YMMV / Ashes 2063

• Awesome Music: "Back in the Game", the first level theme for Afterglow, is a fantastic track to open the game with, mixing synth and rock to create a sound that feels both retro to MS-DOS and more modern for that just-right kind of nostalgia.
• Demonic Spiders: Matangos are very fast, very durable (they can survive a fully-charged Junker Driver shot, something very few non-minibosses can boast of), hit like an elephant in musth, and have an acid spit that travels obscenely fast. Their only weakness is the Master Blaster, everything else is only moderately effective. The worst part is, the Botanical Gardens are infested with Matangos, but that's not where you first find them, no: their first appearance is in the nuclear site by Prosperity, where you round a corner and there one is, ready to rip your skin off.
• Nightmare Fuel: If you return to the Spire underground, you can access a computer terminal. Do so, and when returning to the lobby you'll be greeted by a pair of pure white, basketball-sized eyes staring at you out of the darkness of an open elevator shaft. This is your reintroduction to the Haunts.
  ???: There! (singsong) I see you!
• Paranoia Fuel: In the Array, you need to get an access keycard behind a long sequence of big, slow airlock doors. With the game's tendency to spawn enemies offscreen the moment you pick up a key, you will be wondering how fast you can get through the airlock sequence in reverse... And then they start opening one by one. Then you descend into the lower levels, pick up the key necessary to exit the level... then you hear footsteps approaching behind you. Then they start getting faster. Except there's nothing there.

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