YMMV / Castlevania: The Lecarde Chronicles

• Anticlimax Boss
  • The final battle of the first game has a beautiful background and very evocative music, but the boss is Katharina Von Viltheim turned into a giant wasp, also sporting a fairly limited range of attacks.
  • Something similar happens in the second game. The battle against Lucifer is much less epic than you'd expect: he's a big target, flies fairly slowly and has very few attacks, one of them even leaving hearts behind. It makes sense in context though, as the botched summoning (thanks to Efrain's interference) has made Lucifer far weaker than he should have been.
• Awesome Music: Jeffrey Montoya's music rivals that of Michiru Yamane.
• Breather Level:
  • All the towns. Isigny in the second game has crows if you are there at night, but they are a minor nuisance and a save point is just outside the village.
  • The Altar section in the Castle of Eternal Night is devoid of enemies and has a warp portal and a save point close to each other.
• Good Bad Bugs: Much like with Mega Man, there is a pause glitch in the second game which can bypass attacks made during the final boss.
• Guide Dang It!: A puzzle in the second game consists in completing a stone writing on a wall, which is missing a letter, by getting said letter out of another writing in the same area. Clever but not clear: there are no hints, visual or otherwise, that you can get the letter by striking the wall a few times, as no other essential objects in the game are obtained in a similar fashion, being either left after a boss or cutscene, or be found in specific places.
• Tear Jerker
  • Possibly one in the Condemned Area in the castle from the first game, the section called Smell of the Past. This was a place where the Von Viltheims would hold their grand parties and view fireworks, but has now fallen to decay. Hallucinations, or echoes of the past, show the beauty of those days contrasted with the ruins you see now.
    • The music during these echoes of the past is fittingly enough played on a music box, Renon's theme to be exact.
  • Anna from the second game. A Von Viltheim who lived a century before the events of the game, she was in love with a member of the Lecarde family and was going to marry him, but he broke the engagement. Desperate, she later committed suicide in France, and was buried with her wedding dress, in accordance to her last wishes. She still has it on when you find her grave; Efrain being related to her lost love, she wakes up and has to be confronted as a boss, while talking like it's her wedding day that never was. When defeated, it's not clear whether her spirit has finally found peace, or she has been just sealed back there.
• That One Level: Many of the Castle stages in the first game count. The last three don't even allow you to save between them. On top of that, only Hard difficulty allows to see the best ending.
  • Breather Level: The final stage in comparison, as it is much shorter and only exists as a way to wear you down before fighting Katharina, and even then the 1-up candles respawn should you die in the ensuing fights.