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** Virginia introduces Leah as "My attendant Leah sees my every need fulfilled, and more."

* ThatOneSidequest: While not an official sidequest, recruiting Amalia is one of the most tedious and frustrating tasks in the game. While the majority of the coliseum is easy to deal with, the same can't be said about the top ten rankings. Even if your level is roughly equal, you're still in for a tough time. And that's to say nothing of Amalia herself, who hits like a goddamn truck. [[spoiler:That's not even going into her ''second'' fight where she's briefly possessed by her ancestor and is somehow ''even worse'', despite fighting alone]]. The only saving grace to the coliseum is that you don't have to kill all the enemies, you just need to make sure their collective HP is lower than yours.
* {{Woolseyism}}: The liberal localization has attracted outrage over unnecessary additions and changes. The dub script takes the the original Japanese, which the source material used to impart Shakespeare type of writing that conveys an unpopular and unused archaic type of speech, and renders it unreadable to the general populace whenever the localization felt like adding it in, the dialogue that conveys personality and charm of an old man trying to be hip and cool with teenagers and the setting, while, for the most part, largely changing the original and changing meaning of the dialogue.

* HoYay: Alain can give the Ring of the Maiden to male characters, and the story states that the person receiving the ring does not have to be a "maiden," but rather someone he trusts above all else. Few of these exchanges with male characters have romantic implications when compared to interactions with female characters, but even his decision to eternally bind himself to his closest male companion over a potential female romantic partner reveals a lot about him. Even Lex calls him out for having the love life of a doorknob by choosing him over a girl. As well, even in non-romantic encounters, many of the male characters assume Alain means it romantically until he specifies otherwise, with Adel in particular seemingly not being against it, but surprised because he'd never been suddenly asked such a thing by another man.
* LesYay:
** Sharon and Ochlys's relationship takes the PseudoRomanticFriendship and runs with it to the point it's barely subtext.
** Ridiel grows ''really'' attached to Chloe after she convinced her to fight against Zenoira.
** Virginia introduces Leah as "My attendant Leah sees my every need fulfilled, and more."
** When Scarlett visits her stall in Baumratte, Liza teases her a bit, since she can't help herself when a "cute girl comes walkin". And then there's their reaction to seeing [[StatuesqueStunner Amalia]].
---> '''Scarlett''': What a woman.

* {{Woolseyism}}: Although such a liberal translation has attracted ''some'' grumblings, the dub script takes the BeigeProse of the original Japanese, which the source material used to impart an old-fashioned, archaic feel, and renders it in readable, flavorful medieval dialogue that conveys personality and charm with the characters and the setting, while, for the most part, leaving the original meaning largely intact.

* LowTierLetdown: Many players lambast the usefulness of the Fighter class. With [[MasterOfNone all around mediocre defensive and offensive stats and no ability to self-heal despite being a tank]], in the starting hours of the game Fighters struggle to compete with the Lord, who hits quite a bit harder and has a strong self-heal attack, Gladiators, who [[HerdHittingAttack cleave through entire rows]] and can nullify one hard hit a turn with their self-healing, and Hoplites, who do less damage but are incredible physical tanks for their entire row. Being able to nullify ranged attacks makes the Fighter natural wingmen to any airborne class, like the Feathersword or the Gryphon Knight, or generally protect anyone who doesn't want to eat the Hunter's AlwaysAccurateAttack. But between plenty of time to devote attention to other classes coupled with limited unit space in any given formation, players tend to leave them behind. Lex, the party's first named non-generic fighter, tends to stand out as being almost unusable unless really lucky due to the issues mentioned, and needs help from allies to keep him topped off on health. On the other hand, their ability to protect flying units from archers makes them a potent combo - flyers in the front to screen the melee attacks and the fighter in the back to save his PP shielding the flyers from attacks. The game also fails to say it, but attacks from most flyers count as ranged attacks, meaning flyers with a fighter on the team will almost always win a battle against other flyers.

