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• Awesome Music: Plenty, though to be fair, most of the music is remixed

from other Awesome Music.

• • [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sasgV7VhMrk&feature=related Normal

Battle Theme]]: Whimsical music when fighting monsters playfully trying to rape you.

• • Boss Battle

One and Two: Two different types of BGM that say one thing. [[Double Entendre You are going to get screwed.]]

• • [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg Ov T Zrq Re I&feature=related

Shitennou Battle]]: The Leitmotif of the [[Four Is Death Four Heavenly Knights]] that serve the Monster Lord.

• • [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0hnSDP2XDY Alice's very own battle

theme]].

• • From the sequel, we have the

angels' battle theme and the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jok6iWI1rU Gigant Weapon battle music]], as well as [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E Lw PGI_a48A Luka's new theme]].

• • [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZd6ldiGNGs Piano, drums and blazing

guitars]] as a romance theme? Why not?

• Come for The X Stay For The Y: Come for the Monster Girls, stay for the

Lampshade Hanging, self-aware jokes, and fairly interesting plot.

• Complete Monster:
  • The Roper Girl. Said to be incredibly cruel even by monster standards.
  • This is pretty much an Informed Attribute, though- even if she does

eat you alive she doesn't come across as particularly sadistic and still kills you with pleasure. A lot of other monsters are, if anything, quite a lot crueler, especially the adult Lamia which, as well as eating Luka alive, actually enjoys inflicting pain rather than pleasure.

• • Not to mention the Cobra Girl, a truly sadistic and cruel monster

that tortures Sara to death while raping you if she defeats you.

• • Lily is this. Look at all the mess she causes at the Witch Hunt

village. She's more cruel than monsters while being a human.

• • [[spoiler:Ilias. Orchestrated the slaughter of Remina as an excuse to

wage war against monsters, and doesn't hesitate to do it again to get rid of Luka.]]

• • Cassandra from the sequel. Not only does she run a village of monster

girls who rape and eat traveling men for fun, she also [[spoiler:eats her own daughter because she lost to Luka.]]

• • Why do the Canaan Sisters feed on other monsters instead of animals,

water and oxygen? Because they enjoy it. Nothing more.

• Ensemble Darkhorse: The Crab Girl is rather well-liked in the fandom.

Cue the revelation that you meet her again in Chapter 2...

• Evil Is Sexy: Alma Elma is easily the nastiest of all the Knights

revealed in Part 1.

• Fridge Brilliance: A hero who is unappealing to monsters wouldn't fight

many monsters. Because of this, they would lack the experience and strength to kill the monster lord.

• Fridge Logic: If all monsters are immortal or even only extremely

long-lived, why is the harpy village depopulation issue so serious? It seemed like they needed children then and there or they would go extinct, which implies the death rate had exceeded the birth rate. Unless only the more powerful monsters like Alice and the Sphinx are immortal, in which case it makes more sense.

• • Even if monsters have a longer natural lifespan than humans, most

humans who come into contact with monsters will try to kill them.

• God Mode Sue: Luka at the end of the sequel is a nigh-unstoppable god

who can kill even Alice in a single Limit Break. [[spoiler:Too bad he'll be fighting Ilias, her angels, AND the eight Monster Lord and her elite monsters in the third chapter.]]

• Holy Shit Quotient: Part 2 has several scenes with a high ratio. Part

three may have a even higher one since [[spoiler: he is up against Ilias AND the eighth Monster Lord.]]

• Iron Woobie: Luka.
• Moe: The Four Bandits (after being defeated), especially the lamia.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Lily. [[spoiler:she blames innocents for being witches, captures

them, enslaves men, turns women into monsters, kills off many others, and laughes for what she has done.]] Luka doesn't give a damn for her Freudian Excuse.

• • Lazarus, upon you hear all his Not So Different speech, you're about to

forgive him. Then he just bombs the Mermaid Pub you just entered despite he's told you he was "not doing anything there".

