These are what we call the 'YMMV items.' Things that some people find in this work. We call them 'your mileage might vary' because not everyone sees these things in the same way. This starts discussions in the trope lists, a thing we don't want. Please use the discussion page if you'd like to discuss any of these items.
YMMV: Brave Fencer Musashi
Awesome Moments: The way Musashi finishes off the Steam Knight. After he knocks it through a wall and off a cliff, it regains a bit of health, so what does Musashi do? Pick up the bot's ball-and-chain (which most likely weighs a ton or two), shouts, "HEY! YOU FORGOT SOMETHING!", before hurling it down onto it, causing it to explode.
Funny Moments: And then he immediately falls asleep.
Awesome Music: The game is loaded with it, especially the first level track "The Musashi Legend" and its credit reel reprise "Into The Sky."
Fridge Brilliance: Leader's Force aren't just called that because each member thinks s/he is the leader. It's also because their purpose is to lead Musashi to the Five Scrolls.
Fridge Logic: Concerning the ending, which has a text only introduction that announces something along the lines of "To Stop This Ever Happening Again, The Legend of Brave Fencer Musashi will be told eternally", and then in the following end scene, We have the Princess covering up the whole thing from her Parents, the King and Queen. Think about that for a second. If that is intentional, then no doubt, this is Fridge Brilliance.
Guide Dang It: The Special series of action figures - especially Jon's, which requires that you hold off on opening exactly ONE treasure chest until after the game is beaten. Try to obtain the correct Gondola Gizmo on the first try using only the clues given in-game - though there's only two that match the requirements, and a degree of Trial-and-Error Gameplay is permitted.
The calendar puzzle on the first playthrough. The solution is on an item you got near the middle of the game and the puzzle is in the Very Definitely Final Dungeon. Before this, there is absolutely no purpose to the item so most players probably forget about it by this point.
Most of the sequelitis comes from the change in tone and setting, rather than the gameplay itself. A few more bucketfuls of humor and some extending of the world itself would have done wonders.
First time around, maybe; but with subsequent playthroughs, the pattern can be memorized.
Unfortunate Implications: There are only three female members of The Empire. Two of them run away like chumps at the halfway point, and the third dies a horrible, tragic death. Maybe.
Woolseyism: This is a pre-merger Square game, after all....
