YMMV / Disaster Report

• Awesome Music: The few songs that the game has are very well composed. There's the song that plays during select sequences such as the stadium collapse, and the credit themes. Sadly, though, there seemingly hasn't been an official release of the soundtrack anywhere.
• Complete Monster: Albert Sims is the crooked director of the Land Development Department responsible for the destruction of Stiver Island. Tasked by a mysterious client to destroy the island for land profit, Sims gets the island's creator Terry Stiver on his side by arranging for his family to die in a mountain landslide, pinning the blame on the government. Allowing Terry to pollute and overfill the Capital City reservoir in order to create the quakes, which leads to over 2,000 people either dying or going missing, with more lives lost as the destruction continues, Sims will kill anybody who knows of his conspiracy, even attempting to murder Terry after he finds out the truth.
• Magnificent Bastard: Terry Stiver is the creator of Stiver Island, as well as its destroyer. Under the belief that his family was killed by the government, Terry sought the destruction of Stiver Island as an act of revenge, coming up with the plan to secretly pollute the city reservoirs and commencing several earthquakes and floods. Upon realizing that he was being manipulated by his supposed friend Albert Sims the entire time, Terry betrays his partner by shrugging off his bullets and taking Albert with him to a watery grave.
• Moment of Awesome:
  • Near the end, Keith using a fire hose - a fire hose - to take down a helicopter.
  • Greg drives a speedboat with Keith and Karen/Kelly in it, managing to avoid missiles from helicopters without seeing where the missiles are going.
• Narm: The death of the rescue worker as he's coming to pick up Keith and Kelly/Karen is supposed to be a Tear Jerker, but he's clearly shown sitting completely still and not even attempting to get out of the way of the gigantic falling building that's right behind him, causing him to come off as Too Dumb to Live more than anything.
• Narm Charm: Any instance of Karen/Kelly saying "Nooo!". Other instances of voice acting include police officer Jeff, whose voice acting is unintentionally funny.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Seeing just how quiet and lifeless Capital City is during the lull between aftershocks. Even worse is that for the most part, there's no background music, meaning that the only sounds are either your footsteps or a collapsing building.
  • There are multiple occasions where Keith can come across the corpses of the earthquake's victims on the ground.
  • The Lincoln Plaza level. You're being hunted down by two Mooks, one with a bazooka, and another with a sniper rifle. When the bazooka Mook spots you, he fires his weapon at you, causing the camera to zoom in on Keith's screaming face before cutting to a game over screen. It gets worse when you make your way into the darker parts of the mall, which at that point wouldn't seem out of place in a Resident Evil game.
• Tear Jerker:
  • At one point, Keith, Kelly and Greg end up in a partially collapsed building where they meet an elderly couple, with the man being injured and unable to walk. You can find a photo of them and their grandson, who's only in first grade, with the woman mentioning that they were planning on visiting him that summer. What drives the knife in is when they hear the sounds of a helicopter, making it seem like they'll finally be rescued. Then, as you leave the building, it collapses with them inside, and the camera zooms in on the photo as it falls into the debris.
  • Greg's Heroic Sacrifice near the end.
  • Ending 3 & 4. Keith and Kelly/Karen are trapped on a building, with no sign of rescue. Accepting their fate, they hold onto each other as the credits begin to roll and the rising water steadily consumes the building. While this is sad enough on its own, what's even more depressing is that if Karen's with you, her dog dies with you.