• • • In Part 2 it's revealed Lazarus killed Luka's father.
• Scrappy Mechanic: Bind attacks. In most cases they're basically just

cheap-shot attacks which force you to struggle for a minimum of 3 turns while you take unavoidable damage. In chapter 2 they're worse; although you get Gnome, who supposedly gives you the strength to break out of binds more easily, this just results in most bind attacks being upgraded to be inescapable without Gnome, turning these battles into "keep Gnome up at all times or lose". And even then, you still usually have to struggle futilely for 2 turns before breaking free on the third, taking more cheap-shot damage while you're at it.

• • The small number of battles where bind attacks function differently

are even worse; since the bind you're caught in is completely inescapable, your only choice is to simply attack the monster with your weakened attacks and defeat them before they defeat you. While these battles aren't usually too tough, that's because there's absolutely NO strategy involved in them any more- you can't use skills and ANY action other than attack is futile. To cap it all off, if you get unlucky and miss even a single hit (since these slugfests are set up to be close shaves), you're basically guaranteed to lose.

• Straw Man Has a Point: The Ilias Group is an organization dedicated to

exterminating the resident Cute Monster Girls. In most other such settings, such as The Monster Girl Encyclopedia, they would be the obvious badguys, sometimes rather clumsily so. Here, however, the monster-girls genuinely are dangerous, as they only care about humans because they need them to breed and so the vast majority of them have no problems with raping a captured "lover" to death or simply eating him as a post-coital snack. And while some of the species are said to be able to fall in actual love with the men they rape, that doesn't stop them from eating anyone else they please (ala the Sphinx).

• • On the other hand, the game makes it rapidly clear towards the end of

part 2 that monsters and humans DID try to work things out - Remina was a place where they lived in peace, and it was smack in the middle of Monster Lord territory to boot, yet was completely fine. We all know how well that ended, and the relations between human and monster pretty much broke in a million pieces following that disaster. Basically, blame Ilias, and since she's to blame, that blame inevitably falls on her mindless loyalist drones as well.

• Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped: Being Good Sucks sometimes, but it's all

about the light at the end of the tunnel, as proven by the Harpy village quest. Luka never loses sight of what he's really fighting for.

• That One Boss: Defeating Erubetie on any difficulty above normal is

really just a matter of luck. Even on normal, the fight pretty much requires Save Scumming. Then you remember that you can only save at certain points in the English version...

• • The Crab Girl is very much a luck-based battle. Once she pins you

down, you can only hope that you manage to struggle free before she does a 10-combo attack, which will finish you off even from full health.

• • Lilith & Lilim. The commonly agreed strategy to them involves keeping

up Gnome and Sylph and sacrificing your firstborn to the RNG god. If they use SP Drain into Chaos Pleasure more than once or bind you too early or too often, you lose, no questions asked.

• • Succubus Sara is just absurdly hard- you can't win a

slugfest against her without both the damage reduction effects of Gnome and the random dodges of Sylph- but Sylph's dodges are unreliable, making your luck the deciding factor. Additionally, she has a bind which takes 3 turns to break out of and heals hear and a charm attack which does considerable damage over 2-3 turns, causing her to waste a lot of your spirit uptime. This forces you to resummon your spirits more often than is convenient as they repeatedly wear off and with her high damage, you need to expend the rest of your SP on healing. Combined with her extremely high HP, the inability to afford your powerful offensive moves makes winning painfully hard as she wears you down by sheer attrition. Your only chance is to dodge enough of her damage AND hope she doesn't use her time-wasting attacks too often- otherwise you'll be stuck on that battle for a very long time...

• • Giganto Weapon can be a nightmare: she has high HP, high defense, an

obscene damage output due to her habit of spamming Rampage (which can easily shear off nearly half Luka's HP unless Gnome is up, and often breaks through Sylph), can fill the room with fire (which almost always ignores Sylph and does decent damage), has an instant kill attack and recovers HP at the end (and continues to do so unless you use Vaporizing rebellion Sword). Winning against her hinges on having enough HP to survive her last ditch attack after she regenerates... which isn't guaranteed at all, due to how fast damage piles up in that fight.

• The Untwist: [[spoiler: Alice is the Monster Lord. She even points out

how obvious it was and calls Luka an idiot for not realizing it sooner. It doesn't help that her main attack is CALLED "Monster Lord's Fury".]]