YMMV / Pandora's Tower

• Awesome Music: The Boss fight themes. Furthermore, the music that Elena sings to is Liebestraum by Franz Liszt.
• Fan Nickname: David Cronenberg’s The Legend of Zelda, thanks to being an action-adventure game where you play as a blonde-haired man traversing several dungeons for the sake of helping the princess he loves. Oh, and the horror of said princess slowly turning into a monster and needing to devour flesh in order to keep the transformation at bay.
• Moe: Elena, at least when she's in human form.
• Nausea Fuel:
  • In order to not turn into a monster, Elena has to eat chunks of meat hacked from the monsters in the Towers. Unfortunately, she has to eat it raw, and the flesh does not look appetizing at all: they're purple lumps with cyst-like bits inside.
  • The Nonstandard Game Over doesn't show Elena's monstrous form... but does show her slimy purple blood smeared all over the room.
• Player Punch: Slaying Elena in the D ending is heartbreaking.
• Scrappy Mechanic: Unless a fur lining is equipped to reduce the probability of having an item broken, the items will break if the character is hit by strong attacks, and repairing them costs money.
• Tough Act to Follow: Compared to its fellow Operation Rainfall games Xenoblade Chronicles 1 and The Last Story. Xenoblade Chronicles is from Monolith Soft, the same minds behind cult classic Xenogears and the acclaimed Xenosaga trilogy. The box art for The Last Story proudly declares that it was directed by Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi and composed by Nobuo Uematsu. Meanwhile, Pandora's Tower was created by some developer that until that point made nothing but action games based on Shonen Jump properties (and which returned to doing so afterwards). While not a bad game by any means, with many critics enjoying its story and gameplay, it came out so late after the other two (its North American release being months after the launch of the Wii U) and lacked their similar pedigrees that it ultimately became the most forgotten of the trio, despite even seeing a Wii U re-release when The Last Story didn't.

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