YMMV / Ether Vapor

• Awesome Music: "Quarter Spiral", the Scene 6 BGM. A nice, tranquil tune that plays while Daniel and Luca, as comrades, discuss the history of DECIDER/ADVISOR.
• Nightmare Fuel: Direct Devices connect the user's mind to the machine they pilot, allowing them to effectively pilot their machines through telepathy. What happens if your machine gets destroyed? As Luca puts it: Your brain directly gets fried. No wonder he tells Tetley to eject upon their defeat, even though he was kind of an asshole to everyone up to that point.
• Nintendo Hard: It's very easy to run into bullets. There are no difficulty levels, although you can adjust the number of starting shields and extends, and the game gives out extra continues periodically.
• Remade and Improved: The original ETHER VAPOR was a cult hit in the indie shoot 'em up scene thanks to its impressive visuals for the time and unique perspective altering gameplay, but was released only in Japan without a translation (outside of a short-lived fan translation) for many years, and outside of a Boss Rush mode and the Overdrive version of Ex-Tio as unlockables, it was fairly light on the replay value outside of score chasing. The 2011 Remaster version of the game however polishes the visuals and sound quality of the game while retaining its original presentation, features new but optional arcade-styled transitions in place of the story cutscenes, online leaderboards where players can complete globally for high scores, runs at higher resolutions beyond the original release's 640 × 480 (but is still limited to 4:3 resolutions up to 1600 × 1200 due to how the game was designed), improved gamepad support for modern XInput controllers with added rumble feedback, and made the unlockable Overdrive Ex-Tio easier to unlock for players who already unlocked in the original version while adding a new bonus Ex-Tio with alternate weapons. The Remaster version would the go-to version of the game that would get an official English by Nyu Media with all of the improvements it has to offer over its original release.
• That One Boss: Tetley in Scene 4. Starts off by firing simple barrages. Then a laser attack. Then both at the same time.

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