History YMMV / TalesOfGraces

* TearJerker: Pascal, who is [[GenkiGirl relentlessly cheerful and upbeat]] for virtually the entire game, winds up being the subject of one when she reunites with her sister in the Fendel lab. After Pascal explains that Fourier's work is dangerous and could potentially annihilate the entire country, a frustrated Fourier completely loses it and tears a strip off her little sister. Pascal, who clearly adores and idolizes Fourier, is devastated by the rebuke, rendered speechless for one of the only times in the game and later reduced to tears when the rest of the party tries to console her.
** Poor Sophie who went through a crisis during the L&L as she realized that she is going to out-live EVERYONE and didn't want to live with that and even begged Pascal to make her human so she doesn't have live through the fact that she will remain mostly the same while everyone she loves die one by one from old age.
** The ending of the Childhood arc. Sophie is dead, Hubert is sent away to be adopted to another family, and Asbel feels like a failure enough that he runs away from home to become a knight despite Cheria pleading to him to not leave and even told him that she would do anything for him to stay.
** A skit in the childhood arc has Asbel innocently tell Cheria she can live with him after he becomes a knight which makes her happy but the skit ends with a darker tone as she starts coughing with Cheria hoping she is able to grow up. While she does get cured at the end of the childhood arc, at the time she was still suffering from her illness that can cut her life short and her growing to adulthood seemed slim, making her dream of living with Asbel seemly just as slim.
** Velanik; a miserable town so broken that the people only have stick housing and barely any heat to survive the brutal Fendelian winters. Can apply to most of Fendel really, that when you see what lies before you. The nature of the town's militaristic nature is a desperate push for victory so that they can move their poorer people out of the lands as well as to hopefully improve their own situation regarding the occasional food struggles. The empire looks amazing upfront; but it's bad at the back end. It's also compounded with a man who while not against diplomacy is also too far thick-headed into dictatorship that he only sees war as the way forward. The conditions of both here and Zavhert throws Asbel's old black and white nature of the conflict between Fendel and Windor into greater perspective.
-->'''Asbel:''' ''This'' is Fendel? This is the brutal nation we've been at war with?

* AuthorsSavingThrow: Some can see Namco Bandai localizing the [=PS3=] re-release as opposed to the Wii version as this since one of the criticisms with Vesperia was the fact that Westerners only got the vanilla 360 version and not the updated [=PS3=] version.

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* MagnificentBitch: [[GaiasVengeance Little Queen]], the manifestation of Fodra's consciousness, experienced experiments conducted on her planet's core by scientists two thousand years ago. Witnessing the desolation of her home, she responds by [[KillEmAll slaughtering every last scientist responsible]]. Intent on preserving nature, the [[HumansAreBastards misanthropic]] Little Queen is the reason for the monster epidemic on Ephinea, suggesting she wanted to free another planet from humanity's grasp with as little as involvement as possible. Manipulating Sophie with a simple hallucination about friends' mortality, Little Queen tries to sway the Fodran ArtificialHuman to her side so neither can be alone. When the heroes arrive, Little Queen often attacks them without hesitation and uses her [[IAmLegion large numbers]] and monsters in attempts to overwhelm them. After losing as the Fodra Queen, Sophie is able to assuage the Queen's sorrow, and before she fades, receives the last bit of her power--and her hopes for humanity and nature to prosper in harmony.

* FoeYay: Sophie and [[spoiler:Lambda]]. She is completely obsessed with him and [[SayMyName screams his name a lot]]. She is sort of [[spoiler:programmed this way, since her sole purpose of creation is to defeat Lambda.]]

* FanNickname: Manlik for Malik.

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* PlayTheGameSkipTheStory: The general consenus by series fans. The gameplay is considered fun and exciting, with the Titles allowing for players to adjust the characters attributes in ways that create for unique challenges, while each character has a unique and distinct fighting style that all create a refreshing gameplay system after several years of the same basic formula. The story however is seen as pretty weak, largely due to being a ClicheStorm about the PowerOfFriendship, lacking the {{Deconstruction}} elements that past games had used to expand the story, and while the characters are well liked and fun, a good half of the cast are just there for the ride (Cheria, Malik, and Pascal) after a decent point into the story, and the only character to have a meaningful character arc is the protagonist Asbel.

** While there's thankfully no hideous imbalance, a lot of players prefer a party of Asbel, Sophie, Hubert, and Cheria for the fact that that particular team is ''very'' diverse. (Plus, Sophie and Cheria are the healers, with Hubert also having a handy healing spell). It's not that the other characters you don't really see much of (Pascal, Malik, and Richard]) are ''bad'', just that the higher difficulties are NintendoHard and once you find something that works, ''you WANT to stick with it''. When it comes to solo though, Cheria, Sophie, and Hubert outclass everyone, simply because they are the most flexible characters.

