History YMMV / SkiesOfArcadia

** Piastol: She's lightning quick (capable of attacking twice per round), can launch dirks at the entire party at once, which have a 45-50% chance of petrifying multiple targets, her [[LimitBreak Tempest Dance]] is almost certain to kill whoever she uses it on (unless you've used Justice Shield beforehand), and she can spam [[OneHitKill Eternum]]. Worse, her Death Hound casts Speed and Incremus on her, to increase her already ludicrous speed and attack power. Plus, it automatically poisons you with each attack. And, if all of that wasn't enough, [[HarderThanHard Piastol gets harder]] with each encounter!

** Piastol: She's lightning quick (capable of attacking twice per round), can launch dirks at the entire party at once, which have a 45-50% chance of petrifying multiple targets, her [[LimitBreak Tempest Dance]] is almost certain to kill whoever she uses it on (unless you've used Justice Shield beforehand), and she can spam [[InstantDeath Eternum]]. Worse, her Death Hound can cast Speed and Incremus on her, to increase her already ludicrous speed and attack power. Plus, it automatically poisons you with each attack. And, if all of that wasn't enough, [[HarderThanHard Piastol gets harder]] with each encounter!

* ClicheStorm[=/=]{{Troperrific}}: Either, depending on who you ask.

* BrokenAesop: After reaching Daccat's treasure, the crew find only one gold coin, with a rather sappy message that teamwork and friendship are the real treasure. Except for the gold coin, which turns out to be worth a fortune.

** How the bloody hell did Lupen build a Moonstone Cannon?

* NeedsMoreLove: People have been demanding a sequel for almost a decade now. We were given a slight glimmer of hope when the trio showed up as major cameos in ''ValkyriaChronicles''...

** Vigoro.

** Justice Shield halves the damage from the majority of attacks. Delta Shield blocks all magic attacks and is invaluable against instant death attacks. Pirates' Wrath deals massive damage for a not-unreasonable amount of SP. Items in general can replicate any magic effect, are cheap and can be bought anywhere, consume no SP and get around Delta Shield. The biggest game-breaker items are the inexpensive complete kits available later in the game, which completely heal your ship. Even with them, though, the final ship boss is STILL extremely hard if you didn't take special steps to get super-rare ship armor.
** Aika's multi-enemy fire attacks are pretty game-breaking early on, but less so as the game progresses.

* CrowningMusicofAwesome - [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx6lSWq-LdI&fmt=18 Kingdom of Ixa'taka]] is in this troper's opinion literally one of the catchiest songs ever.

** MagnificentBastard: Galcian still controls [[spoiler: the Valuan Armada, in spite of the fact that he just erased their homeland off the map]].

* GameBreaker: Justice Shield halves the damage from the majority of attacks. Delta Shield blocks all magic attacks and is invaluable against instant death attacks. Pirates' Wrath deals massive damage for a not-unreasonable amount of SP. Items in general can replicate any magic effect, are cheap and can be bought anywhere, consume no SP and get around Delta Shield. The biggest game-breaker items are the inexpensive complete kits available later in the game, which completely heal your ship. Even with them, though, the final ship boss is STILL extremely hard if you didn't take special steps to get super-rare ship armor.

* MoralEventHorizon: In the beginning of the game, Alfonso kills his Vice-Captain in an effort to keep his reputation intact. It perfectly sums up what kind of villains you'll be dealing with in this game.

* MostWonderfulSound: Mew...mew...mewmew...mewmewmewmewmewmewmewrecieved (1) Cham!

* MoralEventHorizon: In the beginning of the game, Alphonso kills his Vice-Captain in an effort to keep his reputation intact. It perfectly sums up what kind of villains you'll be dealing with in this game.

* {{OT3}}: Vyse/Aika/Fina. Why the game has avoided any sort of ShipToShipCombat. Which is surprising, since some sequences in the game center around [[IncrediblyLamePun ship to ship combat.]]

* ThreeYay: Vyse/Aika/Fina. A possible reason for why there is so little ShipToShipCombat in the fandom.

** MagnificentBastard: Galcian still controls [[the Valuan Armada, in spite of the fact that he just erased their homeland off the map]].

** MagnficientBastard: Galcian still controls [[the Valuan Armada, in spite of the fact that he just erased their homeland off the map]].

* ThreeYay: Vyse/Aika/Fina. The reason why there is so little ShipToShipCombat in the fandom.

* [[GoddamnedBoss Goddamned Bosses]]: Barta and Rupee.

** Contrast [[spoiler:De Loco, upon whose death Vyse says "Guess that's the end of bubble head."]]