

* DudeNotFunny: Probably the biggest point of contention is Metallia transforming Malia into a mouse and [[MoralEventHorizon summoning a gang of horny mice]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil to rape her]].

** Some of the 2D character portraits lack mouth-flaps for when a character is talking. This is most notable with Visco and whenever Metallia does her bent-over 'angry' pose.
* TaintedByThePreview: A small portion of the fanbase aren't too fond of Metallia not being playable.

** However, a few characters actually ask Metallia if her affection for Visco is romantic, and she outright says that she's "not into that sort of thing" and even gets a bit angry at the implication. [[spoiler: [[ArmoredClosetGay: Among the characters to imply such a relationship is another Metallia.]] Metallia's failure to listen to her over this is part of what ruins her attempt to revive Visco.]]

** However, a few characters actually ask Metallia if her affection for Visco is romantic, and she outright says that she's "not into that sort of thing" and even gets a bit angry at the implication.

* AngstWhatAngst: Lucchini is disowned by his mother and exiled from his village shortly after Metallia meets him. It doesn't seem to bother him in the slightest. [[spoiler:Then you learn that he wasn't exiled at all--he slaughtered everyone in the village to make the Bell Plant bloom.]]

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Metallia can be considered this, since she, just like [[VideoGame/TheGuidedFateParadox Liliel]], managed to rank in the top 50 fan-favourite (female) characters poll even though the game she's in ''hasn't even come out'' (And in the ''TOP 20'' no less). Notably, both her and Liliel are DLC characters in VideoGame/DisgaeaDimension2. The Hundred Knight ended up ranking as well, beating out characters such as [[ZettaiHeroProject The Unlosing Ranger]] and even [[VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness King Krichevskoy]].

* GameBreakingBug: NIS America localized the game in the US and European regions, but the game came with a nasty bug that's sporadically kick you back to the PS3's XMB (main menu) with no real pattern, which could potentially lead to loss of save data. There's a massive variable, as some experience it all the time, when others don't even notice the bug because it never occurs in their playthrough, so it really depends on your personal experience if this is truly a [[GameBreakingBug Game Breaking Bug]].

* HilariousInHindsight: In the English version, Metallia is voiced by SarahWilliams. Why is this so funny? If you watched the English dub of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' she voiced Sayaka Miki, [[spoiler:who becomes a witch]].

** There's also the possible case of [[spoiler: Lana Nia Luchhini]]. His MEH was revealed right at the ending where [[spoiler: it is revealed that not only did he massacre everyone in the castle, including one of his friends. He did it to help his father in a coup. Oh and way earlier in the story he massacred his village to get the Bell Plant to Metallia (let it be known that Metallia didn't even know that at the time). To sum up he betrayed his mother, his village, his friends and his master to help his psycho father take the throne.]]
** Completely unambiguous is [[spoiler: Totopepe]], who first crossed the MEH when [[spoiler: he killed Sabina and used her corpse to frame Metallia then spent the next few weeks brutally torturing Metallia for fun. He then runs a full marathon past it by exploiting Lucchini's powers for his own gain, killing everyone in Amataya Castle, raping Visco's sister Hilda and carrying around Visco's body around on his back purely to taunt Metallia.]]

** Several levels suffer from very poor design (Pillars nonsensically close together, pillars ridiculously far apart, large areas of space with no enemies or items, etc)

* ThatOneLevel: Brockenturm Tower and the Dimensional Rift in Chapter 6, which are rife with FakeDifficulty. The former has multiple [[{{LegendOfZelda}} Legend of Zelda style]] puzzles that reset if you leave, meaning you have to clear it essentially in a single go. The latter has poison traps every few steps, which means you'll either be burning through your Gcals obscenely quickly or you'll use every antidote in your inventory. It doesn't help that both of them have very fast and very strong enemies, all with different damage resistances so no possible weapon combination is effective at killing them.

