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** Two words, Roland. Crane, a LightningBruiser, PresidentAction, with a variety of SimpleYetAwesome skill set. What give credence to his LightningBruiser status is his second highest HP value compared to the main tank of the group, fast attack speed comparable to Evan, the ''main character'' and having second highest physical stat compared to tank. Then there's his skills that while aren't as flashy as other characters and not as varied, works for their intended purpose with little to no wind-up or lag-time in-between strikes that most character's stronger skills have and some of his main skills can either buff himself or debuff the enemy as a bonus. In fact, Roland's less varied skill set works in his favor compared to Evan's highly MasterOfAll skills being limited only because the game allows a limited four active skills/spells to be set. All in all, there's no reason not to use Roland the moment the open world section starts. Though, there are some enemies that Roland dealt with poorly, they are far and few in-between.

** Two words, Roland. Crane, a LightningBruiser, PresidentAction, with a variety of Simple,YetAwesome skill set. What give credence to his LightningBruiser status is his second highest HP value compared to the main tank of the group, fast attack speed comparable to Evan, the ''main character'' and having second highest physical stat compared to tank. Then there's his skills that while aren't as flashy as other characters and not as varied, works for their intended purpose with little to no wind-up or lag-time in-between strikes that most character's stronger skills have and some of his main skills can either buff himself or debuff the enemy as a bonus. In fact, Roland's less varied skill set works in his favor compared to Evan's highly MasterOfAll skills being limited only because the game allows a limited four active skills/spells to be set. All in all, there's no reason not to use Roland the moment the open world section starts. Though, there are some enemies that Roland dealt with poorly, they are far and few in-between.

** Two words, Roland. Crane, a LightningBruiser, PresidentAction, with a variety of Simple, yet Awesome skill set. What give credence to his LightningBruiser status is his second highest HP value compared to the main tank of the group, fast attack speed comparable to Evan, the ''main character'' and having second highest physical stat compared to tank. Then there's his skills that while aren't as flashy as other characters and not as varied, works for their intended purpose with little to no wind-up or lag-time in-between strikes that most character's stronger skills have and some of his main skills can either buff himself or debuff the enemy as a bonus. In fact, Roland's less varied skill set works in his favor compared to Evan's highly MasterOfAll skills being limited only because the game allows a limited four active skills/spells to be set. All in all, there's no reason not to use Roland the moment the open world section starts. Though, there are some enemies that Roland dealt with poorly, they are far and few in-between.

** Two words, Roland. Crane, a LightningBruiser, PresidentAction, with a variety of Simple,yetAwesome skill set. What give credence to his LightningBruiser status is his second highest HP value compared to the main tank of the group, fast attack speed comparable to Evan, the ''main character'' and having second highest physical stat compared to tank. Then there's his skills that while aren't as flashy as other characters and not as varied, works for their intended purpose with little to no wind-up or lag-time in-between strikes that most character's stronger skills have and some of his main skills can either buff himself or debuff the enemy as a bonus. In fact, Roland's less varied skill set works in his favor compared to Evan's highly MasterofAll skills being limited only because the game allows a limited four active skills/spells to be set. All in all, there's no reason not to use Roland the moment the open world section starts. Though, there are some enemies that Roland dealt with poorly, they are far and few in-between.

** Two words, Roland. Crane, a LightningBruiser, BadassPresident, with a variety of Simple,butAwesome skill set. What give credence to his LightningBruiser status is his second highest HP value compared to the main tank of the group, fast attack speed comparable to Evan, the ''main character'' and having second highest physical stat compared to tank. Then there's his skills that while aren't as flashy as other characters and not as varied, works for their intended purpose with little to no wind-up or lag-time in-between strikes that most character's stronger skills have and some of his main skills can either buff himself or debuff the enemy as a bonus. In fact, Roland's less varied skill set works in his favor compared to Evan's highly MasterofAll skills being limited only because the game allows a limited four active skills/spells to be set. All in all, there's no reason not to use Roland the moment the open world section starts. Though, there are some enemies that Roland dealt with poorly, they are far and few in-between.

** Two words, Roland. Crane, a [[LightningBruiser]], [[BadassPresident]], with a variety of [[SimplebutAwesome]] skill set. What give credence to his [[LightningBruiser]] status is his second highest HP value compared to the main tank of the group, fast attack speed comparable to Evan, the ''main character'' and having second highest physical stat compared to tank. Then there's his skills that while aren't as flashy as other characters and not as varied, works for their intended purpose with little to no wind-up or lag-time in-between strikes that most character's stronger skills have and some of his main skills can either buff himself or debuff the enemy as a bonus. In fact, Roland's less varied skill set works in his favor compared to Evan's highly [[MasterofAll]] skills being limited only because the game allows a limited four active skills/spells to be set. All in all, there's no reason not to use Roland the moment the open world section starts. Though, there are some enemies that Roland dealt with poorly, they are far and few in-between.

