History YMMV / RivieraThePromisedLand

** Even with maximum possible levels, The Sage and The Fool in Chapter 4 can cause a lot of players headaches. Both have Rage and Max skills that deals more damage than you can heal in one turn and playing too defensively can cost you the Rank S for these battles. If you're really unlucky the damage will be focused on a single character which will most likely down them before you even have a chance to heal up.
** [[spoiler:Hector]] can easily become one if you rely on one element or he picks one he is immune to most your party's attacks. This Max attack can also apply status effects of their respective elements and will always deal heavy damage against Ein, who has weakness against all normal elements.

** Even with maximum possible levels, The Sage and The Fool in Chapter 4 can cause a lot of players headaches.

** [[spoiler:Hector]] can easily become one if you rely on one element or he picks one he is immune to most your party's attacks. Kill him as fast as you can to avoid this problem.

* AssPull: Rose's ending, which is the canon one. [[spoiler:Ein receives a wish-granting perfume from Cierra (who never mentioned having such a thing) and uses it on Rose to turn her into a human. Oddly, Ein is surprised that Rose is female, despite her name and voice.]] [[http://lparchive.org/Riviera-The-Promised-Land/Update%2045/ An accurate description is near the bottom of the page.]]

* AccidentalInnuendo: That one cutscene image where Ursula awakened and repaired Ein's Diviner looks more like she's striking in the crotch with a lightning bolt due to the position of Ein's weapon and Ursula's pose and expression.

** Even with maximum possible levels, The Sage and The Fool in chapter 4 can cause a lot of players headaches.

%%* ThatOnePuzzle: The underground water ankh puzzle.

** Oh, so you want the only available non-drop Rosier in the game with multiple uses? S-rank a Bomb Kid and never let any of them use their Overskills on you. (read: ''Suffer.'')

* CompleteMonster: [[TheChessmaster Hector]], debuting here, is responsible for much of the evil in the entire series, is the most active member of the Council of the Seven Magi, and by far the vilest. Secretly having caused the current demonic problems of Riviera to [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist have an excuse]] to deploy his Grim Angels to activate the Retribution--a force that would destroy the entire land in case of crisis--and awaken [[PersonOfMassDestruction Seth]] to fuse with her and [[AGodAmI become a god]]. To reach said goal, Hector sends his servant to gather the souls of the peaceful descendants of the demons in a genocide that leaves just a single survivor. When only two more souls are needed for Seth's resurrection, said servant willingly offers herself as a sacrifice alongside with the heroine that is closer to [[TheHero Ein]]. Sacrificing both, Hector mocks his deceased and totally loyal servant for her origins as an artificial Grim Angel before [[FusionDance fusing with Seth]] and becoming Seth-Rah, aiming to destroy Riviera and rebuild it from the ashes. Shown as the creator of the artificial Grim Angels in painful experiments in side materials, Hector creates them in the thousands while erasing all records of the persons that they were. Utterly selfish, Hector stands out a extremely [[VileVillainSaccharineShow vile villain in such a lighthearted game]].

* GoddamnedBoss: The first boss you have to face, the phoenix Aghart, isnt's particularly difficult or risky, and it's impossible to die at this point in the game - except that Ein probably WILL get knocked out since you haven't been able to raise his skills yet. And Ledah only uses fire, Aghart is a fire beastie... this one's gonna go on for a while, before the story even gets started.

* WhatAnIdiot: Ein finds out that he was being brainwashed by his enemy so she can show him what he, and his allies, are doing to the good people.
** '''You'd expect:''' Ein to attack the person who was previously his enemy and who had just gave him amnesia and accuse her of force feeding the stuff he saw.
** '''Instead:''' He believes everything she is saying and starts working against the people who not too long ago was his allies. True this works out for him but... Come on who in gods name would have listened to this person.

* GoddamnedBats: Slime-type enemies, who can cause damage to your equipment with all of their attacks. This turns into GameBreakingBug territory since it a) applies in practice mode and b) is incredibly awful when your equipment has single-digit use to begin with (and some equipment has a use of '''1''').

** [[spoiler:Hector can easily become one if you rely on one element or he picks one he is immune to most your party's attacks. Kill him as fast as you can to avoid this problem.]]

** Ditto for the obligatory underground water ankh puzzle.
* ThatOneSidequest: Oh, so you want the only available non-drop Rosier in the game with multiple uses? S-rank a Bomb Kid and never let any of them use their Overskills on you. (read: ''Suffer.'')

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Rose's end. [[http://lparchive.org/Riviera-The-Promised-Land/Update%2045/ An accurate description is near the bottom of the page.]]

* GoddamnedBats: Slime-type enemies, who can cause damage to your equipment with all of their attacks. This turns into GameBreaker[=/=]GameBreakingBug territory since it a) applies in practice mode and b) is incredibly awful when your equipment has single-digit use to begin with (and some equipment has a use of '''1''').

* ThatOneBoss: The Third Accursed, Archangel. Her [[LimitBreak Overdrive]] will most likely kill Ein in a single hit if he doesn't have enough status or protection and will cause good damage to the rest of the party '''and''' some of most annoying status effects. May the game have mercy on you if that affects the entire party. Oh, and she's all but immune to the Holy element, which is on most of your strongest weapons. Have fun!

** Weirdly, the first boss you have to face, the phoenix Aghart. Not because it's particularly difficult or risky - it's impossible to die at this point in the game - except that Ein probably WILL get knocked out since you haven't been able to raise his skills yet. And Ledah only uses fire, Aghart is a fire beastie... this one's gonna go on for a while, before the story even gets started.

* {{Fanon}}: The birthdays of the various characters.

** [[spoiler: Hector can easily become one if you rely on one element or he picks one he is immune to most your party's attacks. Kill him as fast as you can to avoid this problem.]]

** '''You'd expect:''' Ein to attack the person who was previously his enemy and who had just gave him amnesia and accuse her of force feeding the stuff he saw. '''Instead:''' he believes everything she is saying and starts working against the people who not too long ago was his allies. True this works out for him but... Come on who in gods name would have listened to this person.

* EpilepticTrees: Ein is the only known Grim Angel who isn't leucistic—a condition where a person lacks multiple types of pigment, giving them extremely pale skin and hair—(even Malice and [[spoiler:Nessiah]], who are artificial and [[FallenAngel wingless]] respectively, have leucism). No one knows why. [[WMG/DeptHeaven There are some guesses.]]

* EpilepticTrees: Ein is the only known Grim Angel who isn't leucistic, a condition where a person has unnaturally pale skin (even Malice and [[spoiler:Nessiah]], who are artificial and [[FallenAngel wingless]] respectively, have leucism). No one knows why. [[WMG/DeptHeaven There are some guesses.]]