YMMV / Earthrise: A Guild Investigation

• Nightmare Fuel: When the death scenes aren't Bloody Hilarious, they're this.
  • Walking over a pool of methane on the asteroid surface reveals a venus flytrap-like creature below the surface. Its jaws then rise up on either side of you before biting down, turning everything from the neck down into a bloody mush, and in the process your helmet shatters and then your head explodes from Explosive Decompression just to twist the knife even further, all as you're being dragged below the surface.
  • A dead scientist you find in the laboratory opted to swallow a lethal concoction simply to avoid being eaten by one of the aliens.
• Scrappy Mechanic:
  • Decompressed areas give you very little warning that you're about to die from Explosive Decompression lest you remember to put on your helmet in them, thus forcing you to check your watch every time you enter an unexplored area just in case. Also, your oxygen gets slowly depleted while your helmet is on, forcing you to move quickly to conserve your limited supply.
  • This gets even worse when you enter Eric the bee into the equation, as he will explode the instant you enter a vacuum without having taken precautions, rendering the game unwinnable and forcing you to reload a previous save file. To prevent this, you can put Eric in an airtight container, but he will suffocate if you can't get to a pressurized area and put him back into his jar in time.
  • In essence, every time you have to move through a decompressed area, you must:
    • 1. Put on your helmet.
    • 2. Put Eric in the airtight cylinder.
    • 3. Hurry across the decompressed area.
    • 4. Take off your helmet.
    • 5. Put Eric back in his jar.
  • Fortunately, the limited oxygen isn't as big of a problem as you can infinitely refill your supply at one place in the base.