History YMMV / ValkyriaChronicles4

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Over the course of the game, you find out that your side's leaders are somewhere between ruthless and evil. Some players will find this off-putting.

** The Glory isn't considered worth the effort to deploy. Partially because it's so fragile that it's likely to be destroyed in one shot even without getting hit in the radiator, but also because whatever firepower it has to offer just doesn't compare to the sheer utility of the [[AwesomePersonnelCarrier Cactus]].

* GoddamnedBoss: Nikola and Chiara, most times they're encountered, have some abilities that make them extremely annoying to deal with. Having the movement of Scouts lets them easily zip around your lines and pick off weakened soldiers, and like Selvaria in the first game, they're almost guaranteed to dodge shots they can see coming. (And being souped-up Scouts, they have a 270 degree sight radius). They do have a weakness though - they are defenseless from behind. They also spend an inordinate amount of time shooting your tank with their crossbows, which is about as effective as it sounds. Just don't put your infantry around the tank.

** Leena, Leena, Leena. By the time the story wraps up, she [[spoiler: had to: keep up a facade of being another person the whole time, with all the stress that entails; gets shot and almost bleeds out at Siegval, is coerced into playing TheMole for the Empire by her own brother, is overwhelmed by the guilt of betraying the trust of her colse friends and allies, loses the man she loves not long after admitting her feelings, and finally has to confront and shot said brother, only to find out shortly afterwards that he still loved her very much, in his own twisted way, and wanted nothing more than a quiet, peaceful life with her and Angie. Of the (surviving) main characters, she probably had it the worst.]] [[TraumaCongaLine To put it mildly]], the girl could use a hug.

* WinBackTheCrowd: Upon the game's announcement, fans were once again reinvested in the series (especially considering the overall lukewarm reception of ''VideoGame/ValkyriaRevolution'').

** Enemy Grenadiers. They can target your infantry from long range, have [[AlwaysAccurateAttack unfair accuracy]] and [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard reload speed]] compared to ''your'' grenadiers, their blasts have wide radius ''and'' [[RagdollPhysics send you flying.]] Made more infuriating since they also inflict a speed reduction ailment to make it harder to avoid being hit again. If you're in a tank, their mortar shells instantly deplete your tank's AP, which will impede you during missions that require Claude to reach the target area.

* DesignatedHero: Captain Morgen (an NPC) is depicted as being wise and kind, despite him being fully aware that [[spoiler:his ship is PoweredByAForsakenChild and that the child will be used as a FantasticNuke to destroy the enemy's capital without warning]]. He never shows any moral reservations about any of this. When the player characters find out, they do have some reservations, but only a DeusExMachina stops them from completing the plan.

* OvershadowedByControversy: When it was first released, a lot of talk of the game itself was overshadowed by people complaining about the scene where Raz gropes Kai's butt with most citing it as an example of sexism in gaming. Most tend to ignore that Kai proceeds to justifiably beats him up for doing so, largely because Raz is never formally punished for it.

** Gameplay wise, Lancers as a whole still suffer from a bit of a bad reputation due to a combination of [[MightyGlacier poor mobility]] and [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy lousy accuracy]], not helped by the fact that eventually [[OvershadowedByAwesome Snipers equipped with anti-tank rifles]] end up making them all but redundant.

* TierInducedScrappy: Some character have negative potentials that can seriously hamper them:
** Neige's Stage Fright drains all of her AP if she's spotted by multiple enemies, which can result in wasted turns and a fragile unit stuck in a bad position.
** Jimmy's Almost Got 'Em gives him a chance of letting whatever enemy he's attacking survive an attack that could kill them.
** Rebecca's Conservationist gives her a chance of refusing to use her Ragnaid.
** Vancey's Hammered gives her a chance of losing her action for the turn if she uses too much AP. Unlike other examples, she loses this after her Squad Story and replaces it with the extremely useful Former Elite.

* CargoShip: Similar to Salinas in the first game, Aulard can get remarkably excited when near or talking about tanks.

** Leena, Leena, Leena. By the time the story wrappes up, she [[spoiler: had to: keep up a facade of being another person the whole time, with all the stress that entails; gets shot and almost bleeds out at Siegval, is coerced into playing TheMole for the Empire by her own brother, is overwhelmed by the guilt of betraying the trust of her colse friends and allies, loses the man she loves not long after admitting her feelings, and finally has to confront and shot said brother, only to find out shortly afterwards that he still loved her very much, in his own twisted way, and wanted nothing more than a quiet, peaceful life with her and Angie. Of the (surviving) main characters, she probably had it the worst.]] [[TraumaCongaLine To put it mildly]], the girl could use a hug.

** Crymaria is the most powerful Valkyria in the world. She's also spent much of her life being subjected to inhuman experiments and suffers from a severe inferiority complex.

