Record of Agarest War/YMMV

Agarest Senki

 * And the Fandom Rejoiced: US and EU are getting Agarest Zero!? Aksys is handling the localization again!? YEEEEEEESSSSSS!!!!
 * Anticlimax Boss: For a god of war, Mayastia sure is pretty easy to defeat.
 * Awesome Music: King of Terrors is one because of the fact that you.
 * Best Known for the Fanservice: Everyone mostly remembers Yayoi as the girl with sausage on Akyss homepage.
 * Everybody remembers the mousepad with Vira-Lorr's boobs.
 * Canon Sue: Rex, in fact one of Nico Nico Douga MC comments "This guy is too perfect!"
 * Demonic Spiders:
 * Golden Bats. They are very fast, have high evasion, Parry, nullify Earth skills (thanks to float) and absorb Light skills. Not only combination attacks like Axel Wave and Execution will miss a lot of hits, but they will evade powerful area of effect combos like Earthquake and Earth Nova.
 * Spirits. While they have low healthy, they are smart enough to keep distance from the party and will spread out in the field, meaning will be difficult to defeat they in a single turn. Also, they have Parry skill, meaning a physical-based team will have troubles dealing with these enemies.
 * Miesha and its kin. They have absurd luck, ensuring that they evade a lot of attacks and inflict status on your units and they have BOTH PARRY AND MAGIC BARRIER, ensuring that any attack on them that is not a Limit Break misses them if they have between 25% to 0% health.
 * Ensemble Darkhorse:
 * Winfield is one of the most popular characters, especially for his hot springs antics.
 * Fyuria.
 * Valeria. Enough to be at the number 3 spot as to who people want back in Agarest 2.
 * Thoma Raglen. If we're talking about the protagonists themselves, he's the one a lot of people are interested in.
 * Silvi.
 * Noah is the only Third Option Love Interest who is ever regularly picked, and is in fact the most popular choice of players during the third generation.
 * Murmina.
 * Game Breaker:
 * Stacking enough +999 ATK or +900 MAG. Although it's difficult to get one of theses (if you are playing for the first time, during the boundary plane), you can transform any character into a game breaker, especially if they have equipment with all eight slots to equip passive skills (like Byakko's Bracelet + Suzaku's Ring). Even the hardest boss battle will be not hard at all.
 * The DLCs are very broken too, for example one of the DLC provides you with Gate of Heaven one of the most powerful scythe weapon and the other DLC pack gives you more than enough EP to fully enchances it.
 * Jerkass Woobie: Duran may be a massive jerk, but you can't exactly blame him for hating a world that destined him to die before he was even born. None of his companions ever really take the time to talk to him about it, making him an even more miserable person.
 * Les Yay:
 * This scene heavily hints at it.
 * Deeth probably counts as this and Ho Yay, being a hermaphroditic god that flirts with Dyshana while appearing as a female and doesn't seem to mind Thoma trying the same toward her. He does this after she states that she probably should've shown up as a male.
 * Happens during many of the "Fan Service" type scenes (Beach Episode, Hot Springs Episode, ...).
 * Memetic Badass:
 * Go on, just ask people who have played the game. Most of them would bow down to the greatness of The Rock.
 * As far as characters go, Reverie is one thanks to a bug. She's the only one who's able to wield the most powerful spear of the game.
 * Most Annoying Sound: Agarest characters walk very loud, even louder than Final Fantasy XIII's characters.
 * Never Live It Down: Yayoi due to her scene of eating a giant sausage. See Erotic Eating.
 * No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: It is believed that Aksys was trying to pull off this trope to get more sales. While the ESRB clarified a few things, the sales, however, of the game reached at least forty-two thousand in it's first week here in the USA.
 * No Yay: Some people are put off by the fact that Rex can hook up with a woman who raised him, but Plum especially draws this reaction. It doesn't help that a few of them actually do imply they see him as a son, with Sharona and Vira Lorr actually refering to him as a son to them. Also, Ellis, who was sort of the "main mother" to him, she also implies that she is only interested in Rex because he resembles a lot Leo, whom she is still in love with.
 * The Scrappy: While most of characters are either loved or are divisive with the fandom, Ladius is the one of the few which is hated by the majority of the fandom, mainly for being too oblivious to the girls around him and being too serious about his duties.
 * Scrappy Level:You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who enjoys the second generation, which can only be described as a near-carbon copy of the first generation with a less charismatic protagonist. The third and fourth generations thankfully shake up the formula by exploring the nature of the Raglan's pact with Dyshana from different, more interesting perspectives, as well as for having more unique-looking environments.
 * That One Boss: Midas, for many players thanks to his ridiculous Phoenix Strike.
 * Midas. Every turn he kills all party members within 2 cells and regenerates 1/4 of his health.
 * Midas, whose Limit Break is a guaranteed Total Party Kill.
 * For some people, Keith is also a candidate for being That One Boss just because.
 * That One Level: Alzai Fen. Populated with enemies that are on the level of Goddamned Bats, some of them literal bats. And that's assuming you're not going for the Apostle of the Swamp title ASAP. Tree Spirit's intervention makes those Bats into Demonic Spiders.
 * Too Cool to Live: Every main protagonist except Rex. Even him need to be in the true ending route to survive.
 * The Untwist: Seriously, who wouldn't suspect ?
 * Viewer Gender Confusion: If it weren't for Duran Raglen's deep voice, he'd probably pass as a girl to viewers.
 * Wangst: Many view Duran's constant whining as this, though he's not exactly without his reasons. As always YMMV.
 * The Woobie:
 * Lavinia. Gets discriminated by high elves wherever and humans she goes.
 * Winfield may be all about laughs, but if one takes the time to look at his character, he's an extremely broken man who experiences excruciating pain every moment of his life due to his cursed bracelet and will never be able to be with his beloved again. Some of his dialogue implies him to be a Death Seeker, which only makes things worse.
 * Winfield may be all about laughs, but if one takes the time to look at his character, he's an extremely broken man who experiences excruciating pain every moment of his life due to his cursed bracelet and will never be able to be with his beloved again. Some of his dialogue implies him to be a Death Seeker, which only makes things worse.

