Grandia II/YMMV


 * Game Breaker: The "Spellbinding Eye" technique can turn anything into an immobile, incapacitated punching bag. In a subversion of Contractual Boss Immunity, this includes the final boss.
 * Early in the game (really early), you can fight enemies that drop an item which permanently increases your Defense. Grind enough and you are practically invincible.
 * The only way to get killed using those is when facing the Bonus Dungeon's Demonic Spider enemies that can wipe out your party in one hit. The Valmar Pieces and are ridiculously easy.
 * High Octane Nightmare Fuel: The game is full of this really, only partially covered up by the cute graphics.
 * The Moon of Valmar is in fact . Oh, and Mareg, the Beastman who's been a part of your party for two thirds of the game?
 * There was also the part where you.
 * releasing the Heart of Valmar. Yick.
 * Porting Disaster: The Play Station 2 version was notoriously buggy.
 * The PC version even more so. It's possible that Millenia, during her Impossible Boss Fight, will not end the fight to progress the story, and will just wear you down until you inevitably start over (this happens if you run the Tutorial in the Carbo Village Weapons Shop before fighting Millenia). It's also possible for the characters' mugshots to randomly replace item textures in battle, so monsters drop Millenia coins or Roan bombs.
 * Tear Jerker: Pretty much everything involving .  She eventually gets better, but still...
 * Viewer Gender Confusion: Roan sounds more like a girl with a stuffy nose than a boy.
 * Roan looks more like a girl than a boy, especially after getting his outfit.