* ThatOneBoss: Tying into the entry below, Klaus Walz and the Vulcan. He's fought many times over the course of the game, and it's telling that the first few encounters don't require you to defeat him. Once you ''are'', the true pain begins. Offensively, his tank can move a lot further than a normal one, has a gatling turret that fires while he moves, and being a boss he can move multiple times in a turn. Defensively, his intercept fire can inflict Attack Down (read: all your shots do ScratchDamage) so you can't get too close, he has a huge amount of defense even on his weak point, and said weak point is extremely awkward to hit. Though Jaeger putting armour over his weak point in [=VC1=] was bad? The Vulcan's radiator is ''on top'' of the tank, making it almost impossible to hit from ground level. Even from above, it's small enough that Lancers require the Concentrate Fire order to hit it with any level of consistency. On top of that, he also has unique Orders in most of his missions, which often trigger some kind of gimmick designed to screw you over. (His soldiers can charge through flames unharmed, mortar fire on three camps you have to defend, he essentially ''combines'' with another boss...)
* ThatOneLevel: The first map of Chapter 15 requires you to destroy the Vulcan, the tank of Klaus Walz. Sounds simple enough... except your starting position has you placed in the very center of the map, with not only Vulcan starting from the south, but also Crymaria starting from the north, thus pitting your units in a disadvantageous situation. It gets worse after Walz executes an order which involves stationing Crymaria on top of the Vulcan, and she also comes equipped with a special [=AoE=] attack which instantly decimates any unit unlucky enough to get caught up within its range. On top of that, the map has only so many places you are able to deal at least a fair amount of damage to the tank's weak spot, and even then, it can take numerous attacks from anti-tank units to finally destroy it.

** Anti-Tank Turrets are equally frustrating and just as plentiful during late game missions and hard/expert skirmishes. They can spot you from long range, their bullets fan outward, and the turrets [[InstantDeathRadius can rotate 180°]], so any attempts to run past them quickly results in your scouts and shocktroops' HP being shredded in seconds.

** Angelica is [[TagalongKid the youngest character in the game]] and is a very sweet-natured, helpful girl. She's even this in-universe, with Riley even getting a potential based on her desire to protect her. [[spoiler:On the darker side, saving her from de facto enslavement by the Federation is also Forseti's motivation.

** Klaus is lauded as the commander of Ausbruch, which wiped out the Federation's reserve unit along with most of Squad F at the end of chapter 7. Whereas Crymaria is said to be the most powerful Valkyur, capable of creating blizzards and sank two Federation battleships at the same time. Yet, a single shocktrooper can drop both of them back-to-back [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NhVfH3Ozbs in seconds]] and end [[CurbstompBattle the "fight"]] in 1 turn if you abuse order stacking[[note]]detailed in the first two GameBreaker examples[[/note]].

** Klaus is lauded as the commander of Ausbruch, which wiped out the Federation's reserve unit along with most of Squad F at the end of chapter 7. Whereas Crymaria is said to be the most powerful Valkyur, capable of creating blizzards and sinking Federation battleships. Yet, a single shocktrooper can drop both of them back-to-back [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NhVfH3Ozbs in seconds]] and end [[CurbstompBattle the "fight"]] in 1 turn.

* TheScrappy: Minerva can come off as this due to her pompous and arrogant attitude toward Claude. At the end of Chapter 7, she takes this attitude to UptoEleven, [[AccomplicebyInaction furiously blaming Squad E for Squad F's demise]] since Claude had made the decision for Squad E to destroy an imperial supply depot during the retreat and thus showing up late to the rendezvous.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Claude's [[SpiderSense "wind talk"]] ability is never explained. No one questions how it works, or how he even discovered it. They simply accept his readings as factual and they're never proven wrong .

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Claude's [[MySignificanceSenseIsTingling "wind talk"]] ability is never explained. No one questions how it works, or how he even discovered it. They simply accept his readings as factual and they're never proven wrong .

* OvershadowedByControversy: Most talk of the game itself tends to be overshadowed by people complaining about the scene where Raz gropes Kai's butt with most citing it as an example of sexism in gaming. Most tend to ignore that Kai proceeds to justifiably beats him up for doing so, largely because Raz is never formally punished for it.

** Neige's Stage Fright drains all of her AP if she's spotted by multiple enemies, which can result in wasted turns and a fragile stuck in a bad position.
** Jimmy's Almost Got 'Em give him a chance of letting whatever enemy he's attacking survive an attack that could kill them.

* TierInducedScrappy: Many of the squad members have personal potentials which make them good all-rounders for their class, like snipers with improved accuracy. Others have specialized traits, like a scout with a ton of resistance to interception fire. And then we have characters who are uniquely bad at the primary or only purpose their class has. There is a medic who sometimes refuses to use healing items, a [[MoreDakka shocktrooper]] who fires fewer shots, and an anti-tank lancer who ''purposefully avoids destroying enemy tanks''. Fortunately, most of these horrible potentials get replaced with good ones after you complete that characters squad story.