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• Game Breaker: Healing or buffing any ally earns the character casting the spell 30 experience. Every 100 experience levels you up. Leveling-up refills your HP and MP. The exploit here should be obvious.
  • I actually levelled Cecille to level 50 in the first battle of the game using heals and some potions. This was followed by prompt disappointment upon discovery that Cecille's terrible movement stats means she will never be in the action unless the action comes to her. She spent the rest of the game as a healer until the much appreciated class change despite the fact that she could oneshot everything in sight with a simple whack. The disappointment was magnified by the later knowledge that relationship items are much faster to grind and incredibly overpowered at the start of the game.

• Narm: Every single chapter, there will be a horrifically voiced and narm-tastic friendship speech, and sometimes twice. Every. Single. Chapter.
  • The stuff they say during battles. Theo's "I won't let my brother down" when at half HP isn't bad on his own, however, when Alph (said brother) is already dead, it turns into this.
    • But Lady Claire really takes the cake. When you fight her, at the beginning of her turn, she'll say "Please, be careful" and then she proceeds walking up to your team and wipe half of it out with one single attack! The worst part? Before she attacks you, she says "Take this... Please?".
• The Scrappy: You have no right to declare anything scrappy until you've seen a ganguro valley-girl angel that constantly giggles at your misfortunes, ideals, and sacrifices, and refuses to just shut the hell up. Scrappy, thy name is Priel.

• That One Boss: In the New Game+. You might think that the battles against Vanessa, Heath or the three witches Claire, Vivi and Mavi would be a breeze now that you are at level 50 or moreso, Wrong. If you made the mistake of level grinding them more than the rest of your party, you are going to pay the consequences, let's say... having to fight a Lv 70 Heath with a Lv 50 Alph. Cue Curb Stomp Battle. What is worse, it's awfully easy for it to happen because you can earn exp thrice as fast just by buffing and healing over attacking. No points for guessing which characters can do that.
  • Everyone except Leon, Saki, and Kai?
  • The battle versus the Witch of Immolation in Jeidath. First off, parts of the ground are Thunder element, which powers up the already-powerful Gul and Gal. Second, the fire Hikopins know Heatwave, a powerful fire attack that can hit up to 5 characters and is ranged. Third, the level is split two ways so you can send your party one way or send one group one way and the other group the other. If a majority of enemies get to one party, everyone is screwed. Not only that, both your healers are Water-element, and are therefore weak to Fire, and their bad Resist/Guard and Movement stats make them just lag behind, unable to get to the front where the more damaged members are likely to be. Oh, and your healers are horribly slow, going after pretty much everybody. (The third one is Light-element and has better stats overall, but she is still just as likely to get burned if she gets ganged up on.) While this battle can be beaten easily with a bit of level grinding, luck and strategy, it certainly trips up players that get to it the first time.

• Tear Jerker: Iris's death.

• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot
  • Alph and Theo are dragons. And that's all exploration this is given.
    • About their history before becoming Garden Children? Yeah. But, the fact that Alph is a dragon/Rym is still important, as it gives him an automatic soul bond with Lucia (sparking the main plot), and parallels how dragons and witches worked together to defeat Zehaal in the world's history.
  • Heath, usually a Reasonable Authority Figure, is marked for much of the game by his unreasoning hatred of all Witches, even trying to kill his favorite pupil for siding with one. Why? No reason. He was Good All Along.
    • Really? This Troper believes that he thought the Witches were responsible for why Iris was an orphan. By the time he began to think his loyalty to the Church was misguided, Heath had to act like a tough guy to Alph to avoid blowing his cover, and be able to find evidence proving whether the Church really is evil or not. I think Heath himself says something about that last part once you re-recruit him.
      • Who didn't think they were setting that up? But they did nothing with it. He's just Good All Along.