History YMMV / Falcom

* BrokenBase: A musical example. Their sound team is highly-regarded to the point that it spawned the phrase "There is no bad music from Falcom, just some that is less awesome than the others." or some variant of it is widespread among the fandom. However, the ''director'' of the sound team from around 2015 onward, Mitsuo Singa, has came under heavy scrutiny for his poor sound mixing and heavy usage of hard rock, resulting in very inconsistent quality relative to other members like Wataru Ishibashi[[note]]"Silver Will"[[/note]], Ryo Takeshita[[note]]"Dreamy and Boisterous Holy Land"[[/note]], Saki Momiyama[[note]]"Geofront", "Unfathomed Force" and "Get Over The Barrier!"[[/note]], Hayato Sonoda[[note]]"Stand Up Again and Again!"[[/note]], Takahiro Unisuga[[note]]"Spiral of Erebos" and "Blue Destination"[[/note]], Yukihiro Jindo[[note]]"Infinity Rage" and "The Perfect Steel of ZERO"[[/note]] and Shuntaro Koguchi[[note]]"Wind-Up Yesterday!"[[/note]]. The general consensus among his critics is that he is at his best when does music that ''isn't mainly hard rock'' as evidenced with the response to "Iclucian Dance", "A-to-Z" and "Furious! Destroy! Mishneider!!".

* CameraScrew: The ''Brandish games, instead of featuring a protagonist's viewpoint that can be turned around to face another direction, instead have the player character facing upwards and the game's view rotating automatically with each step.

* CultClassic: The company as a whole is widely respected yet little known in the west, compared to other RPG juggernauts. Nevertheless, ''Falcom'''s earned a very, very loyal fanbase. Among their games, ''Xanadu Next'' is deeply respected for its tight dungeon-crawling gameplay as one of their last and best PC-exclusives. ''Gurumin'' also gained a loyal following over the years for its fun main character, lively and cute graphics, and enjoyable action platforming gameplay.

* BrokenBase: A musical example. Their sound team has a handful of well-composed music that it spawned the phrase "There is no bad music from Falcom, just some that is less awesome than the others." or some variant of it is widespread among the fandom. However, the ''director'' of the sound team from around 2015 onward, Mitsuo Singa, has came under heavy scrutiny for his poor sound mixing and heavy usage of hard rock, resulting in very inconsistent quality relative to other members like Wataru Ishibashi[[note]]"Silver Will"[[/note]], Ryo Takeshita[[note]]"Dreamy and Boisterous Holy Land"[[/note]], Saki Momiyama[[note]]"Geofront", "Unfathomed Force" and "Get Over The Barrier!"[[/note]], Hayato Sonoda[[note]]"Stand Up Again and Again!"[[/note]], Takahiro Unisuga[[note]]"Spiral of Erebos" and "Blue Destination"[[/note]], Yukihiro Jindo[[note]]"Infinity Rage" and "The Perfect Steel of ZERO"[[/note]] and Shuntaro Koguchi[[note]]"Wind-Up Yesterday!"[[/note]]. The general consensus among his critics is that he is at his best when does music that ''isn't mainly hard rock'' as evidenced with the response to "Iclucian Dance", "A-to-Z" and "Furious! Destroy! Mishneider!!".

* BrokenBase: A musical example. Their sound team is considered nothing less than a '''''all-stars holy grail'''''. A phrase "There is no bad music from Falcom, just some that is less awesome than the others." or some variant of it is widespread among the fandom. However, the ''director'' of the sound team from around 2015 onward, Mitsuo Singa, has came under heavy scrutiny for his poor sound mixing and heavy usage of hard rock, resulting in very inconsistent quality relative to other members like Wataru Ishibashi[[note]]"Silver Will"[[/note]], Ryo Takeshita[[note]]"Dreamy and Boisterous Holy Land"[[/note]], Saki Momiyama[[note]]"Geofront", "Unfathomed Force" and "Get Over The Barrier!"[[/note]], Hayato Sonoda[[note]]"Stand Up Again and Again!"[[/note]], Takahiro Unisuga[[note]]"Spiral of Erebos" and "Blue Destination"[[/note]], Yukihiro Jindo[[note]]"Infinity Rage" and "The Perfect Steel of ZERO"[[/note]] and Shuntaro Koguchi[[note]]"Wind-Up Yesterday!"[[/note]]. The general consensus among his critics is that he is at his best when does music that ''isn't mainly hard rock'' as evidenced with the response to "Iclucian Dance", "A-to-Z" and "Furious! Destroy! Mishneider!!".

