YMMV / Ar nosurge: Ode to an Unborn Star

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The synthesis dances come out of nowhere, have nothing to do with making anything, and are never commented on by the characters. They're weird.
• Complete Monster: The "other player", like the Player Character, has the power of Interdimend, the ability to visit and control a being from another dimension to interact with the world. Unlike the player character trying to save the world, this player's goal is to send Nero back to her world in the most callous way possible. Controlling Prim, mind-child of Delta and Cass, the other player first assists Zill in her plan of creating the Maternal Overseer, a soul-absorbing atrocity, for her goal of making everyone's being into one consciousness. Once Zill becomes part of the Maternal Overseer, the other player uses it to help destroy the world while taunting Delta and Cass about using their daughter as their avatar, with each plan stopped by the player's interference. Once everything was about to be solved, the other player makes their final move to eliminate everyone, transforming the Maternal Overseer into a giant mechanical dragon to convert every being into energy and using that energy to bring Nero back to their world "for 100% completion" from their side. When confronted about this not being a game, the other player shows they know but don't care. They'd kill thousands of residents of another universe just out of amusement and their own selfishness. It is also heavily implied that the other player was the one who almost killed Ion in her home world and forced her to send her soul to Ra Ciela.
• Fridge Brilliance: Nay's bad cooking is due to her being a Sharl, and thus not having human taste buds.
• Harsher in Hindsight: "em-pyei-n vari-fen jang;" being the song heard over the montage showing how Ra Ciela and the Genoms perished at the start of the game feels like it hits somewhat harder now that its singer Origa passed away...
• Player Punch: Renall's Genometrics. Ion is fully aware at this point that the player is able to use Save Scumming, rallies against them, and springs a quiz about her former life, which is basically required to save scum through, as no information about the answers exists in either game.
• That One Boss: The first time you fight the 8th dimensional being, she will cream you. In Veteran, her whip attacks destroy slightly less than 1/4 of your HP when blocked. Any healing item you have is nowhere near enough to repair this damage, and once she uses all strong attacks in two consecutive turns, it's practically game over. To make things worse, she summons four mooks who hit about half as hard as she does; but if you don't put everything into breaking the boss, you're dead, so you're stuck taking the extra damage while whittling the minions with all-hitting specials. And this is the first boss of Phase Two.
  • Ironically, this is because the stats for that fight were mixed up with the ones for the second fight with the 8th Dimensional, the result being that the first fight is hellishly hard, while the second turns into more or less a Zero-Effort Boss.
  • Nay also qualifies for this, as she hits pretty hard, is hard to get rid of the mooks protecting her, and between her attacks and those of the enemies accompanying her, it's very easy to end up creamed in a couple of turns.