YMMV / Falskaar

• Anti-Climax: It's generally agreed that while the mod is spectacularly made, the ending is a little weak.
• Anti-Climax Boss: Two examples, both due to the levelling system which makes most bandits a credible threat.
  • While Kolgrim the Orc is by no means weak, he isn't too hard to take down, particularly considering his reputation as Yngvarr's general; lampshaded when Yngvarr comments on his uselessness.
  • Yngvarr himself isn't harmless, but isn't much more difficult than the toughest of Falskaar's bandits. It turns out that this was a deliberate ploy on his part to allow his mages to paralyse everyone and grant him access to the Heart of the Gods... at which point he gets offed by a dragon spirit.
• Complete Monster: Yngvarr Unnvaldr is the Jarl of the city of Staalgarde, as well as the secret benefactor of the bandits plaguing Amber Creek. Fueled by jealously against the Borvaldur family—resulting from his own incompetence—Yngvarr seeks immortality from the Heart of the Gods; to this end, he orders massacres of helpless civilians and slaughters the city of Borvald to a man. When the heroes act against him, Yngvarr kidnaps Agmar's wife and son and threatens their lives in exchange for the keys, then goes back on his word and tries killing them all. Proving callous towards his own men and even his own city, which he fools into sacrificing itself for supposedly "noble" reasons, Yngvarr proves himself the greatest monster in Falskaar's history, and would willfully kill everyone on it for his own gain.
• Hype Backlash: The game has received high praise from both fans and official publications, even netting the creator a job with Bungie. Thus some find that the praise is a little overwhelming, saying that while they think Falskaar is good they don't find it on par with the official DLC packs, which the creator said he was aiming for.
• Moral Event Horizon: Yngvarr crosses this when he razes Borvald to the ground and wipes out its entire population. This also counts for Kolgrim, who was tasked with seeing this through and laughs in the Dragonborn's face about it.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The razing of Borvald. Similarly, the ruins of Pinevale, even though that happened a long time ago in the backstory.
  • The house which the Dragonborn explores, only to find that the place is overrun with Falmer. Jalma is appropriately horrified.
• Once Original, Now Common: When the mod first came out, it was praised highly for showing off the potential of new lands, and was especially notable for being the first of its kind^note the only notable ones prior were the Moonpath to Elsweyr mod, which didn't have a new map, on top of only having a few locations you could visit, and a few separate remakes of Solstheim, which all got abandoned once Dragonborn was released. However, nowadays, the mod might seem lackluster when compared to later new land mods such as Maslea^note tackles a climate the complete opposite of Skyrim's, on top of having an aesthetic more akin to the Carribean islands, Beyond Reach^note recreation of High Rock with an updated political setting, and especially Beyond Skyrim^note recreations of other provinces of Tamriel, as well as takes on lands yet to be depicted in other Elder Scrolls games, such as Atmora, Roscrea, and Elsweyr.

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