History YMMV / KnightsInTheNightmare

* {{Moe}}: Vienya. ''So moe you died.'' "Endless Cute", indeed.
** Primea, Piche, several of the young female knights, and even Maria and Mellia.

* FanonDisContinuity: In what is becoming a running gag on [=LiveJournal=], part of the fandom has refused to acknowledge Atlus' translations of character and place names. May be justified, as Sting published official romanizations long before Atlus' announcement that it would localize the game.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: The cutscene right before Meria and the Wisp enter the castle. Awww.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Maria's theme music.
** Many of the battle music as well. Each bosses also have their own VillainSong.

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:ASGARD]]. If ''YggdraUnion'' wasn't enough to convince the player that this place is full of jerks, this game should do it.

*** As an addendum, from the same troper, this point IS rather moot if the player doesn't mind not getting scored. Though getting a Vit increase after getting Ancardia would have been very welcome, this limits her GameBreaker potential even more so as to create some balance. After all, if she had, say, even just 20.00 Vit, wouldn't we all eschew careful unit positioning [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill in favor of repeatedly nuking the entire map?]] And besides, she DOES gain loyalty a lot faster because all you´re attacking with are [[ScratchDamage normal attacks,]] [[ForMassiveDamage Hi-Skills]] and [[LimitBreak Ex]][[AwesomeButImpractical -]][[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Skills.]]

** The [[OmniscientNarrator Narrator]] occasionally wonders aloud at how far you're willing to go to get the Whisp's body back, like after the fight with [[spoiler: Vienna and Moja]].

* MoeMoe: Vienna, Primea, Piche, several of the young female knights, and even Maria and Mellia.

* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:Hector]].

* CompleteMonster:
** Yelma, dear God Yelma...
** Also, [[spoiler:Hector]].

*** It's actually better to call her ''Boss Breaker'', since you get her back in Scene [[spoiler: 28]] then lose her after Scene [[spoiler: 30]] for the rest of the game until the final two Scenes. That's a grand total of '''5''' Scenes of GameBreaker power, 4 of which are {{Boss Fight}}s. Not to mention that a single [[LimitBreak EX-Skill]] can chop off an enormous portion of a Boss's health bar.

** GoddamnedBoss: Nearly every boss that isn't ThatOneBoss, due to one reason or another (usually their special abilities). Examples include [[spoiler: Dotaurus]] (very hard to stop his Hound summon), [[spoiler: Scoppio]] (because you're running on a timer to find a certain plot-important item with a boss who can destroy it breathing down your neck), [[spoiler: Leonil]] (because he cheats by having multiple weapons, and thus multiple bullet attacks), [[spoiler: Viena]] (because this boss has powerful attacks and moves a lot]], [[spoiler: Sachitto]] (because the area is VERY restrictive on both your movement and attack)... Fortunately, a lot of these don't quite reach ThatOneBoss because they may have low health (proportional to how far in the game you are of course; a boss with not even 20000 HP 3/5 of the way through? Yikes) or bullet attacks that are not too hard to dodge.
* InternetBackdraft: The name changes for the English version. Some can be justified by character space ("Staehelingum" to "Staehel"); others can't. Which are better--and even which should be used on a given page--is bound to cause arguments, as parties on both sides are slightly opinionated.

** This troper would like to nominate [[spoiler: Melad Margus]], the FinalBoss. Why? [[DamageSpongeBoss It has the highest HP count in the whole game]] (even more than the BonusBoss, whose health count was already an exaggeration by that point), it has devastating attacks that will kill your timer in the blink of an eye, it can move pretty damn fast, the stage is even MORE restrictive than [[spoiler: Sachitto]]'s ''and'' it's attack cycles are so short that, if it uses its second bullet, ''it can use another attack before the previous attacks is even done.'' Even repeating [[BulletHell Bullet II]] just once can be devastating, as it leaves you basically unable to do anything but dodge the mess of random bullets that it causes. Not even the super-high level Maria/Mellia will be of much use because of the stage design. The only way this fight can be made less annoying is if you're playing on the red path and found both [[spoiler: Ancardia and the Dark Feathers]], in which case Maria's EX-Skills will do a HUGE part of the work for you.
* ViewerGenderConfusion: Thanks to GenericCuteness, for some you can only identify some of the knight's gender by their voices. A few characters of note: Crozeph, Sacchito, Werner, and Darshan.
** Keep in mind though, that all classes save the Lance Knight (which Crozeph and Darshan happen to be) are gender-especific. This means all Duelists, Hermits and Priestesses are female, and all Warriors (one of which is Werner), Archers and Wizards are male. Lance Knights are the only class where you'll find both men and women. Interestingly, the Archer class was first planned to be female-exclusive, but since the designers wanted to keep a gender balance, it was changed to male-only after the Hermit class was decided to be a female class.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Capehorn]]. And his backstory does make him slightly sympathetic to the player.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: There was very little interest in the PSP remake prior to the announcement that Yggdra's route would be included. This is probably going to change very fast now.
* CompleteMonster: Yelma, dear God Yelma...

