Line #2 YMMV/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters


1	* AlternateCharacterInterpretation:
2	** While Layna means well and is right about trying to fix the world, one could call her out on setting Revya up from the start without even asking until AFTER the fusion. [[spoiler: One could say she had it coming in the Demon Path.]]
3	** One can also call how she deals with Danette. [[spoiler: She sees a child suffering from the memory of her parent's death, so she seals the memory. Which also leaves her stupid to the point of brain damage. Virtuous-as-Layna clearly has no understanding of people, despite good intent.]]
4	** Revya gets some of this thanks to the Demon Path. Particularly, was Revya's more vile personality in the Demon Path caused by them being DrunkOnTheDarkSide or were they EvilAllAlong?
5	** Endorph's relationship with Euphoria. How much of his feelings toward her is actually toward Euphoria herself and how much of it is based on [[spoiler:her similarity to his sister, Castile?]]
6	* AntiClimaxBoss: The FinalBoss of the normal path is normally too strong to beat outside of a NewGamePlus, except you can make it weaker by killing its followers on the map, which will actually leave it weaker than the penultimate boss.
7	* AwesomeEgo:
8	** Gig. He is a rude {{Jerkass}} that acts like he's better than everyone else. His fans agree, especially because of how funny he is.
9	** [[spoiler: Raksha as well, once you finally find out what he was up to.]]
10	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: This game is just full of masterpieces to say the least.
11	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHh2Tqz8ebA Requiem of Gemini]]
12	** [[http://youtu.be/QtvdQkS-Fjc Crash Landing]]
13	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD9Vho0SVCU Rock 'n Rocks]]
14	** [[https://youtu.be/TKsWTPSlBCE Speed Queen]]. Players of ''VideoGame/Disgaea5AllianceOfVengeance'' may know it better as that game's Item World boss theme and Mystery Room fight theme.
15	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment:
16	** The first time you run into Heroman (no, not ''[[Manga/{{Heroman}} that]]'' Heroman), which is guaranteed to elicit a "what the fuck" the first time you see him. Even Gig is caught off guard by how silly he is. See VideoGameCrueltyPotential for more.
17	** [[Franchise/{{Disgaea}} Laharl]] [[OneSceneWonder berates you]] [[spoiler:[[OneSceneWonder if you chose the Overlord title when you're prompted to choose one in the Demon Path]]]].
18	** ''[[GuestStarPartyMember Hey, I'm Kotaro. I'm gonna help you out for a while.]]''
19	* ContinuityLockout: [[spoiler: Lujei cameo where she talks about how she sent Sulfer back Ivoire will make no sense to anybody who isn't familiar with the events of VideoGame/PhantomBrave.]]
20	* CreepyAwesome: [[spoiler: Demon Path Revya. Playing as them has you going down atrocity after atrocity with no sense of morality that put [[VideoGame/GodOfWar Kratos]] at his worst to shame, the only hints of redemption come if you lose FinalBattle, and nothing you do is PlayedForLaughs. But as horrifying as that it is, it's undeniable that there's a degree of awesome playing as a depraved BigBad and still triumph of all that stands in your way.]]
21	* CrossesTheLineTwice: Much of the humor in Demon Path is definitely this. [[spoiler:Case in point, Galahad, an extreme ButtMonkey whose personality shifts from salesman to Prism Ranger among other things. He is going through these personality shifts out of sheer SanitySlippage from all the atrocities you're committing.]]
22	* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: Gig is by far the most foul-mouthed, ill-tempered, and just plain sociopathic character to ever come out of a Nippon Ichi game [[spoiler: (Except maybe Demon Path Revya)]]. He's also more badass than any five Disgaea characters put together; he's like what [[VideoGame/MakaiKingdom Overlord Zetta]] would be if he weren't [[ButtMonkey stuck as a book]].
23	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Asagi, this being the game that started her trend in NIS's games.
24	* EvilIsCool: Gig. Ask anybody about the game and they'll definitely say he's the highlight.