* DamnYouMuscleMemory: Dodge is done by holding the Guard ''and'' the movement key, not by spamming a dodge roll like in [[VideoGame/MonsterHunterWorld a lot of]] [[VideoGame/DarkSouls other games]] like this.

* {{Retcon}}: The Tale of A Timeless Tome DLC changed a bit of Roland and Doloran's backstory [[spoiler:so that it wasn't Doloran who summoned Roland into their other world, but Alisa had found a tear in the fabric of space that allowed her to peer into Roland's world, where she saw Roland getting blasted at Ground Zero and warped him into the other world, healed him and de-aged him because she sensed that he was Doloran's soulmate, and she knew that if Roland dies, so would Doloran.]]

* {{Retcon}}: The Tale of A Timeless Tome DLC changed the backstory [[spoiler:so that it wasn't Doloran who summoned Roland into their other world, but Alisa had found a tear in the fabric of space that allowed her to peer into Roland's world, where she saw Roland getting blasted at Ground Zero and warped him into the other world, healed him and de-aged him because she sensed that he was Doloran's soulmate, and she knew that if Roland dies, so would Doloran.]]

* {{Retcon}}: The Tale of A Timeless Tome DLC changed the backstory [[spoiler:so that it wasn't Doloran who summoned Roland into their other world, but Alisa had somehow caught a vision of Roland getting blasted at Ground Zero and warped him into the other world, healed him and de-aged him because she sensed that he was Doloran's soulmate, and she knew that if Roland dies, so would Doloran.]]

* {{Retcon}}: The Tale of A Timeless Tome DLC changed the backstory [[spoiler:so that it wasn't Doloran who summoned Roland into their other world, but Alisa had somehow caught a vision of Roland getting blasted at Ground Zero and warped him into the other world and cured him because she she knew that if Roland dies, so would Doloran.]]

** The Lost Lord himself, Lord Remus, from the DLC of the same name. One hit KO even on normal difficulty, and the only way to defeat him is using the Ding Dong Discipline counter method, which requires dodging during the small window where he is about to hit you. Depending on your keyboard or gamepad build quality, and how much display lag you face, dodging is always a hit or miss affair. If you use a normal monitor and cheapo keyboard with no ability to press multiple keys at one time, or if you use a cheapo controller, good luck, you're gonna need it- most of the time, Evan would jus T back away slowly blocking instead of dodging and triggering the method.

** The Lost Lord himself, Lord Remus, from the DLC of the same name. One hit KO even on normal difficulty, and the only way to defeat him is using the Ding Dong Discipline counter method, which requires dodging during the small window where he is about to hit you. Depending on your keyboard or gamepad build quality, and how much display lag you face, dodging is always a hit or miss affair. If you use a normal monitor and cheapo keyboard with no ability to press multiple keys at one time, or if you use a cheapo controller, good luck, you're gonna need it.

* UnderusedGameMechanic: Throughout the game, you'll learn almost a dozen noncombat spells, some of which are given to you throughout the main quest while most require research at Evermore's Spellworks. However, the spells are very situational and are barely used throughout most of the game. Some spells, such as the spells to speak with animals and to spirits, are only used once or twice for side quests.
* ViewerGenderConfusion: The main character Evan, with his long blond hair and feminine features, is often mistaken for a girl. The fact that [[CrossdressingVoices his voice actor is female]] doesn't help.

* ThatOneBoss: Many find Bastion to be this. On top of being very large for the relatively small arena you fight him in, he has quite a fair bit of AOE attacks that makes attacking him in the first place rather difficult. There's also the second phase, where a sudden UnexpectedGameplayChange where Evan must platform his way onto his head causes numerous players grief, if not for [[ScrappyMechanic game's jumping physics not being suited for platforming]], then because Bastion is constantly spamming lightning bolts that are guaranteed to knock Evan off and back to square one if he's hit by them.

** The abovementioned second ''The Summoned One'' BossInMookClothing. With a wide-reaching AOE that could potentially decimate the entire party in one blow especially on higher danger levels, yeah. Let the Cluster F-Bombs fly.

** ItsShortSoItSucks: A sentiment felt by some who [[PlayTheGameSkipTheStory laser-ran through the game]] while ignoring all the battles and the sidequets.

