History YMMV / AdventRising

* RetroactiveRecognition: The game is written by Donald Mustard, who would later become the Creative Director for Epic Games (''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}'').

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: A lot of the soundtrack, the main theme and "Poeta" especially.

* ScrappyMechanic: 'Flick Targeting' was flat-out broken. It didn't make the game unplayable, but it came damn close.
* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Franchise/MassEffect'' owes [=ALOT=] to this game.

* ShaggyDogStory: All but two humans are dead. Only one other character is still alive (and he was introduced late into the game, which explains it all, really). The bad guys are powerful enough to basically conquer the rest of the galaxy by force if they wanted to, so even assuming that the galactic senate-or-whatever actually has the balls to rebel against a race they all previously thought of as BenevolentPrecursors over the recent accusation of xenocide against a race that's already two people away from completely extinct, the whole story is a case of TheBadGuyWins, and your remaining hope for even a BittersweetEnding is systematically and cruelly crushed in such a way that it's almost comical. So unless the sequel-that-never-was was planning on some kind of SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong or bringing all of humanity back from the dead (somehow), it's pretty pitifully pointless.

* ShaggyDogStory: All but two humans are dead. Only one other character is still alive (and he was introduced late into the game, which explains it all, really). The bad guys are powerful enough to basically conquer the rest of the galaxy by force if they wanted to, so even assuming that the galactic senate-or-whatever actually has the balls to rebel against a race they all previously thought of as BenevolentPrecursors over the recent accusation of xenocide against a race that's already two people away from completely extinct, the whole story is a case of TheBadGuyWins, and your remaining hope for even a BittersweetEnding is systematically and cruelly crushed in such a way that it's almost comical. So unless the sequel-that-never-was was planning on some kind of SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong or bringing all of humanity back from the dead (somehow), it's pretty pitifully pointless.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: A lot of the soundtrack, the main theme and "Poeta" especially.

* ScrappyMechanic: 'Flick Targeting' was flat-out broken. It didn't make the game unplayable, but it came damn close.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: A lot of the soundtrack, most of which can be downloaded from the official website - http://www.adventtrilogy.com/ (the main theme and "Poeta" especially).

* ScrappyMechanic: 'Flick Targeting' was flat-out broken. It didn't make the game unplayable, but it came damn close.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Although given the reception, it's more like "Mercy-killed by the network".

* PolishedPort: The PC release has no slowdown with a powerful enough rig, targeting is much easier to deal with, and the Advent Revising patch fixes a lot of other assorted problems.

* ShootTheShaggyDogStory: Unless the now-nonexistent sequel was going to involve bringing humanity back from the dead or [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong setting right what once went wrong]], the story begins with humanity being almost totally wiped out without warning or a chance of survival, only three humans surviving, and the race that did it has deceived almost everyone else in the galaxy into thinking they're a benevolent superpower. You have to choose to leave either your fiance or brother behind to die, but don't let the choice get to you too much--he/she will die a totally unnecessary death right in front of you halfway through the game anyway! The only friendly aliens you meet link up with you and make it back to their homeworld, where you should be safe...oh wait, a Seeker ship pops up out of nowhere right next to the Aurelian homeworld, and starts opening fire on an Aurelian ship without warning or provocation. Hmmm...no, no diplomatic consequences there. So you are part of a boarding party to survive by taking over the Seeker ship--which you do. Except that it's rigged to blow. Later, the two Aurelian characters you've been bonding with die, too, either by betrayal by their own people or something similar. So, a newly introduced Aurelian takes you and the only other surviving human in the universe to the galactic senate to accuse and prove the Seekers guilty of xenocide--until a humanoid abomination pops up out of nowhere, happens to be what's left of your brother or fiance (the one you left behind), and starts wrecking the place. You seem to win, except that you get sucked into your own singularity and end up on a barren, snowy planet. You slowly freeze to death until a new alien comes up and says, "Come, human. There is much to be done." The end. Hilariously, the main character lampshades the nature of the story early on, in 'why did I bother to get out of bed today?' fashion.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork

* TooGoodToLast