History VideoGame / SineMora

* TheGhost: Nessa,the Second Sovereign, ruler of the Empire. Can also count as TheUnfought. While can be considered as some kind of antagonist, [[spoiler: is highly implied by Argus in the Alternate Narration that the Enkies's genocide was orchestrated by the Empire's upper class instead of just one individual]]

** The fact that enemy attacks are coloured in both red and blue is very likely to be a shout-out to ''Video Game / Ikaruga''. Also, [[spoiler: The final phase of the FinalBoss, Orphan, involves the player having to evade the attacks without being able to shoot, in a very similar way to the battle against the final boss of Ikaruga, the Stone Like.]]

** The fact that enemy attacks are coloured in both red and blue is very likely to be a shout-out to ''VideoGameIkaruga''. Also, [[spoiler: The final phase of the FinalBoss, Orphan, involves the player having to evade the attacks without being able to shoot, in a very similar way to the battle against the final boss of Ikaruga, the Stone Like.]]

** The ''Sonic Sword'' Subweapon is pretty much the Radiant Sword from''VideoGame/RadiantSilvergun ''.
** The fact that enemy attacks are coloured in both red and blue is very likely to be a shout-out of ''VideoGame/Ikaruga ''. Also, [[spoiler: The final phase of the FinalBoss, Orphan, involves the player having to evade the attacks without being able to shoot, in a very similar way to the battle against the final boss of Ikaruga, the Stone Like.]]

** The ''Sonic Sword'' Subweapon is pretty much the Radiant Sword from ''VideoGame/RadiantSilvergun''.
** The fact that enemy attacks are coloured in both red and blue is very likely to be a shout-out of ''VideoGame/Ikaruga''. Also, [[spoiler: The final phase of the FinalBoss, Orphan, involves the player having to evade the attacks without being able to shoot, in a very similar way to the battle against the final boss of Ikaruga, the Stone Like.]]

** The fact that enemy attacks are coloured in both red and blue is very likely to be a shout-out of ''VideoGame/Ikaruga'' Also, [[spoiler: The final phase of the FinalBoss, Orphan, involves the player having to evade the attacks without being able to shoot, in a very similar way to the battle against the final boss of Ikaruga, the Stone Like.]]

* YourDaysAreNumbered: Quite literally, the Enkies live knowing the exact day they will die, with the first Enkie predicting the exact moment their race goes extinct, ''down to the day and hour''. A kind of bible called ''The Book of Days to Come'' keeps the moment each Enkie dies, in writing. It turns out the real reason they know when they will go extinct is that [[spoiler:Akyta Dryad was there]].

* [[spoiler:KillEmAll: Argus kills his dad, Myryan dies of cancer, and the Enkies are extinct in the end.]]

* GoodRepublic,EvilEmpire: Played with. Despite being an Empire, is mentioned that the Imperialists use "democracy" as an excuse for their actions, implying that there are some kind of constitutional goverment. However, they seem to place the colective goals over the rights of the individual.

* GoodRepublic, EvilEmpire: Played with. Despite being an Empire, is mentioned that the Imperialists use "democracy" as an excuse for their actions, implying that there are some kind of constitutional goverment. However, they seem to place the colective goals over the rights of the individual.

*** This adds another layer if we go for a particular interpretation of the Golden Ending [[If Argus was actually both the pilot and the co-pilot (even if it goes against time travel rules), that means that Argus killed his counterpart of the future. That would mean that Koss's revenge made sense the whole time: he was really going for the man that killed his son.

* PhyrricVillainy: [[spoiler: While both Akita's and Koss group were neutralized, the Empire lost their most powerful artifact in the process. Acording to Argus, the Empire will have to rely on Colaborationists like him from now on weakening their position]]

* TheGhost: Nessa,the Second Sovereign, ruler of the Empire. Can also count as TheUnfought. While can be considered as some kind of antagonist, [[spoiler: is highly implied by Argus that the Enkies's genocide was orchestrated by the Empire's upper class instead of just one individual]]

** To add another layer, [[spoiler:Argus needs to be avenged because he was (allegedly) killed for disobeying an order to bomb the Enkie city]]. Then, [[spoiler:he actually ends up being the man that he switched his name with. He disobeyed this order because he was tricked into killing his own father.]].