* BrokenBase: A musical example. Their sound team is considered nothing less than a '''''all-stars holy grail'''''. A phrase "There is no bad music from Falcom, just some that is less awesome than the others." or some variant of it is widespread among the fandom. However, the ''director'' of the sound team from around 2015 onward, Mitsuo Singa, has came under heavy scrutiny for his supposedly poor sound mixing and heavy usage of hard rock, resulting in very inconsistent quality relative to other members like Wataru Ishibashi[[note]]"Silver Will"[[/note]], Ryo Takeshita[[note]]"Dreamy and Boisterous Holy Land"[[/note]], Saki Momiyama[[note]]"Geofront", "Unfathomed Force" and "Get Over The Barrier!"[[/note]], Hayato Sonoda[[note]]"Stand Up Again and Again!"[[/note]], Takahiro Unisuga[[note]]"Spiral of Erebos" and "Blue Destination"[[/note]], Yukihiro Jindo[[note]]"Infinity Rage" and "The Perfect Steel of ZERO"[[/note]] and Shuntaro Koguchi[[note]]"Wind-Up Yesterday!"[[/note]]. The general consensus among his critics is that he is at his best when does music that ''isn't mainly hard rock'' as evidenced with the response to "Iclucian Dance", "A-to-Z" and "Furious! Destroy! Mishneider!!".

* BrokenBase: A musical example. Their sound team is considered nothing less than a '''''all-stars holy grail'''''. A phrase "There is no bad music from Falcom, just some that is less awesome than the others." or some variant of it is widespread among the fandom. However, the ''director'' of the sound team from around 2015 onward, Mitsuo Singa, has came under heavy scrutiny for his supposedly poor sound mixing and heavy usage of hard rock, resulting in very inconsistent quality relative to other members like Wataru Ishibashi[[note]]"Silver Will"[[/note]], Ryo Takeshita[[note]]"Dreamy and Boisterous Holy Land"[[/note]], Saki Momiyama[[note]]"Geofront", "Unfathomed Force" and "Get Over The Barrier!"[[/note]], Hayato Sonoda[[note]]"Stand Up Again and Again!"[[/note]], Takahiro Unisuga[[note]]"Spiral of Erebos" and "Blue Destination"[[/note]], Yukihiro Jindo[[note]]"Infinity Rage" and "PERFECT Steel of Zero"[[/note]] and Shuntaro Koguchi[[note]]"Wind-Up Yesterday!"[[/note]]. The general consensus among his critics is that he is at his best when does music that ''isn't mainly hard rock'' as evidenced with the response to "Iclucian Dance", "A-to-Z" and "Furious! Destroy! Mishneider!!".

* BrokenBase: A musical example. Their sound team is considered nothing less than a '''''all-stars holy grail'''''. A phrase "There is no bad music from Falcom, just some that is less awesome than the others." or some variant of it is widespread among the fandom. However, the ''director'' of the sound team from around 2015 onward, Mitsuo Singa, has came under heavy scrutiny for his supposedly poor sound mixing and heavy usage of hard rock, resulting in very inconsistent quality relative to other members like Wataru Ishibashi[[note]]"Silver Will"[[/note]], Ryo Takeshita[[note]]"Dreamy and Boisterous Holy Land"[[/note]], Saki Momiyama[[note]]"Geofront", "Unfathomed Force" and "Get Over The Barrier!"[[/note]], Hayato Sonoda[[note]]"Stand Up Again and Again!"[[/note]], Takahiro Unisuga[[note]]"Spiral of Erebos", "Blue Destination"[[/note]], Yukihiro Jindo[[note]]"Infinity Rage" and "PERFECT Steel of Zero"[[/note]] and Shuntaro Koguchi[[note]]"Wind-Up Yesterday!"[[/note]]. The general consensus among his critics is that he is at his best when does music that ''isn't mainly hard rock'' as evidenced with the response to "Iclucian Dance", "A-to-Z" and "Furious! Destroy! Mishneider!!".

