YMMV / Knight's Contract

• Complete Monster: The wicked Dr. Faust is a Mad Scientist obsessed with the Anima del Monde, an artifact which will allow him to gain ultimate power. Using his power to bring The Black Death upon Europe, Faust frames a group of innocent witches and subjects them to torture and execution to obtain their pieces of the Anima del Monde. Faust later resurrects them, using their anger and hatred at their deaths to send them against humanity, causing innumerable innocent deaths all so Faust can manipulate the only surviving witch into his grasp to obtain the final shard and achieve godhood for himself.
• Game-Breaker: Maar's Lance is a powerful ranged spell that deals a lot of damage and has additional benefits based on which version of it you're using. The Level 1 version is has a very short cooldown, the Level 2 version explodes, and the Level 3 version is a Super-Persistent Missile that will continue to seek out targets for several seconds regardless of ho many times it penetrates enemies, making it One-Hit Polykill against most encounters and an easy way to chew through bosses as well. All of these attacks are easy to aim to boot thanks to the lock on system meant for melee combat carrying over to the targeting. Best of all, each Level of the spell is treated as a separate spell with its own cooldown, meaning you can equip all 3 versions at once and cycle through them to spam your way to victory.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: In the first level, Minukelsus starts off on a rather bad foot with his high pitched cries for help and bumbling antics marking him as a rather unfunny Cowardly Sidekick whose only redeeming feature is that he doesn't get in the way. However, he becomes much less annoying after being Demoted to Extra as his cowardice is treated less comically and he becomes actually rather helpful by delivering the occasional Upgrade Artifact. On top of that, the player doesn't actually need to protect Minukelsus throughout the majority of the game like they do with Gretchen. By the time he becomes a major character again and the player temporarily switches to escorting Minukelsus, he has become much more competent in battle, being much better at staying out of the way than Gretchen and even having Difficult, but Awesome One-Hit Kill attacks. And to cap it all off, his newfound strength is revealed to be Cast from Lifespan, making his entire gameplay sequence one long Heroic Sacrifice.
• Tear Jerker: The death of Minukelsus.
• That One Level: Simply put, any level where you can die by falling off into bottomless pits. That includes the fights with Holda, Trendula and Verderinde (Revenge Incarnate)