Shikigami no Shiro/YMMV

• Game-Breaker: Roger's ninja bombs, at least in the third game, deal such incredible amounts of damage that they'll shred bosses in seconds. This renders the difficulty of most bosses moot when you only have to weather a few rounds of the patterns. What really makes this broken is that as a regular attack, it can be spammed freely and with impunity. The only way it doesn't help much is for scoring.
• Ho Yay: Almost everything Roger says in the third game is a not-so-thinly veiled come-on to his "best bud" Kohtaro.
  • Parodied with the Roger and Munchausen team-up. Their dialogue can be heard here.
  • On the other end of the spectrum, Mihee and Reika's team-up scenario ends with Mihee straight out declaring she'll take Reika as her wife, with Reika putting no more opposition than a complaint that she doesn't have the legal age to drink yet when invited to.
• Macekre: When the first game in the series was released in the U.S., it was released under the title Mobile Light Force 2, with the implication that it was a sequel to a completely unrelated game (said game being Gunbird). The same localization team got a chance to do things right with Shikigami II, and that time they left the characters and setting intact, though still with a very dodgy translation.
• Narm: Shikigami 2 has Resident Evil-caliber voice work and a translation that renders its dialogue all but incomprehensible. The results are comedy gold.
• So Bad It's Good: Shikigami 2's astonishingly poor localization and dubbing have earned it something of a cult following, even among people who have never played the game.