YMMV / Project JPDE

• Difficulty Spike:
  • The battle with the regenerating creature in Peak is significantly more difficult than previous battles with Grimm, as you need to use either Ice Dust or Jack's Cryogenics before the creature will take any damage, and it hits like a truck so you have to both up your stats in the gym beforehand and make sure you heal frequently.
  • The Pyrobsidian monster on your next visit to Peak is easily the worst designed fight of the game and has no mercy for the unprepared. It's a QTE fight so your stats don't matter, and it isn't afraid to ruin your day. How's picking a choice of three options where only one is the correct one and the other two send your freshly killed ass to the main menu sound? How about doing that more then once? Hope you saved a little beforehand or you've got a lot of ground to retread.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Invoked. After the rescue mission to save Evelyn and the others, you speak with Arslan and Reese and Reese mentions what a softie Professor Lionheart is. Given that this update was released well after Volume 5, the author would have know that Leo is the one who got Cinder and company into the festival and let Tyrian kill all of Mistral's huntsmen.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: David di Kabegis's Semblance is eerily similar to Jaune's own Semblance.
  • The reasoning for this being made was to give Penny a more extended role. Volume 7 ends up bringing her back and giving her a more story-focused story. Although this could lapse into Harsher in Hindsight due to Penny dying again in the following volume.
  • Jaune's semblance's resemblance to David's has nothing on Gillian Asturias from the Before the Dawn novel, as she is also capable of draining others' Aura to benefit herself or another.
• Memetic Loser:
  • For a long time it was a running joke of sorts that Raven would always lose in the polls. Often she would get to the final round and still lose. It has since become a Discredited Meme though, as Raven eventually not only won, but got all of her events into the game.
  • Titania (as of writing this), has had it even worse, as not only does she lose the polls all the time, but she has yet to even get a single event onto the game.
• Moral Event Horizon: Weser crosses it when he brutalizes a defenseless Janara, a child, so badly that surgery was needed to save her life.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Inverted. In fact the entire point of the game is to invert this. A key part of this game is built on the fact that the author felt that RWBY proper did this to Penny, so in this universe not only does she get her own team and a love interest, but she is one of the main characters of the story. Inverted Trope indeed.
  • Also inverted for several other characters as well, including (but not limited to) Penny's teammate Ciel Soleil,all of Team NDGO (Nebula Violette, Dew Gayl, Gwen Darcy, and Octavia Ember), Arslan Altan and Reese Chloris of Team ABRN, and May Zedong of Team BRNZ. Not only are some of them almost Named by the Adaptation (these are their canon names, but most of their names are never mentioned in the series) and talk more than they ever did in the series, but they are given personality's, backstories, and some are even involved in key story events.