History YMMV / CrescentPaleMist

* {{Padding}}: Without using shortcuts or knowing where they are, some of these levels can take ''forever'' to reach the boss, and it is very easy to get lost in some of them, especially with Stages 3 and 4.

[[spoiler:Narju on the other hand, seems like her ice magic has gone up to eleven since the player last fought her in Chapter 2. Some of new attacks include a BulletHell barrage of icicles, homing shots that explode into huge icicles, and surrounding herself with huge chucks of ice that can also trap the player into painful attacks.]]
* [[HePannedItNowHeSucks They Panned It, Now They Suck]]: Nearly every major critic put this game down and give it low ratings for its difficulty when it was released for the [=PlayStation=] 3. The fans didn't waste time to accuse them of being wusses who don't give a chance to challenging games.

[[spoiler:Narju on the other hand, seems like her ice magic has gone UpToEleven since the player last fought her in Chapter 2. Some of new attacks include a BulletHell barrage of icicles, homing shots that explode into huge icicles, and surrounding herself with huge chucks of ice that can also trap the player into painful attacks.]]

* [[spoiler:AntiClimaxBoss: If you know what you're doing, [[FinalBoss Sage]] [[BackgroundBoss Gasyukal]] isn't so hard, even on the hardest difficulty. Granted, by the time you get the to final battle, you already a sufficient amount of maximum HP (assuming you didn't use the pale mist for Rowanveld PM too often).]]

** Kurow in Chapter 4 can also be one too due to being a WakeUpCallBoss. He uses powerful magic attacks, projectiles that will build up Yunou's CP gauge to force a Magic Leak Burst to cut her HP in half (unless her Max CP is greater than her CP Limit, which can put her at advantage if she's glowing red or blue at the expense of half of her Defense[[labelnote:*]]although the Ruby/Sapphire can negate the Defense loss[[/labelnote]]), and the player have to fight him on ground while he's free to fly the entire time.

* GoddamnedBats: Soul Eaters and its variants are fast, they often come in swarms, and are annoying as all hell. They can charge into Yunou and some can break her Endurance. Some can even shoot homing fireballs.

* GameBreaker: The Diamond doubles the pale mist wisps expelled from Yunou's blade attacks, which leads to getting much more accelerated stat bonuses to outmatch bosses (on easier difficulties), more HP recovery (especially when paired with the Aquamarine), and more deadly Rowanveld PM and Fear PM spamming.
** The Rusted Sword may seem like the obligatory ScrappyWeapon, but because your blade attacks do only 1 HP of damage (every other attack does full damage), it means ''even more'' pale mist (especially with the Diamond). You can max out Yunou's HP (and get a hell of a lot of PM, Max CP, and CP Limit) by LevelGrinding in ''the first level'', making [[NintendoHard Planeriel]] a cakewalk.

** Kurow in Chapter 4 can also be one too due to being a WakeUpCallBoss. He uses powerful magic attacks, projectiles that will build up Yunou's CP gauge to force a Magic Leak Burst to cut her HP in half (unless her Max CP is greater than her CP Limit, which can put her at advantage if she's glowing red or blue at the expense of half of her defense[[labelnote:*]]although the Ruby/Sapphire can negate any defense loss from the excess CP[[/labelnote]]), and the player have to fight him on ground while he's free to fly the entire time.
** The penultimate battle with Elshiria [[spoiler:and Narju]] in Chapter 6. Elshiria specializes on BeamSpam that not only hurt, but are also unblockable. Adding to that are her [[MoreDakka Bullet Spam]] and HomingProjectile attacks that are both annoying and painful, and she really doesn't play nice halfway into her second phase of the battle. Like Soray above, one of her attacks can kill you instantly if you're unlucky to get trapped by her homing shots.\\

[[spoiler:Narju on the other hand, her ice magic seems to gone UpToEleven since the player last fought her in Chapter 2. Some of new attacks include a BulletHell barrage of icicles, [[HomingProjectile homing shots]] that explode into huge icicles, and surrounding herself with huge chucks of ice that can also trap the player into painful attacks.]]

* [[spoiler:AntiClimaxBoss: If you know what you're doing, [[FinalBoss Sage]] [[BackgroundBoss Gasyukal]] isn't so hard, even on the hardest difficulty. Granted, by the time you get the to final battle, you already a sufficient amount of maximum HP (assuming you didn't use the pale mist for Rowanveld PM that is).]]

* GoddamnedBats: Soul Eaters and its variants are fast, they often come in swarms, and annoying as all hell. They can charge into Yunou and some can break her Endurance. Some can even shoot homing fireballs.

