History YMMV / AgarestSenki

** There is a bit of rivalry with ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' fans, especially from [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening Awakening]]. They accuse Agarest franchise of being nothing more than a fanservice game with a generic turn based battle system, while Agarest fans accuse ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' of copying ideas from the franchise, like the marriage system.[[labelnote:note]]Crosses into CriticalResearchFailure there, as Fire Emblem's marriage system originated with ''Geneology of the Holy War'' on SNES, much earlier than ''Awakening'' or ''Fates''[[/labelnote]]

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: Everyone mostly remembers Yayoi as [[ItMakesSenseInContext the girl]] [[EroticEating with sausage]] on Akyss homepage.

* [[HoYay Les Yay]]:

* NeverLiveItDown: Yayoi due to her scene of eating a giant sausage. See EroticEating.

* ScrappyLevel: You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who enjoys the second generation, which can only be described as a near-carbon copy of the first generation with a less charismatic protagonist. The third and fourth generations thankfully shake up the formula by exploring the nature of the Raglan's pact with Dyshana from different, more interesting perspectives, as well as for having more unique-looking environments.

* ThatOneBoss: Midas, for many players thanks to his ridiculous Phoenix Strike.
** Midas. Every turn he kills all party members within 2 cells and regenerates 1/4 of his health.
** [[RuleOfThree Midas]], whose LimitBreak is a guaranteed TotalPartyKill.
** For some people, Keith is also a candidate for being ThatOneBoss just because [[spoiler: Ellis gets a DamselInDistress moment]].

* {{Asspull}}: [[spoiler:The revelation of defeating Summerill will free Winfield from become a Gurg wasn't well received by the fans, which some considered it a lame excuse to drop his sub-plot]].

* MostAnnoyingSound: Agarest characters walk very loud, even louder than ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'''s characters.

* NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity: It is believed that Aksys was trying to pull off this trope to get more sales. [[http://www.siliconera.com/2010/04/06/esrb-examines-record-of-agarest-wars-suggestive-themes/ While the ESRB clarified a few things,]] the sales however of the game reached at least [[http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/sales/29411/record-of-agarest-war/ forty-two thousand]] in it's first week here in the USA.

* ScrappyMechanic: Website/HardcoreGaming101 listed this game under its "Weekly [[SoBadItsGood Kusoge]]" segment because of the guild system and the mind-numbing bureaucracy it brings to the table. For an example, it provided [[http://hardcoregaming101.net/kusoge/kusoge01.htm two giant paragraphs]] worth of tasks needed to acquire the Capture Skill.

** Spirits. While they have low health, they are smart enough to keep distance from the party and will spread out in the field, meaning they will be difficult to defeat them in a single turn. Also, they have the Parry willpower, meaning a physical-based team will have trouble dealing with these enemies once their health drops to around 25%.

** The whole Winfield subplot, which starts in the beginning of third generation, is dropped when Dyshana says [[spoiler:defeating Summerill is another way to stop Winfield from becoming a Gurg during the fifth generation, making the quest to recruit Plum and Gantz and gather the materials to build Callious' Hammer completely pointless. Dyshana even lampshades this in an event in the last moments of fifth generation where she asks why Gantz and Plum are still around despite no longer being necessary to the group]].

** Thoma Raglen pulls off an awesome speech when an elf was badmouthing Lavinia due to discrimination. He then recites word for word as to why men should protect women, and that race has nothing to do with it. He leaves the arrogant elf speechless. Up until this point, Thoma is nothing more than just a funny guy who loves women.

* ViewerGenderConfusion: If it weren't for Duran Raglen's deep voice, he'd probably pass as a girl to viewers.

** Thoma Raglen. If we're talking about the protagonists themselves, he's the one a lot of people are interested in.

** Miesha and its kin. They have absurd luck, ensuring that they evade a lot of attacks and inflict status effects on your party members and they have BOTH PARRY AND MAGIC BARRIER, ensuring that any attack on them that is not a Extra Skill misses them if they have between 25% to 0% health.

** Spirits. While they have low health, they are smart enough to keep distance from the party and will spread out in the field, meaning they will be difficult to defeat them in a single turn. Also, they have the Parry willpower, meaning a physical-based team will have troubles dealing with these enemies once their health drops to around 25%.

** Spirits. While they have low healthy, they are smart enough to keep distance from the party and will spread out in the field, meaning will be difficult to defeat they in a single turn. Also, they have Parry skill, meaning a physical-based team will have troubles dealing with these enemies.
** Miesha and its kin. They have absurd luck, ensuring that they evade a lot of attacks and inflict status on your units and they have BOTH PARRY AND MAGIC BARRIER, ensuring that any attack on them that is not a LimitBreak misses them if they have between 25% to 0% health.

* {{Asspull}}: [[spoiler:The revelation of defeting Summerill will free Winfield from become a Gurg wasn't well received by the fans, which some considered it a lame excuse to drop his sub-plot]].