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* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] - {{spoiler|In the ending, [[The Messiah|Polka throws herself off a cliff and into the ocean to spread the light of her Astra]] and is sent back to her mother [[Stable Time Loop|to repeat the process over again.]] Chopin, essentially being the master of the dream world, decides that it isn't right that a fourteen year-old girl should have to die, ends the cycle, and gives Polka the chance to live her life; all this resulting in a potential [[Tear Jerker]].}}
* [[Designated Hero]] - Allegretto is the onscreen avatar, despite Frederic ostensibly being the main character.
* [[Designated Villain]] - Legato, who seems to be [[Only Sane Man|an actually reasonable person]] whose only real crime was [[Punch Clock Villain|serving Count Waltz]]. {{spoiler|Even after going [[One-Winged Angel]] he still remains a [[Designated Villain]], as all he does is run away to a distant tower in a desert on the moon where he can't really harm anyone.}} The [[PSPlay Station 3]] version makes it even clearer that Legato is just serving Waltz, who is the real villain.
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] - Captain Dolce, leader of the [[Terrible Trio]] [[Goldfish Poop Gang]], has gained some popularity over on the [[Game FAQs]] forums. [[Hello, Nurse!|Guess why...]] Well, for that reason, and also her sexy, seductive voice. ("Oh, you've been naughty, haven't you?")
* [[Evil Is Sexy]]: Captain Dolce and Rondo, all the way.
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* [[Purity Sue]]: Deconstructed with Polka. Polka knows she doesn't have long to live, and so only keeps up her [[The Pollyana|Pollyana]] act because she doesn't want to drag the party down. When it's just her and her mother, though, [[Tear Jerker|the waterworks come on]].
* [[Scrappy Mechanic]] - The game tends to shuffle your battle party of three around before certain boss fights, which makes a few of them [[That One Boss|even more difficult]], especially if it kicks out your healers.
* [[Tear Jerker]] - [[Eternal Sonata (Video Game)/Tear Jerker|Has its own page.]]
* [[That One Boss]]: Count Waltz definitely counts for this: Crazy fast, crazy strong, and positively brutal specials, if you don't block. Volcano Concussio can KO even [[Mighty Glacier|Jazz]]. {{spoiler|This is also when you have to fight Legato at the same time, who's been turned into a dragon thanks to the mineral powder.}}
** Tuba, mainly because the first time you fight him, Beat (if he's in the party) gets forced out. The second time, Beat is forced in. Either way, it can seriously screw up your formation from the start, [[Oh Crap|and if you haven't been levelling Beat for that second fight...]]
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* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]] - One of the most original concepts for a game--the dying dream of Fredrick Francois Chopin--given one of the most [[Cliché Storm|unoriginal executions]] ever. That Chopin is mostly [[Out of Focus]] for the majority of the game (except for his not-so-subtle monologues that come out of nowhere) does not help either.
* [[Toy Ship]] - Beat and Salsa.
* [[What an Idiot!]] - Prince Crescendo's plan to {{spoiler|surrender himself to [[Card-Carrying Villain]] Count Waltz}} would, rather than ending the war peacefully, {{spoiler|have allowed Forte to invade a weakened and confused Baroque}}. Everyone else seems to understand this, and tells him so. Although that's nothing compared to what happens next: Count Waltz, {{spoiler|rather than ordering his men to fire and kill the heroes, instead decides to take them all on himself for 'fun', accompanied only by a dragon that's extremely easy to defeat. He is then brutally killed. Unless you're playing the [~[[PSPlay Station 3]]~] version, in which case he survives.}}
** {{spoiler|And for some reason the entire dragon ARMY that accompanied him is gone afterwards, without any explanation!}}
** And then {{spoiler|Waltz's advisor}} decides to drink the {{spoiler|super mineral powder}} and turn himself into a giant monster for no apparent reason, even though he knows ''it will eventually kill him'' even if the heroes didn't. {{spoiler|Unless you're playing the [~[[PSPlay Station 3]]~] version, in which case, it is Count Waltz who orders him to drink it.}}
** {{spoiler|In fact, this whole fiasco is averted in the [[PSPlay Station 3]] version- Waltz survives the fight as every other major villain, orders a reluctant Legato to drink the poison, then orders him to kill the dragons to try his new powers, and finally, they run away because Polka's astra stops their lethal strike against the group. Everything is explained, everything makes sense, and it allows for a harder pre-final boss battle and a kickass [[Hannibal Lecture]] from Waltz explaining his motivations.}}
* [[The Woobie]] - Polka. If you end up liking Polka, then, by the end of the game, you'll likely wish that you could give her a hug.
** Beat also counts considering he gets occasionally insulted by Allegretto, knocked around by Tuba, and constantly pestered by Salsa. At least Allegretto and Salsa still care about Beat though.
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