** Soray at the end of Chapter 5 is considered one of the hardest bosses of the game, if not moreso than the FinalBoss. To elaborate, during the second phase of the battle [[ThatOneAttack he sends out spear-like projectiles that spins and zero-in on Yunou location]]. This doesn't seem like a problem at first, but that's only a warning of what's to come for the third phase. Once the battles shifts into phase 3, that's when [[FromBadToWorse it gets worse]] as he will spam those things almost non-stop, and those things can trap Yunou while spinning and dealing damage to her. Now imagine 16 or more of those things trapping poor Yunou as she helplessly takes damage while Soray sics even more at her, especially on anything higher than Hard mode.
*** If you're ''really'' unlucky to get trapped in the attack during phase 2 mentioned above during its start-up, [[OneHitKill it could kill you instantly]].
** Kurow in Chapter 4 can be considered as such as well being also a WakeUpCallBoss. He uses powerful magic attacks, projectiles that will build up Yunou's CP gauge to force a Magic Leak Burst to cut her HP in half (unless her Max CP is greater than her CP Limit, which can put her at advantage if she's glowing red or blue at the expense of half of her defense[[labelnote:*]]although the Ruby/Sapphire can negate any Defense loss from the excess CP[[/labelnote]]), and the player have to fight him on ground while he's free to fly the entire time.
** The penultimate battle with Elshiria [[spoiler:and Narju]] in Chapter 6. Elshiria specializes on BeamSpam that not only hurt, but are also unblockable. Adding to that are her [[MoreDakka Bullet Spam]] and HomingProjectile attacks that are both annoying and painful, and she really doesn't play nice halfway into her second phase of the battle. Like Soray above, one of her attacks can kill you instantly if you're unlucky to get trapped by homing shots.\\

* [[HePannedItNowHeSucks They Panned It, Now They Suck]]: Nearly every major critic put this game down and give it low ratings for its difficulty when it was released for the [=PlayStation=] 3. It is solid proof that critics are cowards when it comes to a Nintendo Hard game going around and not giving games like ''Crescent Pale Mist'' any chances at all.

* GameBreaker: The Diamond doubles the pale mist wisps expelled from Yunou's blade attacks, which leads to getting much more accelerated stat bonuses to outmatch bosses (on easier difficulties), more HP recovery (especially when combined with the Aquamarine), and more deadly Rowanveld PM and Fear PM spamming.

* SurpriseDifficulty: Haven't played a NintendoHard game lately? Expect this game to show no mercy on Chapters 3 and onward.

** Soray at the end of Chapter 5 is considered one of the hardest bosses of the game. To elaborate, during the second phase of the battle [[ThatOneAttack he sends out spear-like projectiles that spins and zero-in on Yunou location]]. This does doesn't seem like a problem at first, but that's only a warning of what's to come for the third phase. Once the battles into phase 3, that's when [[FromBadToWorse it gets worse]] since he will spam those things almost non-stop, and those things can trap Yunou while spinning around and dealing damage to her. Now imagine 8 or more of those things trapping poor Yunou as she helplessly takes damage while Soray sics even more at her, especially on anything higher than Hard mode.
*** If you're ''really'' unlucky to get trapped in one of his attacks in phase 2 at the start-up after turning red, [[OneHitKill it could kill you instantly]].
** Kurow in Chapter 4 can be considered as such as well being also a WakeUpCallBoss. He uses powerful magic attacks, projectiles that will build up Yunou's CP gauge to force a Magic Leak Burst to cut her HP in half (unless her Max CP is greater than her CP Limit, which can put her at advantage if she's glowing red or blue at the expense of half of her defense[[hottip:*:although the Ruby/Sapphire can negate any Defense loss from the excess CP]]), and the player have to fight him on ground while he's free to fly the entire time.
** The penultimate battle with Elshiria [[spoiler:and Narju]] in Chapter 6. Elshiria specializes on BeamSpam that not only hurt, but are also unblockable. Adding to that are her [[MoreDakka Bullet Spam]] and HomingProjectile attacks that are both annoying and painful, and she really doesn't play nice halfway into her second phase of the battle. [[spoiler:Narju on the other hand, her ice magic seems to gone UpToEleven since the player last fought her in Chapter 2. Some of new attacks include a BulletHell barrage of icicles, [[HomingProjectile homing shots]] that explode into huge icicles, and surrounding herself with huge chucks of ice that can also trap the player into painful attacks.]]

* [[spoiler:AntiClimaxBoss: If you know what you're doing (and if you had any experience at all to make to the end), [[FinalBoss Sage]] [[BackgroundBoss Gasyukal]] isn't so hard, even on the hardest difficulty.]]
* DemonicSpiders: Almost any super-powered BossInMookClothing [[FlunkyBoss with flunkies]] like Gilgamesh are bound to be this since they come in numbers and they hit hard.

