History YMMV / SeventhDragon

* TooCoolToLive: From ''2020-II'': [[spoiler:Shouji. [[HeIsJustHidding Assuming that he really died]] during Fomalhaut invasion.]]

* TooCoolToLive: From ''2020-II'': [[spoiler:Souji, Daigo, and everyone else who sacrifice their life during Fomalhaut invasion.]]

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The shopping theme [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_L62Qj072Y Choice]] sounds quite similar to ''another'' shopping [[https://fi.zophar.net/soundfiles/nintendo-snes-spc/nekketsu-tairiku-burning-heroes/06%20Shop.mp3 theme]] from an obscure [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Nintendo]] RPG, Nekketsu Tairiku Burning Heroes.

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* TooCoolToLive: [[spoiler:Souji, Daigo, and everyone else who sacrifice their life during Fomalhaut invasion. But especially Souji.]]

* TierInducedScrappy:
** Agents in ''7th Dragon III'' are not as liked as the other classes. Their hacks are great at the start for clearing random encounters and sustaining the party's MN during a long dungeon trek, but become far less useful against bosses who have high hacking resistance. By the end, there are enemies who are outright immune to hacking, rendering that part of their skillset useless. On the other hand, their gun skills offer excellent chance for critical hits, so proper investment turns them into a rather devastating CriticalHitClass.
** Duelists are a cool class conceptually, but as the other classes become unlocked they become outclassed. Their best strategies take several turns at best to set up, when other classes can deal massive damage starting on turn two. It doesn't help that they can get screwed over if they don't get the needed cards in their hands, though they have skills to search for specific cards and can begin battles with many cards once their skills are leveled up. And they become redundant once you gain access to the Mage class, as Mages can also cast elemental spells but without needing to pray to the RandomNumberGod to give them the correct cards, plus Duelists have to manage SP for ''twelve'' different elemental attacks (each of their three attack elements has 3 tiers of single-target spells and one all-target spell) while Mages only have half as many to put SP into. This only applies to them as an active combatant, though, as their backup skill -- cleansing the active party of all ailments -- is invaluable.

** [[https://youtu.be/hiafhn5aslg The final boss theme]] of ''2020-II'', which has all the grandness and intensity you'd expect from a theme like this.

* WhatAnIdiot: Nyala decides to step on Eden after 6 of his 7 Imperial Dragons got wasted. Later games reveal that [[spoiler:this game takes place in the distant future, and therefore, this is his third attempt on invading Earth.]]\\
'''You'd Expect:''' Nyala to think things through this time, and simply personally do a surprise attack on Eden and wreak havoc, like his Imperial Dragons did the entire time. He wouldn't have given Emel enough time to react and order the magic cannon to be fired, and the party was way out of Nyala's league at the moment.\\
'''Or Even:''' Nyala to have done just that from the very beginning when then he kickstarted the Dragon invasion.\\
'''Instead:''' He outright erects a big ass tower for no reason other than ego, and introduces himself to the whole world atop of said tower, while also bragging that ''nothing can harm him'' (evidently ignoring what happened to him in Atlantis and Tokyo).\\
'''Result:''' Emel's got his exact location, and Nyala gets blasted by the cannon powered by human souls, which forces him to remain on the tower to recover. Luckily for him, he brought Haze to back him up, but even that is rendered moot, because Nyala's arrival prompted Emel and Aytel to help the party get the Dragon Chronicle, and use it to seal Haze away and create the Dragonslayer.\\
'''End result:''' By the time Nyala recovers, the party reaches his tower and kills him for good with the help of the Dragonslayer, eliminating all the remaining Dragons and Flowers pollution in the process.

'''End result:''' By the time Nyala recovers, the party reaches his tower and kills him for good with the help of the Dragonslayer, ending the Dragon and Flowers pollution in the process.

'''Result:''' Emel's got his exact location, and Nyala gets blasted by the cannon powered by human souls, which forces him to remain on the tower to recover. Luckily for him, he brought Haze to back him up, but even that one is rendered moot, because Nyala's arrival prompted Emel and Aytel to help the party get the Dragon Chronicle, and use it to seal Haze away and create the Dragonslayer.\\
'''End result: By the time Nyala recovers, the party reaches his tower and kills him for good with the help of the Dragonslayer, ending the Dragon and Flowers pollution in the process.'''

* TooDumbToLive: Hey Nyala, next time you decide to try to kill humans on your own, how about doing it without announcing your presence to everybody? Maybe that way you could have saved yourself from getting blasted by their powerful cannon powered by human souls. [[spoiler:Especially if this is your ''[[EpicFail third invasion]]'']]. Good thing you brought Haze to back you up, huh?

* WhatAnIdiot: Hey Nyala, next time you decide to try to kill humans on your own, how about doing it without announcing your presence to everybody? Maybe that way you could have saved yourself from getting blasted by their powerful cannon powered by human souls. [[spoiler:Especially if this is your ''[[EpicFail third invasion]]'']]. Good thing you brought Haze to back you up, huh?

