| 1 | * ''Megaton Rainfall'' does not shy away from making you an absolute overpowered beast. When else has an action game given you such a degree of raw, unhinged ''power'' entirely at your fingertips? |
| 2 | ** First of all, you are almost entirely indestructible, so much that the intruders don't even attempt to harm you despite your slaughtering their forces. That's why instead of a meter for your own health, the game has a ''casualty threshold'': if too many humans die on your watch, you lose. The only way ''you'' can die is if you get caught in a black hole while exploring space, which nets you an achievement. |
| 3 | ** The very first upgrade you get allows you to fly at globe-circling speeds and the upgrade to that lets you fly at ''one trillion times lightspeed''. And that isn't just an in-universe statement, it shows in the gameplay as well, with you being able to cross between galaxies in a matter of seconds. |
| 4 | ** Your first offensive power is a HandBlast that can level skyscrapers. The second is a beam that ''will level the entire city'' if you aim downwards with it and miss, and has the potential to ''[[PlanetDestroyer DESTROY THE GODDAMN PLANET]]'' if you charge it enough. The only problem with this is that causing destruction is [[VideoGameCrueltyPunishment expressly frowned upon by the game's mechanics]], but that's what SandboxMode is for. |
| 5 | * The prologue introduces you to the game's movement system with a tour of various landmarks around planet Earth and you even get to see the northern lights. This is taken up a notch once you unlock [[FasterThanLightTravel superluminal flight]] with a tour around the ''solar system'', including a flight through Saturn's rings and ''landing on the sun''. |
| 6 | * The missions where you fight off the intruders, [[NintendoHard while they can certainly be stressful and frustrating]], are still nothing short of badass. Of special note are the [[TheMothership motherships]], {{Boss Battle}}s in some missions where you have to prevent the ship from launching a city-evaporating sky beam until eventually shattering it into beautiful unidentified-metal pieces, and the FinalBoss, [[https://youtu.be/EWxoaA2AWQs?t=145 see here]]. The battles do an excellent job of making you truly feel that the fate of the world is on your shoulders. |
| 7 | * Traveling across the cold and barren universe and getting to see the sheer, unfathomable scale of it all in person is a uniquely haunting, lonely and ''damn cool'' experience that nary a game, if any, has ever done in quite the same fashion. |
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