* GoddamnedBats: Soul Eaters and its variants are fast, they often come in numbers, and annoying as all Hell. They can charge into Yunou and some can break her Endurance.
* GameBreaker: The Diamond doubles Pale Mist wisp to be expelled from Yunou's attacks, which leads to getting much more accelerated stat bonuses to outmatch bosses (on easier difficulties), more HP recovery (especially when combined with the Aquamarine), and more deadly Rowanveld PM and Fear PM spamming.

* SurpriseDifficulty: Haven't played a NintendoHard game lately? Expect this game to show no mercy on Chapters 3 and 4.

* [[HePannedItNowHeSucks They Panned It, Now They Suck]]: Nearly every major critic put this game down and give it low ratings for its difficulty when it was released for the [=PlayStation=] 3. It is solid proof that critics are cowards when it comes to a NintendoHard game going around and not giving games like ''Crescent Pale Mist'' any chances at all.
* [[ThatOneLevel Those Two Levels]]: [[TheMaze Chapters 3 and 4.]] It may be anyone's idea of fun to spend hours getting lost without much of an idea where to go to, then running into the BossInMookClothing and die, and then starting the level over ''[[CheckpointStarvation from the very beginning]]''.

* [[spoiler:AntiClimaxBoss: If you know what you're doing (and if had any experience at all to make to the end), [[FinalBoss Sage]] [[BackgroundBoss Gasyukal]] isn't so hard, even on the hardest difficulty.]]

*** If you're ''really'' unlucky to get trapped in one of his attacks in phase 2 after turning red, [[OneHitKill it could kill you instantly]].
** Kurow in Chapter 4 can be considered as such as well being also a WakeUpCallBoss. He uses powerful magic attacks, projectiles that will build up Yunou's CP gauge to force a Magic Leak Burst to cut her HP in half (unless her Max CP is greater than her CP Limit, which can put her at advantage if she's glowing at the expense of half of her defense[[hottip:*:though the Ruby/Sapphire can negate any Defense loss from the excess CP]]), and the player have to fight him on ground while he's free to fly the entire time.

* [[ThatOneLevel Those Two Levels]]: [[TheMaze Chapters 3 and 4.]] It may not be anyone's fun to get lost in these levels, run into the BossInMookClothing and get killed, and then starting the Chapter over ''[[CheckpointStarvation from the very beginning]]''.
* [[HePannedItNowHeSucks They Panned It, Now They Suck]]: Nearly every major critic put this game down and give it low ratings for its difficulty when it was released for the [=PlayStation=] 3. It is perfect proof that critics are cowards when it comes to a NintendoHard game going around and not giving games like ''Crescent Pale Mist'' any chances at all.

* FakeDifficulty, DemonicSpiders, and GoddamnedBats: Getting trapped into a series of inescapable attacks, running into the BossInMookClothing when there's no respawning goons around to pound on to recover HP, and getting lost in Chapters 3 and 4 then getting killed only to be forced to start the entire Chapter over may not be anyone's idea of fun.

* FakeLongevity: Hunting items and artifacts, including the useless ones (e.g. the Potato, Abyss Garb, and the CrystalSkull), just for the sake of OneHundredPercentCompletion.
** Plus, you have to kill 8,000+ enemies just to unlock the game's penultimate difficulty level in the PC version. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer We're not joking]]...
* GameBreaker: The Diamond doubles Pale Mist wisp to be expelled from Yunou's attacks, which leads to getting much more accelerated stat bonuses to outmatch bosses (on easier difficulties) and more deadly Rowanveld PM and Fear PM spamming.

** The penultimate battle with Elshiria [[spoiler:and Narju]] in Chapter 6. Elshiria specializes on BeamSpam that not only hurt, but are also unblockable. Adding to that are her [[MoreDakka Bullet Spam]] and HomingProjectile attacks that are both annoying and painful, and she really doesn't play nice halfway into her second phase of the battle. [[spoiler:Narju on the other hand, her ice magic seems to gone UpToEleven since the player last fought her in Chapter 2. Some of new attacks include a BulletHell barrage of icicles, [[HomingProjectile homing shots]] that explode into huge icicles, and surrounding herself with huge chucks of ice that can also trap the player into painful attacks.]]

* FakeDifficulty, DemonicSpiders, GoddamnedBats: Getting trapped into a series of inescapable attacks, running into the BossInMookClothing when there's no respawning goons around to pound on to recover HP, and getting lost in Chapters 3 and 4 then getting killed only to be forced to start the entire Chapter over may not be anyone's idea of fun.

