History VideoGame / SineMora

This 2d shooting side-scroller has a twist involving time control. There are no lives, and you don't immediately die when you're hit. Instead, players have a time meter constantly counting down. Destroying enemies adds time, while getting damaged removes time. This gives beginners more chances to make mistakes, but in advanced play, players need to constantly destroy enemies while not getting hurt to avoid the time running out. The airplanes in this game have different times of Time Capsules that have different time control effects, such as slowing the game down to avoid damage, or rewinding time, even after death.

* AltumVidetur: All the trophy and achievement titles are in Latin.

** Steropes' entrance is ''very'' similar to that of the cyclops MiniBoss in the first stage of ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}: Hard Corps''. It appears in the background, walks a bit, sweeps the ground with its EyeBeams, causing a trail of explosions, and then it jumps into the foreground to fight the player. Similarly, it can also use its arms to throw objects at the player.

Sine Mora is a side-scrolling ShootEmUp game developed in a collaborative effort by Suda51 at Grasshopper Manufacture, and Digital Reality (creators of SkyDrift). It was published by Microsoft on March 21st, 2012.

* BadassFurry: The entire cast. Until the characters start cursing and telling their terrifying story of treason and genocide, you would never know it was a Suda51 game.

* BulletTime: The 'default' time capsule allows you to slow down time. Or more accurately, slow down everything that isn't ''you''; you continue to move and fire at full speed, but enemies and their projectiles move slower.

* PettingZooPeople: Varying degrees. Durak is quite human, whereas Koss, Argus and Ytoo have more animal-like heads.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: In story mode, if there are powerups onscreen when a cinematic starts, they will home into you.

Sine Mora is a side-scrolling BulletHell ShootEmUp game developed in a collaborative effort by Suda51 at Grasshopper Manufacture, and Digital Reality (creators of SkyDrift). It was published by Microsoft on March 21st, 2012.

* BulletHell

This 2d shooting side-scroller has a twist involving time control. There are no lives, nor does getting hit cause you to immediately die. Instead, players have a time meter constantly counting down. Destroying enemies adds time, while getting damaged removes time. This gives beginners more chances to make mistakes, but in advanced play, players need to constantly destroy enemies while not getting hurt to avoid the time running out. The airplanes in this game have different times of Time Capsules that have different time control effects, such as slowing the game down to avoid damage, or rewinding time, even after death.

* DownerEnding: Both the normal and GoldenEnding. [[spoiler: The Enkies end up death, Lynthe Ytoo spends the rest of his life in jail, Myryan Magusa dies of cancer, Argus kills his own father and decides to rebel against the empire by traveling back in time, piloting the Cobalt King and refusing to deliver the nuke.]]

* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler: In the true ending, Argus Pytrel becomes the traitor that stops the nuke.]]

* OneManArmy: Justified by the time-alteration mechanics, explained in the ingame encyclopedia. It is essentially force-multiplication by reflection and refraction of time and entities, allowing for a single unit to effectively make an attack from multiple directions at once by coordinating ''with itself''. [[MindScrew Try not to think about that too much]].

* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: [[spoiler: Argus Pytrel.]]

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Of all people, it's [[spoiler: Argus Pytal, not Koss, who does this.]]

-->[[spoiler: '''Argus Pytal''': I had to give his death meaning, and without delay.]]

* WaveMotionGun: Lynthe Ytoo's special ability, ''Zebaoth Driller.''

* AlternativeCalendar: The Enkies founded the first calendar of their world, with ''Circles'' being the largest time unit, essentially replacing years. TheEmpire founded it's own calendar, banning all others. The Enkie calender counts ''down'', though.

** There's also some 'revisiting' of earlier levels but at different time-periods; for instance, Durak, Ytoo and Dryad raid ''Moneta Point'', a volcanic hellhole of a research station... which was, many years ago, ''Bokumono''; a [[TheAlcatraz submerged, super-high-security prison]] guarded by a heavy weapons platform.

* BattleshipRaid: The Prologue; the harder route has you do an AirstrikeImpossible on one of the enemy flying fortresses. ''Literally'' an airstrike impossible, because you fly through the corridor so fast you'll almost certainly crash without using the BulletTime feature.

* BulletHell:

* TheChosenOne: Enky, the first and greatest of the Enkies. [[spoiler: Akyta Dryad's son.]]
* ContinuingIsPainful: Not as severe as say, {{Gradius}}, but if the player takes a hit, they drop weapon upgrades, and scrambling to retrieve them can cause the player to recklessly take more damage.

* HunterOfHisOwnKind: The Collaborationists are Enkies against the Sine Mora beliefs. Nationalized by The Empire, they use their time control abilities against the Enkies, helping the Empire fight them and round up Enkie slaves for The Project. Koss, Argus, Myryan and Lynthe got their start as Collaborationists.

* MacrossMissileMassacre: Argus Pytrel's ''Seeker Missile'' ability.

* OneHitKill: Due to the time mechanics, few things can ''actually'' instantly kill you; most of them do it by completely draining your remaining time, such as the raw material intake's filtering system in the Imperial AiBorg Factory.
* OneManArmy: Justified by the time-alteration mechanics, explained in the ingame encyclopedia. It is essentially force-manipulation by reflection and refraction of time and entities, allowing for a single unit to effectively make an attack from multiple directions at once by coordinating ''with itself''. [[MindScrew Try not to think about that too much]].

* SmokingIsCool: Argus and Lynthe smoke.
* StableTimeLoop: In the GoldenEnding, [[spoiler: Argus Pytrel sends Akyta into the distant past, pregnant with the child who would become the first of the Enkies race. The Enkies in the present are still wiped out. Argus then travels back in time to rebel against the Empire by piloting the Cobalt King and refusing to deliver the nuke that started everything.]]

* AlternativeCalendar: The Enkies founded the first calendar of their world, with ''Circles'' being the largest time unit, essentially replacing years. TheEmpire founded it's own calendar, banning all others.
* AnachronicOrder: The story is told mostly in a straightforward timeline, but later bounces back and forth as flashbacks and [[spoiler: time travel]] occurs.

* BattleshipRaid: The Prologue.
* BecauseDestinySaysSo

* BulletHell

* DieselPunk

** [[spoiler: Argus Pytrel killing his own father.]]

* NoAntagonist: TheEmpire is pretty much the main villain, but they practically already rule the planet already. Several of the playable characters acknowledge that they are on one side, and perspective, of their conflict. Koss and Myryan are on nobody's side but their own. TheResistance is more directly toward fighting the Empire to save the Enkies, rather than harm the Empire.

* PettingZooPeople

* SdrawkcabName: Domus' title,

* YouCantFightFate

* MoreDakka

* EverythingTryingToKillYou

* [[HitboxDissonance Hurtbox Dissonance]]

* TimeMaster: The Enkies.

!!SineMora contains examples of:

* InterspeciesRomance: Koss is a bison and his son Argus is a wolverine, then there's [[spoiler: Akyta and Lynthe]], so it's likely this is accepted in the SineMora universe.