Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana/YMMV

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  • Crowning Moment of Awesome: Beggur fighting off a Succubus and saving your entire party, as her charming spell doesn't work on him since he's royalty and strong willed husband. This also counts when he is Rescued from the Scrappy Heap for those who thought he was one.
  • Crowning Music of Awesome: Several.
  • Ensemble Darkhorse: Veola, a shopkeeper in the first town you visit ends up having the fullest story of all the characters featured in the game. And she isn't even a playable character.
    • Her story is so complete and robust, in fact (with multiple supporting cast members and almost as much content as the "proper" game), that there are quite a few theories about this game beginning life as "Atelier Veola" in the vein of its predecessors, with Veola as the player character and Klein and Lita as supporting characters. In an attempt to drive up sales (and produce something that could be exported to the US), however, Gust decided to retool the game into something a bit more "standard", and so promoted Klein and Lita to main characters, shuffled the old content off to the side, and produced what we have today - or so the theory goes. Either way, it produced possibly the finest Ensemble Darkhorse in franchise history (with only one real contender from the Japanese-only games) - a lot of people don't play the game for Klein, they play it for Veola.
  • Narm: Most of the characters are so earnest that when something dramatic happens, it makes the characterization funny. Especially true of Klein, who sounds almost like his lips are pursed in angst whenever he meets adversity.
  • Puppy Love: Yach & Dia.
  • That One Boss: Elder Virium and Prism are both regarded to be extremely difficult bosses as they can wipe out your entire party in a matter of turns if you are not careful. Ironically, they are the last two boss battles in which the Crutch Character Arlin can be used in the main story.
    • From the Bonus Dungeon, the three golden pigs.