* GameBreaker: The Diamond doubles Pale Mist wisp to be expelled from Yunou's attacks, which leads to getting much more accelerated stat bonuses to outmatch bosses and more deadly Rowanveld PM and Fear PM spamming.

** Soray at the end of Chapter 5 is considered one of the hardest bosses of the game. To elaborate, during the second phase of the battle he sends out four spear-like projectiles that spins and zero-in on Yunou location. This does doesn't seem like a problem at first, but that's only a warning of what's to come for the third phase. Once the battles into phase 3, that's when [[ItGotWorse it gets worse]] since he will spam those things almost non-stop, and those things can trap Yunou while spinning around and dealing damage to her. Now imagine 8 or more of those things traping poor Yunou as she helplessly takes damage while Soray sics even more at her, especially on anything higher than Hard mode.
** Kurow in Chapter 4 can be considered as such as well being also a WakeUpCallBoss. He uses powerful magic attacks, projectiles that will build up Yunou's CP gauge to force a Magic Leak Burst to cut her HP in half (unless her Max CP is greater than her CP Limit), and the player have to fight him on ground while he's free to fly the entire time.
** The penultimate battle with Elshiria [[spoiler: and Narju]] in Chapter 6. Elshiria specializes on BeamSpam that not only hurt, but are also unblockable. Adding to that are her [[MoreDakka Bullet Spam]] and HomingProjectile attacks that are both annoying and painful, and she really doesn't play nice halfway into her second phase of the battle. [[spoiler:Narju on the other hand, her ice magic seems to gone UpToEleven since the player last fought her in Chapter 2. Some of new attacks include a BulletHell barrage of icicles, [[HomingProjectile homing shots]] that explode into huge icicles, and surrounding herself with huge chucks of ice that can also trap the player into painful attacks.]]

* FakeDifficulty: Getting trapped into a series of inescapable attacks, running into the BossInMookClothing when there's no respawning goons around to pound on to recover HP, and getting lost in Chapters 3 and 4 then getting killed only to be forced to start the entire Chapter over may not be anyone's idea of fun.

** Soray at the end of Chapter 5 is considered one of the hardest bosses of the game. To elaborate, during the second phase of the battle he sends out four spear-like projectiles that spins and zero-in on Yunou location. This does doesn't seem like a problem at first, but that's only a warning of what's to come for the third phase. Once the battles into phase 3, that's when [[ItGotWorse it gets worse]] since he will spam those things almost non-stop, and those things can trap Yunou while spinning around and dealing damage to her. Now imagine 8 or more of those things traping poor Yunou as she helplessly takes damage while Soray sicks even more at her.

* FakeDifficulty: Getting trapped into a series of inescapable attacks, running into a BossInMookClothing when there's no goons to pound on to recover HP, and getting lost in Chapters 3 and 4 then getting killed only to be forced to start the entire Chapter over may not be anyone's idea of fun.
* FakeLongevity: Hunting items and artifacts, including the useless ones (e.g. the Potato, Abyss Garb, and CrystalSkull), just for the sake of OneHundredPercentCompletion.

** Soray at the end of Chapter 5 is considered one of the hardest bosses of the game. To elaborate, during the second phase of the battle he sends out four spear-like projectiles that spins and zero-in on Yunou location. This does doesn't seem like a problem at first, but that's only a warning of what's to come for the third phase. Once the battles into phase 3, that's when [[ItGotWorse it gets worse]] since he will spam those things almost non-stop, and those things can trap Yunou while spinning around and dealing damage to her. Now imagine 4 or more of those things traping poor Yunou as she helplessly takes damage while Soray sicks more at her.

** The penultimate battle with Elshiria [[spoiler: and Narju]] in Chapter 6. Elshiria specializes on BeamSpam that not only hurt, but are also unblockable. Adding to that are her [[MoreDakka Bullet Spam]] attacks that are both annoying and painful, and she really doesn't play nice halfway into her second phase of the battle. [[spoiler:Narju on the other hand, her ice magic seems to gone UpToEleven since the player last fought her in Chapter 2. Some of new attacks include a BulletHell barrage of icicles, [[HomingProjectile homing shots]] that explode into huge icicles, and surround herself with a chucks of huge ice.]]

* ThatOneBoss: Soray at the end of Chapter 5 is considered one of the hardest bosses of the game.
** To elaborate, during the second phase of the battle he sends out four spear-like projectiles that spins and zero-in on Yunou location. This does doesn't seem like a problem at first, but that's only a warning of what's to come for the third phase. Once the battles into phase 3, that's when [[ItGotWorse it gets worse]] since he will spam those things almost non-stop, and those things can trap Yunou while spinning around and dealing damage to her. Now imagine 4 or more of those things traping poor Yunou as she helplessly takes damage while Soray sicks more at her.