Brave Fencer Musashi/YMMV


 * Alas, Poor Villain:
 * Its hard not to feel bad for as
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: The game is loaded with it, especially the first level track The Musashi Legend and its credit reel reprise "Into The Sky".
 * Fridge Logic: Concerning the ending, which has a text only introduction that announces something along the lines of "To Stop This Ever Happening Again, The Legend of Brave Fencer Musashi will be told eternally", and then in the following end scene, Think about that for a second. If that is intentional, then no doubt, this is Fridge Brilliance.
 * Guide Dang It: The Special series of action figures - especially Jon's, which requires that . Try to obtain the correct Gondola Gizmo on the first try using only the clues given in-game - though there's only two that match the requirements, and a degree of Trial and Error Gameplay is permitted.
 * Scrappy Level: Steamwood is a major pain, even if you master the timing.
 * And my god, you can just feel the genre whiplash from the dancing minigame in the final area! And it's required.
 * First time around, maybe; but with subsequent playthroughs, the pattern can be memorized.
 * Sequelitis: The Playstation 2 sequel, Musashi: Samurai Legend - though, by our own admission, it has its fans.
 * Most of the sequelitis comes from the change in tone and setting, rather than the gameplay itself. A few more bucketfuls of humor and some extending of the world itself would have done wonders.
 * Sidetracked By the Gold Saucer: Collecting and playing with the action figures.
 * That One Boss: Ice Dragon, Queen Ant and the Tower of Death.
 * Unfortunate Implications: There are only three female members of The Empire. Maybe.
 * Woolseyism: This is a pre-merger Square game, after all....