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* [[The Bus Came Back]]: British, the adventurer imprisoned in the thieves' hideout in the first game, returns here on an expanded role.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Compared to the rest of the series, the art style here is grittier and more detailed, Rance's [[Nominal Hero]] status is taken much more seriously, and many of the game's antagonists make him look like a saint by comparison even then. It is telling that ''Kichikuou'' is the only installment in the original timeline to feature bad ends, both for individual character arcs and for the game as a whole.

* [[Deus Sex Machina]]: {{spoiler|The cure for Greening Disease is semen, something that's only discovered after Rance sneaks into Green Village and rapes Caroly. After they're both examined and both test negative for the disease, many more patients sneak into Rance's tent to have sex with him. Because there are too many to handle on his own, he eventually deploys his whole unit into Green Village to help cure the remaining patients, and the disease is eradicated within a week.}}

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: People affected by the Greening Disease are often said to commit suicide out of despair, since the illness' cure was never found.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Rance is a [[Punch Clock Hero]] is put off by Aoi being a sex slave addicted to sex.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Rance is a [[Punch Clock Hero]], yet he is put off by Aoi being a sex slave addicted to sex.

* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: Subverted. Though Rance and Kayblis are not much afar on morality, their alliances makes their conflict much more grey than it is, since Rance's allies are mostly good people and all of Kayblis' subordinates obey him out of fear.

* [[Final Death]]: If one of your commanders is defeated even once, they're not coming back. [[My Rules Are Not Your Rules|Enemy commanders, not so much]].

* [[Grand Finale]]: It was ''supposed'' to be one for the series. The game's massive sales made [[AliceSoft]]'s luck turn around, and they retconned the game into an alternate timeline to allow more Rance games to be made.

* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: The encounter with Ruberan that caps off the prologue is not meant to be won, though it ''is'' possible with enough grinding and luck, [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|and in fact leads to a unique ending]].

* [[If I Can't Have You]]: {{spoiler|Seeing Camilla protecting Reincock with her own body is the last straw for Kayblis, who ends up pulverizing them both to a literal bloody pulp in a blind rage.}}

* [[King Mook]]: The appropriately named King Hanny, which apparently fathered all of his race.

* [[The Load]]: Mars the Great is one of the weakest commanders in the game, but has to be recruited in order to take the city of Mars without a fight. And after being in your army for a few weeks, {{spoiler|he will abduct one of your female commanders to bring her back to his home planet with him}}.

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Over one hundred between heroes and villains.

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: There are over 150 characters in the game, and that's just the ones with unique portraits.

* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Kayblis of all people {{spoiler|cries after he kills Camilla}}.

* [[My Rules Are Not Your Rules]]: Enemy commanders will often survive if you defeat them without actually winning the battle. Sometimes even if you do win, they'll just flee and have to be fought again in a different city. What's more, the Monster Army can capture multiple cities per week, even though you are strictly on defense for the rest of your turn once you capture a single city.

* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: Due to the limited soundtrack (1-3 themes for each army, two themes only heard in dungeons, Rudrathaum's theme, and the Kalar Forest theme), particularly ominous scenes will be dead silent. This also serves as your only real clue about [[Unwinnable by Design|Pi-R's trap]], as the silence overrides the Monster Army's usual theme when his unit attacks.

* [[Timed Mission]]: From the moment the prologue ends, you are given a hard time limit to rescue Sill and Soul from Helman. [[Downplayed Trope|A lesser example]] also occurs in the Monster Realm, where if you can kill five Fiends before Silky goes off to fight Kayblis (which happens three months after you kill your first Fiend), she will reduce him to 2 HP, turning him into a [[Zero Effort Boss]] if you've already taken out his guards or can do so before he recovers.

* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: Rance lacks a lot of heroic qualities, a lot of his allies can have flaws, but it pales in comparison to Liz, which is outright an evil sadist that wanted to marry Rance because he raped her on revenge because she tortured random girls to the point of utter despair. Of she wasn't infatuated with Rance she would firmly be a villain.

* [[Unwinnable by Design]]: If you deploy Miki against Pi-R's unit, she'll be captured and raped to death by Kayblis, who transforms into the Archfiend mid-coitus. Congratulations, you are now fighting a [[Nigh Invulnerable]] boss who can capture four cities per week and wipe out fully manned units by himself. To add insult to injury, it's possible to do this by accident due to Miki's usefulness as a meat shield, and a [[Wrong Genre Savvy]] player might [[You Can't Thwart Stage One|assume this is how it's supposed to go down]] and save in their usual file before they realize it isn't.