Rune Factory 3/YMMV

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Shara: Is she a sweet, innocent angel who only cares for your well-being? or is she a Manipulative Bitch who has her family guilt trip you into marrying her? It doesn't help that she becomes rather nasty at times when you marry her.
• Character Tiers: Up to you to decide, but some of the villagers don't seem to be as useful as the others in a fight, due to their attacking AI.
  • Raven is probably in the top tier, what with her fast melee attacks, fireball spam, ability to heal, innate fire resistance and transformation into her phoenix form for even MORE fireball spam.
  • Shara is relegated to being The Medic. If you bring her out, she mostly stands back and heals you.
  • Collette's tendency to throw you food items can be helpful—until you realise that some foods have negative effects like poisoning or paralysing you.
    • If you think such food is useless, remember that you can feed the enemy anything.
    • Problem is, she only throws food to you.
  • Zaid seems to be the local equivalent of Leeroy Jenkins. His AI tends to be far too aggressive, leading to Attack! Attack! Attack! and him charging into groups of enemies and fainting quickly.
  • RAINBOW! RAINBOW! RAINBOW!
• Ensemble Darkhorse: Although she's not the canon heroine, Toona (aka Raven) has found considerable popularity amongst the fanbase, with much more fanart of her produced than the other characters. Persia (Pia) is a close runner-up.
  • Gaius is also pretty popular.
  • A JP wiki on the game ran a poll asking users to vote for their favourite heroine: most of the other ladies scored in the 300s, while Toona and Persia scored 1400+ and 900+ votes respectively.
  • Raven is in the first OP, is the second characters that Micah meets, and is constantly plugged by the main heroine as being adorable. She's not a Darkhorse. Pia, Sofia, and Daria, on the other hand...
• Fridge Logic: In the first game, you got new recipes by buying books. In the second, by going to school and learning them one at a time. This game? By eating bread.
• Game Breaker: The Sharance Maze under your home. Accessible once you beat Raccoon, it provides the player with obscene amounts of money, item drops, experience and skill grinding—all with no penalty if you faint if you use the wireless multiplayer option. Furthermore, if you use the multiplayer option, no time passes at all. Feeding Super Fail to large enemies is also broken.
  • High-level hammer + Millionstrike or Grand Impact skill seal + Lucky Strike = Kill anything that isn't a boss in one attack (Or kill anything that isn't a Sharance Maze boss in four).
  • Oil + Explosion spell = Anything that doesn't absorb fire magic dies in five shots or less. Anything.
• Hell Is That Noise: Shara's giggle has been described as this.
• Memetic Mutation: "FRY HIRE! FRY HIRE! Ret Rings of Rove Come Frying Over Me!"
• Most Annoying Sound: After hearing Monica's "Gaaaaauuuuu!" for the umpteenth time, you'll feel like taping her mouth shut.
  • Players who dislike Pia would feel like stabbing her repeatedly for every "La la la~" and "HEY HO!" they get when she passes by.
  • RAINBOW!
• Narm: If you marry Raven, it is possible to trigger her birth cutscene when she is in phoenix form. Impossible not to laugh as she groans and Micah rushes her to the clinic.
  • It is also possible to propose to her while in phoenix form. For an added laugh, have Micah give her the ring while he's in wooly form as well.
• That One Attack: Most bosses have one, especially after they Turns Red. Raccoon's Leaf Boomerang, Skelefang's Bone Throw, Greater Demon's five earth spike combo, etc, etc.
• That One Boss: Most bosses apply, especially if you don't know their attack patterns. Some of them that take Spam Attack to unimaginable levels (Skelefang, Terror Tree, Siren) are particularly bad examples.
• The Scrappy: Zaid.
  • Also, Kuruna and Shara.
• The Woobie: Raven. Let's see: First, she talks about being cursed. Then she reveals that her friends tend to vanish. Then reveals that she's half-phoenix and is really lonely. Then you take her on a date to the waterfall and she mentions she's never had a family, and is obviously lonely. It's really hard not to marry her after that one.
  • She's also clingy towards you, constantly asking you to reaffirm your love for her and fearing you'll stop loving her.