** [[spoiler:That Elgor is a Bestral is rather obvious from just looking at him. He has a weird hunched over stance, stands on his toes, and wears an animalistic helmet. Yet somehow this is a surprise to his boss. This is somewhat handwaved by the Bestral characters explaining Elgor is far larger than a normal rat Bestral, but everyone being surprised he was a Bestral at all is odd]].
** [[spoiler: That Ilenia survived the prologue, considering that literally everyone else in her party shows up alive throughout the game. Though the reveal of what actually happened to her is far less obvious.]]

* {{Woolseyism}}: Although such a liberal translation has attracted ''some'' grumblings, the dub script takes the BeigeProse of the original Japanese, which the source material used to impart an old-fashioned, archaic feel, and renders it in readable, flavorful medieval dialogue that conveys personality and charm with the characters and the setting, while, for the most part, leaving the original meaning largely intact.yours.

* {{Woolseyism}}: Although such a liberal translation has attracted ''some'' grumblings, the dub script takes the BeigeProse of the original Japanese, which the source material used to impart an old-fashioned, archaic feel, and renders it in readable, flavorful medieval dialogue that conveys personality and charm with the characters and the setting.

* ThatOneSidequest: While not an official sidequest, recruiting Amalia is one of the most tedious and frustrating tasks in the game. While the majority of the coliseum is easy to deal with, the same can't be said about the top ten rankings. Even if your level is roughly equal, you're still in for a tough time. And that's to say nothing of Amalia herself, who hits like a goddamn truck. [[spoiler:That's not even going into her ''second'' fight where she's briefly possessed by her ancestor and is somehow ''even worse'', despite fighting alone]]. The only saving grace to the coliseum is that you don't have to kill all the enemies, you just need to make sure their collective HP is lower than yours.

* ThatOneSidequest: While not an official sidequest, recruiting Amalia is one of the most tedious and frustrating tasks in the game. While the majority of the coliseum is easy to deal with, the same can't be said about the top ten rankings. Even if your level is roughly equal, you're still in for a tough time. And that's to say nothing of Amalia herself, who hits like a goddamn truck. [[spoiler:That's not even going into her ''second'' fight where she's briefly possessed by her ancestor and is somehow ''even worse'', despite fighting alone]]. The only saving grace to the coliseum is that you don't have to kill all the enemies, you just need to make sure their collective HP is lower than yours.
* {{Woolseyism}}: Although such a liberal translation has attracted ''some'' grumblings, the dub script takes the BeigeProse of the original Japanese, which the source material used to impart an old-fashioned, archaic feel, and renders it in readable, wonderfully flavorful medieval dialogue that conveys personality and charm with the characters and the setting, while, for the most part, leaving the original meaning largely intact.

* ThatOneSidequest: While not an official sidequest, recruiting Amalia is one of the most tedious and frustrating tasks in the game. While the majority of the coliseum is easy to deal with, the same can't be said about the top ten rankings. Even if your level is roughly equal, you're still in for a tough time. And that's to say nothing of Amalia herself, who hits like a goddamn truck. [[spoiler:That's not even going into her ''second'' fight where she's briefly possessed by her ancestor and is somehow ''even worse'', despite fighting alone]]. The only saving grace to the coliseum is that you don't have to kill all the enemies, you just need to make sure their collective HP is lower than yours.

* ThatOneSidequest: While not an official sidequest, recruiting Amalia is one of the most tedious and frustrating tasks in the game. While the majority of the coliseum is easy to deal with, the same can't be said about the top ten rankings. Even if your level is roughly equal, you're still in for a tough time. And that's to say nothing of Amalia herself, who hits like a goddamn truck. [[spoiler:That's not even going into her ''second'' fight where she's briefly possessed by her ancestor and is somehow ''even worse'', despite fighting alone]]. The only saving grace to the coliseum is that you don't have to kill all the enemies, you just need to make sure their collective HP is lower than yours.
* {{Woolseyism}}: Although such a liberal translation has attracted ''some'' grumblings, the dub script takes the BeigeProse of the original Japanese, which the source material used to impart an old-fashioned, archaic feel, and renders it in readable, wonderfully flavorful medieval dialogue that conveys personality and charm with the characters and the setting, without meaningfully changing the substance of any given line.

