History YMMV / ArcanaHeart

* NightmareFuel:
** Lieselotte is a cute little kid who's actually a world class assassin EnfantTerrible. Furthermore, she carries a doll containing her ''sister''[='=]s soul [[spoiler:(or so she thought).]]
** The bad endings to the original game. You have failed to prevent Mildred's ritual to merge the human world with the Elemental World, and her castle shakes the merging begins. Mildred flies away to watch from afar while whoever the player was using is left to tremble. Mildred says that the player character will be the first to enter the new world she is creating, but every character she leaves is terrified that they are going to die in the dimensional rift:
*** Saki in her ending tries to warn Midlred that the Elemental World is dangerous and merging the worlds is a mistake. Heart in her and Saki's ending doesn't understand what is going but she is nonetheless terrified.
*** Kamui is certain that she and Konoha will both be killed in the rift.
*** Lilica warns Mildred that countless people will die thanks to what she is doing, but Mildred refuses to listen.
*** Maori warns Mildred that the rift will only bring destruction, which Mildred brushes off saying creation and destruction can't exist without each other. Heart and Saki show up and they attempt make their escape.
*** Liesolotte has Heart show up to help her escape, but she resigns to her fate certain that they will both die.
*** Mei-Fang's ending has her state the entire region is danger from the energy coming out of the rift. Mildred allows Mei-Fang to rescue her creator, but at the moment she is running out of power. Kira shows up saying she will save the two but the professor says that it's too late.
*** In Kira's ending, [[EveryoneHasStandards she is certain Mildred's plan will cause the end of the world]]. She tries to act brave saying she will rule the new world, but quickly caves in the face of the rift.
*** After the scene with the beaten player character, the screen goes white and cuts to the news reporter. She comments on the light emerging from Mildred's castle and how it's getting brighter. In a panic, she says it's no longer safe in Tokyo and urges everyone watching to get out of the city before the screen turns white. The player doesn't see what happens next, [[NothingIsScarier they just get a black screen with a text box saying]], "And on this day, our world was changed forever..."
** Scharlachrot, outside of her own story mode. She is ill tempered and aggressive thanks to the Drexler Institute's conditioning. Not being able to find Weiß or Weiß not thinking of her in arcade mode causes her to go utterly ballistic and want to use the Ragnarok to destroy Japan, including herself.
** The third game has a bad ending for each character if the timer runs out against Ragnarok. Having charged up its main weapon, it flies off into the sky to fire. Each character has their own reactions, some trying to still fight, others preparing for the end. Regardless, we see the terrified reporter who states something is lighting up the sky as the screen turns white. After this the player gets treated to another black screen with a text box, this one saying, "And on this day, Japan ceased to exist."

* BrokenBase: There are some [[FightingGame fighting game]] [[StopHavingFunGuys veterans]] that have a cold reception to the series just because it has an all-girls cast filled with BoobsOfSteel, GagBoobs, {{Fanservice}}, and {{Stripperific}} characters. Being an animesque series as well hasn't help matters in this regard. Others, however, consider this criticism to be hypocritical due to other fighting games having similar characters.

*** In Kira's ending, [[EveryoneHasStandards she is certain Mildren's plan will cause the end of the world]]. She tries to act brave saying she will rule the new world but quickly caves in the face of the rift.

* NightmareFuel: Lieselotte is a cute little kid who's actually a world class assassin EnfantTerrible. Furthermore, she carries a doll containing her ''sister''[='=]s soul [[spoiler:(or so she thought).]]
** The bad endings to the original game. You have failed to prevent Mildred's ritual to merge the human world with the Elemental World, and her castle shakes the merging begins. Mildred flies away to watch from afar while whoever the player was using is left to tremble. Mildred says that the player character will be the first to enter the new world she is creating but every character she leaves is terrified that they are going to die in the dimensional rift.

*** Kamui and certain that she and Konoha will both be killed in the rift.

*** Maori again wanrs Mildred that the rift will only bring destruction, which Mildred again brushes off saying creation and destruction can't exist without each other. Heart and Saki show up and they attempt make their escape.

