YMMV / OPUS: Echo of Starsong

• Awesome Music: For a game so focused on the notion of songs, it should come as no surprise that the soundtrack is stellar beyond belief:
  • The Flowers There… Are Always in Full Bloom, the theme that plays as an aged Jun discovers the remains of the Red Chamber, covered in Edalune flowers. It is sure to bring out the waterworks.
  • The credits theme, Echo of Starsong, the hauntingly beautiful track that brings this tale to a fitting close.
• Even Better Sequel: The very first OPUS game, The Day We Found Earth was a decent first attempt at the series. The second game, Rocket of Whispers, was a strongly received sequel to the first game and became something of a Cult Classic. Echo of Starsong meanwhile improved on pretty much every aspect of the already solid foundation becoming something of a small smash hit, being the best selling and reviewed game in the series so far.
• Tear Jerker: The ending. Jun, after 66 years, finally manages to reach Phoenix where Eda crashed, though Remi sadly didn't live long enough to see it. Once there he sees a lumen sprite, thinking it is Eda, he follows it up a cliff. At its ridge the sprite bursts into light and the player is treated to a vision of a young Jun and Eda overlooking the scene with Jun saying that he kept his promise to return and Eda kept hers to show him the flowers of her homeworld. The view then changes and Jun finally sees the crashed Red Chamber, surrounded and overgrown with Edalune flowers whose seeds Eda had spread all those years ago as the music swells. Cue the waterworks from both the aged Jun and the player.
  "You see? Unlike your planet, the flowers here... are always in full bloom".

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