YMMV / Chain Chronicle

• Alternate Character Interpretation:
  • Is Patricia really giving out discounts and loaning out money out of the goodness of her heart, or is she pursuing another angle and just building up a reputation that she's going to cash in on later? All her quests give evidence to either interpretation, though her last 4-star Arcana quest seems to heavily lean on the latter interpretation.
• Broken Base: While the Japanese version has its own set of issues, the Global version of the game has much more scrutiny due to its easier language accessibility.
  • Global Exclusive characters/features are either loved or hated by fans of the game.
  • The lower gacha pull rates for Four or Five-star Arcana in the Global version is a constant source of annoyance for players, especially for those who've had experience playing the Japanese version. It's very possible for a Global player to not get any rare arcana after paying five hundred or more Prysma, whereas in the Japanese version that would yield at least three SRs or URs.
  • The global distributor, Gumi itself. A lot of fans hate them for causing several issues, long maintenance times, and lack of customer support. However, other fans are quick to defend them as well.
  • Gumi came under fire with Monette's event. There are those that thought (especially the unluckier free players) the 5 million conquest points goal to MLB Monette are ridiculous. Especially with the fact that a friend's event weapon effect will not stack with yours. Not to mention the special characters with their special event weapons not appearing due to an error. Pretty much most players, even those lucky enough to MLB Monette, thought that Gumi handled this event badly.
    • Adding to the incident, Gumi had initially advertised Monette with a different skill. When players found out otherwise, they received even more backlash. The same thing happened with Rolo's event.
    • This event is now infamously known as one of the possible reasons for the Global version's closure, as this was the final non-Dawning event before the announcement.
• Character Tiers: While 1 and 2-star arcana can still be useful depending on the situation (see how Dusty and Marga still get a lot of use for the Titan's Challenge quest in the Mystic Mountains), and useful as space filler when a player's point limit is especially tight, they are by and large inferior to even 3-star arcana, never mind 5-stars, many of which have two abilities rather than one. Even within a rarity class some are far worse stat or ability-wise compared to the others —- for example Ioh, while free and useful during the initial parts of the story, is generally considered one of the weaker 4-star Soldier-classes available.
  • V2 characters are often considered superior to their V1 counterparts due to lots of 'packaged' abilities (like healing per waves coupled with immunity to certain status effects) available for them. Even their three-stars have better stats compared to other three-stats.
• Fandom Rivalry: Infamously, when Global was live, there was a significant amount of heat between the Chain Chronicle playerbase and the Brave Frontier playerbase, partly because of the two games sharing a publisher in the West. Of course, "rivalry" turned into "pity" when the news came out about Chain Chronicle getting the chopping block in the West.
• Funny Moments: Befitting the nature of the game, there are several.
  • There was a side mission where the Volunteer Army (precisely Knuckle and Lizerotte) was given a hilariously petty task by Fatima...to retrieve her stolen cookies.
  • In Nikolas' third quest, he lays down a barrage of insults to two Magic Academy professors that's enough to make both of them cry, with one of them bawling.
  • Scherazad's really picky about the sauce of her kebab in her first quest. See her character entry in the Character page for details.
  • Pretty much every time Melchior opens his mouth, along with an impromptu Boke and Tsukkomi Routine courtesy of him and Fatima. It gets even funnier when he actually became reasonable in the beginning of Book 2.
  • In a very much Troll-ish moment for Gumi, the New Advent Celebration features the New Advent Party, split into three stages. The first stage featured numerous ghosts...that turned into the first character who hits them. Including their weapons. This means that lots of players with their shiny, maxed out, MLBd characters suddenly faces themselves, caught off guard, and got their ass kicked to New Year's Day by their own Arcanas the first time they did the quest, expecting easy payout due to the quest labelled as just a level 28 quest. Cue nervous laughs and grudging applause.
    • On that note, the Captains Abound! quest also features multiple mimic ghosts. It features your hero almost gotten beat up by the masses for stealing foods and groping women (actually it's the Hero's doppelgangers), Phoena acting borderline Yandere hearing and seeing the Hero's exploits with Nicky (again, it's the Hero's doppelgangers), and Bernadette wanting a kiss on the cheek (because a clone got to do it first) and Pheona's Big "NO!" at the end. For extra hilarious points, you can compliment on the clones knowing how to live the life before Phoena calls you out.
• Game-Breaker: As befitting games of this nature, there are plenty of this trope when you realize the potential of an Arcana. Most of the offenders are Global Exclusive, something that really irks the playerbase. The best place to test them? The Coliseum.
  • Nikolas's skill is perfect for Coliseum battles due to the AI's tendency to blindly charge at one spot when your vanguard has been eliminated, not to mention powerful enough to pin down (on top of having a chance to inflict two status ailments) and defeat fellow Arcanas due to his low skill cost. As a result, you can make many easy comeback victories (or incapacitate the AoE wizard your enemy prepares at the rear) to the point it's getting ridiculous and boring.
  • Woe betide anyone who has to fight Barienna or Parchelle in the Coliseum, or worse, both. Especially when they reach full Limit Break. Barienna's skill, while can only negate one attack to each ally in the field, it negates them by quite a huge amount to the point that even your strongest fighter won't make a dent. Parchelle's skill heals herself by a huge amount of damage to the point that it might as well be a full heal. As a result, she can and will dish any amount of damage you gave her if you don't eliminate her quick. Worse? Both of them only use one point of mana to use their skills, and as a result, you or the AI controlling your defense team can (and probably will) spam them.