* BrokenBase: A musical example. Their sound team is considered nothing less than a '''''all-stars holy grail'''''. A phrase "There is no bad music from Falcom, just some that is less awesome than the others." or some variant of it is widespread among the fandom. However, the ''director'' of the sound team from around 2015 onward, Mitsuo Singa, has came under heavy scrutiny for his supposedly poor sound mixing and heavy usage of hard rock, resulting in very inconsistent quality relative to other members like Wataru Ishibashi[[note]]"Silver Will"[[/note]], Ryo Takeshita[[note]]"Dreamy and Boisterous Holy Land"[[/note]], Saki Momiyama[[note]]"Geofront", "Unfathomed Force" and "Get Over The Barrier!"[[/note]], Hayato Sonoda[[note]]"Stand Up Again and Again!"[[/note]], Takahiro Unisuga[[note]]"Like a Whirlwind" and "The Azure Arbitrator"[[/note]], Yukihiro Jindo[[note]]"Infinity Rage" and "PERFECT Steel of Zero"[[/note]] and Shuntaro Koguchi[[note]]"Wind-Up Yesterday!"[[/note]]. The general consensus among his critics is that he is at his best when does music that ''isn't mainly hard rock'' as evidenced with the response to "Iclucian Dance", "A-to-Z" and "Furious! Destroy! Mishneider!!".

* BrokenBase: A musical example. Their sound team is considered nothing less than a '''''all-stars holy grail'''''. A phrase "There is no bad music from Falcom, just some that is less awesome than the others." or some variant of it is widespread among the fandom. However, the ''director'' of the sound team from around 2015 onward, Mitsuo Singa, has came under heavy scrutiny for his supposedly poor sound mixing and heavy usage of hard rock, resulting in very inconsistent quality relative to other members like Wataru Ishibashi[[note]]"Silver Will"[[/note]], Ryo Takeshita[[note]]"Dreamy and Boisterous Holy Land"[[/note]], Saki Momiyama[[note]]"Geofront", "Unfathomed" Force and "Get Over The Barrier!"[[/note]], Hayato Sonoda[[note]]"Stand Up Again and Again!"[[/note]], Takahiro Unisuga[[note]]"Like a Whirlwind" and "The Azure Arbitrator"[[/note]], Yukihiro Jindo[[note]]"Infinity Rage" and "PERFECT Steel of Zero"[[/note]] and Shuntaro Koguchi[[note]]"Wind-Up Yesterday!"[[/note]]. The general consensus among his critics is that he is best when does music that ''isn't mainly hard rock'' as evidenced with the response to "Iclucian Dance", "A-to-Z" and "Furious! Destroy! Mishneider!!".

* TrollingCreator: As noted elsewhere, the current head of Falcom, ''Toshihiro Kondo'', is infamous for the seeming delight he takes in infuriating fans. In part from his origin as an AscendedFanboy, the man's enjoyed [[YankTheDogsChain messing with the fandom's minds]] every now and then when engaging with company fans regarding future material. It doesn't help he has a habit of not quite lying, not quite spoiling through context clues in the marketing department, wording interview and press replies ambiguously and releasing screenshots of upcoming games without context, seemingly just to provoke their audience. This reached a kind of apex in the endings of both ''Cold Steel 3'' and the default railroaded ending of ''Cold Steel 4'', which stick out as trolling attempts that upends many character motivations on a massive Cliffhanger, leaving many of the ''Legend of Heroes'' fans to speculate on the fate of the characters for some time.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: If there's one thing that any ''Falcom'' fan can agree on, it is that the company's employed some of the greatest composers in gaming across its thirty year-plus history. As such, many musicians have dedicated fan followings for their particular SignatureStyle. Of these, Saki Momiyama, Masanori Osaki, and especially Takahiro Unisuga are most celebrated.

* CultClassic: The company as a whole is widely respected, but little known in the west, compared to other RPG juggernauts. Nevertheless, ''Falcom'''s earned a very, very loyal fanbase. Among their games, ''Xanadu Next'' is deeply respected for its tight dungeon-crawling gameplay as one of their last and best PC-exclusives. ''Gurumin'' also gained a loyal following over the years for its fun main character, lively and cute graphics, and enjoyable action platforming gameplay.

* TrollingCreator: As noted above, the current head of Falcom, ''Toshihiro Kondo'', due to his origin as an AscendedFanboy, enjoys [[YankTheDogsChain messing with the fandom's minds]] every now and then when engaging the company's fans. Sometimes getting the marketing department to word things ambiguously and releasing screenshots of upcoming games without context just to provoke the fandom to grow forests of epileptic trees. Heck, the ending of ''Cold Steel 3'' and the default railroaded ending of ''Cold Steel 4'' are major trolling attempts that messes with fans of many of the ''Legend of Heroes'' characters!

