YMMV / Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Did William Frega truly see his daughters as nothing more than worthless pawns, or did he hold some semblance of genuine love for them? When his will is read halfway through Case 4, it's revealed that he didn't intend to force Laefe into a marriage with Jaiden von Sanctus, despite the game making it clear he wanted a man to head the house. Tyrion does suggest that he only did it to protect his assets from von Sanctus, but he was at the very least still more willing to trust his daughters with them either way. Of course, we also never see his updated will in full, so who knows if he would've enforced the marriage there, but the possibility still exists.
• Anti-Climax Boss: Compared to the relatively ardous argument with Eris before him, Aster goes down incredibly easily, only needing to cross-examine Celeste once and solve two simple deduction puzzles before he's done.
• Best Boss Ever: Eris, the Big Bad and one of the final case's culprits, is this. Like Marrunath in the previous case, she's unable to tell a lie, but she's much better at working around this limitation, milking Exact Words and Lying by Omission for all they're worth. Using her intelligence and ability to edit the memories of people she has blood pacts with, she convinces the entire court, including Tyrion, that Celeste was the "Patron" controlling Aria. Just when all hope seems lost, a pep talk from Aria motivates Tyrion into awakening his angelic powers and dragging Eris to the Court of Azathoth to dispute Celeste's contract. There, the two engage in an argument where they are both unable to lie, culminating in Tyrion proving that Eris was unable to fulfill the terms of the contract and that her attempts to cover it up left logical inconsistencies in the supposed events that took place, breaking the contract, allowing Celeste to regain her memories, and proving that she was not the Patron.
• Creepy Cute: Some find Eris in her human form this.
• Cry for the Devil: It's hard not to feel sad for Beatrice Frega. She always saw her father as an "unstoppable, tyrannical force", who always belittled her for everything she did despite her best efforts. She was one of the most powerful mages in the kingdom, but that wasn't enough for him. He would never let a woman inherit his house. When Beatrice became blind due to an accident, he used this opportunity to control her even more and trap her in the manor. Angry and desperate for freedom, she abandoned her home five years before case 4. Beatrice turns out to be the culprit of this case: she murdered her father in order to claim the Frega estate. Tyrion thinks she's no different from the other power-hungry, egotistical nobles he's had to face before, but she shoots down the idea. She says that she would've used her power to purge the corruption from the nobility system. But because she was convicted, she failed to claim the inheritance, and she lost her soul to the Empress of Discord due to a Deal with the Devil (which allowed her to see through the eyes of her new demonic familiar in exchange for claiming the Frega estate). Tyrion offers to help nullify this contract, but failure to render it null would drag him down to hell alongside her, so she rejects his help. Later in the game, Beatrice is used as a pawn by the Big Bad in a massacre, and when she's outlived her usefulness she falls into a coma. She ends up waking up, according to the credits... but her life from now on is going to be in prison, waiting for the Empress of Discord to claim her soul again at any moment.
• Jerkass Woobie: Beatrice Frega. For most of her life, she was hounded by her own father, who was trying to find some sort of weakness in her so he could deny her the right to take over his banking empire one day (which he was able to do after she lost her sight). Even after plotting to take him down for 5 years, even making a Deal with the Devil to ensure it, she's hit with the realization that simply revealing his plans against the crown and House Steelwind could've ruined him, and that her murder plot and deal with the Empress of Discord was all for nothing. But due to being pressed for time, she goes through with her plan anyway, and as a result, she's disinherited by the Slayer Rule after her conviction, losing her soul to the Empress of Discord in the process.
• Only the Author Can Save Them Now: There was absolutely no way Tyrion could've proven the guilt of Case 4's culprit on his own. He only wins because of an almost literal Deus ex Machina. The only thing that could prove Beatrice is responsible for Marrunath's murder of William was a very specific clause in her 50-page Blood Contract that not even Tyrion knew about. The contract itself is an item that wasn't in evidence and no one other than Beatrice had access to. Frey, Tyrion's dead mother and a heavensborn, has to teach him on the spot how to issue a Divine Edict, a technique that creates a copy of someone's Blood Contract, and the in-game description for the contract even points out the exact page where Tyrion needs to look. No wonder Beatrice is completely dumbfounded when he pulls it off.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • Garrick Pierce. Despite being a Case 1 villain, he's given a surprising amount of depth due to having been the cause of his childhood friend Effie McCoy's death by an out-of-control magic spell when he was young. However, despite the death being accidental, any feelings of guilt on Pierce's part or any other, more complicated feelings aside from the mutual ire between Flinhart and him are never explored, even when Pierce is brought back for the final case. He gets a slight amount of additional focus in Case 5, where he dies, but even then, his decision that it's Better to Die than Be Killed gets little focus because of much more important events happening around it and because its significance to the plot greatly outweighs whatever reasons Pierce had for doing it.
  • Miriam Frega. She starts out as a haughty, typical noble who looks down on commoners, but as the game goes on and her family matters become a part of the plot, she starts to mellow out and become less antagonistic towards Tyrion and Celeste. However, she never really has to confront her unpleasant behavior and she's not really shown learning to become a better person despite her ire towards the main characters lessening. That said, she was one of the first characters to have new concept art made for the sequel, so it's possible she develops there.
  • Alaric de Wyverngarde. Out of everyone involved in Case 5, aside from Aria, he's probably the one most affected by Aster's betrayal and subsequent execution, but all he gets is a short scene in the credits with Aria and Celeste discussing that he probably needs time to process everything that's happened. Given that the game ends on a Sequel Hook, it's possible that he's being saved for a possible sequel and that the ambiguity about what he knows and how he feels about what happened is to preserve options for that.
  • Coraline Sibyl. She's the head of one of the Four Pillar families, but only appears in one scene, which is specially jarring after getting to know House Frega and Lloyd von Sanctus so well. Yet the game wastes no time establishing tension between her and Tyrion: he points out the corruption in the legal system she's responsible of, but Sibyl acts like it's none of her business and places the burden of fixing it on the commonfolk. This conflict could've been further explored in one or more episodes, but it goes nowhere as she dies immediately.