** To add another layer, [[spoiler:Argus needs to be avenged because he was (allegedly) killed for disobeying an order to bomb the Enkie city]]. Then, [[spoiler:he actually ends up being the man that he switched his name with. He disobeyed this order because he was tricked into killing his own father]].

* AltumVidetur: The game's title ("Without Delay") and all the trophies and achievements are in Latin.

* Myth/GreekMythology:
** The converted-to-defensive-purposes ''Palladion'' is... [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palladium_%28mythology%29 I'll let]] Wiki/TheOtherWiki [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palladium_%28mythology%29 explain it]].
** ''Steropes'' was one of the three Cyclopes.

''Sine Mora'' is a side-scrolling ShootEmUp game developed in a collaborative effort by Grasshopper Manufacture, and Creator/DigitalReality, written and directed by Theodore Reiker. It was published by Creator/MicrosoftStudios on March 21st, 2012.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Not even slow motion can save you now!]]

!!Sine Mora contains examples of:

* 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. [[spoiler:The Enkie calender counts ''down'', though.]]

* AnachronicOrder: The story is told mostly in a straightforward timeline, but later bounces back and forth as flashbacks and [[spoiler: time travel]] occur.
** 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 giant submarine.
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: The Empire's Project is to render the entire Enkie race immobile by disabling their bodies, leaving them unable to move or do anything while they study their ability to control time. Their collective, comatose bodies form a reactor for all of the Empire's time control.]]

* BecomingTheMask: [[spoiler: In the true ending, Argus Pytel becomes the traitor that stops the nuke.]]
* {{BFG}}: The Merenstein and Soprano - the Merenstein's is located above the cockpit, whilst the Soprano's is center-line with another large gun underneath.

* BrokenBird: Durak, [[spoiler: One of the two last Enkies,]] who can't have children, and has been devastated over it.

* TheChosenOne: Enky, the first and greatest of the Enkies. [[spoiler: Akyta Dryad and Lynthe Ytoo's son.]]

* CoolAirship: [[AC: Extraordinary Airship]] '''B630214'''

* CrapsackWorld: The earth quakes violently everywhere, TheEmpire kills off their elderly ritualistically, both the Empire and the Enkies have a strict caste system that rules over it's subjects. And the Empire pretty much encompasses the whole planet.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The characters are reminiscent of StarFox, but the story is much more mature and tragic.

** To add another layer, [[spoiler: Argus needs to be avenged because he was (allegedly) killed for disobeying an order to bomb the Enkie city.]] Then, [[spoiler: he actually ends up being the man that he switched his name with. He disobeyed this order because he was tricked into killing his own father.]]

* DownerEnding: Both the normal and GoldenEnding. [[spoiler: The Enkies end up dead, 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.]]

* EvilutionaryBiologist: The Empire's policy on family is that [[spoiler: "monogomy creates jealousy and sexual frustration", that people need to have lots of children, and that elders must commit suicide to "make room" for the next generation, who are inherently superior.]]
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler: Durak.]]

* FrickinLaserBeams: Of both the slow bolt and instant beam kind - though the latter tend to be full on WaveMotionGun affairs.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Koss was so focused on revenge that he might have lived if he went back in time alongside Myryan and Girai to save his son. Instead he chases the man he believes shot Argus through the street of the Imperial Capital Tira, and then discovers the man he was chasing was his own son, who took the place of the man who reports say shot him, and is shot down as Argus defends the capital ''from his own father'', as he was waiting there to catch the man who was killing the Cobalt King crew one by one.]]

* 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 Sine Mora universe.

* KeepingSecretsSucks: [[spoiler: Argus had his name publicized as the traitorous pilot of the Cobalt King that wouldn't drop a nuke on the Enkies in order to make his job in intelligence easier. This starts his father's RoaringRampageOfRevenge.]]
* [[spoiler: KillEmAll: Argus kills his dad, Myryan dies of cancer, and the Enkies are extinct in the end.]]

