YMMV / Rune Factory Oceans

• Angst? What Angst?: The fact that Aden and Sonja have been sent 200 years into the future doesn't seem to bother them much. They are shocked at the news, but it doesn't play a factor for them later on. And they have no hesitation to decide to stay in this time rather than return to their own.
• Captain Obvious Reveal: Aden and Sonja are still on their home island, but it's 200 years into the future. The dialogue Aden and Odette have in the beginning already heavily implies this. Specifically, Aden says that Fenith Island is where they come from, but it looks vastly different; Odette then admits that there used to be a lot more dragons flying around, but they died out over the past few centuries. This makes the eventual late-game revelation of Sonja being a descendant of the Wind Dragon Priestess line another blatant example in itself. Once again, the game makes heavy-handed comments about the Wind Dragon Priestess line having 'died out' about 200 years ago.
• Demonic Spiders: Dragons in particular, especially if there's more than one in the room; they're difficult enough to deal with on their own, but their detailed models and fire attacks are difficult for the console to render, usually causing it to lag enough to make them even tougher to beat. And those fire attacks are probably the strongest attacks leveled against the player thus far.
• Goddamned Bats: If you've been keeping up with accessory crafting, whatever type of trolls are around can become these. Their attacks may not do much damage, but they usually knock the player back or on the ground; the split seconds of recovery time is just long enough for them to get another punch in. Two of them in a room at the same time can pretty much just do it back and forth, and even if they're only doing Scratch Damage it's a pain to get an attack in edgewise. If you haven't been keeping up with accessory crafting, they can veer straight into Demonic Spider territory.
• Narm: Odette's expression whenever Fangord is speaking through her makes her look like she's completely stoned.
• Older Than They Think: This was not the first Rune Factory game with a female Player Character; that honor goes to Rune Factory 2, where the protagonist's child could be a girl and controlled during the second portion of the game.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Despite being the Big Bad and having a good amount of screentime, the Masked Man's true identity, origins, and motives remain a mystery and are never elaborated on. We know he stole Sonja's body to make use of the Spirit Song, and sought to awaken the Legendary Golem so he can fight the Elder Dragons and become a god, but that's all we get. We never find out his name^note He's only called the Masked Man even after the mask comes off, what he actually looks like^note He was using Sonja's body throughout all his screentime, and his true appearance is never shown even when he leaves the body, or why he wants to become a god. Even his final words to Aden and Sonja about how they're being used as pawns and their victory was not theirs is also Left Hanging.

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