YMMV / Three Kingdoms Story

• Demonic Spiders: The Blue Dragon Guards in TKS3 can deal massive damage just with their neutral attacks. You'll first encounter them early on in Chapter 2, and they can easily deal damage in three digits with each attack when your tankier characters' HP is usually in the four or five hundreds. They and other "deitie" guards continue to stand out as one of the more dangerous enemies as the game goes on.
• Low-Tier Letdown: Generally speaking, most of the characters in TKS3 are not that good, and will probably never join your party after you have them go to the inn (part of this also thanks to the game mechanics no longer pressing you to make use of all your party members to clear quests in time, so you can just bring some characters and use them over and over again). However, the two other members of the Five Tiger Generals that aren't your starters, Ma Chao and Huang Zhong, suffer from this the worst, as they have mediocre stat growth and abilities and even overshadowed by many other less well known characters in the game (although Ma Chao can still be a Crutch Character useful for early game), so you are better off using Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun for your polearm attacker and archer, who are actually also the best of them in the game and are required to progress the game anyways.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Ahoy ^note  The fairy lady's sound clip when they use a spell in TKS3
• Scrappy Mechanic: TKS3 is generally well-received, but it has a very problematic mechanic: you can't manually save or load the game. Upon starting the game you are immediately given a prompt to choose a file slot for your save, and the game will only auto-save by overriding your current save file every time you make some progress. The problem is that, like the previous games in the series, there are a lot of permanently missable contents; for example, if you do every mission you see as soon as they appear, you'll miss out a lot of potentially powerful party members, since many character-related side quests will only appear before you do a certain story quest. If you lose a side quest, that quest will never appear again, and since the game will save immediately after you lose, you don't get another chance to get that character ever, meaning that to get this character you have to start over from the scratch. You can back up your save files located in the game's folder, but the fact that there isn't a actual option to do this in-game is baffling to most players.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Many players lament that TKS3 didn't have an expansion for Sun Quan, since both the previous game and the M3K series give him as much spotlight as Cao Cao and Liu Bei.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: During one point in TKS3's expansion, Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong plans to do a ritual that will sacrifice all the men's genitals so that they'll get back their own after they are forced to become transgender, with the word "balls" being mentioned for a lot. Which is a topic that... isn't really appropriate for younger audiences.