Suikoden III/YMMV

"Albert: "This whole thing is getting too melodramatic for my taste.""
 * Alas, Poor Scrappy: may have been annoying, but.
 * Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Kenji.
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: "Wind and Ground".
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: Landis.
 * Fan-Preferred Couple: Almost the ENTIRE fanbase pairs Cecile with Thomas.
 * Game Breaker:
 * You can level up Chris, Borus, Salome, and Roland to level 99 in Chapter 1. It just involves a ton of time and tediousness and the rewards, while good since there are a few stars that will be level 99 if you recruit them, isn't really worth it in the end.
 * The above is of the Disc One Nuke variety of this trope. However, some surprising characters are effectively game breakers if you abuse abilities, titles, equipment etc. Quite possibly the best person in terms of pure destructive terror is a completely optional 15 year old girl. Who needs a True Rune anyway?
 * Let's not forget Juan and Emily. To elaborate, the battle system allows characters with the right skills to attack several times per turn, and they can move on to other enemies when their enemy falls before their attack string is finished. These two can get more than 10 attacks per round each, with each hit doing roughly 400 damage. Add to that the fact that Juan has a Waking rune attached permanently, which means he's doing at least double damage when he wakes up. The downside is that this means he's going to be sleeping for at least the first round, but you can equip accessories that nullify sleep to just have them demolish absolutely everything you encounter within one round. Even bosses don't last very long against that.
 * Ho Yay: Caesar quite a bit with Hugo in the manga.
 * Nicholas with Duke's father.
 * Iron Woobie: One bad thing after another for Thomas, but does he complain?
 * Les Yay: There's a bath scene between just Ayame and Chris, in which Chris basically just stares at her for the entire duration of it.
 * Magnificent Bastard: Albert Silverberg.


 * Salome has shown himself to be quite magnificent if he sets himself out to do it.
 * Moe: Cecile, Sanae, Sharon, Belle and Shabon.
 * Player Punch: This is a Suikoden game, so there's several:
 * Earliest example would be the result of the cease-fire:.
 * To say nothing of reaction to the above.
 * Alma Kinan brings us ... which.
 * And that last part leads to.
 * The chain of events in the late-game where isn't all that fun either.
 * The Scrappy:
 * Kenji. Bodybuilding teacher who jogs in a fight and fights with calisthenics... WTF?
 * From his stupid name, to his status as a Millstone and a Tagalong Kid, to the shit-eating grin in his character portrait, nothing Lulu said or did failed to get on This Troper's nerves. Also, with his small size and his habit of picking fights with opponents far more powerful than him, he actually bears an uncanny resemblance to the original Scrappy.
 * That One Boss: The Water Dragon, which comes after another boss in the same dungeon. It consists of the dragon, plus nine ice crystals. Both the dragon and the crystals can attack each turn and have very powerful magic attacks, and the crystals are in front of the dragon, meaning you can't use standard attacks on it until you deal with at least some of those. Also, the dragon itself has a lot of HP. The more powerful magic attacks help a lot, but you need to save them during the previous boss and the dungeon itself, which doesn't have a straightforward layout.
 * Viewer Gender Confusion: Rico.
 * The Woobie: Thomas, though he is more of an Iron Woobie.