YMMV / Ridgeside Village

• Awesome Music: The tune heard while on Ridgeside Village titled "Fall in Ridgeside", it's very common on Let's Play videos for the host to start humming it along.
• Crosses the Line Twice: In one quest, you can give Keahi (a small child) a bomb for a prank he wants to pull.
• Fan-Preferred Couple:
  • Given their leanings towards the musical field, and how it's his band playing the music in her concert, a lot of players and fanfic writers started pairing Alissa with Sam; there's even a mod dedicated to making them a couple.
  • Quite a few players have requested to make Raeriyala romanceable, but the mod authors have responded by pointing out that she is already in a relationship with Belinda (and it's probably not a good idea to split them up).
• Game-Breaker: The new weapons introduced in this mod make a complete joke of the monsters from the original game. For example, "The Prankster" has a base damage of 100-250, by comparison the Infinity Blade's one is 80-100 and a Master Slingshot with iridium ore as ammunition will deal 50-202 of damage.
• Iron Woobie: Ezekiel was a happy family man until his beloved wife, Helen, suddenly passed away. Shortly after, he was drafted by the army to fight in a war. He witnessed many horrors which made him a jaded, taciturn man. When he returned several years later, he found his daughter Corine had grown into a young woman, which made it difficult for him to connect with her at first. To add insult to injury, it's later revealed that Helen actually faked her death.
• Moe:
  • Flor, thanks to her cute design, bookworm traits, and Cute Clumsy Girl moments.
  • Trinnie as well with her innocent and cheerful personality, and her crush on Keahi, all which make her adorable.
• Paranoia Fuel:
  • Kiwi is a Ninja Junimo, Junimos are usually invisible to humans. The Wizard Rasmodius points out that this would make her the perfect assassin, and that she most likely has taken lives before.
  • The evil sorceress, Gabriella, has many followers infiltrated into normal society, as shown in the game they appear as normal people and are just waiting on her orders to wreak chaos anywhere at any time. Raeriyala even mentions that a servant of Gabriella used to live in the village and they might have descendants still living there who are still her followers.
• The Producer Thinks of Everything: Sean was revealed to be a Transgender man in his heart events, which were introduced in version 2.1; but before that, there was a line by Carmen which aluded to this fact, but it didn't make a lot of sense in context (even if you understand Spanish).
• Signature Scene:
  • The cutscene of the Farmer riding the cable car up towards the village.
  • Alissa's concert features prominently in trailers and screenshots as well.
• That One Sidequest:
  • Both the quest "The Preparations" and the follow-up side-quest for the haunted greenhouse require gathering a certain number of Mountain Mistblooms, the problem is that a) They only spawn during raining days b) They appear exclusively in Ridge Forest which is a huge area crawling with monsters c) They spawn a maximum number of 15 per day if you're lucky and both quests require a large number of them. It was enough for the developers to reduce the amount needed for both quests from 50 to 30 in version 2.0.5.
  • To acquire a Foxbloom (necessary for a post-Spirit Realm quest, the Full Shipment achievement, and 100% Completion), there's a specific set of conditions to make it spawn, in addition to the fact that even with those fulfilled it will only appear one random Sunday per season, not to mention that only one can appear anywhere in Ridge Forest. So, good luck finding it! Release 2.1.1 changed it so that while the Foxbloom is still very rare, it will now spawn only in front of one of the coloured crystals in Ridge Forest, and added a set of clues for calculating which Sunday of the month it will appear.

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