YMMV / Child of Eden

• Awesome Music: If you like the Genki Rockets, you're in for a treat. Aside from them, there's the speedway segment from Matrix that gradually ramps up to an intense speed. In the final battle, there's some absolutely wonderful musical sounds as you fight it; in particular, the chime sounds as you shoot the cube clusters with the lock-on, the bell sounds as you shoot down enemy projectiles, and the sounds of attacking the cube tentacles (especially if you use the quieter Tracer).
• Fridge Horror: Why is it so important for Lumi to open the "Yggdrasil"/tree of memories of Earth? As an AI connected to Eden, she should be able to just go and take a look at Earth. The only reason she couldn't is if Earth was no longer there.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • The finale of the 5th Archive boss, "Journey", when Lumi finally sings the refrain to "Heavenly Star", which in itself is a Crowning Song of Heartwarming.
  • And the very last part of it, which consists of a huge otherworldly tree with various photographs of people, their friends, and other "favorite memories of Earth". If you actually got a photo put in the game, it's all the more heartwarming, all set to "Flow".
• Real Song Theme Tune: Child of Eden uses "Heavenly Star" by Mizaguchi's band, the Genki Rockets, fairly often.
• That One Level: Hope. 20 minutes long, enemies that fire lots of projectiles, walls with randomized weak spots and mere seconds to hit them all, and absolutely no item pickups. All you get is your starting three health and single use of Euphoria. Oh, and no checkpoints like the rest of the game.
• That One Sidequest: Getting a gold 5-star rating on a stage requires you to not only score 800,000 points, but also purify every last enemy. It's the Golden Ending requirements for Rez but applied to every stage in this game.

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