History VideoGame / SineMora

* TheBadGuyWins: Already the case at the start of the game. The main antagonists, the Layil Empire, have already defeated the Enkies, achieving complete political and cultural hegemony over the planet. The members of the cast acknowledge this reality, being aware there is nothing they can do to change

This 2D shooting side-scroller has a twist involving time control. There are no lives, and you don't immediately die when you're hit. Instead, players have a time meter constantly counting down. Destroying enemies adds time, while getting damaged removes time. This gives beginners more chances to make mistakes, but in advanced play, players need to constantly destroy enemies while not getting hurt to avoid the time running out. The airplanes in this game have different types of Time Capsules that have different time control effects, such as slowing the game down to avoid damage, or rewinding time, even after death.

Another thing that makes the game unique to the genre is the amount of depth that went into the game's [[DarkerAndEdgier chilling, tragic story and setting.]] The story is set in a DieselPunk alien planet called ''Seol'', with two major warring factions: TheEmpire and a time-controlling civilization known as The Enkies, with the story starting with the Enkie's obliteration. The story directly revolves around the actions of two different groups of [[AntiHero Anti Heroes]] devastated by the recent events. Leading one group is Ronotra Koss, who seeks revenge against TheEmpire for the death of his son, Argus Pytel, dragging Myryan into the conflict via blackmail. The other major group is the last of TheResistance, consisting of Durak, Akyta Dryad, and Lynthe Ytoo. The language spoken in the game is Hungarian, telling a tragic story of revenge and genocide.

The game was rereleased as ''[[UpdatedRerelease Sine Mora EX]]'' for [=PlayStation=] 4, Xbox One, Windows, and Nintendo Switch via Creator/THQNordic. Additions include improved rendering, co-op for up to 2 players in story mode, a 16:9 aspect ratio (while retaining the choice of changing it to 16:10), 3 new versus modes (Race, Tanks, and Dodgeball), new challenge levels, and an English dub (while keeping the original's Hungarian dub as an option). The PC and [=PS4=] versions of the game also feature a native 4K at 60 FPS when played on a compatible PC engine and [=PS4=] Pro, respectively.

* AirstrikeImpossible: The harder prologue route, and Domus, a lategame boss.

* AlternativeCalendar: The Enkies founded the first calendar of their world, with ''Circles'' being the largest time unit, essentially replacing years. TheEmpire founded its own calendar, banning all others. [[spoiler:The Enkie calender counts ''down'', though.]]

** There's also some 'revisiting' of earlier levels but at different time-periods; for instance, Durak, Ytoo, and Dryad raid ''Moneta Point'', a volcanic hellhole of a research station... which was, many years ago, ''Bokumono''; a [[TheAlcatraz submerged, super-high-security prison]] guarded by a giant submarine.

* AnimalStereotypes: Argus fits the Wolverine very nicely, especially when he takes down the Libelle (a giant mechanical wasp-like thing) single-handedly after it forces his father to make an emergency landing. At first he comes off as a little HotBlooded, but later turns darker and moodier thanks to various events.

* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler: With Koss and Durak's deaths, Lynthe's arrest and trial, and Akita seemingly disappearing, the Empire managed to some extent to defeat the rebel organizations operating against them. However, it came to the cost of losing its most powerful weapon, severely hampering its capacity of not only administering its territory but also changing time itself as well. According to Argus, the Empire will have to rely more on Colaborationists like him from now on, weakening their position.]]

* DisabledHottie: Myryan, in universe, is popular for her beauty, despite losing her voice due to larynx cancer and having to wear a voice box around her neck to speak.

* FreeLoveFuture: The Empire are extreme polygamists and The Enkies are monogomists. The empire has as much children as they can and kill their elderly while the Enkies have traditional relationships of monogamous civilizations. The Empire calls this heresy.

* GoodRepublicEvilEmpire: Played with. Despite being an Empire, it's mentioned that the Imperialists use "democracy" as an excuse for their actions, implying that there is some kind of constitutional goverment. However, they seem to place the collective goals over the rights of the individual.

* KeepingSecretsSucks: [[spoiler:Argus had his name publicized as the traitorous pilot of the Cobalt King that wouldn't drop a nuke on the Enkies in order to make his job in intelligence easier. This starts his father's RoaringRampageOfRevenge.]]