25	* FanPreferredCouple: While the game has no OfficialCouple, Gig X Revya is the most popular. Their growing relationship throughout the game is a major highlight, [[spoiler:even in the Demon Path]]. It helps that Gig loves to stress that the two of them are "soulmates".
26	* FridgeBrilliance: If there was any doubt that [[spoiler:Gesthal and Median are the same people]], check out their moves: though rearranged, all of [[spoiler:Median]]'s attacks work the same as [[spoiler:Gestahl]]: Hitting the row, column, or the entire party. And their skills are the same, just named differently[[spoiler:; Median's being around his royalty, and Gesthal's being about revenge.]]
27	* FridgeHorror: So, while playing the game, you have heard about Crimson Tears and seen them a bit often. Then at some point, you learn that [[spoiler: by giving up their life, Danette's parents become those [[HeroicSacrifice to save her]]]]. While that is fine by itself, when you add up that to the other stuff that happens... Did [[spoiler:Thuris]] get his many, many Crimson Tears from [[spoiler:his fanatical followers who would gladly give their lives?]] And it's mentioned that it cost a lot to have a Crimson Tear made. And Yesterwind, [[spoiler:sells a lot of children and Orviska is their best buyer. And coincidentally, the real Dio has Crimson Tears as well.]] The more you think about it, the less you wonder why they have such a bad reputation.
28	* GameBreaker:
29	** [[spoiler:Gestahl]] in the Demon Path, who is easily one of the strongest units in the game. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, [[GuestStarPartyMember he won't be staying for long, so you better enjoy him while you can.]]]]
30	*** The SecretCharacter [[spoiler:Median the Conqueror AKA Gesthalt at his prime]] is an even ''bigger'' GameBreaker. Granted, reaching him is difficult and he has an absurd number of enemies with him, but if you beat him and unlock him as a permanent party member, you'll easily stomp your way through any enemy in the game.
31	** Also, Hades' Despair rooms; their Outer Limit decor not only negates the penalty for having low stamina -- one of the game's primary limiting mechanics -- but causes you to ''gain'' a percentage to your stats equal to the percentage of stamina you've lost. Typical decors give you a 20% stat bonus in exchange for a hefty drawback; Hades' Despair gives you a bonus that can approach ''100%'', with additional advantages, letting you easily curbstomp otherwise equal groups. Oh, and it makes it so you die if your stamina ever reaches 0, but that's easy to avoid.
32	* HoYay:
33	** Gig treats male Revya no different than female Revya. Right down to the soulmate business.
34	** Also applies to Dannette, especially in her ending.
35	** The male Levin ending also has shades of this. [[spoiler: Revya essentially abandons his life, friends and family in favor of WalkingTheEarth with Levin to find the meaning of their respective existences.]]
36	* ItWasHisSled:
37	** In spite of being a secret route, the Demon Path is ''very'' infamous among the Nippon Ichi community and fans of the game is well-known even to those who've never played it. Gig even mentions it in ''VideoGame/Disgaea4APromiseUnforgotten''.
38	** It didn't very take long for anyone who's played ''VideoGame/PhantomBrave'' to know that Endorph is Walnut.
39	* JerkassWoobie:
40	** Though she never reveals her past to anyone but Trish, Shauna's past sucked. [[spoiler:Having her home hit with the game's equivalent to ThePlague, villagers breaking in to her home, separated from her family and caretaker, forcing herself to fend for herself at a very young age. Of course, she'd probably kick your ass if you try to give her a hug, unless you're Trish.]]
41	** [[spoiler: Gig as he starts to regain his memories turns into one. He's still a {{Jerkass}}, but at he realizes that he was a good person wanted to help others whose memories were erased and he wrecked havoc on the world he was wanted to help, and enjoyed doing it.]]
42	* LoveToHate: Gig. Despite his nastiness and downright sadistic personality, he is by far one of the most popular characters in ''Soul Nomad''. It really says a lot when, while Revya was only featured in one Disgaea title as DLC, Gig's been in ''three''.
