History YMMV / WorldOfFinalFantasy

** Another is when Rikku visits Treaure Island, only to find it full of Mimics. Despite clearly being the aggressor by way of invading their territory, you're supposed to take Rikku's side against the Mimics and their Mama.

** First up is "The Ice Bridge", where Refia and Sherlotta ask ''Shiva'' to make an ice bridge, with Sherlotta being very aggressive about it when she goads the Mirage by calling her second-tier when she refuses. Unfortunately, you can't throw the battle to let Sherlotta get frozen by Shiva for her sass once you're force to battle her.

SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[AwesomeMusic/FinalFantasy Did you expect anything less from this franchise]]?

* UncannyValley: The ending credits dance sequence is adorable, but the way the textures are rendered on the Lilikins can come off as a little off-putting.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: A lot of Reynn and Tama's treatment of Lann can reach this. The two very often make jabs at his stupidity and incompetence, some of which are rather meaning, and they mock him more when he doesn't even understand they were insulting him. Then Lann says or does something to remind players he really ''is'' that stupid and incompetent.

* AngstWhatAngst: When the twins' missing memories returned to them, they do suffer from MyGodWhatHaveIDone for a brief bit, but in random battle's they're still joking and bantering with no sign that this is just an act they uphold for each others' sake and then the ResetButton is mashed with great haste with zero permanent effect on gameplay.

* GameBreaker: In the ''Maxima'' version of the game, players can imprism a new Mirage, Dramut, either in a Murkrift on the Rainbow Shore or in a Coliseum battle. It's a Small Mirage, so it can be used in either Jiant or Lilikin stacks; it learns Fire, Blizzard, Thunder, and Light Flare (basically a weaker version of Flare); it has the support abilities Sizzle, Chill, Zap, ''and'' Stroll; it has three blank spots to put more abilities in; and it doesn't transmogrify into anything, so its board can be mastered fairly early. Also, the fact it learns all three base elemental spells means that it can be used to create powerful stack abilities, including Flare and Meteor. Dramut makes almost every other Small Mirage obsolete and will be powerful right into the endgame.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Many of the ''Final Fantasy'' characters in the game aren't available to use as Champion Medals, including the likes of Rydia, Faris, Edgar, Quistis, Rikku, and Sherlotta. The ''Maxmima'' version makes this more egregious by adding more Champion Jewels for the new characters added, but ''doesn't'' make them usable as Champions Medals. Since adding more Champion Jewels was clearly an option, there was no reason they couldn't have had Champion Medals as well.

* TastesLikeDiabetes: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh5DtQoIYIk&t=18s The Dance in the ending credits]], so much.
* TearJerker: [[spoiler:Lann's sacrifice and the (albeit fake) ending that follows.]]

* GameBreaker: In the ''Maxima'' version of the game, players can imprism a new Mirage, Dramut, either in a Murkrift on the Rainbow Shore or in a Coliseum battle. It's a Small Mirage, so it can be used in either Jiant or Lilikin stacks; it learns Fire, Blizzard, Thunder, and Light Flare (basically a weaker version of Flare); it has the support abilities Sizzle, Chill, Zap, ''and'' Stroll; it has three blank spots to put more abilities in; and it doesn't transmogrify into anything, so its board can be mastered fairly early. Also, the fact it learns all three base elemental spells means that it can be used to create powerful stack abilities, including Flare and Meteor. Dramt makes almost every other Small Mirage obsolete and will be powerful right into the endgame.

** The Four Stars Intervention: Sunken Temple's Secret Quest about Shantotto and Cenchos plays like this if you try to game the system. Shantotto is meant to be a HopelessBossFight, but is technically defeatable and has scripted drops. She does, however, have three times as much HP as '''XG''', and defeating her means you go into the consequent battle with Cenchos at the HP and AP levels you won the fight with instead of starting at full HP.

* HilariousInHindsight: ''WebAnimation/PokemonRusty'' already used the whole 'have-your-mons-stack-together-to-fight-others' concept back in 2014 (in the [[https://youtu.be/jNI7yT_cGGM Battlehaus episode]], where Rusty was being taught the battle styles the facility uses). Square Enix just took the concept and based a whole game around it.

* FridgeBrilliance: [[spoiler: Eiko showed up at Cornelia during one of the intervene quests when the Cogna arrived. For those who don't look into secrets in Final Fantasy games, it won't make sense why Eiko is seen with Princess Sarah. But if they do, they will know the Easter Egg. What is Princess Garnet's a.k.a. Dagger's real name?]]

** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII Balthier]], since up until then the game had absolutely nothing from ''Final Fantasy XII''.

** The Four Stars Intervention: Sunken Temple's Secret Quest about Shantotto and Cenchos plays like this if you try to game the system. Shantotto is meant to be a HopelessBossFight, but is technically defeatable and has scripted drops. She does, however, have three times as much HP as '''XG''', and defeating her means you go into the consequent battle with Cenchos at the HP and AP levels

%%* BaseBreakingCharacter: As per tradition for Final Fantasy games, both main characters get this.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: As per tradition for Final Fantasy games, both main characters get this.

** The intervention quest "The Five Cogna Lords: Figaro" requires you to play basically Battleship on a 5x5 board. You don't need to beat it to continue the story, but to get the Maduin Memento you have to beat it in 20 turns or less, without losing a single unit (your enemy's turns are included in that number, but since you can only win on your turn, you've effectively only got 10 turns). You and your enemy both have three units, with 1, 2 and 3 hp each, meaning you only have 4 spare turns to actually look for the enemy, as you need the other six to actually take down all their hp. It's so infamous that the notes on the ''Maxima'' expansion specifically state they made this mini-game easier.

** The intervention quest "The Five Cogna Lords: Figaro" requires you to play basically Battleship on a 5x5 board. You don't need to beat it to continue the story, but to get the Maduin Memento you have to beat it in 20 turns or less, without losing a single unit (and since you can only win on your turn, you've effectively only got 10 turns). You and your enemy both have three units, with 1, 2 and 3 hp each, meaning you only have 4 spare turns to actually look for the enemy, as you need the other six to actually take down all their hp. It's so infamous that the notes on the ''Maxima'' expansion specifically state they made this mini-game easier.

** The intervention quest "The Five Cogna Lords: Figaro" requires you to play basically Battleship on a 5x5 board. You don't need to beat it to continue the story, but to get the Maduin Memento you have to beat it in 20 turns or less, without losing a single unit. You and your enemy both have three units, with 1, 2 and 3 hp each, meaning you only have 14 spare turns to actually look for the enemy, as you need the other six to actually take down all their hp. It's so infamous that the notes on the ''Maxima'' expansion specifically state they made this mini-game easier.