* OneManArmy: Justified by the time-alteration mechanics, explained in the ingame encyclopedia. It is essentially force-multiplication by reflection and refraction of time and entities, allowing for a single unit to effectively make an attack from multiple directions at once by coordinating ''with itself''. [[MindScrew Try not to think about that too much]]. When two armies using temporal manipulation go head to head, things get ''really confusing''.
* OnlyOneName: Durak, because she is an upper class Enkie, who only have one name.
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler: While both Akita's and Koss'groups were neutralized, the Empire lost their most powerful artifact in the process. Acording to Argus, the Empire will have to rely more on Colaborationists like him from now on, weakening their position.]]

* GenderEqualEnsemble: The playable cast contains three males (Argus, Ronotra, Lynthe) and three females (Myryan, Akyta, Durak).

* [[spoiler:KillEmAll: Durak dies at the Aiborg Factory, Argus kills his dad and his fate is unknown after travelling back in time, Myryan dies of cancer and the Enkies are extinct in the end. Also, implied by Argus that Lynthe eventually dies of natural causes in prison.]]
* [[LastOfHisKind Last of Her Kind]]: Akyta is the last lower-class Enkie, and Durak is the last of the upper class. Myryan is also Enkie, secretly and successfully nationalized by the Empire without knowing her true abilities.

* PyrrhicVillainy: [[spoiler: While both Akita's and Koss'groups were neutralized, the Empire lost their most powerful artifact in the process. Acording to Argus, the Empire will have to rely more on Colaborationists like him from now on, weakening their position.]]

* MatureAnimalStory: One of the darkest [[ShootEmUp Shoot 'em Ups]] ever made, where the characters are all animals.

* MatureAnimalStory: One of the darkest [[ShootEmUp Shoot 'em Ups]] ever made, where all the characters are all animals.

This 2d shooting side-scroller has a twist involving time control. There are no lives, and you don't immediately die when you're hit. Instead, players have a time meter constantly counting down. Destroying enemies adds time, while getting damaged removes time. This gives beginners more chances to make mistakes, but in advanced play, players need to constantly destroy enemies while not getting hurt to avoid the time running out. The airplanes in this game have different types of Time Capsules that have different time control effects, such as slowing the game down to avoid damage, or rewinding time, even after death.

The game was rereleased as ''[[UpdatedRerelease Sine Mora EX]]'' for [=PlayStation=] 4, Xbox One, Windows, and Nintendo Switch via THQ Nordic. Additions include improved rendering, co-op for up to 2 players in story mode, a 16:9 aspect ratio (while retaining the choice of changing it to 16:10), 3 new versus modes (Race, Tanks, and Dodgeball), new challenge levels, and an English dub (while keeping the original's Hungarian dub as an option). The PC and [=PS4=] versions of the game also feature a native 4K at 60 FPS when played on a compatible PC engine and [=PS4=] Pro, respectively.

*** This adds another layer if we go for a particular interpretation of the Golden Ending. [[spoiler:If Argus was actually both the pilot and the co-pilot (even if it goes against time travel rules), that means that Argus killed his counterpart of the future. That would mean that Koss's revenge made sense the whole time: he was really going for the man that killed his son.]]

* GoodRepublicEvilEmpire: Played with. Despite being an Empire, is mentioned that the Imperialists use "democracy" as an excuse for their actions, implying that there is some kind of constitutional goverment. However, they seem to place the collective goals over the rights of the individual.

** The fact that enemy attacks are coloured in both red and blue is very likely to be a shout-out to ''VideoGame/{{Ikaruga}}''. Also, [[spoiler: the final phase of the FinalBoss, Ophan, involves the player having to evade the attacks without being able to shoot, in a very similar way to the battle against the final boss of Ikaruga, the Stone Like.]]

* TheGhost: Nessa, the Second Sovereign, ruler of the Empire. Can also count as TheUnfought. While tecnically can be considered as some kind of antagonist, [[spoiler: it is highly implied by Argus on the Alternate Narration that the Enkie genocide was orchestrated by the Empire's upper class instead of just one individual.]]

->''Holding in his hands a giant sieve\\

* PyrrhicVillainy: [[spoiler: While both Akita's and Koss's groups were neutralized, the Empire lost their most powerful artifact in the process. Acording to Argus, the Empire will have to rely more on Colaborationists like him from now on, weakening their position.]]

* TheGhost: Nessa, the Second Sovereign, ruler of the Empire. Can also count as TheUnfought. While tecnically can be considered as some kind of antagonist, [[spoiler: is highly implied by Argus on the Alternate Narration that the Enkie genocide was orchestrated by the Empire's upper class instead of just one individual.]]

* BigNo: [[spoiler: Akita pulls one when she realizes that she deactivated the life support of the remaining Enkies]]

* FrickinLaserBeams: Of both the slow bolt and instant beam kind -- though the latter tend to be full-on WaveMotionGun affairs.