* MemeticLoser: Nyala has become the butt of the Japanese fandom's jokes because of his many failed attempts to invade Earth, with each one ending up progressively worse for him. He lost his left wing in Atlantis, suffered a sound defeat in 2020, and finally kicked the bucket in Eden... And not once did Nyala ever consider that humans might be more than just cattle, because he's just THAT much of a SmugSnake. His last invasion doubles as TooDumbToLive, because the the first thing Nyala did upon arriving on Eden was ''openly declaring war'' on the whole planet, which resulted in him immediately getting shot by a magic cannon, forcing him to stand idle while healing his wounds. The developers of ''III'' seem to have realized how pathetic Nyala is, because not only is he the first True Dragon you get to kill, you also get the option to make fun of his golden color scheme. If you choose to do that, he'll just [[VisibleSilence respond with silence]], which only serves to prove his inability to resist being openly taunted.

* MemeticLoser: Nyala has become the butt of the Japanese fandom's jokes because of his many failed attempts to invade Earth, with each one ending up progressively worse for him. His lost his left wing in Atlantis, suffered a sound defeat in 2020, and finally kicked the bucket in Eden... And not once did Nyala ever consider that humans might be more than just cattle, because he's just THAT much of a SmugSnake. His last invasion doubles as TooDumbToLive, because the the first thing Nyala did upon arriving on Eden was ''openly declaring war'' on the whole planet, which resulted in him immediately getting shot by a magic cannon, forcing him to stand idle while healing his wounds. The developers of ''III'' seem to have realized how pathetic Nyala is, because not only is he the first True Dragon you get to kill, you also get the option to make fun of his golden color scheme. If you choose to do that, he'll just [[VisibleSilence respond with silence]], which only serves to prove his inability to resist being openly taunted.

* WhatAnIdiot: Hey Nyala, next time you decide to try to kill humans on your own, how about doing it without announcing your presence to everybody? Maybe that way you could have saved yourself from getting blasted by their powerful cannon powered by human souls. [[spoiler:Especially if this is your ''[[EpicFail third invasion]]'']].

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The shopping theme [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_L62Qj072Y Choice]] sounds quite similar to ''another'' shopping [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s67iNWk7MI theme]] from an obscure [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Nintendo]] RPG, Nekketsu Tairiku Burning Heroes.

* AntiClimaxBoss: ND in ''VFD'' has only one strong damaging attack and not much HP or defense, with a high focus on healing itself. Since you can shave off more HP than it can heal, it will go down pretty quickly, especially if you use a game-breaker listed below.

** Co-op de grace, which is usable when the backup parties in ''III'' have their support meters completely filled. This allows ''everyone'' - your active party included - to attack at once. What ''really'' does this, however, is that ''all of the attacks are free''. Aside from everything costing zero MN, the only resources that matter are whether the enemy is hacked and how much HP the Rune Knight(s) currently have. Duelists cast spells without needing cards and Banishers attack without needing bombs. Unless you choose to avoid using it, bosses go from being slightly threatening to a question of how many turns are left until your party either kills it or renders it a non-threat. Its only drawbacks are that it can take a lot of time to charge depending on your team composition, and it isn't usable before you get a third party or in dungeons where the team is forced to split up, [[spoiler:such as the final dungeon.]] \\
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Want to kill a boss in three turns? Have your backup parties all be Rune Knights. They charge very quickly -- 1 bar per turn -- and the Co-op de grace will become available by the third turn. Execute it, then have each Rune Knight unleash Brave Sword, and most bosses won't stand any further chance.

* MemeticMolester: A TentacledTerror optional boss from the DS game called Slave of the Sensual (or Sensualist) has become this thanks to its design and pretty much straightforward name. Expect to see a lot of NSWF fanart of it attacking the female characters.
* {{Moe}}: Everyone and everything has the appearance of a Nendoroid! Even big burly men like Gatou and Daigo look like plush dolls.

* NightmareFuel: Never mind the Dragons, the player characters can dish out a hefty dose of it. The EX-skill of the Psychic class lets loose living shadows from another dimension to devour their opponents. The name of the skill? Dark Invasion.

* SequelDisplacement: ''2020'' is the one that spawned direct sequels; the original was just left on its own. [[spoiler:At least, that's how it appeared at first. ''2020-II'' bringing the original into continuity with Tokyo, with everything that implies, was one of ''II'''s major {{Wham Episode}}s.]]

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The shopping theme [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_L62Qj072Y Choice]] sounds quite similar to ''another'' shopping [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s67iNWk7MI theme]] from an obscure [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Nintendo]] RPG, Nekketsu Tairiku Burning Heroes.

** Potentially any boss can contend for this, but Jigowatt (in Standard Mode) is the point where you either start planning your characters, or drop the game altogether.

* TooCoolToLive: [[spoiler:Souji, Daigo, and everyone else who sacrifice their life during Fomalhaut invasion. But especially Souji.]]

* {{Narm}}: The final dungeon loses a bit of its oomph due to a couple of interface issues. First, the dungeon, despite being [[spoiler:a separate space-time plane that paves the way for a new universe]], is listed as part of A.D. 2200 Tokyo. Second, as a result, the random encounter battle theme is the Tokyo battle theme which, given that Atlantis and Eden have their own random battle themes, is rather jarring as the Tokyo battle theme is the very first theme heard in the game and doesn't really convey the gravity of Unit 13's final mission.