* ViewerGenderConfusion: thanks to GenericCuteness, for some you can only identify some of the knight's gender by their voices. A few characters of note: Crozeph, Werner, and Darshan.

* ScrappyMechanic: The enemies' built in HealingFactor can make the already NintendoHard game rocket up to and beyond [[HarderThanHard hair-pullingly difficult]] in the harder difficulties, as enemies will ''a lot'' of life and thus recover lots of HP very quickly. Taken UpToEleven with BonusBoss Scoppio and FinalBoss [[spoiler: Melad Margus]]; the former has one of the highest HP counts in the game on ''Normal'' and appears as '''''?????''''' on Hard and up, and the latter ''is even worse.'' And [[spoiler: Zolgonark's]] [[BeyondTheImpossible built in Healing]] [[HealingFactor Factor...]]

* ScrappyMechanic: YourMileageMayVary, as always, but the enemies' built in HealingFactor can make the already NintendoHard game rocket up to and beyond [[HarderThanHard hair-pullingly difficult]] in the harder difficulties, as enemies will ''a lot'' of life and thus recover lots of HP very quickly. Taken UpToEleven with BonusBoss Scoppio and FinalBoss [[spoiler: Melad Margus]]; the former has one of the highest HP counts in the game on ''Normal'' and appears as '''''?????''''' on Hard and up, and the latter ''is even worse.'' And [[spoiler: Zolgonark's]] [[BeyondTheImpossible built in Healing]] [[HealingFactor Factor...]]

* YourMileageMayVary: The translation, and name changes. Some people really like them, and others think they were in bad taste. Others find ''some'' of them perfectly acceptable, such as "Ganzer" being changed to "Gunther," and use whichever name they prefer. Whether or not this is a case of TheyChangedItNowItSucks or not depends on the individual, and also how long they've followed the game.

** DemonicSpiders: Those dragons and hellhounds dammit. The former can turn your already tough BulletHell into a much worse scenario, the latter...well, they can attack your knights and make them lose vit by quite a large chunk. Those one eye bat things are rather easy to kill too, but they are hated much due to the InterfaceScrew they cause.

** GoddamnBoss: Nearly every boss that isn't ThatOneBoss, due to one reason or another (usually their special abilities). Examples include [[spoiler: Dotaurus]] (very hard to stop his Hound summon), [[spoiler: Scoppio]] (because you're running on a timer to find a certain plot-important item with a boss who can destroy it breathing down your neck), [[spoiler: Leonil]] (because he cheats by having multiple weapons, and thus multiple bullet attacks), [[spoiler: Viena]] (because this boss has powerful attacks and moves a lot]], [[spoiler: Sachitto]] (because the area is VERY restrictive on both your movement and attack)... Fortunately, a lot of these don't quite reach ThatOneBoss because they may have low health (proportional to how far in the game you are of course; a boss with not even 20000 HP 3/5 of the way through? Yikes) or bullet attacks that are not too hard to dodge.

* ScrappyMechanic: YourMileageMayVary, as always, but the enemies' built in HealingFactor can make the already NintendoHard game rocket up to and beyond [[HarderThanHard hair-pullingly difficult]] in the harder difficulties, as enemies will ''a lot'' of life and thus recover lots of HP very quickly. Taken UpToEleven with BonusBoss Scoppio and FinalBoss [[spoiler: Melad Margus]]; the former has one of the highest HP counts in the game on ''Normal'' and appears as '''''?????''''' on Hard and up, and the latter ''already has an HP count over the visible maximun on Normal.'' And [[spoiler: Zolgonark's]] [[BeyondTheImpossible built in Healing]] [[HealingFactor Factor...]]

* ScrappyMechanic: YourMileageMayVary, as always, but the enemies' built in HealingFactor can make the already NintendoHard game rocket up to and beyond [[HarderThanHard hair-pullingly difficult]] in the harder difficulties, as enemies will ''a lot'' of life and thus recover lots of HP very quickly. Taken UpToEleven with BonusBoss Scoppio and FinalBoss [[spoiler: Melad Margus]]; the former has one of the highest HP counts in the game on ''Normal'' and appears as '''''?????''''' on Hard and up, and the latter ''already has an HP count over the visible maximun on Normal.'' And [[spoiler: Zolgonark's]] [[BeyondTheImpossible built in Healing]] [[HealingFactor Factor.]]

* ScrappyMechanic: YourMileageMayVary, as always, but the enemies' built in HealingFactor can make the already NintendoHard game rocket up to and beyond [[HarderThanHard hair-pullingly difficult]] in the harder difficulties, as enemies will ''a lot'' of life and thus recover lots of HP very quickly. This can be taken to BeyondTheImpossible levels with BonusBoss Scoppio and FinalBoss [[spoiler: Melad Margus]], who both ''have so many hitpoints the game reads their starting health count as'' '''''??????.''''' This isn't even taking into account that said BonusBoss is placed ''half the game in chapter number-count'' '''before''' the FinalBoss, and that this is on the '''''Normal''''' difficulty.