• Good Bad Bugs: In recent months, Fortune Ring characters that are able to be pulled through Challenge Recruit has astoundingly large rate, allowing several players to get powerful Fortune Ring characters and maxed their stats in no time at all, then farm for more Fortune Rings by selling the 5-star character they get through the Challenge Recruit while keeping the 3-star Enhancers and Forgers, which then get used to redeem Stamina or Revival Fruits or more Arcana Coins to farm more Fortune Rings. The problem is, this breaks the balance of the game, as there are sudden rise of players with maxed 4 or 5-star characters trampling weaker players in the Coliseum with their newly maxed out character, equipped with their shiny new maxed out weapons. This was fixed when Nikolas was featured, causing a Broken Base between players who exploited the bug and players who feel that the game suddenly became too easy and lost interest because of it.
• High-Tier Scrappy: A lot of Global exclusives are less appreciated for being too strong and cheap in normal gameplay and being Game-Breaker in general to being way too focused in creating a certain situation in battle (for example, Liam can inflict slow with his normal attacks, then deal more damage to slowed down enemies) that it makes them useless in any situation where the enemy is immune to their specialization. Or otherwise the other way around and spectacularly bad, such as Garrett.
• Launcher of a Thousand Ships: The Hero (or Yuuri if you prefer) has a ridiculous amount of people of both genders within the game that want to get the jump on him, making it easy for him to be shipped with any character. Hell, even non-playable characters such as Eirenus and Yggdra can be easily be shipped with him without much of a hint!
• The Scrappy: For many global region players, the Global Exclusives.
  • If the players don't care about their utilities, there will be a lot of (largely justified) complaints regarding exclusive characters' sprite either being Off-Model (Mei's eyes in particular is realy off) or having lower quality in comparison to the other normal characters (Robyn and Garrett are egregious examples). Some people also complained about the low quality of their voice, despite still using Japanese voice actors.
  • Some of which have backstories and traits that are in blatant violation of the game's lore. For example San-San has animal characteristics more commonly associated with the Fire Sprite, yet he was considered an Earth Sprite in his profile. There's also Hannya, who despite being referred as an ogre, has 'horns' that looks more like a part of her helmet than a part of her head and has Medieval Europe-styled armor rather than Feudal Japan-styled. Nikolas is also a gunner, despite the fact that guns haven't made it into Yggdra and only one of the Sages managed to make a prototype one. While some characters are mitigated by their useful skills and abilities, some just not make the cut.
    • Hannya's case are not helped by her becoming a demon in the upcoming Global server's Christmas demon raid, which in the opinion of some players, could be used for a more 'official' demon raid, like the long-awaited Agdala.
  • The other Global characters however, are more fairly appreciated. Thrax was appreciated for his high yet fair stats for a 3-star Knight, not to mention being a badass Animated Armor with a cheap skill that causes daze. Liam was sought after by some players with low luck in the Gacha for being a free yet powerful AoE Wizard class in the Fortune Festivities Event; a few amount of players also appreciate his voice even if it doesn't suit his image. Nikolas was also appreciated for being useful in inflicting Slow and Poison with his attacks while causing knockback with his cheap 1-mana skill. His quest is also filled with some of the most hilarious lines ever written for a character quest, which is very amusing to watch.
• Scrappy Mechanic: The old element system, where ice deals more damage to fire and deals less to ice and vice-versa. Fixed in Version 2, where the reduced damage has been removed completely.
• Tear Jerker: Hoo boy. Surprisingly for a mobile game, there are tons of them. See Crapsaccharine World in the main page for details.
  • Roy's story has him rendered speechless by a man who lost his entire family when the man in question confronted Roy about his divine power, calling it 'useless'. After Roy helped defending the village from a monster raid, he was pelted by stones by the same man, blaming him for the event. He just took it without retaliating, even stopping Pirika from confronting the ungrateful man in question.
  "Everyone has to vent their anger on someone. Life's too hard otherwise."
  • The first part Inami's story has her having a goal to make one hundred friends, with the Hero and company being one of the first friends she had. When her powers went out of control after helping the Volunteer Army defending a village, a boy she tried to befriend got very afraid of her instead, causing him to run away in fear and her on the verge of tears. You can comfort her. The second part has her regaining the memories of her mother's death after an encounter with a group of men who killed her mother. This almost caused her to snap.
  • Clarice's story focuses on her desire to find her lover, Sven, who was taken away from her by the Black Army by searching for a necklace with half of a shell that fits hers. She is furious towards the Black Army because of that and is very violent in her story against them. In her second quest, she finds his grave and spends time crying her eyes out.
  • Audette's story has her slowly realizing that her overt dedication to her cause has caused immense pain for herself while also hurting others. After the Hero hurt himself when rescuing Audette from her Leeroy Jenkins tendency, she realizes that her recklessness to fight the Black Army can hurt others, yet futilely denied the fact. In the final part of her quest, after she scared a person she rescued, she finally broke...until a pep-talk made her invokes a Cooldown Hug on herself. It can be a slight Mood Whiplash if you're a bit coy about her hugging the Hero, though she appreciates the notion.
  • Lilith's Chain Story has her traveling around in order to found out who must she save when the world came to an end. When she asked Teresa about it, Teresa remarked that she doesn't deserved to be saved. Her statement became very poignant once you completed Teresa's quest and take a look at her past.
  • On the Meta side, there's the closure of the Global version of the game, which has resulted in posts such as this one, which doubles as a Heartwarming Moment.
• Woolseyism: While "Blind Idiot" Translation are still prevalent, some character lines was interpreted in a certain way that gives them much more colorful personality. For example, Stella's original skill lines were along the lines of 'No, this isn't cute at all!'. Gumi translated this into 'Your face is all kinds of wrong!', which surprised lots of players.
• WTH, Costuming Department??: Chiyome, who has ridiculously-sized breasts and her bottom clothing leaves extremely little to imagination.