Agarest Zero

 * Narm: The one weapon that can defeat the gurgs, is Werdefahrt. Try saying that without cracking up poop jokes.
 * "Wake-Up Call" Boss: Leptocephalus and its henchmen of Fire Spirits will cause players to grow frustrated unless they either do some Level Grinding or buying the DLC items.

Agarest Senki 2

 * And the Fandom Rejoiced: Agarest Senki 2? Hmmph, it's probably another short story that only lasts for like 20 hours added with the original story as extras like ZERO...What? It's going to be even longer than the original? YE...What? The pink haired heroine will start as a child again? FORGIVEN!!
 * Darker and Edgier: In comparison to the first game.
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: Victoria
 * Even Better Sequel
 * Game Breaker: Arc-en-ciel, this skill is basically the reason why this game never crossed the Nintendo Hard line.
 * Hilarious in Hindsight: Kana Ueda voices the high elf Ellis in the first game. Fair enough. In Agarest 2 Another Kana voices the high elf Fiona. And you can have them both in the same party. Too bad no combination attack with Ellis and Fiona.
 * Memetic Badass: The "Fairy" Mook. Here's why.
 * Moral Event Horizon: sprints with it. He was a pretty decent guy in the first generation (seeing as you don't do much in  at that point), but once generation two starts rolling in, he tricks the party to do a long Fetch Quest for him,
 * Nightmare Fuel:
 * That One Boss:  Needless to say, if you did not have a back up save, and a back up party to replace the four of them, you might as well restart the game. This battle is still considered as a Boss Rush too. What this means is that whatever HP you had from the last boss fight, your HP is still going to be the same in this fight.

Record of Agarest War Marriage

 * And the Fandom Rejoiced: Bah, what kind of a weird art design is this with all these loli-fied designs!? Why is it on the PlayStation Portable instead of either the Play Station 3 or Play Station Vita!? Wait, did they just announce that the second generation protagonist WILL BE A FEMALE PROTAGONIST!? ABOUT TIME COMPILE HEART!

Characters

 * Complete Monster:
 * Mobius.
 * You only ever seen anything even remotely redeeming about Mila in the True End. Even then it was just an alternate attempt at taking someone down with her.
 * Crowning Moment of Funny: Four words: Ellis, is Borgnine nearby?
 * Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: Must be the qualifications of a harpuia in this game.
 * Game Breaker:
 * Ellis's 2nd EX is healing all characters on the fields. The game-breaking part? It has 10 range, which means just connect your character with Ellis you can strike any enemies on the field.
 * Plum's 2nd EX Maiden Prayer has 100 SP recovery effect which means focus on raising her SP to 100 on the 1st turn, next turn use Maiden Prayer and hello EX Spam.
 * Moe Moe:
 * Ellis as a kid.
 * When Fyuria Smiles.
 * Ryuryu.
 * Mimel.
 * Fiona.
 * That One Boss:
 * While you can mop up the two previous generations with ease, Midas will certainly murder you over and over again with his Phoenix Strike. With a range of two squares in front of him.
 * Keith to some people due to the fact that
 * Too Cool To Live: Leonhardt Raglen in the end.
 * The Woobie:
 * Mimel.
 * Niel.
 * The Woobie:
 * Mimel.
 * Niel.