*** Mei Fang's ending has her state the entire region is danger from the energy coming out of the rift. Mildred allows Mei Fang to rescue her creator, but at the moment she is running out of power. Kira shows up saying she will save the two but the professor says that it's too late.
*** In Kira's ending, [[EveryoneHasStandards she is certain Mildren's plan will cause the end of the world.]] She tries to act brave saying she will rule the new world but quickly caves in the face of the rift.
*** After the scene with the beaten player character, the screen goes white and cuts to the news reporter. She comments on the light emerging from Mildred's castle and how it's getting brighter. In a panic she says it's no longer safe in Tokyo and urges everyone watching to get out of the city before the screen turns white. The player doesn't see what happens next, [[NothingIsScarier they just get a black screen with a text box saying]] "And on this day, our world was changed forever..."

** The third game also had bad ending with each character if the timer runs out against the Ragnarok. Having charged up its main weapon it flies off into the sky to fire. Each character has their own reactions, some trying to still fight, others preparing for the end. Regardless, we see the terrified reporting again who states something is lighting up the sky as the screen turns white. After this the player gets treated to another black screen with a text box, this one saying "And on this day, Japan ceased to exist."

** Mildred and Fiona.

** Mei Fang seems to have shades of this with her creator. In her ''Arcana Heart 3'' ending, it seems to be more than just shades.

* LesYay: Most of the girls have something for another:

* FridgeHorror: Whatever happened to the nuns that were assisting Mildred in the original ''Arcana Heart''? After Mildred is defeated, she gets sucked into the Arcana world, and her floating castle vanishes. Either the nuns got sucked in along with her, or it's possible ''they all died''.

* HilariousInHindsight: The April Fools' crossover involving ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' is all the more amusing because Heart was announced for ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCrossTagBattle''.

* HilariousInHindsight: The April Fools crossover involving ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' is all the more amusing because Heart Aino was recently announced for ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCrossTagBattle''.

* PortingDisaster: The UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 version of ''Suggoi! Arcana Heart 2'' suffers from slowdown, frame rate drop, and downgraded graphics.

** In ''Suggoi! Arcana Heart 2'', Parace L'Sia has a collection of the game's best moves like Mildred. However, she has less health. That doesn't matter because she recovers her health gradually, and her regular attacks have range akin to projectiles that comes out too fast to dodge. Parace also has a OneHitKO super move that cannot be dodged, another super move that allows her to rapidly heal herself ''and'' refill her super meter, and she teleports like crazy. In ''3'''s Score Attack, she's somehow even worse, which quite possibly makes her the single hardest fighting game boss ''ever''. While her above mentioned super move is no longer a one hit KO, she is able to reads your inputs and is far more aggressive. She can easily pull off combos that will deplete your lifebar if she manages to hit you even once. She teleports a lot more as well, making even hitting her a chore. Pretty much the only reliable way to beat Parace is to try again and again, because the more times you lose to her the less health she starts the fight with. As of ''[[UpdatedRerelease LOVE MAX!!!!!]]'', however, the final part doesn't happen anymore as she's a fought as a challenge separate from Score Attack. Good Luck.

** Mildred in the first game. During the first phase of the battle, she's in a cocoon like object while she transforms into her archangel form. She's protected by two orbiting {{Attack Drone}}s that fire projectiles that cover the length of the stage and only reliable way to attack her without getting defeated is if the player has a character or Arcana with good projectiles. She's fought in her archangel form regardless of whether the player wins or loses. However, if the player doesn't defeat her during the first phase, she starts the match off with a maximum super meter. Furthermore, while she has somewhat less health, she has a collection of all the best moves in the game, and she can dish out more damage with a special move than the player can with a super move. Finally, Mildred has a screen filling super that will take half of the player's health if she catches them off guard.

** Mildred in the first game. During the first phase of the battle, she's in a cocoon like object while she transforms into her archangel form. She's protected by two orbiting {{Attack Drone}}s that fire projectiles that cover the length of the stage and only reliable way to attack her without getting defeated is if the player has a character or Arcana with good projectiles. She's fought in her archangel form regardless of whether the player wins or loses. However, if the player doesn't defeat her during the first phase, she starts the match off with a maximum super meter. While Mildred's archangel form has somewhat less health, she has a collection of all the best moves in the game. Her health and damage are far beyond a normal character and she can dish out more damage with a special move than the player can with a super move. Finally, Mildred has a screen filling super that will take half of their health if she catches them off guard.

