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  • Goddamned Bats: The aforementioned NON soldiers. Damn, just how many of these cretins are there?
  • Harsher in Hindsight: The idea of an oppressive group banning any and all forms of media did come to pass when the Taliban took over Afghanistan around the same time as the events of the game took place, and considering the far-reaching extent of the ban—curtailed rights for women and a ban on basically everything that's fun and entertaining—would make the NON seem quaint in comparison. And they've done it again when they occupied the country again in 2021, staring with restrictive bans on music.
  • Nightmare Fuel:
    • Destroying Mondor’s limbs one by one and then blowing up his head and the rest of his body can be quite disturbing, despite that he's the boss you’re supposed to defeat in the first place. And he just keeps going!
    • Hearing the screams of the victims at Chemi-Tech being turned into monsters is horrifying.
  • Porting Disaster:
    • The Sega Genesis and SNES home ports of the game paled in comparison to those on the PlayStation and Sega Saturn, which were more powerful consoles and could render the game's graphics and music better. All ports also lacked light gun support (rather odd since all four systems had official light gun peripherals), removing a significant part of the game's appeal.
    • The Genesis version got the worst of it. While the SNES was able to keep in shorter looped versions of the actual Aerosmith music and used its scaling effects to replicate the arcade's movement and number of enemies, the weaker Genesis was forced to make its enemies minuscule, the game movement on a simple scrolling 2D plane, and turned all the music into MIDIs that make it tough to discern which song it's supposed to be (here's "Dude Looks Like a Lady")note . And even then, the game's action becomes too much that the UI disappears during segments just to be able to process it.
  • So Bad, It's Good: The premise is just bizarre enough to work.
  • That One Boss: The school bus. Add to that the fact that you need to get Joey Kramer in that level for the Golden Ending - if you just focus on the bus, there's a chance you'll pass him by fast enough to either just hit him and forget to pick up the A-wings, or (more likely) not even nail him at all.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The idea of a villain who wants to ban all forms of entertainment is actually pretty interesting. Unfortunately, the game itself is merely alright (albeit with a B-Movie-esque appeal to it).
  • Unintentional Period Piece:
    • Could only have been made at that point in time when Aerosmith was one of the biggest bands in the world.
    • The "Hacking New Order Database" sequence at the end of the Club X stage involves a dial-up modem transferring data at a 57,600 baud rate. Even before the '90s were over, this hardware was on its way out and data speeds were rising fast.

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