YMMV / Raven's Cry

• Anti-Climax Boss: Most of the major villains. Weedy is killed after a brief swordfight and is actually weaker than some of the basic mooks in the previous town (Saint George's), Brady is offed by tribals in a cutscene, Avery is incapacitated before you even have a chance to fight him and dies shortly thereafter, and even Kensington, The Dragon of the Devil's Tines, is similarly killed by Raven in a cutscene. Not even Neville is all that challenging, he's got the highest health and damage output in the game but otherwise fights like every other pirate you've faced before (the Updated Re Release gives him a bunch of unique combat animations to make the final fight more engaging, but he's still not really any harder). The lone exception is maybe Ray, Avery's bodyguard, but the challenge of that fight is due more to Fake Difficulty than anything else (he throws grenades and is flanked by 2 mooks with muskets), and he can still be defeated fairly easily once you get close to him.
• Game-Breaker: You will never need to use any ammo other than grapeshot in naval battles. Grapeshot does the most damage to crew, and (unlike you) enemy ships can run out of crew, disabling ships much faster than normal cannonballs and leaving them easily boarded. (Not to mention, if you want to board more than one ship in a battle, you need to kill off the crews of every ship left floating.)
• Memetic Mutation: "Be brave, son-of-a-bitches!" and all its variations.
• Obvious Beta: To summarize everything wrong with this game: collision errors, voiced dialogue that doesn't play, and texture faults are common. Add to that odd or incorrect NPC placement^note people right at the edge of scaffolding ripe to be pushed off, and that woman urinating into the bush probably isn't meant to be, poor NPC behavior^note the guy who keeps "waking up" when a gun is pointed at him only to lie back down right afterwards, and the death scene that isn't animated at all, and some plain weird dialogue^note such as the guy who keeps saying "Be brave" followed by some random expletive; something that was actually patched out of the game shortly after the video that made reference to it and you have one unfinished and buggy game—albeit quite a humorous end product. By the 1.10 patch, the outstanding problems have been cleaned up, but it still lacks polish.
• So Bad, It's Good: Just how utterly broken the game is, the ridiculous accents, and the idiotic plot that takes itself seriously every step of the way makes the game a gem... at least to watch.

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