YMMV / Citizens of Earth

• Adorkable: Cat Lady and Exterminator. The former dresses as a Cat Girl, and the latter tends to say "Exterminate!", which may or may not be a reference to Doctor Who.
• Anti-Climax Boss: The final boss is a Cutscene Boss where a Game-Breaking Bug is the most dangerous thing you can get. The boss right before that, Secretary Supreme, is also disappointingly easy due to having low HP.
• Demonic Spiders: Vacant Vultures and other enemies in Wellsprings Desert. The Vacant Vulture has a strong attack he'll use after a few turns, he's got a lot of HP and if you don't have the proper citizens leveled enough to take him down, you're going to be in a world of hurt. What makes it worse, is that you can be transported to Well Springs desert by accident, and its difficult to get back from while dodging enemies.
• Game-Breaker: Max out the Yoga Instructor's Talent and she can redistribute a character's stats at the cost of levels. Given how easy it is to level up in the game the altered characters quickly regain their lost stats and more in no time.
  • Given the gratuitous amount of sequence breaking possible you can, with concentrated effort, max out your characters very easily very early. Hell, the game literally put a late game area right next to your starting town. Get the mascot, level up his talent at least once, lower the difficulty until you can consistently defeat the girl scouts with Mom and Mascot providing easy verbal damage, girl scouts' weakness, slowly readjust difficulty as needed. Gets you very powerful characters before you've gotten the second plot point. Also makes getting the yoga instructor easy as you'll have a small number of citizens and thus less grinding them to level 20.
• Genius Bonus: The Programmer's Binary and Hexadecimal attacks are literally displayed as binary and hexadecimal numbers.
• Good Bad Bugs: If you fly somewhere using the Pilot and enter a battle before the text box saying she's going to take off appears, her portrait will appear over the battle and pressing the action button will exit the fight and send you where you wanted to be.
• Just Here for Godzilla: In one sense it's far more fun to explore as many areas as possible to find and recruit the citizens more so than advancing the plot.
• Most Wonderful Sound: Hearing most, if not all, of each character's level-up quotes.
• Never Live It Down: Even though Eden Industries released a patch for it and are continuing to support the game and iron out any rough edges, and it's a decent RPG in its own right, most people remember this game for its first release being very, very glitchy.
• Obvious Beta: The first release of the game is noticeably very buggy. Some areas don't load properly like the dream world, causing you to get trapped in a dark void based on the VP's bedroom, if you get hit while talking to an NPC, the conversation carries on into the battle, and that's not to say anything of the load times... Granted, it's not a bad game in and of itself, but all those glitches aren't doing it any favors.
  • Eden Industries does not have an in-house QA, leaving the game's testing to Nintendo and Sony. The fact that many of these numerous problems "were not reported" is simply another way of saying they did barely, if any, testing at all.
    • Though due to the amount and frequency of the bugs, it's also very likely that Eden Industries also didn't even play the game (or at least not that long) themselves before giving it to the publishers.
• Scrappy Mechanic:
  • Brother's ability lets you purchase exclusive items, but you need to wait several minutes in real time before they arrive. Unless you waste a lot of time, it won't be worth trying to get everything.
  • The Teacher's ability lets you put some Citizens in class, which gives them experience points. On top of requiring real time waiting, bonus stats are not applied for Citizens who gain levels this way, which means you're permanently gimping them by making them go to school.
• So Okay, It's Average: General opinion of this game seems to be this. It's definitely no EarthBound, and all the glitchiness of its first release had didn't win it any favors, but on its own it's a pretty decent RPG.
• Spiritual Licensee: Intentionally so, to EarthBound.
• Suspiciously Similar Song:
  • The title theme sounds quite a bit like the Presidential anthem, Hail to the Chief.
  • Ogopogo's theme includes bits of "Drunken Sailor".
• That One Sidequest: The Weather Lady recruitment quest. You just need to let her find you during a rainstorm. Except normal rain won't do, and even though you can ask her to change the weather even before recruiting her, you can't select a rainstorm until you level up her talent, which requires having her in your party. It's all a Luck-Based Mission, and you could very well go through the entire story without recruiting her.