* SlowPacedBeginning: Two of the main draws of the game, kingdom-building and citizen recruitment, aren't introduced until Chapter 4 (of 9). Due to this, there are no optional sidequests at all until this point, leaving the game with a downplayed case of NoSidepathsNoExplorationNoFreedom until then. (The only real optional content being Tainted Monsters and the odd forest) Even the main story suffers from this trope; besides the Ding Dong Dell coup, nothing particularly major happens until Chapter 3, and it's not until then that we're introduced to the BigBad and the central goal of solving the nation rulers' problems.

* {{Narm}}: Doloran's reveal as [[spoiler: Roland's Soulmate is somewhat ruined by him just looking like a goofy, green-skinned version of Roland with the same big anime eyes and nice smile you've been seeing all game. It's kind of hard to take him seriously as the BigBad until he puts the snake head back on.]]

** "God of War" requires you to complete 50 unique skirmishes (read: play ''all'' the skirmishes at least once as of patch 1.03). Two incredibly hard skirmishes aside (''Criminal Capture: Bandit Gang'' and ''''Survey Party Protection'', both known to cause the onflow of cluster F-Bombs from players), it's also just incredibly tedious, as if you've been diligent during the main story you'll have completed maybe 20 by the end of the game. Skirmishes also aren't very fun (see ScrappyMechanic) and it's hard to grind for the higher-level ones. Also, the main problem isn't so much doing the skirmishes as it is ''finding'' the skirmishes. The main story ones and ones associated with quests are easy enough. However, the remainder just show up on the map and have no relation to the rest of the plot. The flags for these spawn at random and up until a recent update there's no way to track which ones you've already done other than these flags. It is possible to know how many you've done by checking the number of skirmishes completed in the game's encyclopedia, but only if you've had the foresight to never re-do any, and the game encourages you to do just that by providing a "Hard Mode" option. Even after the update, you can tell which skirmishes you already did from the color of the glow surrounding the flag, but it still doesn't help much as the flags still appears and disappears at random. In order to respawn the flags, you have to enter and exit areas several times and possibly do some flying around searching for the ones you want. It can take many, many tries before you finally spawn the one(s) you want.

** "God of War" requires you to complete 50 unique skirmishes. This one's not hard, just incredibly tedious, as if you've been diligent during the main story you'll have completed maybe 20 by the end of the game. Skirmishes also aren't very fun (see ScrappyMechanic) and it's hard to grind for the higher-level ones. Also, the main problem isn't so much doing the skirmishes as it is ''finding'' the skirmishes. The main story ones and ones associated with quests are easy enough. However, the remainder just show up on the map and have no relation to the rest of the plot. The flags for these spawn at random and up until a recent update there's no way to track which ones you've already done other than these flags. It is possible to know how many you've done by checking the number of skirmishes completed in the game's encyclopedia, but only if you've had the foresight to never re-do any, and the game encourages you to do just that by providing a "Hard Mode" option. Even after the update, you can tell which skirmishes you already did from the color of the glow surrounding the flag, but it still doesn't help much as the flags still appears and disappears at random. In order to respawn the flags, you have to enter and exit areas several times and possibly do some flying around searching for the ones you want. It can take many, many tries before you finally spawn the one(s) you want.

** As a byproduct, Higgledies with gravity attacks can quickly shred through enemies HP. One of the earliest ones you can get can end up doing damage in the ''1000''s before your characters are doing triple digits. Fully-leveled ones can deal damage in the ''high-thousands''. Combine them with fully-leveled higgledies with the ''Me too, Me too!'' ability and watch the attack stack two to four times, dealing a major blow to the enemies' health, and an instant win if you're lucky.
** On the topic of Higgledies, try having two fully-leveled higgledies with the ''Higgledy Sirrah'' ability and two fully-leveled higgledies with the ''Me too, Me too!'' ability. Essentially, you have two higgledies that could summon a very powerful knight that will fight on your behalf for up to a minute and two who're practically mimes. Summon one knight by activating the Higgledy Sirrah ability. Watch the higgledy mimes summon up to two more knights. If you get lucky you can have up to four knights on the battlefield. Watch the knights take a good chunk off the boss' health from a safe distance.

** As a byproduct, Higgledies with gravity attacks can quickly shred through enemies HP. One of the earliest ones you can get can end up doing damage in the ''1000''s before your characters are doing triple digits. Fully-leveled ones can deal damage in the ''high-thousands''. Combine them with fully-leveled higgledies with the ''Me too, Me too!'' ability and watch the attack stack two to four times, dealing a major blow to the enemies' health.