YMMV / Sdorica

• Breather Level: Compared to the Civil War levels before and after it, Civil War level 14-10 "Between Life and Death" has a simple gimmick that, once found, ensures that even an underleveled team can beat it unless you deliberately sabotage yourself.
• Demonic Spider:
  • Enemies with abilities that allow them to attack out of turn can easily end a run if you can't kill them immediately. There are many variations, with power retaliate (attacks whenever they take damage from anything) and sensitive (attacks if you try using a Delaying Action) being among the worst of the lot.
  • Enemies with Mirror Force damage your entire team equal to how much damage they take.
  • Male lizard demihumans from Mirage are extremely dangerous because they fill the command zone with gold orbs and stun your gold character at the same time. With your gold character locked, you're very much dead.
  • Enemies at lower levels in the Deep In Atlas mode have large HP pools, powerful buffs, and drain a lot of vitality with attacks and debuffs.
  • The blue shirt miner usually found in the blue crystal caverns in Deep in Atlas infects your team with Filth, a permanent, undispelable debuff that slaps other debuffs every turn, including stun.
• Fan Nickname:
  • Character skillbooks usually get community nicknames by combining the character's name with the alternate's primary color scheme. Aosta's is red, thus he's "Raosta", for example.
  • On rare occasions, the character is named based on their skillbook's moniker. Roger, for example, is called Zoger based on his skillbook's name Dangerous Zombie.
  • SP characters follow the convention by having sp tacked on the start of their names. Spestia is Hestia SP, for example.
• Game-Breaker: In the Exploration Mode, you can craft equipment that grants unique bonuses to your units. The Furry Gloves turn two orbs black at the start of each battle and grant Lasting (prevents buffs from being lost after combat) to the black slot unit. Combine this with a Whetstone (single-use item that grants Sharpness, which increases damage with each orb-skill cast) and a powerful black unit such as Nolva, and you get a combination that can clear waves with ease, perfect for the Deep Into Atlas mission. Many other item combinations can result in this as well.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Morris is a powerful, unpleasant, black-dressed man who got killed and spends several decades of the story dead until he is reincarnated into the body of white-haired boy and ends up attracting the attention of an evil cult. Taking note of his seiyuu, one may wonder if his similarity with Soma Cruz is really a coincidence.
• I Knew It!:
  • The prominence of Udumbara Tree in season 3 has led many players to suspect that like the Dragon's Tooth in the previous season, the tree is actually a seal keeping a dangerous void beast inside. They were right on the money.
  • Many players also suspect that Juan Yun is too nice to be an actual good guy, and that he must have some hidden agenda. They were right although they probably didn't expect that Juan Yun is someone a lot more dangerous.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "Nani?!" ^ExplanationEverytime Aosta takes a hit or goes down, he will yell "Nani?". The fandom really loves this Catchphrase.
  • Everyone! It's time for a prediction from the one-and-only Hyde Oust! ^ExplanationHyde's speech in Chapter 16 after he is outed as a villain is accompanied by a meme-worthy rapeface. It gets to the point that his rapeface often gets pasted on someone else's face, and when Rayark releases character portraits for user icon, that rapeface is chosen for Hyde. That Hyde is voiced by DIO Brando doesn't help matters.
• One True Pairing: On the furry side of the fanbase, Yao x Pang. After Yao's reveal, there was an explosion of art of the two tiger men together.
• Paranoia Fuel:
  • Karen's character storyline. Basically, she gives Angelia a ruby necklace as a coronation gift from the Chamber of Commerce... except that the necklace may or may not have been fitted with a similar-looking Blaze Lizard crystal which, even if properly treated, will eventually explode. The game never resolves whether the necklace is genuine ruby or an explosive crystal.
  • The Dracontines. They are a Nebulous Evil Organization that could be anywhere or anyone, thanks to the immortals in their ranks who can hijack any person and virtually nobody can tell if the person is still themself or has been possessed by a Dracontine.
• Popular with Furries: Furries are among Sdorica's most notable fans. Best shown by the game's annual popularity polls; every year, at least one furry character makes it to the top 3, with Law the wolf winning 2nd year poll and Yao the tiger winning 3rd year poll. There's also a bit of Creator Worship; The furry artist who draw Law and Yao (and also Juan Yun) is immensely popular among furries, which partly explains why Law won despite being the only furry character in the top 12 of 2nd year poll, why Yao won in a landslide despite being only released on the same week as the start of 3rd year poll, and why the two still managed to trail directly behind 4th year winner Tindoiimu (who switched place with Yao).
• Scrappy Mechanic: Upgrading monsters in the ranch is an exercise in frustration which gets worse and worse the higher your Bonfire level and thus monster mission level is. The gist is that to gain the bonus rewards for the missions (which include the ever-so-important crystals), you eventually must upgrade your monsters' skill levels to tier 3 (which gives +15% success rate per skill slot, totaling 30%). The thing is, despite the various skills you can give your monsters, ultimately only three matters: Frontline Team 3, Midfield Team 3, and Back Defense Team 3, which, when given to the right monsters, guarantees that the monster will gain the bonus success rate instead of depending on which character you send together with the monsters, the location of the missions (and some missions don't even have locations), and many other skills don't even provide bonus success rate. Only one monster bait can provide monsters with those three skills (and that bait is not obtainable until you reach Bonfire level 7), and naturally it's still too possible for you to get monsters with all the wrong skills after using thousands and thousands of those baits. But even after getting the monster with the right skill, you still have to deal with the fact that you simply just can not guarantee that a skill transfer will be successful. So in short, you need to farm one very specific bait, pray that the monsters you get from that bait gives you those right skills, and pray even harder that the RNG doesn't screw you over by failing the skill transfer. All this for up to 20 more crystals per day for players who are not so keen on burning real money to amass crystals quickly.
• Teasing Creator: Rayark has altogether too much fun with their names for character tiers, skills and updates.
• Unexpected Character: Absolutely no one imagined that Dumb Bear Soldier NPC would be Promoted to Playable. And then the dataminers found the unique model...
• The Woobie: Sdorica has quite a large cast of colorful characters, many of whom have suffered through some terrible things...
  • Angelia: The princess of the Kingdom of the Sun, Angelia tries to improve the conditions of the people, only to discover a sinister plot involving her uncle, Theodore. This escalates into a vicious civil war, one that causes her to become more ruthless in the process.
  • Karnulla: Yan-Bo raises Karnulla to be a peaceful, non-violent frogodile. Several incidents when Karnulla grows up lead to Yan-bo losing faith in Karnulla, until Karnulla explodes and decides that, if he's going to be accused of being evil by nature, he might as well be evil.
  • Koll: A young glimmer wolf adopted by Kittyeyes, Koll spends his days trying to make her happy, only to be ignored when Roger's condition acts up. When Roger eventually goes berserk, Koll's efforts to stop him end up burning down a village and injuring his owner. In the end, Koll chooses to run away and search for others of his kind.
  • Devious, of all people. Originally just minding their daily business, he was hijacked by a Dracontine who proceeds to enact his evil plan as "Devious", and with even his own orphans being the Dracontine's victims, there is no one left to remember him as a kind old man, and instead now he goes down in history as a genocidal psycho.