History YMMV / The7thSaga

* SoOkayItsAverage: The original Japanese game was a bog-standard SNES RPG.

%%* ShockingSwerve

** Another way to beat them is to note that they match the level of your main character and not that of your second party member. Kill off your main character, level your ally, and use them to fight the battle instead.
* WhatAnIdiot: Gorsia's elaborate plot works; though depowered he escapes into the future where Saro is dead, and tricks the apprentices into collecting all the Runes for him. So once he has been brought back to full power, in a world where his archenemy is long dead, what does he do? He returns to the past to kill Saro before he has a chance to depower him; he also sends the apprentices back with him just for the [[KickTheDog hell of it]]. The apprentices then proceed to put history back on track.

* DemonicSpiders: Literal ones. Well, they might not literally be demonic, but they're literally spiders, and they're certainly a big enough pest to make one think they came from hell. They appear right when the game's FakeDifficulty starts going through the roof. The game is full of them, though... practically every [[{{Mooks}} mook]] becomes a DemonicSpider after the first few areas of the game.
** Cocoons. They have MP Catcher which will almost always drain 40MP for a very long time, Thunder (single-target damage spell that does a lot of damage), they have High Speed which means they dodge most of your attacks, Defense Down, Defense Up and HP Catcher. In addition to that, they have a poison attack and due to their high speed they are annoyingly difficult to hit and their defense isn't too shabby either. Their only weakness is low HP... if you can hit them and if they hadn't casted Defense Up. And forget about trying to use magic on them; their Magic stat is just too high for that. They also love coming out with Sages, another annoyingly overpowered enemy.
* GameBreaker: Valsu's Elixir spell, which he gets at level 42. For 120 MP, it restores all HP and MP, essentially turning Valsu into a portable TraumaInn. Keep a couple of MP restoratives on hand just in case, and you ''cannot'' lose.
** The Water Rune, which functions as a free heal. A very good one, at that.

* ThatOneBoss: The apprentices, who [[AntiGrinding match your level]] and [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard are not affected by the levelup bug]].

* MostAnnoyingSound: Vacuum 2 is ''incredibly'' painful to hear. Unfortunately, it's also invaluable for grinding.

: MostAnnoyingSound: Vacuum 2 is ''incredibly'' painful to hear. Unfortunately, it's also invaluable for grinding.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL756F709E4C8F3965 Loads]]''. The music is moody and atmospheric, perfectly suited to the CataclysmBackstory that's left AllThereInTheManual.

* ShockingSwerve

** Cocoons. They have MPCatcher which will almost always drain 40MP for a very long time, Thunder (single-target damage spell that does a lot of damage), they have High Speed which means they dodge most of your attacks, Defense Down, Defense Up and HPCatcher. In addition to that, they have a poison attack and due to their high speed they are annoyingly difficult to hit and their defense isn't too shabby either. Their only weakness is low HP... if you can hit them and if they hadn't casted Defense Up. And forget about trying to use magic on them; their Magic stat is just too high for that. They also love coming out with Sages, another annoyingly overpowered enemy.

** Another way to beat them is to note that they match the level of your main character and not that of your second party member. Kill off your main character, level your ally, and use them to fight the battle instead.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL756F709E4C8F3965 Loads]]''. The music is moody and atmospheric, perfectly suited to the CataclysmBackstory that's left AllInTheManual.

* {{Game Breaker}}: Valsu's Elixir spell, which he gets at level 42. For 120 MP, it restores all HP and MP, essentially turning Valsu into a portable TraumaInn. Keep a couple of MP restoratives on hand just in case, and you ''cannot'' lose.
* {{Nightmare Fuel}}: Manrots and Crabs.

* {{That One Boss}}: The apprentices, who [[AntiGrinding match your level]] and [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard are not affected by the levelup bug]].

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL756F709E4C8F3965 Loads]]''. The music is moody and atmospheric, perfectly suited to the post-apocalyptic fantasy setting that's left AllInTheManual.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL756F709E4C8F3965 Loads]]''. The music is moody and atmospheric, perfectly suite to the post-apocalyptic fantasy setting that's left AllInTheManual.

* {{Game Breaker}}: Valsu's Elixir spell, which he gets at level 42. For 120 MP, it restores all HP and MP. Naturally, the recovery comes after paying the MP cost.

* {{Game Breaker}}: Valsu's Elixir spell. For 120 MP, it restores all HP and MP. He gets it at level 42.

** Pretty much any apprentice battle aside from Wilme (who is laughably easy to defeat) heads straight into PuzzleBoss territory after making a wrong turn at LuckBasedMission junction. The winning strategy in nearly every case is to find the right combination of buffs and healing spells/items that lets you survive long enough to one-shot (or two-shot) your opponent if the Random Number God is kind enough to allow you an opening. And because of the stat bug, raising your character's level actually makes these fights ''harder''. This is why it's a good idea to get the Star and Sky runes as early as possible.