* WaveMotionGun: Lynthe Ytoo's special ability, ''Zebaoth Driller.'' There's also some kind of screen-filling KillSat-esque WaveMotionGun that fires during the fight with the modified observatory (nevermind the FrickinLaserBeam Cannons the observatory has!) that leaves a small strip of free space on the far sides of the screen, causes a ChunkyUpdraft, and blocks your shots. [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Giant Orbital Laser From Nowhere!]]

* Big"NO!": [[spoiler: Akita pulls one when she realizes that she deactivated the life support of the remaining Enkies]]

** The fact that enemy attacks are coloured in both red and blue is very likely to be a shout-out to ''VideoGame/{{Ikaruga}}''. Also, [[spoiler: The final phase of the FinalBoss, Ophan, involves the player having to evade the attacks without being able to shoot, in a very similar way to the battle against the final boss of Ikaruga, the Stone Like.]]

* [[spoiler:KillEmAll: Durak dies at the Aiborg Factory, Argus kills his dad and his fate is unknown after travelling back in time, Myryan dies of cancer and the Enkies are extinct in the end. Also, implied by Argus that Lynthe eventually dies of natural causes in prison]]

* PyrrhicVillainy: [[spoiler: While both Akita's and Koss's groups were neutralized, the Empire lost their most powerful artifact in the process. Acording to Argus, the Empire will have to rely on Colaborationists like him from now on weakening their position]]

* TheGhost: Nessa, the Second Sovereign, ruler of the Empire. Can also count as TheUnfought. While can be considered as some kind of antagonist, [[spoiler: is highly implied by Argus on the Alternate Narration that the Enkie genocide was orchestrated by the Empire's upper class instead of just one individual]]

* YourDaysAreNumbered: Quite literally, the Enkies live knowing the exact day they will die, with the first Enkie predicting the exact moment their race goes extinct, ''down to the day and hour''. A kind of bible called ''The Book of Days to Come'' keeps the moment each Enkie dies, in writing. It turns out the real reason they know when they will go extinct is that [[spoiler:Akyta Dryad was there. It's also the reason of why the book doesn't mention the deaths of Lynthe and Akita]]

* GoodRepublicEvilEmpire: Played with. Despite being an Empire, is mentioned that the Imperialists use "democracy" as an excuse for their actions, implying that there are some kind of constitutional goverment. However, they seem to place the colective goals over the rights of the individual.

* PyrrhicVillainy: [[spoiler: While both Akita's and Koss groups were neutralized, the Empire lost their most powerful artifact in the process. Acording to Argus, the Empire will have to rely on Colaborationists like him from now on weakening their position]]

** The fact that enemy attacks are coloured in both red and blue is very likely to be a shout-out to ''VideoGame/{{Ikaruga}}''. Also, [[spoiler: The final phase of the FinalBoss, Orphan, involves the player having to evade the attacks without being able to shoot, in a very similar way to the battle against the final boss of Ikaruga, the Stone Like.]]

** [[spoiler: Is also implied that Myriam causes one by destroying the Enkie's anti-aircraft observatory, Palladion, allowing the Imperial planes to drop the bomb]]

* TheGhost: Nessa, the Second Sovereign, ruler of the Empire. Can also count as TheUnfought. While can be considered as some kind of antagonist, [[spoiler: is highly implied by Argus in the Alternate Narration that the Enkies's genocide was orchestrated by the Empire's upper class instead of just one individual]]

** Akyta fights the last boss, [[spoiler:the control system enslaving her fellow Enkies, all comatose. By destroying it, their life support is cut off.]]

* PettingZooPeople

* [[spoiler:KillEmAll: Durak dies at the Airborg Factory, Argus kills his dad and his fate is unknown after travelling back in time, Myryan dies of cancer and the Enkies are extinct in the end. Also, implied by Argus that Lynthe eventually dies of natural causes in prison]]

** [[spoiler: Is also implied that Myriam causes one by destroying the Enkie's anti-aircraft observatory, Paladium, allowing the Imperial planes to drop the bomb]]

* [[spoiler:KillEmAll: Durak dies at Moneta Point, Argus kills his dad and his fate is unknown after travelling back in time, Myryan dies of cancer and the Enkies are extinct in the end. Also, implied by Argus that Lynthe eventually dies of natural causes in prison]]

* PyrrhicVillainy: [[spoiler: While both Akita's and Koss group were neutralized, the Empire lost their most powerful artifact in the process. Acording to Argus, the Empire will have to rely on Colaborationists like him from now on weakening their position]]