* EpilepticTrees: Due to the amount of interconnected WorldBuilding in the ''VideoGame/KisekiSeries'', many fans jokingly speculate on a theory that all Falcom games take place in the same world, and often go to great lengths to cram every single game that Falcom has made into the ''Kiseki'' lore such as ''VideoGame/DragonSlayer'', ''VideoGame/{{Ys}}'' and ''VideoGame/TokyoXanadu''. This resulted in spread sheets such as [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/268520450450128896/635444090716028928/Falcomverse_Update.png this]] popping up in many Falcom discussions, and the theory itself is not unfounded since a lot of Falcom games like to reference each other directly and indirectly on a regular basis. Kondo being a TrollingCreator about all this certainly added more fuel into the speculation.

* TrollingCreator: As noted above, ''Toshihiro Kondo'', due to his origin as an AscendedFanboy, enjoys [[YankTheDogsChain messing with the fandom's minds]] every now and then when engaging fans. Sometimes getting the marketing department to word things ambiguously and releasing screenshots of upcoming games without context just to provoke the fandom to grow forests of epileptic trees. Heck, the ending of ''Cold Steel 3'' and the default railroaded ending of ''Cold Steel 4'' are major trolling attempts that messes with fans of many of the ''Legend of Heroes'' characters!

* TrollingCreator: ''Toshihiro Kondo'', due to his origin as an AscendedFanboy, enjoys [[YankTheDogsChain messing with the fandom]] every now and then when engaging with the rest of the fandom. Sometimes getting the marketing department to word things ambiguously and releasing screenshots of upcoming games without context just to provoke the fandom to grow forests of epileptic trees. Heck, the ending of ''Cold Steel 3'' and the default railroaded ending of ''Cold Steel 4'' are major trolling attempts that messes with fans of many of the ''Legend of Heroes'' characters!

* TrollingCreator: ''Toshihiro Kondo'', due to his origin as an AscendedFanboy, enjoys [[YankTheDogsChain messing with the fandom]] every now and then when engaging with the rest of the fandom. Sometimes getting the marketing department to word things ambiguously and releasing screenshots of upcoming games without context just to provoke the fandom to grow forests of epileptic trees. Heck, the ending of ''Cold Steel 3'' and the default railroaded ending of ''Cold Steel 4'' messes with fans of many of the ''Legend of Heroes'' characters!

* TrollingCreator: ''Toshihiro Kondo'', due to his origins as AscendedFanboy, enjoys [[YankTheDogsChain messing with the fandom]] every now and then when engaging with the rest of the fandom. Sometimes getting the marketing department to word things ambiguously and releasing screenshots of upcoming games without context just to provoke the fandom to grow forests of epileptic trees. Heck, the ending of ''Cold Steel 3'' and the default railroaded ending of ''Cold Steel 4'' messes with fans of many of the ''Legend of Heroes'' characters!

* EpilepticTrees: Due to the amount of interconnected WorldBuilding in the ''VideoGame/KisekiSeries'', many fans jokingly speculate on a theory that all Falcom games take place in the same world, and often go to great lengths to cram every single game that Falcom has made into the ''Kiseki'' lore such as ''VideoGame/DragonSlayer'', ''Franchise/{{Ys}}'' and ''VideoGame/TokyoXanadu''. This resulted in spread sheets such as [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/268520450450128896/635444090716028928/Falcomverse_Update.png this]] popping up in many Falcom discussions, and the theory itself is not unfounded since a lot of Falcom games like to reference each other directly and indirectly on a regular basis. Kondo being a TrollingCreator about all this certainly added more fuel into the speculation.

* EpilepticTrees: Due to the amount of interconnected WorldBuilding in the ''VideoGame/KisekiSeries'', many fans jokingly speculate on a theory that all Falcom games take place in the same world, and often go to great lengths to cram every single game that Falcom has made into the ''Kiseki'' lore such as ''VideoGame/DragonSlayer'', ''Franchise/{{Ys}}'' and ''VideoGame/TokyoXanadu''. This resulted in spread sheets such as [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/268520450450128896/635444090716028928/Falcomverse_Update.png this]] popping up in many Falcom discussions, and the theory itself is not unfounded since a lot of Falcom games like to reference each other directly and indirectly on a regular basis.

* CultClassic: the company as a whole is widely respected, but little known in the west, compared to other RPG juggernauts. Nevertheless, ''Falcom'''s earned a very, very loyal fanbase. Among their games, ''Xanadu Next'' is deeply respected for its tight dungeon-crawling gameplay as one of their last and best PC-exclusives. ''Gurumin'' also gained a loyal following over the years for its fun main character, lively and cute graphics, and enjoyable action platforming gameplay..