History YMMV / SeaOfStars

** There are a ton of amazing combos out there with a ton of use cases that can help the player get through the game, but three stand out as the clear leaders of the pack given just how strong they are;

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xer_vasWKGQ "The Frozen Peak (Day)"]], which is a remix of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2q2tjcovFU "The Frozen Light"]] from ''VideoGame/{{The Messenger|2018}}''. Not only does the track have a BackgroundMusicOverride so that you can hear the track through the whole level, but it definitely invokes a strong feeling of nostalgia from those who played ''The Messenger''. It's a more-modern version of the song, with instrumentation to match, making it feel much more icy, as well as just being an extremely catchy song in general.

** Stormcaller's boss theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QDlAHLOq8I "The Storm Calls for You!"]], is a fast-paced, somewhat ominous song that manages to make an ''accordion'' sound epic.

*** The Mage is widely considered the most powerful piece. It always fires two attacks at a time, and while the first attack will easily blocked if the enemy has a Bulwark up on the field, the second one will always do damage. This means if you just concentrate on filling up the Mage's meter, you can usually [[LuckBasedMission but not always]] knock your opponent's HP down to 0 in just a few turns. The kicker: the Mage is one of the two pieces you're given at the start, the other being the Warrior. The drawbacks are its low attack and the big amount of energy it requires to attack, but it still more than justifies focusing your strategy on using it, since it partly ignores the enemy's Bulwark.

** The boss theme, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uZ46Hac5Vk Encounter Elite]]," was one of the first pieces of music revealed during the game's pre-launch publicity. Using a minimum of chords and percussive instrumentation, it sets the stage for every boss you fight. It also comes in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Egm6jABPUI futuristic]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1inlLKRdvJg bardcore]] versions.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xer_vasWKGQ The Frozen Peak (Day)]]", which is a remix of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2q2tjcovFU The Frozen Light]]" from ''VideoGame/TheMessenger2018''. Not only does the track have a BackgroundMusicOverride so that you can hear the track through the whole level, but it definitely invokes a strong feeling of nostalgia from those who played ''The Messenger''. It's a more-modern version of the song,with instrumentation to match, making it feel much more icy, as well as just being an extremely catchy song in general.
** The battle theme for the second fight against Romaya, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUMvWpyqL_Y Might of the Necromancer]]" is a fast paced synthetic heavy metal song with pipe organs that illustrates just how well and truly pissed off she is that the heroes didn't heed her warning not to come back into her territory with the fight she puts up this time around increasing in difficulty to match the music.
** Stormcaller's boss theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QDlAHLOq8I The Storm Calls for You!]] is a fast-paced, somewhat ominous song that manages to make an ''accordion'' sound epic.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The Meduso boss fight's gimmick is that, if left to its own devices, it will continually heal itself. It does this by drawing up a fluid into a canister and then stabbing the canister into its neck. It then injects itself with the fluid and ''moans.'' To the audience, it's pretty clearly a reference to drug usage.

** Stormbringer's boss theme, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QDlAHLOq8I The Storm Calls for You!]] is a fast-paced, somewhat ominous song that manages to make an ''accordion'' sound epic.

* OneTrueThreesome: By ''far'' the most popular ship in ''Sea of Stars'' is Valere with Garl ''and'' Zale. There's some prevalent fan works that also favor Valere with Teaks and Garl with Zale, but thruple fics with the first three party members are abundant. This mostly comes from their status as TrueCompanions; Valere and Zale tend to run on a similar wavelength and overcome [[spoiler:the death of Garl]] by finding comfort in each other. Meanwhile, despite ''losing an eye'' goofing off with the duo and having to wait ''ten years'' to see Valere and Zale following the start of their training, Garl never once lost his devotion to his friends and trained himself day in and day out to work with them on their journeys as a BadnassNormal. Must fanworks take this and run with it, alleging they begin a proper relationship shortly following the start of their journey.

* ScrappyMechanic: Valere's Moonerang and Seraï's Venom Flurry cause the character to jump to a new location based on the position of the enemies. However, this will sometimes cause Valere or Seraï to jump to a location that's obscured by the background, behind another character, or (in Seraï's case) completely off-screen. Since these attacks are rhythm-based and get faster as they go on, it can result in these moves dropping through no fault of your own, simply because the game wouldn't let you see what you needed to see.