YMMV / Utawarerumono

• Breather Level: The first mission against Niwe's forces is a fairly simple mission to simply kill a bunch of supply woptor's. They are guarded by only three fight-capable units while the woptor's themselves can only run, making the mission a breeze.
• Catharsis Factor: Suffice to say, after a long time of Hauenkua being an absolute asshole to pretty much everyone it is so satisfying to see him squeal and run for his life when faced down against an enraged Uitsalnemetia.
• Complete Monster: Niwe is The Emperor of the powerful nation of Shikeripechim, composed of various groups united under the threat of political terrorism. Upon learning of Hakuowlo's true identity, Niwe declares war upon the land of Tuskur. After his invasion was thwarted by Hakuowlo, Niwe, along with Dii, tricked Orikakan, the Emperor of Kucca Kecca, into believing that Hakuowlo was his traitorous brother-in-law, leading to Kucca Kecca declaring war on Tuskur and causing the death of the villagers of Yamayura—the surrogate family of Hakuowlo, Eruruu, and Aruruu. Upon learning the truth, Niwe had Orikakan assassinated, leaving the nation of Kucca Kecca in ruins. When Niwe begins invading Tuskur once more, he has his army burn villages and slaughter countless innocents to further enrage Hakuowlo over the needless death of innocents. During the final clash against Hakuowlo, Niwe would go so far as to burn his capital city to the ground, killing many of his own citizens, all to fuel the hatred within Hakuowlo to the point where he transformed into his monstrous god form. Even in his last moments Niwe goads Hakuowlo into killing him, citing that one must be the predator and one must be the prey.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Touka, her cuteness, and fighting style have her beat everyone else in polls. Karulau might count, though she actually gets her own arc in the story.
• Fan Nickname: Karulau —> "Carrier", a reference to the StarCraft unit made in a fansub and popularized by a shopped doujin page. "Carrier has arrived."
• Game-Breaker: Free Battle and BP grinding. If given enough time and patience, all characters you receive can have 99 on all parameters. Unless you get to the endgame levels, the max amount of damage you most likely receive is one per attack and the damage you dish out is easily described as overkill and that is without the Final Strike.
• Memetic Mutation: Because the name can be a mouthful to pronounce, people on 4chan just referred to it as "Underwater Ray Romano".
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Even if he was tricked into believing Hakuowlo was his hated brother-in-law, Orikakan goes flying past it with the massacre of Yamayura Village, who as far as he knew, had nothing to do with Rakshain's heinous crimes.
  • Niwe setting fire to his nation to provoke Hakuowlo's rage.
  • Mikoto was the first demihuman to bear a child, so the scientists dissected her.
• Self-Imposed Challenge: The game awards numerous titles for various achievements, such as being undefeated, reaching a certain level, or using everyone's finishing moves.
• That One Level:
  • Giriyagina Gladiator is quite tricky to beat with the main reason for the difficulty being that the player has to keep Derihourai alive. The main issue is that he is on the other side of the map and is relentlessly assaulted by enemy troops while you have to navigate Hakuowlo's troops across narrow branches making it difficult to reach Derihourai before he and his token troop is overwhelmed.
  • In the PC version, stage 23 on higher difficulties is completely brutal. Had fun fighting Hien last stage? Let's try facing around 15 of those things! Even in the remake, this level pits your group against no fewer than twenty Abh-Kamus as well as the level boss. There are two options: either painstakingly take them all out one by one, or just rush the objective and hope you can beat them before getting swarmed on all sides. And due to the rain, means that the player's best tank, Aruruu, is useless for the mission.

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