43	* MoralEventHorizon:
44	** The Demon Path as a whole for Revya, [[spoiler:starting with killing Layna and everyone in their village.]]
45	** Thuris creating the Scarlet Iago. He had no reason for this, he just wanted to kill people.
46	** Kanan butchering the village of Pulkina [[spoiler:(and Danette's parents)]] in the name of Thuris.
47	** [[spoiler: Drazil's plan. He tricked Median into killing Vigilance. But then he decides having souls flow into his world wasn't enough, so he sends Gig and the World Eaters to kill everything on Heaphness, and just to recap, this guy turn Gig into the AxCrazy nut he is at the start of the game and created Thuris.]]
48	** Hawthorne crosses it when he purchases girls from Yesterwind (a child trafficking organization), rapes them, and murders them around the time of their 17th birthdays. According to Shauna, Hawthorne has "stolen the innocence" of no less than five daughters. Even Lobo, who runs the child trafficking organization, is disgusted with how Hawthorne treats his daughters.
49	* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The build-up to [[spoiler: Endorph's final Psycho Burgundy]] is excellent, but the impact was never shown.
50	* OlderThanTheyThink: A campaign that's about systematically killing everyone and everything in the game, is more about the supporting cast's reaction to the now-monstrous main character, and [[spoiler: seemingly ends with the destruction of all reality]]? ''Soul Nomad'' did the Genocide route long before ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' did.
51	* OneSceneWonder: When prompted [[spoiler:to choose a title in the Demon Path]], choose the second choice. Enter [[spoiler:the voice of [[VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness Laharl]], which berates you for taking the title of an Overlord lightly and complains that he went through so much abuse for it]], and disappears. Gig and Revya think they're hearing things, and [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment no one ever speaks of it again]]. The moment is one of the most famous in the game.
52	** Asagi only has one scene, but the sheer hilarity of it makes her appearance unforgettable.
53	* SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing: The game is often cited as the best dubbed NISA game with Creator/YuriLowenthal's Gig being especially praised.
54	* ThatOneBoss:
55	** Shauna can kill Revya without much difficulty due to Revya having a [[TacticalRockPaperScissors terrible matchup against the Gypsy class]].
56	** Gestahl is all about smashing your entire party with massively damaging attacks. And his tactics are all about smashing your entire party and any others on a line behind them with massively damaging attacks, or turning his damage up to eleven. His decors are all about nerfing your parties so he can hit you for even more damage. It's easy to see why he's very difficult, even when he's entirely alone.
57	* UnpopularPopularCharacter: Gig is disliked by most of the cast. Among fans, he's the most popular character in the game, many times being among the top 10 in Nippon Ichi's polls.
58	* ValuesDissonance: Gig's use of the word "retard". Much like many games in the 90s and the 2000s, it's used as a crass way of calling someone "dumb", which is fitting for a SirSwearsALot character like Gig. However, the term has become much more frowned upon from the 2010s onward. Many streamers playing the modern port add warnings or doesn't let the dialogue play in full.
59	* ViewerGenderConfusion: [[spoiler:Kanan.]] An unusual case, everyone refers to [[spoiler:him]] with [[spoiler:female]] pronouns and [[spoiler:he]] has the same class as all [[spoiler:female Dracons.]] Basically, it's not just the viewers are confused about this one.
60	* TheWoobie:
61	** Tricia, especially in the Demon Path. She's more like a IronWoobie in her ending.
62	** [[spoiler: Levin becomes one in his ending, where he's shown to have legitimate remorse over his actions across the game, but is too guilty to return home. He also has absolutely no guidance in life and wonders why he was brought back in the first place. The only companion he has is Revya, who he continually tries to get to stop following him, despite clearly wanting to keep them around.]]
63	* {{Woolseyism}}:
64	** It's doubtful that the TakeThat to John Romero during the Asagi fight was there in the Japanese version, but does a such a good job of getting across that this is not the meek Asagi from her [[VideoGame/MakaiKingdom last]] [[VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories two]] appearances.

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