Live a Live/YMMV


 * Anticlimax Boss -- Several examples.
 * Mad Dog in Sundown's chapter, though this may be intentional.
 * Depending on how you play through the chapter
 * The final battle against . While he has improved some since the fight at the beginning of the chapter, he's still relatively weak in comparison to the bosses fought before him.
 * Level up Sundown enough in the final chapter, and he learns an ability that can usually do 999 damage in one hit, making almost every fight an Anticlimax Boss.
 * Alternative Character Interpretation - Alicia can be seen as either two ways. A)  Or B)   Depends entirely on how much you read into things really.
 * She can also be viewed in more of a sympathetic light, in that . If you buy into the idea that , this seems like a perfectly viable interpretation.
 * Cliché Storm: One way in which the game suffers is its short chapters - the plots are general and predictable, and you tend to know exactly what you're getting from them. Whether that's a bad thing is up to your interpretation, but either way.
 * Complete Monster: A number of Odio's human reincarnations have signs of this, but in particular:
 * Ode Iou, as his goal was to prolong fighting in Japan just so more lives are spent. Ends up transforming into a giant frog/snake monster.
 * Odie Oldbright, who thinks 'cruel and brutal murder' is the path to becoming the strongest. He even brags about the act, as if he accomplished some great feat.
 * Oboro's chapter can be played this way, killing every single person you find, even innocent women. Granted, some of those 'innocent women' turn out to be demons.
 * The Antagonists in the Mecha chapter, they know full well what they're doing, since they know their victim's hatred over being stripped of their bodies against their will is what will fuel the Odeo statue.
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome: Many per chapter. Especially Buriki Daioh.
 * Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: The game just plain wins at these.
 * An especially good example is the end of Mechanical Heart, where.
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: The boss theme, Megalomania, hands down.
 * The Bird Flies In The Sky, The Fish Swims In The Water is very nice.
 * The title theme.
 * Fan Preferred Couple -- In Japan, at least (where a fandom has actually had the chance to develop) Akira/Li. Also surprisingly popular is Sundown Kid/Mad Dog and, even more bizarrely, Odi Wan Lee/Li. Yes, really.
 * Game Breaker: The Cola Bottle from Pogo's chapter can become this in the final chapter. Just make sure to equip it to Pogo as an accessory before his chapter ends, and it'll carry over to the final chapter when he joins your party. The Cola Bottle is an infinite-use item with an attack that can deal 999 damage to almost every minor enemy in the game (and even some bosses!). Needless to say, the final chapter becomes a breeze with this in your arsenal.
 * Goddamned Boss -- Voice Heart. After encountering him several times in an extra dungeon, you will want to scream "JUST LEAVE ME ALONE."
 * Narm Charm - It actually adds onto the epic feel of the scene.
 * Nightmare Fuel -- Akira's chapter. It's even more disturbing than the anime it's inspired by.
 * Cube's chapter, once The tense music doesn't help.
 * Oboro's chapter: that weird person(?) who runs away from Oboro emitting some kind of horrible roar.
 * One attack used by the final boss is also accompanied by a horrible wail. The visuals make it far creepier, too.
 * That would be "Saint Alicia". The aforementioned visuals are that of an angelic-looking female figure hovering over the target, and then quickly melting into a horrifying hag with a mouth of fangs. The worst part of it is the name. Saint Alicia.
 * In the chapter, the kingdom that the  chapter took place in is eerily quiet. What happened is hinted in a number of places, and then all but outright said in Akira's secret dungeon:
 * Player Punch: Amongst many,.
 * The Kung Fu chapter. The Master takes in three bright, promising pupils who all show signs of being inheritors of Shin San Ken, and then . Even worse is that, once you know . Go ahead, try not to feel bad when you replay the chapter, with that knowledge.
 * Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped -- The game's theme is obvious but handled tastefully -
 * Tear Jerker -- Though Cube's chapter is pretty rough, too.
 * the Kung Fu chapter is downright heartbreaking.
 * What's even worse about that is this: the first time you play that chapter, it'll be a surprise. A nasty one, but you still don't quite expect it or know . Once you do see it, and learn that, it essentially changes from an out-of-the-blue Player Punch to , because now you know how it works.
 * That One Attack: All of the Odio incarnations have an example of That One Attack:
 * O-D-O has Bite, which can do massive damage to anyone in the party.
 * Ode Iou has Poison Serpent Whip; while it doesn't do much damage, it covers almost the entire battlefield in poison spaces. Also, Drink Blood is pretty strong and heals Ode Iou.
 * Odi Wan Lee has Kuang Zhuan Yan Wu, which can easily kill the inheritor when you face him.
 * O. Dio has Gatling Shots, which always do 999 damage.
 * Odie Oldbright has Acro DDO, which can kill Masaru in one hit.
 * Two hits, if the player's lucky.
 * The Inka Kuruu Odeo has Liquefied Human Curse, which does random damage, but normally does plenty.
 * OD-10 has Driveback and Driveback-Counter, which deal tons of damage and create electric panels; however, he will only start using them if you cast Info Research on the middle of his sprite to change his graphic.
 * The Demon King's strongest attack instantly stones anyone hit by it. This can, however, be cured with Uranus's healing move. God help you if he gets stoned.
 * Pure Odio has Cancel Ray, which instantly disrupts any attacks you have planned, but he and Illusion Odio also have Life Eraser, which will stone you for sure if you don't have the Ariel Equipment.
 * That One Bonus Boss:  King Mammoth.  (and  Lord Iwama. , mostly if you attempted a pacifist Oboro run.)
 * The Woobie:
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds:
 * That One Bonus Boss:  King Mammoth.  (and  Lord Iwama. , mostly if you attempted a pacifist Oboro run.)
 * The Woobie:
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds:
 * Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: