YMMV / I Miss the Sunrise

• Alas, Poor Scrappy: For those who thought they would turn out to be a villain, Virgil's Heroic Sacrifice scene is this.
• Awesome Music: Space Lizard is making a completely unique soundtrack this time around, and some themes are pretty catchy. Of note:
  • Inquisition, the BGM for the Inquiry, Machinatorium (Exactly What It Says on the Tin), Eros, the Leitmotif for the EROS project, and Forgotten, the BGM for the abandoned databanks.
  • Arrangement, the "ominous cutscene" music. Shine is also fittingly creepy and bizarre for the Wham Episode it accompanies.
    • Everything, the ending theme.
  • Engorging, the Boss Battle music, and Abandoned, the battle music for the final battle of episode 3. Also the final boss themes, Pianissimo and Fortissimo, naturally.
  • Also Hunting, the BGM for bounty hunt missions. The perky, laid-back, upbeat music contrasted with the heavy, serious riffs from Engorging makes for a very interesting effect.
    • And Enclosing, the BGM for the final mission. It captures the tension and drama of a final dungeon well.
• Faux Symbolism: Space Lizard continues to use Mesoamerican deities as naming inspirations — Chac Tlaloc and the Mixcoatl, for example.
• Funny Moments:
  • The mere fact that in the Black Market, one of the merchants is a plant!
    • In fairness, it seems to be implied that they're a normal person, just disguising themselves as a plant for some reason. It's still comically absurd, though.
  • Alicia's snarky commentary if you profess love to Marie.
    Marie: Of course I want you to here with me, for as long as it takes! Maybe even...forever...
    -romantic music abruptly cuts out-
    Alicia: That...is...ADORABLE!
    Marie: Wh-What?! Hey! Hello, private conversation going on here!
    Alicia: I'm pretty sure the entire room heard you. FOREVER! That is just...too much, Marisol. Too much.
  • This:
    Superstar: Obtain all other merits. Also, go outside.
  • Episode's 4 first mission briefing. Since your entire group is put at hiatus due to Sorenson gathering his own army, Marie's the one to brief mission. She's not very good at it.
• Genius Bonus: The episode titles.
  • "All Good Things" is a reference to the proverb "all good things must come to pass", which probably refers to the Back Story of the Shine destroying almost all of humanity's accomplishments.
  • "Castles of Sand" is also a reference to a proverb, with the meaning of a fortress that seems secure, but is actually worthless and easily infiltrated/destroyed. Since episode 1 revolves around defending and rebuilding, that's pretty ominous.
  • "His Master's Voice" was the slogan of a recording company, who claimed that their recording technology was so authentic that a dog would not be able to differentiate between the record and its master ... and in The Reconstruction, we have a group of "Watchers" who claim to take orders from "The Voice Himself". Possible Foreshadowing?
    • Typelog also records information, so it could be referencing that.
  • "And Yet It Moves" are the words that Galileo (supposedly) muttered under his breath at his trial after being forced to recant the Copernican theory. Episode 3 revolves around EROS, a secretive group whose views clash with those of Typelog. Most likely, the famous phrase is meant to draw a parallel to their conflict with Typelog — conforming to the unquestionable views of authority versus freedom and a lack of limitations on science.
  • "Forever And Ever" is a common phrase in The Bible, usually referring to God or the heavens. Mostly, it seems to be be an ironic counterpoise to a major theme introduced in episode 4, which is that nothing lasts forever or is truly infinite.
  • "A Plan For Everything" is also a religious reference — God is often said to have planned out the destinies of all aspects of the world in advance. This probably refers to the Progenitor's wish to invoke this by creating a god that has the power to plan and direct everything towards harmony in the new universe.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • The resolution of Chac's sidequest, in which Sorenson himself helps pull Chac back from the Despair Event Horizon.
  • At the resolution of Soran's sidequest, if you are inquisitive enough, you can learn what he's using all that carboderm for. He wants to seal himself in a ball of the stuff until society's rebuilt and everything returns to normal — he doesn't care how long. Effectively, it's suicide. If you are persuasive enough, you can talk him out of it and convince him he has a purpose in life.
  • All of your crewmates banding together and defending you from Thomas' verbal assaults in episode 4, each of them creating an on-the-spot Rousing Speech.
  • The parts of the optimist ending that aren't Tear Jerker are this.
• Moment of Awesome: Ros standing up to Thomas after defeating Lazarus.
  Ros: You're welcome.
  Thomas: What?
  Ros: For me having to clean up your mess. You're. Welcome.
• Player Punch: In the pessimist ending, having to ruthlessly murder your entire crew as they scream What the Hell, Hero? at you.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Everything Chac's been through.
  • Virgil's Heroic Sacrifice scene.
  • Ivoronus' final transmission to Mahk as the Machinatorium is destroyed.
    • Everything surrounding Mahk in episode 5, really. Especially since he dies in The Reconstruction, so they last the crew ever sees of him is him having a nervous breakdown and running off to find Tezkhra...
  • Everything in the optimist ending that isn't a Heartwarming Moment...though most of it is the former. The music cinches it.
  • Having to murder your entire crew in the pessimist ending.
• That One Boss: Lazarus. Duel Boss, Marathon Boss, fought under the effects of a jamming pulse, and one of their attacks can leave you a sitting duck if you're unprepared.
• That One Sidequest: One sidequest requires you to accumulate five hundred thousand half-credits. And not just the total amount of money you've gotten over the course of the game, either — you need 500,000 credits in the bank.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The story is, fittingly, quite episodic in nature. Each episode provides very varied and interesting setups... but they always seem to end just as things are heating up, leaving each plotline with little to no resolution.

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