History YMMV / Alundra

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Giles is supposed to be one of the greatest victims of manipulations of Melzas and Ronan and thus deserving pity and he did kind of 'redeem' himself by refusing to kill his sister and dying with it. However, he spends most of the time being an utter {{Jerkass}} to Alundra, being an UngratefulBastard who [[spoiler:blames Alundra for the death of Sybill, while he was also onboard with the idea with Ronan, even after Alundra ''saved'' him from his own nightmare.]] For a good portion of the fans, his RedemptionEqualsDeath is considered too little, too late and Giles is remembered as an unlikable {{Jerkass}} whose unpleasant nature overshadows [[JerkassWoobie whatever sympathetic points he may have.]]

* EvilIsSexy: Subverted with Sara, from Bonaire's Nightmare. She appears as an attractive blonde woman, but in reality is an ugly monster using a spell to trick him.

** There’s also Beaumont’s lament about not getting basic cable. It’s not incorporated in text nescessary for the plot but to continue you cannot skip talking to him at that point in the game.

* {{Narm}}: In a game with such a depressingly dark story at times, the fact that Working Designs published and localized it in the US cracks through given their tendency to slip in random jokes at times, though thankfully never in the main story itself. Well, except for one particular moment [[spoiler: of a pun made about Bonaire's SurferDude speech habits in the localization -- [[BlackComedy while checking his corpse.]]]]

* MoralEventHorizon: Ronan is simply a {{Jerkass}} at first, graceful to the villagers but hostile to Alundra for being an outsider. However, he gets more and more riled up, and gradually begins to blame Alundra (and Meia) for everything bad happening to the village, though [[JerkassHasAPoint he's technically half-right]] given Melzas' violent escalations to counter the pair. Then he [[spoiler:[[WouldHurtAChild snaps Sybill's neck]] in the middle of the night and just leaves her corpse to be found in the street]]. And even worse, he's doing this entirely of his own free will and blind devotion. At this point, all sympathy of potentially being BrainwashedAndCrazy goes flying out the window, and is further compounded when he subsequently [[spoiler:murders Jess, an adoptive father-figure and mentor for Alundra, and ''[[KickTheDog tries to pin the blame entirely on Alundra himself]]]]''.

* MoralEventHorizon: Ronan is simply a {{Jerkass}} at first, graceful to the villagers but hostile to Alundra for being an outsider. However, he gets more and more riled up, and gradually begins to blame Alundra (and Meia) for everything bad happening to the village, though [[JerkassHasAPoint he's technically half-right]] given Melzas' violent escalations to counter the pair. [[spoiler: Then he [[WouldHurtAChild snaps Sybill's neck]] in the middle of the night and just leaves her corpse to be found in the street.]] And even worse, he's doing this entirely of his own free will and blind devotion. At this point, all sympathy of potentially being BrainwashedAndCrazy goes flying out the window, and is further compounded when he subsequently [[spoiler: murders Jess, an adoptive father-figure and mentor for Alundra, and ''[[KickTheDog tries to pin the blame entirely on Alundra himself.]]]]''

* EightPointEight: This game has received critical acclaim upon release and is considered as a masterpiece for the Playstation. Well, you would be surprised that the french website [=JeuxVideo.com=] gave a severe 11/20 to the game! For their defense, while the test was poorly written and clearly rushed, [=JeuxVideo.com=] was still a new website composed of amateurs when it was written in 1998, during a time where video games were making a 3D leap, so it's easy to think that the reviewer basically thought: "It's 2D so it's sucks". Lightman, the writer of this review and founder of [=JeuxVideo.com=] even acknowledged the poor quality of his review. Still, even to this day, this review is a broken-base within the website own redaction and community and is always brought up when debating about whether games should re-reviewed or just leaves those as products of their time.

* GoddamnedBoss: The Hidden Eye, from Eleni's Nightmare is a ShieldedCoreBoss with [[DamageSpongeBoss high HP]]. While it's not a hard boss (all it does is slowly moving around the arena), it's annoying having to kill it ''five'' times (in three boss battles) in a single dungeon.

** [[SinisterMinister Ronan]] is the evil priest Melzas stationed in Inoa Village. A [[PsychoSupporter loyal servant of Melzas]], Ronan corrupts the villagers--without them even realizing it--through false promises of harmony and peace. When hero Alundra arrives and begins to discover the truth about Melzas's church, Ronan attempts to rally the locals to drive him away, committing murders in secret and pinning the crimes on Alundra. As Alundra remains defiant, Ronan starts targeting those close to him, including [[WouldHurtAChild Sybill]] and [[ParentalSubstitute Jess]]. When confronted about his actions later on, Ronan smugly speaks of his twisted piousness while laughing at all the misery he's wrought. Finally, Ronan transforms himself into a HumanoidAbomination with the intent of carrying out more evil in the name of his monstrous god.

* MoralEventHorizon: Ronan is simply a {{Jerkass}} at first, graceful to the villagers but hostile to Alundra for being an outsider. However, he gets more and more riled up, and gradually begins to blame Alundra (and Meia) for everything bad happening to the village, though [[JerkassHasAPoint he's technically half-right]] given Melzas' violent escalations to counter the pair. [[spoiler: Then he [[WouldHurtAChild snaps Sybill's neck]] in the middle of the night and just leaves her corpse to be found in the street.]] And even worse, he's doing this entirely of his own free will and blind devotion. At this point, all sympathy of potentially being BrainwashedAndCrazy goes flying out the window, and is further compounded when he subsequently [[spoiler: murders Jess, an adoptive figure and mentor for Alundra, and ''[[KickTheDog tries to pin the blame entirely on Alundra himself.]]]]''

* EightPointEight: This game has received critical acclaim upon release and is considered as a masterpiece for the Playstation. Well, you would be surprised that the french website [=JeuxVideo.com=] gave a severe 11/20 to the game! For their defense, while the test was poorly written and clearly rushed, [=JeuxVideo.com=] was still a new website composed of amateurs when it was written in 1998, during a time where video games were making a 3D leap, so it's easy to think that the reviewer basically thought: "It's 2D so it's sucks". Lightman, the writer of this review and founder of [=JeuxVideo.com=] even acknowledged the poor quality of his review. Still, even to this day, this review is a broken-base within the website own redaction and community and is always brought up when debating about wether games should re-reviewed or just leaves those as products of their time.