* GeniusBonus: Akane Inuwaka's Arcana is named after a type of fox. Knowing that, check out her ears under that do-rag.

** Konoha primary goal life seems to be gain attention from Kamui. At times their relationship resembles a pet and owner given Konoha's desire to pet like a dog and have her belly rubbed, but since Konoha is only interested in those things if it's from Kamui, coupled with her ending ''3'', it appears closer to romantic feelings on her part.

** Mildred in the first game. During the first phase of the battle, she's in a cocoon like object while she transforms into her angel form. She's protected by two orbiting {{Attack Drone}}s that fire projectiles that cover the length of the stage and only reliable way to attack her without getting defeated is if the player has a character or Arcana with good projectiles. She's fought in her angel form regardless of whether the player wins or loses. However, if the player doesn't defeat her during the first phase, she starts the match off with a maximum super meter. While Mildred's angel form has somewhat less health, she has a collection of all the best moves in the game. Her health and damage are far beyond a normal character and she can dish out more damage with a special move than the player can with a super move. Finally, Mildred has a screen filling super that will take half of their health if she catches them off guard.
** In ''Suggoi! Arcana Heart 2'', Parace L'Sia has a collection of the game's best moves like Mildred, but less health. That doesn't matter because she recovers health gradually, and her regular attacks have range akin to projectiles and come out too fast to dodge. Parace also has a OneHitKO super move that cannot be dodged, another super move that lets her rapidly heal herself, and she teleports like crazy. In ''3'''s Score Attack, she somehow manages to be even worse, which quite possibly makes her the single hardest fighting game boss ''ever''. While her super move doesn't kill instantly anymore, she is able to reads your inputs and is far more aggressive. She can easily pull off combos that will deplete your lifebar if she manages to hit you even once. She teleports a lot more as well, making even hitting her a chore. Pretty much the only reliable way to beat Parace is to try again and again, because the more times you lose to her the less health she starts the fight with. As of ''[[UpdatedRerelease Love MAX!!!!!]]'', however, the final part doesn't happen anymore as she's a fought as a challenge separate from Score Attack. Good Luck.

* MemeticBadass: [[SNKBoss Parace]] [[ThatOneBoss L']] [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard Sia]] is widely hailed as one of the most brutal and difficult fighting game bosses ever.

* MemeticBadass: [[SNKBoss Parace]] [[ThatOneBoss L']] [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard Sia]], for being hailed as one of the most brutal and difficult fighting game bosses ever. She's right up there with [[VideoGame/KaiserKnuckle the General]].

* MemeticBadass: [[SNKBoss Parace]] [[ThatOneBoss L']] [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard Sia]], for being hailed as one of the most brutal and difficult Fighting game bosses int he genre's history and then some, up there with [[VideoGame/KaiserKnuckle the Colonel]].

* BadassDecay: Lieselotte Achenbach. In the original ''Arcana Heart'', she's a bonafide EnfantTerrible assassin. Afterwards, she began to mellow down into JerkassWoobie.

** In ''Suggoi! Arcana Heart 2'', Parace L'Sia has a collection of the game's best moves like Mildred, but less health. That doesn't matter because she recovers health gradually, and her regular attacks have range akin to projectiles and come out too fast to dodge. Parace also has an OneHitKO super move that cannot be dodged, another super move that lets her rapidly heal herself, and teleports like crazy. In ''3'''s Score Attack, she somehow manages to be even worse, which quite possibly makes her the single hardest fighting game boss ''ever''. While her super move doesn't kill instantly anymore, she is able to reads your inputs and is far more aggressive. She can easily pull off combos that will deplete your lifebar if she manages to hit you even once. She teleports a lot more as well, making even hitting her a chore. Pretty much the only reliable way to beat Parace is to try again and again, because the more times you lose to her the less health she starts the fight with. As of ''[[UpdatedRerelease Love MAX!!!!!]]'', however, the final part doesn't happen anymore as she's a fought as a challenge separate from Score Attack. Good Luck.