* SpiritualSuccessor: The game is billed as a return of the real time strategy of the 90s, and bears a strong similarity to ''VideoGame/OgreBattleTheMarchOfTheBlackQueen'' in particular. Gameplay wise, you have an overland map in real time where player-controlled and AI squads move, the player tasked with liberating towns and objectives. Squads that fight automatically using a limited set of actions based on player-assigned tactics. Formations involving a front row and a back row. Hero characters are unique variants of generic units used to fill out squads. The main character's class is "lord". There's even comparison story-wise, with an empire formed from 5 formerly independent kingdoms using magic and the player leading a faction called the "Liberation Army".

* FanPreferredCouple: Lex and Chloe have a platonic relationship, and Chloe is implied to have feelings for Alain even if the player does not pick her to give the Ring of the Maiden to. However, a lot of players prefer to ship them together because their interactions come across as BelligerentSexualTension, and their Rapport having somewhat flirty undertones in it. It also helps that the game gives the two unique dialogue referencing the other in battle, making it easier to ship them together.

** Among the romance options, the most popular options to fans are the elf sisters (Rosalinde slightly ahead), Chole, Yunifi, Scarlett, and Fran in that order. Amalia is the meme choice (see MemeticMutation below).

* FanPreferredCouple: Lex and Chloe have a platonic relationship, and Chloe is implied to have feelings for Alain even if the player does not pick her to give the ring of the Maiden to. However, a lot of players prefer to ship them together because their interactions come across as BelligerentSexualTension, and their Rapport having somewhat flirty undertones in it. It also helps that the game gives the two unique dialogue referencing the other in battle, making it easier to ship them together.

* CaptainObviousReveal: [[spoiler:That Elgor is a Bestral is rather obvious from just looking at him. He has a weird hunched over stance, stands on his toes, and wears an animalistic helmet. Yet somehow this is a surprise to his boss. This is somewhat handwaved by the Bestral characters explaining Elgor is far larger than a normal rat Bestral, but everyone being surprised he was a Bestral at all is odd]].

* ClicheStorm: In a very [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools positive case]], the basic plot and character archetypes are very familiar to Strategy RPG fans: exiled royalty with deceased parents, who must topple TheEmpire which is led by a TinTyrant BigBad [[spoiler:who is undead, and manipulated by an even worse EvilSorcerer]]. Where it works is that these basic tropes are [[TropesAreTools used very effectively]], the characters are deeply likeable, and the nuanced gameplay holds it all together.

* ClicheStorm: In a very {{Administrivia/Tropes Are Not Bad}} case, the basic plot and character archetypes are very familiar to Strategy RPG fans: exiled royalty with deceased parents, who must topple TheEmpire which is led by a TinTyrant BigBad [[spoiler:who is undead, and manipulated by an even worse EvilSorcerer]]. Where it works is that these basic tropes are [[TropesAreTools used very effectively]], the characters are deeply likeable, and the nuanced gameplay holds it all together.

* CaptainObviousReveal: [[spoiler:That Elgor is a Bestral is rather obvious from just looking at him. He has a weird hunched over stance, stands on his toes, and wears an animalistic helmet. Yet somehow this is a surprise to his boss. This is somewhat handwaved by the Bestral characters explaining Elgor is far larger than a normal rat Bestral, but everyone being surprised he was a Bestral at all is odd. This is downplayed somewhat by the existence of another, presumably human, Dark Marquess that uses the same animations as Elgor]].

* StrangledByTheRedString: Alain can basically offer the Maiden's ring to any recruitable character. The thing is the vast majority of them do not have romantic rapport or conversations with him. [[ButNotTooGay When he gives it to a man, most of the time its played out as him affirming their close bond of trust and support, with no implication of marriage]]. But for most female characters, Alain will declare his love for them, which they will reciprocate, the romance coming out of nowhere with no buildup. This leads to odd pairings, like Virginia, whose conversations with Alain paint her as a CoolBigSis, only for them to then declare their love for one another (never mind that Virginia is both his much older cousin and also a splitting image of Alain's dead mother). Scarlett, Rosalinde and Melisandre are some of the only characters who are set up with a romantic arc with Alain (although many others are implied to be crushing on him (and (much rarer) he on them) at least a little). The game somewhat lampshades this, as several characters comment on the oddity of being chosen, but it doesn't take away from how it feels like the game forces Alain to suddenly be in love with the other person.