* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The menu theme is pretty awesome - in both its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3nfqZrJ9d4 original]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYtArman_0 English]] versions. It kinda makes you wait for the song to end before going back to playing the game.
* BizarroEpisode: The Ruin Branch becomes much more DenserAndWackier after Bastion loses the Ultragunner. [[spoiler:It begins as a search for Milea, but then it becomes much more silly and comical than the rest of the game, culminating in a final battle against some weird-looking [=ATACs=] (called the [[LOL69 #69]]), because Faulkner [[ForgotAboutHisPowers forgot he had the Zulwarn]].]]
* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:The final battle between Bastion and Faulkner]], hands down. ThemeMusicPowerUp, dramatic dialogue, a demonstration of every move the characters can use... just epic. Working Designs noted the awesomeness of the sequence and actually ''added'' voice overs in it (the Japanese version only had text) to up its anime-like feel.
* {{Narm}}:
** The intro suffers from incredibly LimitedAnimation, with the showdown between Ultragunner and Zulwarn being barely animated at all.
** The name of Bastion's MidseasonUpgrade is either the incredibly out of place Ultragunner, which has a design evoking a KnightInShiningArmor [[NonIndicativeName and has no guns whatsoever]] ([[DubNameChange it Ursragna in the original Japanese version]]), or the laughable-sounding ''[[FunWithAcronyms TIC-TAC]]''.
** The final boss of the Ruin path is called _#69_ (#86 in Japan), a pink, goofy egg-shapped machine that's pretty much a head with limbs. Of course, the outtake intro pretty much acknowledges it as a joke.
* ThatOneLevel: Capital Clash, the 19th mission of the Kingdom Branch in which you have to deal with a total of 11 [[BossInMookClothing Sharkings ATACs]] (counting the boss). What make the level difficult, is that you start the battle surrounded and will be attacked before you can move the units, and because the arena is a mostly open space, leaving little room for protection. To make things worse, the first four times you defeat a Sharking, a new one will spawn to take its place.
* TheWoobie: Thompson. [[spoiler:After fighting the Junaris Empire for many years, he was finally forced to betray his homeland after Faulkner [[IHaveYourWife kidnapped his family]], and used him to lure the Kingdom soldiers into a trap to kill them. In both the Kingdom and Empire Branches, he is killed by his former friends, while praying for his family safety.]]
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