History YMMV / SineMora

* ScrappyMechanic: Playing for score? You will have to--wait for it--''never use your Time Capsule or subweapon, ever.'' Because doing so, even for a single frame, resets your score multiplier back to 1. This is in stark contrast to ''Espgaluda I & II'' as well as ''Giga Wing'', shmups in which the Time Slowdown and Reflect mechanics were used and were central for scoring. Instead of being given an ability that can be saved and used purely for survival or used by skilled players to generate score, ''Sine Mora'''s developers decided it'd be fun to penalize you for doing anything other than using the basic gun.

* ScrappyMechanic: Playing for score? You will have to--wait for it--''never use your Time Capsule or subweapon, ever.'' Because doing so, even for a single frame, resets your score multiplier back to 1.
** Note that this is in stark contrast to Espgaluda I & II as well as Giga Wing, shmups in which the Time Slowdown and Reflect mechanics were used and were central for scoring. Instead of being given an ability that can be saved and used purely for survival or used by skilled players to generate score, Sine Mora's developers decided it'd be fun to penalize you for doing anything other than using the basic gun.

* TrueArtIsAngsty: For a crippingly-depressing shoot 'em up, it was well-received by critics.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Like ''VideoGame/RType'', some are turned off by ''Sine Mora'''s cynical and nihilistic tone. The characters are all a DysfunctionJunction, the setting is a CrapsackWorld, one of the characters is a victim of rape and cancer, and the game ends on [[DownerEnding a very dark note]], even if you get the GoldenEnding.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: A massive long armed conflict that involves massive genocide, people getting rounded up in concentration camps and ends with the dropping of atomic bombs. [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII The aesthetic of the planes and tanks used makes it less subtle.]] And there is the Enkies: a highly conservative and religious nation with a ruling aristocracy, that is being subdued by [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany a totalitarian power that commits genocide against the population, setting up a collaborationist government to help in the matter,]] and has people speaking Hungarian.

[[UsefulNotes/{{Hungary}} Huh]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: A massive long armed conflict that involves massive genocide, people getting rounded up in concentration camps and ends with the dropping of atomic bombs. [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII The aesthetic of the planes and tanks used makes it less subtle.]] And there is the Enkies: a highly conservative and religious nation with a ruling aristocracy, that is being subdued by [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany totalitarian power that commits genocide against the population, setting up a collaborationist government to help in the matter,]] and has people speaking Hungarian.[[UsefulNotes/{{Hungary}} Huh]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything?: A massive long armed conflict that involves massive genocide, people getting rounded up in concentration camps and ends with the dropping of atomic bombs. [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII The aesthetic of the planes and tanks used makes it less subtle.]] And there is the Enkies: a highly conservative and religious nation with a ruling aristocracy, that is being subdued by [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany totalitarian power that commits genocide against the population, setting up a collaborationist government to help in the matter,]] and has people speaking Hungarian.[[UsefulNotes/{{Hungary}} Huh]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything?: A massive long armed conflict that involves massive genocide, people getting rounded up in concentration camps and ends with the dropping of atomic bombs. [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII The aesthetic of the planes and tanks used makes it less subtle.]] And there is the Enkies: a highly conservative and religious nation with a ruling aristocracy,that is being subdued by [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany totalitarian power that commits genocide against the population, setting up a collaborationist government to help in the matter,]] and has people speaking Hungarian.
[[UsefulNotes/{{Hungary}} Huh]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything?: A massive long armed conflict that involves massive genocide, people getting rounded up in concentration camps and ends with the dropping of atomic bombs. [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII The aesthetic of the planes and tanks used makes it less subtle.]] And there is the Enkies: a highly conservative and religious nation with a ruling aristocracy,that is being subdued by [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany totalitarian power that commits genocide against the population, setting up a collaborationist government to help in the matter,]] and has people speaking Hungarian.[[UsefulNotes/Hungary Huh.]]

* DoesThisRemindsYouOfAnything?: A massive long armed conflict that involves massive genocide, people getting rounded up in concentration camps and ends with the dropping of atomic bombs. [[WorldWarII/UsefulNotes aesthetic of the planes and tanks used makes it less subtle.]] And there is the Enkies: a highly conservative and religious nation with a ruling aristocracy,that is being subdued by [[NaziGermany/UsefulNotes a totalitarian power that commits genocide against the population,setting up a collaborationist government to help in the matter,]] and has people speaking Hungarian.[[Hungary/UsefulNotes Huh]]

* DoesThisRemindsYouOfAnything: A massive long armed conflict that involves massive genocide, people getting rounded up in concentration camps and ends with the dropping of atomic bombs. [[WorldWarII/UsefulNotes: The aesthetic of the planes and tanks used makes it less subtle.]]
And there is the Enkies: a highly conservative and religious nation with a ruling aristocracy,that is being subdued by [[NaziGermany/UsefulNotes a totalitarian empire that commits genocide against the population,setting up a collaborationist government helping in the matter,]] and has people speaking Hungarian.[[Hungary/UsefulNotes Huh]]

* TheWoobie: Poor Myryan. First she was raped by Pyre, the Cobalt King's gunner, and then blackmailed by the game's arguable ''protagonist'', who admits in his narration that he's essentially doing to her soul what Pyre did to her body, into helping him get revenge against the rest of the crew. [[TraumaCongaLine She also has cancer.]]

* ScrappyMechanic: Playing for score? You will have to--wait for it--''never use BulletTime, ever.'' Because doing so, even for a single frame, resets your score multiplier back to 1.