YMMV / Super Robot Wars Gaiden

• Common Knowledge: The infamous "Full Possession Cybuster can access the Akashic Records and erase his enemies from existence!" rumor subsisted for a very long time, started thanks to a Woolseyism in the fandom's early days. It finally died when Revelation of Evil God allows use of the Super Mode, and while powerful, the Cybuster is not a Reality Warper^note As it turns out, the Cybuster can access the Akashic Records: it's just not a Reality Warper as rumored.
• Complete Monster: Lubikka Hakinnen is a brutal, Sadistic mercenary who leads attacks on civilians all the while sporting a big Slasher Smile on his face. One of these attacks took the lives of the parents of Tytti Noorbuck, and this wasn't the first atrocity Lubikka had committed. When Tytti exposed his crimes on the surface world to the Langran officials, Lubikka was forced to flee, becoming a mercenary raider who still carried out war crimes, except now he possesses a fixation on making Tytti suffer. He targets her friends and kills Ricardo, all to hurt the one person who escaped him before he plans to kill her as well.
• Funny Moments: The tournament scenario opening features a rather normal announcer who got heaped into interviewing the very quirky participants for the opening ceremony...
  • He had to cut off Tian's attempt to do a Muay Thai martial dance, much to Tian's frustration
  • He attempts to have Gennacy speak something, but all he got was just "Hm." because it's Gennacy we're talking about. All in all, the announcer mumbles why did he got stuck with this weird job.
  • Apparently, his favorite is Tytti so he accidentally put on some flattering names on her, much to his consternations.
  • He got put off-guard when he heard Yang Long quoting Sun Tzu.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Due to mounting liabilities, alongside poor sales from Pride of Justice, developer Winkysoft filed for bankruptcy in November 2015, marking Coffin of the End the literal final nail.
• Ho Yay
  • Masaki Andoh with Shu Shirakawa; in fact, the feeling is mutual as Shu remembers a lot more things about their feud when he comes Back from the Dead as an amnesiac in Super Robot Wars EX. In particular, he regains some memories simply by looking at the Cybuster in Dark Prison.
  • What doesn't help this ship is the True Final Boss of the Second Super Robot Wars Original Generation has referred to Masaki and Shu being "fated to be together". Sure, the boss is talking about the Reincarnation, but without context, one would think the writers were trying to ship them together.
• Magnificent Bastard: Shu; how he humiliates Teniquette Zezenan in the Second Original Generation through the most satisfying way as much as possible provides plenty of breathing room for the "Steel Dragon Battle Group", coupled with spreading a fake video of Arteil Steinbeck and Zezenan talking in secret to the Internet.
• Sequel Difficulty Drop: Coffin of the End tones down the difficulty of Pride of Justice, however there are lot more enemies that need to be killed.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: The Full Possession Leitmotif for Tytti Noorbuck and the Gaddeath, "Ocean of Determination", has a similar prelude like "So Close Yet, So Far Away"
• That One Boss
  • The last scenario of Masaki's route in the Second Original Generation has players fight Feilord Grania Bilseia and the Duraxyl. At this point in the game, this boss is more accurate and powerful than previous enemies, has the "Move Twice" pilot skill and the first boss in the game to make use of a MAP Attack when players have very little in the way of credits to upgrade allied units with, upon getting hit; a small horde of Demonic Spiders tags along for good measure. Players who've managed their money poorly may very well need to restart or go back several scenarios to stand a chance.
    • The reason why Kirkus Zan Valfarbia isn't as bad in the last scenario of Lune Zoldark's route is because there are more Super Robot units at players' disposal and while both routes have two pilots who can initiate "Maximum Break"^note Viletta Vadim and Aya Kobayashi in Masaki's Route, Kyosuke Nanbu and Katina Tarask in Lune's route, most of the units in Masaki's route are Real Robots. Oh, and regarding Ing Egret in Masaki's route: the resident Game-Breaker won't be of any help at this point in the game - the Ashe and his later pilot abilities aren't available until the "EX" scenarios are over.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: A lot of dangling plot points from the previous Masou Kishin games are just explained away in a single sentence following the Final Boss in Coffin of the End. At the same time, although players begin with Sakito Asagi, he turns into an irrelevant Decoy Protagonist once Masaki returns. In fairness, the series and the company were already dying by that point due to critical and commercial failure.
• The Woobie
  • Tytti lost her family to a psychotic murderer who killed them right in front of her on the surface world, and although she prevents him from gaining exclusive rights and privileges in La Gias^note Initially, he was chosen to be the Herald of the Gaddeath, not Tytti, he escapes captivity from the Kingdom of Langran authorities. When she sees him again, Tytti is Brainwashed by him and relives her bad memories from the surface; to top it off, the psychopath kills a fellow Herald who's been trying to get her affections for a large part of The Lord of Elemental, thereby invoking her fear of building a new relationship with other men. OUCH...and you thought Setsuko Ohara has it bad...
  • Coffin of the End makes this worse for Tytti: the Elemental Lords are missing, as are the rest of the Heralds, with La Gias in ruins by an unknown antagonist. Forced to align with Shu, Tytti has no choice but to use a regular Elemental Machine.
    • Not really. She'll get her fellow Heralds and her Elemental Lord back (see here), we just don't know how yet.