History YMMV / StarStealingPrince

* TheWoobie: Poor Snowe takes this trope UpToEleven.
** IronWoobie: And despite all the stuff that happens to him, he still manages to remain undeterred.

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:King Edgar. Whereas Queen Lina has ''some'' redeeming traits, Edgar is a straight up sociopath and sadist who will gladly abuse, torture and murder anyone, even his own son, for the sake of power and comfort. Even [[BigBad the Original King]] and [[{{Satan}} Xiri]] are disgusted by his crimes, and sometimes he's so cold that even Lina gets upset with him.]]

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:King Edgar. Whereas Queen Lina has ''some'' redeeming traits, Edgar is a straight up sociopath and sadist who will gladly abuse, torture and murder anyone, even his own son, for the sake of power and comfort. Even [[BigBad the Original King]] and [[{{Satan}} Xiri]] are disgusted by his crimes.]]

** Erio. He's been away from home for years and [[spoiler:has no idea if his sister is mad at him over it or not,]] and he...[[ElectricTorture wasn't treated well when he first arrived.]] And when [[spoiler:Lina discovered he was taking Astra on outings from the tower, Astra lied that she was still having nightmares so they couldn't get rid of him because she was seriously afraid for his life.]]

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:King Edgar. Whereas Queen Lina has ''some'' redeeming traits, Edgar is a straight up sociopath and sadist who will gladly abuse, torture and murder anyone, even his own son, for the sake of power and comfort. Even [[BigBad the Original King]] is disgusted by his crimes.]]

* NightmareFuel:
** The {{Dream Sequence}}s.
** The almost SilentHill-esque castle in Snowe's dreams certainly don't help.
** [[spoiler:The BadEnding, ''[[ShootTheShaggyDog dear God]]''.]]
** [[spoiler:The Old One. If you go to the catacombs after beating him and listen at the wall where the door he came from was, you can hear him trying to get out. He's still alive(ish), still wants to kill you and everyone you love, and he's trapped in the basement under your home.]]
** [[spoiler:A side effect of the spell Edgar and Lina used to seal the demon in Snowe caused their bodies to decay. This also decayed their minds, and it turned out one of the things they'd stolen was the Original King's immortality. So if they hadn't faked their own deaths, they would eventually have decayed to dust. [[AndIMustScream And still been alive.]]]]
** [[spoiler:King Edgar, just in general. From the fact that he willingly and even gleefully tortures people, even children, to the fact that he apparently gloated in a diary for pages on end about locking a girl in a tower, to his general lack of empathy for anyone around him. There's one particularly chilling moment in one of the short stories where he briefly considers murdering Snowe in his sleep just because he finds him annoying.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:The Original King causing the massacre of his own kingdom.]]

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:King Edgar. Whereas Queen Lina has ''some'' redeeming traits, Edgar is a strait up sociopath and sadist who will gladly abuse, torture and murder anyone, even his own son, for the sake of power and comfort. Even [[BigBad the Original King]] is disgusted by his crimes.]]

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: [[spoiler:The resolution of each CharacterArc in the final area, if you've watched the corresponding memories.]]
** Astra's memory, where it's revealed that [[spoiler:Erio and Hiante risked their lives just to make Astra happy -- and indeed, Erio was punished severely for teleporting Astra to the flower grove. The picture even shows Erio smiling, which never happens anywhere else in the game!]]

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The {{Dream Sequence}}s. Specific examples could probably fill an entire page.

** [[spoiler:The Old One. If you go to the catacombs after beating him and listen at the wall where the door he came from was, you can hear him trying to get out. He's still alive(ish), still wants to kill you and everyone you love, and he's trapped in the basement under your home. Sleep tight.]]

** The Western Tower boss. All he has to do is cast both Resplendence and Gloom in one turn and it's an instant game over without some serious grinding. Not to mention that you start the fight out with only Hiante and Relenia, and though Astra joins the fight eventually, your party's resident healer never gets involved.

** The Western Tower boss. All he has to do is cast both Resplendence and Gloom in one turn and it's an instant game over without some serious grinding.

** The Western Tower boss. All he has to do is cast Resplendence and Gloom in one turn and it's an instant game over without some serious grinding.

* LoveTriangle: It's implied that Erio has feelings for Astra and Snowe may as well. However, it is underplayed and fairly ambiguous.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: The {{Dream Sequence}}s.

** IronWoobie: And despite all the stuff that happens to him, he still manages to remain undeterred.

** [[spoiler:The BadEnding, ''[[ShootTheShaggyDog dear God]]''.]]