** In ''Suggoi! Arcana Heart 2'', Parace L'Sia has a collection of the game's best moves like Mildred, but less health. That doesn't matter because she recovers health gradually, and her regular attacks have range akin to projectiles and come out too fast to dodge. She also has an OneHitKO super move that cannot be dodged, another super move that lets her rapidly heal herself, and teleports like crazy. In ''3'''s Score Attack, she somehow manages to be even worse, quite possibly the single hardest fighting game boss ''ever''. While her super move doesn't kill instantly anymore, she is able to reads your inputs and is far more aggressive. She can easily pull off combos that will deplete your lifebar if she manages to hit you even once. She teleports a lot more as well, making even hitting her a chore. Pretty much the only reliable way to beat Parace is to try again and again, because the more times you lose to her the less health she starts the fight with. As of ''[[UpdatedRerelease Love MAX!!!!!]]'', however, the final part doesn't happen anymore as she's a fought as a challenge separate from Score Attack. Good Luck.

** Mildred in the first game. During the first phase of the battle, she's in a cocoon like object while she transforms into her angel form. She's protected by two orbiting {{Attack Drone}}s that fire projectiles that cover the length of the stage and only reliable way to attack her without getting defeated is if you have a character or Arcana with good projectiles. She's fought in her angel form regardless of whether the player wins or loses. However, if the player doesn't defeat her during the first phase, she starts the match off with a maximum super meter. While Mildred's angel form has somewhat less health, she has a collection of all the best moves in the game. Her health and damage are far beyond a normal character and she can dish out more damage with a special move than players can with a super move. Finally, Mildred has a screen filling super that will take half of your health if she catches you off guard.
** In ''Suggoi! Arcana Heart 2'', Parace L'Sia has a collection of the game's best moves like Mildred, but less health. That doesn't matter because she recovers health gradually, and her regular attacks have range akin to projectiles and come out too fast to dodge. She also has an OneHitKO super move that cannot be dodged, another super move that lets her rapidly heal herself, and teleports like crazy. In ''3'''s Score Attack, she somehow manages to be even worse, quite possibly the single hardest fighting game boss ''ever''. Her super move doesn't kill instantly anymore, but the AI for her reads your inputs and is far more aggressive. She can easily pull off combos that will deplete your lifebar if she manages to hit you even once. She teleports a lot more as well, making even hitting her a chore. Pretty much the only reliable way to beat Parace is to try again and again, because the more times you lose to her the less health she starts the fight with. As of ''[[UpdatedRerelease Love MAX!!!!!]]'', however, the final part doesn't happen anymore as she's a fought as a challenge separate from Score Attack. Good Luck.

** Parace L'Sia in Suggoi ''2''[='=]s is even worse. She has a collection of the game's best moves like Mildred, but less health. That doesn't matter because she recovers health gradually, and her regular attacks have range akin to projectiles and come out too fast to dodge. She also has an OneHitKO super move that cannot be dodged, another super move that lets her rapidly heal herself, and teleports like crazy. In ''3'' Score Attack, she somehow manages to be even worse, quite possibly the single hardest fighting game boss ''ever''. Her super move doesn't kill instantly anymore, but the AI for her reads your inputs and is far more aggressive. She can easily pull off combos that will deplete your lifebar if she manages to hit you even once. She teleports a lot more as well, making even hitting her a chore. Pretty much the only reliable way to beat Parace is to try again and again, because the more times you lose to her the less health she starts the fight with. As of ''[[UpdatedRerelease Love MAX!!!!!]]'', however, the final part doesn't happen anymore as she's a fought as a challenge separate from Score Attack. Good Luck.

** Mildred in the first game. During the first phase of the battle, she's in a cocoon like object while she transforms into her angel form. She's protected by two orbiting {{Attack Drone}}s that fire projectiles that cover the length of the stage and only reliable way to attack her without getting defeated is if you have a character or Arcana with good projectiles. She's fought in her angel form regardless of whether the player wins or loses. However, if the player doesn't defeat her during the first phase, she starts the match off with a maximum super meter. While Mildred's angel form has somewhat less health, she has a collection of all the best moves in the game. Her health and damage are far beyond a normal character and she can dish out more damage with a special attack than players can with a super move. Finally, Mildred has a screen filling super that will take half of your health if she catches you off guard.

