Suikoden III/YMMV

"Albert: "This whole thing is getting too melodramatic for my taste.""
 * Alas, Poor Scrappy: may have been annoying, but
 * Alas, Poor Villain: is this in a nutshell.
 * Game Breaker:
 * You can level up Chris, Borus, Salome, and Roland to level 99 in Chapter 1. It just involves a ton of time and tediousness and the rewards, while good since there are a few stars that will be level 99 if you recruit them, isn't really worth it in the end.
 * The above is of the Disc One Nuke variety of this trope. However, some surprising characters are effectively game breakers if you abuse abilities, titles, equipment etc. Quite possibly the best person in terms of pure destructive terror is a completely optional 15 year old girl. Who needs a True Rune anyway?
 * Let's not forget Juan and Emily. To elaborate, the battle system allows characters with the right skills to attack several times per turn, and they can move on to other enemies when their enemy falls before their attack string is finished. These two can get more than 10 attacks per round each, with each hit doing roughly 400 damage. Add to that the fact that Juan has a Waking rune attached permanently, which means he's doing at least double damage when he wakes up. The downside is that this means he's going to be sleeping for at least the first round, but you can equip accessories that nullify sleep to just have them demolish absolutely everything you encounter within one round. Even bosses don't last very long against that.
 * Magnificent Bastard: Albert Silverberg


 * Salome has shown himself to be quite magnificent if he sets himself out to do it.
 * Nightmare Fuel:
 * Branky. Freaky demon puppets.
 * How about the prediction Luc receives from his rune of.
 * For some, Kenji.
 * Player Punch: This is a Suikoden game, so there's several:
 * Earliest example would be the result of the cease-fire:
 * To say nothing of  reaction to the above.
 * Alma Kinan brings us  -- which
 * And that last part leads to.
 * The chain of events in the late-game where  isn't all that fun, either.
 * That One Boss: The Water Rune Incarnation.
 * The Scrappy:
 * Guillaume, a French, overweight, cheating, dog-kicking, lying paedophile, is most likely an intentional example of this. (And the player gets to enjoy whupping his portly posterior several times.)
 * And Kenji. Bodybuilding teacher who jogs in a fight and fights with calisthenics... WTF?
 * From his stupid name, to his status as a Millstone and a Tagalong Kid, to the shit-eating grin in his character portrait, nothing Lulu said or did failed to get on This Troper's nerves. Also, with his small size and his habit of picking fights with opponents far more powerful than him, he actually bears an uncanny resemblance to the original Scrappy.
 * Tear Jerker:
 * Chris encounters her father after nearly 20 years just in time to.
 * The Woobie - Thomas, though he is more of an Iron Woobie.
 * The Woobie - Thomas, though he is more of an Iron Woobie.