Soul Nomad & the World Eaters/YMMV
- Alas, Poor Villain: Shauna in the Normal Path.
- Alternate Character Interpretation: While Layna means well and is right about trying to fix the world, one could call her out on pretty much setting Revya up from the start without even asking until AFTER the fusion. One could say she had it coming in the Demon Path.
- Complete Monster: Hawthorne, Thuris, Kanan, Lobo, King Strauss VIII. Almost everyone in the Demon Path (especially Revya).
- Counterpart Comparison: Ill Girl Euphoria looks like an older bovine Castille , Endorph's sister from Phantom Brave who was also an ill girl. Depending on how you see it, Endorph/Walnut eventually falling for and marrying Euphoria can lead to some rather Unfortunate Implications.
- Crowning Music of Awesome: This game is just full of masterpieces to say the least.
- Do Not Do This Cool Thing: Gig is by far the most foul-mouthed, ill-tempered, and just plain sociopathic character to ever come out of a Nippon Ichi game (Except maybe Demon Path Revya). He's also more badass than any five Disgaea characters put together; he's like what Overlord Zetta would be if he weren't stuck as a book.
- Ensemble Darkhorse: Asagi, this being the game that started her trend in NIS's games.
- Evil Is Cool: Gig. Ask anybody about the game, and they'll definitely say he's the highlight.
- Fan-Preferred Couple: While the game has no Official Couple, Gig X Revya is the most popular. They are "soulmates", after all.
- Game Breaker: Gideons.
- Gestahl in the Demon Path.
- Also, Hades' Despair rooms; their Outer Limit decor not only negates the penalty for having low stamina—one of the game's primary limiting mechanics—but causes you to gain a percentage to your stats equal to the percentage of stamina you've lost. Typical decors give you a 20% stat bonus in exchange for a hefty drawback; Hades' Despair gives you a bonus that can approach 100%, with additional advantages, letting you easily curbstomp otherwise equal groups. Oh, and it makes it so you die if your stamina ever reaches 0, but that's easy to avoid.
- It Was His Sled: The Demon Path is... infamous.
- Jerkass Woobie: Though she never reveals her past to anyone but Trish, Shauna's past sucked. Having her home hit with the game's equivalent to The Plague, villagers breaking in to her home, separated from her family and caretaker, forcing herself to fend for herself at a very young age. Of course, she'd probably kick your ass if you try to give her a hug, unless you're Trish.
- Love to Hate: Gig.
- Magnificent Bastard: Raksha, also responds to 'Levin'. Those filler sidequests are his Scheme.
- Moral Event Horizon:
- The best example would be the Demon Path.
- Kanan butchering the village of Pulkina (and Danette's parents) in the name of Thuris.
- Most Annoying Sound: Pinot's voice in the Demon Path, especially her "Demon Spawn!".
- Non Sequitur Scene: The first time you run into Heroman (no, not that Heroman), which is guaranteed to elicit a "what the fuck" the first time you see him. Even Gig is caught off guard by how silly he is. See Video Game Cruelty Potential in the main section for more.
- One-Scene Wonder: When prompted to choose a title in the Demon Path, choose the second choice. Enter the voice of Laharl, which berates you for taking the title of an Overlord lightly and complains that he went through so much abuse for it, and disappears. Gig and Revya think they're hearing things, and no ever speaks of it again.
- Asagi only has one scene, but the sheer hilarity of it makes her appearance unforgettable.
- Hawthorne in both paths.
- Shocking Swerve:
- The Demon Path, to put it lightly.
- For much of the game, Levin had been a pretty dependable, though reckless, guy. Then he literally stabs Virtuous in the back.
- Superlative Dubbing: The game is often cited as the best dubbed NISA game with Yuri Lowenthal's Gig being especially praised.
- That One Boss:
- Shauna can kill Revya without much difficulty due to Revya having a terrible matchup against the Gypsy class.
- Gestahl is all about smashing your entire party For Massive Damage. And his tactics are all about smashing your entire party and any others on a line behind them For Massive Damage, or turning his Massive Damage Up to Eleven. His decors are all about nerfing your parties so he can hit you For Massive Damage even better. It's easy to see why he's very difficult, even when he's entirely alone.
- Unpopular Popular Character: Gig is disliked by most of the cast. Among fans, he's the most popular character in the game, many times being amongst the top 10 in Nippon Ichi's polls.
- Viewer Gender Confusion: Kanan. An unusual case, everyone refers to him with female pronouns, and he has the same class as all female Dracons. Basically, it's not just the viewers are confused about this one.
- The Woobie: Tricia shows traits of this. Cranked Up to Eleven in the Demon Path.
- Iron Woobie: But if you get her ending in the Normal Path, she comes across as this instead.
- Woolseyism: It's doubtful that the Take That to John Romero during the Asagi fight was there in the Japanese version...
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