* BrokenBase: There are some [[FightingGame fighting game]] [[StopHavingFunGuys veterans]] that have a cold reception to the series just because it has an all-girls cast filled with BoobsOfSteel, GagBoobs, {{Fanservice}}, and {{Stripperific}} characters. Being an animesque series as well hasn't help matters in this regard.

* GeniusBonus: Akane Inuwaka's Arcana is named after a type of fox. Knowing that, check out her ears under that do rag.

* ThatOneBoss: Do not let the cuteness of the game's design fool you, it's bosses are pure evil.
** Mildred in the original game. In the first round she's in a cocoon like object while she transforms into her angel form. You don't have to KO her in this phase, which is good because it's likely harder than beating the real fight with her as she's protected by two orbiting [[AttackDrone Attack Drones]] that fire projectiles that cover the length of the stage and only reliable way to attack her without getting killed is if you have a character or Arcana with good projectiles, and very actually do. She's fought in her angel form regardless of whether the player wins or loses, but if the player doesn't KO her she starts the fought off with maximum super energy. Her angel form somewhat less health, but she has a collection of all the best moves in the game including super moves. Her health and damage are far beyond a normal characters and she can dish out more damage with a special attack than players can with a super move. And she has the best super in the game, a screen filling attack that cannot be dodged and requires very precise timing block, or you can kiss half your health goodbye.
** Parace L'Sia in Suggoi ''2''[='=]s is even worse. She has a collection of the game's best moves like Mildred, but less health. That doesn't matter because she recovers health gradually, and her regular attacks have range akin to projectiles and come out too fast to dodge. She also has an OneHitKO super move that cannot be dodged, another super move that lets her rapidly heal herself, and teleports like crazy. In ''3'' Score Attack she somehow manages to be even worse, quite possibly the single hardest fighting game boss ''ever''. Her super move doesn't kill instantly anymore, but the AI for her reads your inputs and is far more aggressive. She can easily pull off combos that will deplete your lifebar if she manages to hit you even once. She teleports a lot more as well,making even hitting her a chore. Pretty much the only reliable way to beat Parace is to try again and again, because the more times you lose to her the less health she starts the fight with. As of ''[[UpdatedRerelease Love MAX!!!!!]]'', however, the final part doesn't happen anymore as she's a fought as a challenge separate from Score Attack. Good Luck.

** Parace L'Sia in Suggoi ''2''[='=]s is even worse. She has a collection of the game's best moves like Mildred, but less health. That doesn't matter because she recovers health gradually, and her regular attacks have range akin to projectiles and come out too fast to dodge. She also has an OneHitKO super move that cannot be dodged, another super move that lets her rapidly heal herself, and teleports like crazy. In ''3'' Score Attack she somehow manages to be even worse, quite possibly the single hardest fighting game boss ''ever''. Her super move does kill instantly anymore, but the AI for her reads your inputs and is far aggressive. She can easily pull off combos that will deplete your lifebar if she manages to hit you even once. She teleports a lot more as well making even hitting her a chore. Pretty much the only reliable way to beat Parace is to try again and again, because the more times you lose to her the less health she starts the fight with. As of ''[[UpdatedRerelease Love MAX!!!!!]]'', however, the final part doesn't happen anymore as she's a fought as a challenge separate from Score Attack. Good Luck.

* ThatOneBoss: Parace L'Sia in ''3''[='=]s Score Attack, quite possibly the single hardest fighting game boss ''ever''. All of her attacks comes out way too fast, the range of each attack is way too good to dodge reliably, and she can easily pull off combos that will deplete your lifebar if she manages to hit you even once. Even getting Parace to low health doesn't help because her TeleportSpam makes her too hard to hit most of the time, and she slowly recovers health during the fight and actually has a super move the lets her rapidly heal herself. Pretty much the only reliable way to beat Parace is to try again and again, because the more times you lose to her the less health she starts the fight with. As of ''[[UpdatedRerelease Love MAX!!!!!]]'', however, the final part doesn't happen anymore. Good Luck.