** So, Hubert, Asbel and Cheria can use Nova Artes because of Sophie. Sophie who is voiced by Creator/CassandraLee. Does that mean [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica they made a contract with her to become magical...?]]

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: [[spoiler: Richard being possessed by Lambda and becoming all AxCrazy. While the game is all "Richard can't be killed because he's our friend!", the game could have explored how they can't kill Richard because if they kill him, Windor's royal family will cease to exist and the party and Asbel will be guilty of regicide and will likely be killed for his actions and Lhant will pay the consequences.]] Sadly, this didn't happen.

* CharacterTiers: While there's thankfully no hideous imbalance, a lot of players prefer a party of Asbel, Sophie, Hubert, and Cheria for the fact that that particular team is ''very'' diverse. (Plus, Sophie and Cheria are the healers, with Hubert also having a handy healing spell) It's not that the other characters you don't really see much of (Pascal, Malik, and Richard [[spoiler:especially in f where he becomes [[TheSixthRanger the seventh party member]].]]) are ''bad'', just that the higher difficulties are NintendoHard and once you find something that works, ''you WANT to stick with it''. When it comes to solo though, Cheria, Sophie, and Hubert outclass everyone, simply because they are the most flexible characters.

* ComplacentGamingSyndrome: It is easy to set your characters' artes to Auto and play on Normal Mode, but you can only really utilize the battle system to the best of its potential by taking manual control and playing on harder difficulty settings.

* StrangledByTheRedString: [[spoiler:Asbel and Cheria]] as the OfficialCouple. Funnily enough, both the pro- and anti- sides of this pairing have reasons to argue this trope:
** The anti side argue that the pairing comes out of nowhere right at the end, and the game spends a lot more time [[ShowDontTell telling you they can work as a couple]] than showing it. This side also tends to praise the ''Future'' arc for giving the pairing more focus and development.
** The pro side argue that the pairing was developed just fine in the original story if you read between the lines, but accuse the Future Arc of pandering to the Anti Side by beating you over the head with the pairing, as both characters switch dramatically from shy underplay to [[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry outright declarations of affection]].

** Velanik; a miserable town so broken that the people only have stick housing and barely any heat to survive the brutal Fendelian winters. Can apply to most of Fendel really, that when you see what lies before you. The nature of the town's militaristic nature is a hope of a victory so that they can move their poorer people out of the lands. The conditions of both here and Zavhert throws Asbel's old black and white nature of the conflict between Fendel and Windor into greater perspective.

* ValuesDissonance: Fiery Joe in the "Strange Folk" series of sidequests is clearly physically and emotionally abused by his older siblings. Not only is this moslty PlayedForLaughs, but everyone tells him he should forgive them and be a big happy family. Granted, that sidequest is [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs so weird it's almost surreal]], but still.

* {{Narm}}: [[MemeticMutation TOMODACHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII! HUARGH]]

* GuideDangIt: A good portion of the Skits and Sub Events can be easily missed without a guide.

* MostAnnoyingSound: The desert thieves will ''never'' stop repeating ''"I'll run you through!"''.

* ValuesDissonance: Fermat, a minor NPC character, who is from a race of scientists and researchers - led by a woman, and with another girl being trained as her successor and from which all of the major characters are female... and still [[CareerVersusMan she decides to retire to become a housewife as soon as she gets engaged]], everyone thinks this is wonderful. This seems odd from a western perspective.
** Fiery Joe in the "Strange Folk" series of sidequests is clearly physically and emotionally abused by his older siblings. Not only is this moslty PlayedForLaughs, but everyone tells him he should forgive them and be a big happy family. Granted, that sidequest is [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs so weird it's almost surreal]], but still.

* EarWorm: The game's theme song, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dHP3ikuJ_A Mamoritai ~ "White Wishes"]], is [[JapanesePopMusic J-pop]] at its finest. Listen to it once and it's a sure bet that you'll abuse the replay button.

* InternetBackdraft: There was some annoyance when ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces F'' was announced, mostly because they essentially purchased a beta version. In all honesty, people didn't know ''what'' to think, since normally, it's the "Beta version" that gets released overseas. Many people were simply happy just that they got the game period.

** Fiery Joe in the "Strange Folk" series of sidequests is clearly physically and emotionally abused by his older silbings. Not only is this moslty PlayedForLaughs, but everyone tells him he should forgive them and be a big happy family. Granted, that sidequest is [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs so weird it's almost surreal]], but still.

* AwesomeMusic[=/=]EarWorm: The game's theme song, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dHP3ikuJ_A Mamoritai ~ "White Wishes"]], is [[JapanesePopMusic J-pop]] at its finest. Listen to it once and it's a sure bet that you'll abuse the replay button.

* MostWonderfulSound: The sweet serenade of the Rockgagong Flute.