** JerkAssWoobie: Metallia. Despite how she acts, especially in the early part of the game, she does grow into a decent person and does right thing. That sad part of it is that most of her [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished good deeds backfire horribly]]. [[spoiler:To summarize, the antidote she makes to cure Visco of her curse backfires and cause them to lash out at each other. The witch she spared gets killed and her corpse is used to frame Metallia a as conspirator against the kingdom, leading to her being imprisoned, tortured, and scheduled for execution. Also, with the exception of Visco, Arlecchino, and the Hundred Knight, most of the characters she trusts end up betraying her in some way.]]

** Life is never kind to Malia. Her transformation into a mouse has led to one misfortune after another whether it's being raped horny mice, being devoured by a bird, or getting chased by the Hundred Knight. [[spoiler:And even in her past, she had to deal with her parents dying due to the swamp, being ostracized just for going near the swamp to train with Uruka, and being trusted with a plan that involves her "daughter" eventually dying in the process]].

* LesYay: It's hard to deny that Metallia and Visco's relationship goes beyond just friendship. Both have monologues about how much they have grown to truly care about each other and have gone through a lot for the sake of each other [[spoiler:(Visco betrays her fellow Inquisitors and her kingdom to protect Metallia as well as give up her chance to be cured of her curse to ensure that Metallia will live and Metallia goes through great lengths to revive Visco after she's killed)]].

* GameBreakingBug: NIS America localized the game in the US and European regions, but the game came with a nasty bug that's sporadically kick you back to the PS3's XMB (main menu) with no real pattern, which could potentially lead to loss of save data. There's a massive variable, as some experience it all the time, when others don't even notice the bug because it never occurs in their playthrough, so it really depends on your personal experience if this is truly a [[GameBreakingBug: Game Breaking Bug]].

* ComplainingAboutGamesYouDontPlay: Many reviews label it as a game that endorses rape culture while failing to explain the details of the story or the gameplay and just mention the "rape scene" as the proof that the game is horrible.

* {{Alas Poor Villain}}: [[spoiler: Teresa may have been a {{Dirty Coward}} who constantly cowered at someone more powerful than her and continued to insult Metallia when she thought she was in the clear but her death comes off as rather depressing especially since she begged her master to save her from Metallia's swamp. The swamp didn't affect any other witch except her and that was because she was used as a {{Human Shield}} by her master Belda herself who threw her away once she had no use.]]

* {{Complete Monster}}: [[spoiler:Totopepe, who, along with Lucchini, kills everyone in Amataya Castle at the end of Chapter 11, kills Visco's sister when he tries to rape her, and then kills Visco when she goes to attack them. And that's not even counting his part in framing Metallia, branding and sadistically torturing her for fun, killing Sabina and carrying Visco's corpse in a sack on his back as a trophy. What makes Totopepe especially stand out, however, is that there is no rhyme, reason, or regret behind his action and takes pleasure in being as despicable as possible.]]
** [[spoiler:On the subject of Lucchini, while admitting that his father's plan to use his foresight to become king is wrong, he still acts as a cheerful accomplice to Totopepe and outright taunts Metallia about it when she confonts him.]]
** [[spoiler: There's also Belda, the appropriately named Scum Witch. Her crimes include the aforementioned framing of Metallia, cursing Visco, and constructing anti-magic golems to aid in a witch hunt that would make Salem look like child's play. As well as using her apprentice as a human shield during the Walpurgis party.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: Metallia's is detailed in DudeNotFunny and BaseBreaker, [[spoiler: the more unambiguous examples of Belda and Totopepe]] are detailed in CompleteMonster. But there is still Heintz. He aided in [[spoiler: Belda's]] plans because he wanted to marry into royalty and become king in a move that would him seem like an Expy of [[Disney/{{Frozen}} Hans]][[note]]Even though its unlikely that NIS has heard of that movie by the time the game was released[[/note]] and went along with [[spoiler: killing Visco]] who was implied to be his ''first'' fiance before the curse forced him to move onto her sister. He later sends [[spoiler: Belda]] off to face the heroes alone while he and his father escapes.

* ComplainingAboutGamesYouDontPlay: Many reviews label it as a game that endorses rape culture while failing to explain the details of the story or the gameplay and just mention the "rape scene" as the proof that the game is horrible. Also falls into the {{Hate Dumb}} territory.

** Lonely Sabina.