* LoveAtFirstSight: Lynthe Ytoo thoroughly discusses it in the Alternative text, [[spoiler:referring to Akyta.]]

* TheMagicGoesAway: [[spoiler: The Enkies are all wiped out to extinction in an instant by Akyta/Argus, and time control is lost forever.]]

* MercyKill: [[spoiler: The final objective of the resistance. They know full well The Enkies are comatose and doomed. Combined with the fact that their calendar predict the exact moment they will go extinct, they set out to put them out of their misery and deprive the Empire of their power.]]

** [[spoiler: Argus Pytel killing his own father.]]
** Akyta fights the last boss, [[spoiler: the control system enslaving her fellow Enkies, all comatose. By destroying it their life support is cut off.]]

* ReactorBoss: The Final Boss. [[spoiler: Destroying it kills off the Enkies in stasis.]]
* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: [[spoiler: Argus Pytel.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Pretty much everything Koss does is exclusive to his own desire for revenge. Even as he [[spoiler: sends Myryan and Girai back in time to save his son, he stays behind just to kill the final member of the Cobalt King crew.]]

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

* StableTimeLoop: Maybe, or at least a semi-stable loop depending on the events of the next cycle. In the GoldenEnding, [[spoiler: Argus Pytel sends Akyta into the distant past, pregnant with the child who would become the first of the Enkie race. The Enkies in the present are still wiped out; Argus finishes off the Core, then travels back in time to take the place of the pilot of the Cobalt King. Though all we see is Argus as the pilot of the Cobalt King, it is never stated whether the bomb is dropped or not. Presumably, he does refuse to drop the bomb, in which case his co-pilot shoots him.]]
* StartOfDarkness: Koss losing his son. Later, [[spoiler: Argus killing his father.]]
* TheFatalist: Every single Enkie. [[spoiler: Argus becomes one in the end.]]

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

* YourDaysAreNumbered: Quite literally, the Enkies live knowing the exact day they will die, with the first Enkie predicting the exact moment their race goes extinct, ''down to the day and hour''. A kind of bible called ''The Book of Days to Come'' keeps the moment each Enkie dies, in writing. It turns out the real reason they know when they will go extinct is that [[spoiler: Akyta Dryad was there.]]

** The converted-to-defensive-purposes ''Palladion'' is... [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palladium_%28mythology%29 I'll let]] TheOtherWiki [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palladium_%28mythology%29 explain it]].

* {{Badass}}: 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.

''Sine Mora'' is a side-scrolling ShootEmUp game developed in a collaborative effort by Suda51 at Grasshopper Manufacture, and Creator/DigitalReality. It was published by Creator/MicrosoftStudios on March 21st, 2012.

* YourDaysAreNumbered: Quite literally, the Enkies live knowing the exact day they will die, with the first Enkie predicting the exact moment their race goes extinct, ''down to the day and hour''. A kind of bible called ''The Book of Days to Come'' keeps the moment each Enkie dies, in writing.

* ShoutOut: A couple of obscure literary ones stand out; ''Angrenost'' is the elven name for the city of Isengard in ''LordOfTheRings''. There's also the defense rig ''Melkor''; Melkor is the original name of Morgoth Bauglir, who is the protagonist of ''TheSilmarillion''.

** To add another layer, [[spoiler: Argus needs to be avenged because he was (allegedly) killed for disobeying an order to bomb the Enkie city. He disobeyed this order because he was tricked into killing his own father.]] Then, [[spoiler: he actually ends up being the man that he switched his name with.]]

** To add another layer, [[spoiler: Argus needs to be avenged because he was (allegedly) killed for disobeying an order to bomb the Enkie city. He disobeyed this order because he was tricked into killed his own father.]]

* NoAntagonist: TheEmpire is pretty much the main villain, but they practically 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.

* ContinuingIsPainful: Not as severe as say, {{Gradius}}, but if the player takes a hit, they drop some of their weapon upgrades; recklessly scrambling to retrieve them can cause the player to take more damage.

* GreekMythology: