YMMV / Pocky & Rocky

• Complete Monster: First game & Reshrined: Black Mantle darkens the mood in two otherwise lighthearted games. In the first game, Black Mantle hypnotizes the Nopino Goblins into rampaging and is later revealed to have hypnotized his own henchmen as well. Black Mantle also gives several captured Nopino Goblins to his Mad Scientist minion to experiment on. In Reshrined, Black Mantle uses Time Travel to undo his previous defeat and get revenge on Pocky. It is eventually revealed that Black Mantle is really the demon Gastaroth, who orchestrated the massacre of Anna's village and the deaths of her parents so he could exploit her anger to possess her. When finally defeated by Pocky and the Seven Lucky Gods, Gastaroth attempts to drag them down to hell with him out of spite.
• Les Yay: Pocky and Anna get quite close despite only spending a short amount of time together in Reshrined. The game even ends with Anna vowing to not forget Pocky and to always watch over her.