YMMV / Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara

• Awesome Music: Both Tel' Arin's themes are very amazing tunes that have an awesome guitar sound apart from their melodies.
• Funny Moments: Sticks to Snakes, a pre-existing spell in D&D. The player simply grabs a bundle of sticks and turns them into a small clutch of green garden snakes.
• Game-Breaker: Once Large Burning Oils start appearing in shops, many bosses can be beaten simply by knocking them down and spamming an adventurer's entire stock of them. Usually, there's a shop right after the boss you do this to, so you can restock immediately.
• No Problem with Licensed Games: The games put the D&D license to very good use, but even players who don't care for D&D at all still regard them as two of the greatest arcade beat-em-ups ever made.
• Porting Disaster: In 2013, Capcom re-released both games as Chronicles Of Mystara on Steam, with the same love for the PC as the Resident Evil 4 port shows: no local Co-op, no native gamepad support, and no way to adjust the keybindings for movement: you are stuck with the arrow keys. Even if you adjust the keys for your actions, the keys you must press to confirm/cancel on the main menu stay the same! Graphics don't hold up much either; the filters supplied (especially the scanlines) look worse than the same filters on MAME. The unlockable gallery and its achievement-like progression is interesting, but because of all the faults mentioned, not many people bought it and thus the primary pull of this version - Drop-In-Drop-Out Multiplayer - loses its appeal.
• Tear Jerker: In the first game, no matter what decision you make for the second level, tragedy ensues. If you go to get help for Fort Cruth, you later learn that everyone at the fort was wiped out when the monsters attacked. If you go to help the fort, you later meet a merchant who says his daughter (the girl you save from the Manticore on the other path) disappeared when she went to get water for her caravan.
• That One Boss:
  • Tel' Arin. Bonus points as in Shadow he shows up right after the Harpy with no recovery in between. Though at least the burning oil trick can be used to make him easy.^{Burning Oil Trick}Normally, burning oil does not hit creatures that are hit-able on the ground (OTG). However, if there's burning oil on top of a creature that's on the ground, you can hit it with a regular attack that can OTG. That sends them into a state which the can be hit by the burning oil from. And oil then sends them back into OTG. So long as you can knock Tel' Arin down once, you can throw oil, hit him, throw oil again, until you run out of oil.
  • Harpy herself is no slouch, as she can quickly sweep the screen and has an instant wakeup attack, something few bosses posses. Or she can waste your time by hovering out range and pushing you away while the dark elves hack away.
  • Ezerhorden has tons of health and an unblockable engulf attack. If your coop partner hits Ezerhorden while your character is engulfed, the latter takes the damage. Ezerhorden is terrible for melee parties, and his undead cronies demand you bring a cleric along.

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