Awesome Music: There is even a soundtrack CD, with the beautiful music of the game composed by Michael Land.
Heartwarming Moments: During the rescue of Robbins from the spider-creature, the FMV shows one of the Cocytan ghosts loosening the grate to help the humans.
Even with the Gory Discretion Shot, having to saw off Brink's hand with the jawbone of an animal in order to save his life is possibly the most horrifying action the player has to carry out in any LucasArts adventure game.
When you first enter the life crystal storage room, one of the ghosts shows up, hovers over the crystals, then briefly morphs into the form of a skull before vanishing. The ominous music doesn't help.
Low: I don't care what language you speak, a skull is the sign of death.
And of course, watching Brink slowly deteriorate more and more into a state of utter insanity and instability. When you first come to know him, he's a very mellow guy, but after you revive him, he gradually turns into a greedy, selfish, heartless jerk who thirsts after crystals and comes to prioritize them far over human life, and worst of all, is totally unaware of the path he's going down. Not helping matters is Low's several genuine heartfelt attempts to help the poor guy out only to get backstabbed or spit in the face.
The puzzle where you have to re-assemble the skeleton of an alien turtle. No Rule of FunTranslation Convention is applied, other than that each part can snap to an arbitrary position in the turtle's shell, and the shell gives no hints to the orientation of the several near-identical small, straight bones. The only thing in the game that comes even close to a hint for this is a fossil on the ground up the stairs from where you have to do the puzzle. Oh, and by the way, if you don't add a specific additional item before you finish it? The turtle is killed once more, and you have to do it all over again. This is known as the place where most people stopped playing the game.
The Rat puzzle is a slightly less infuriating example, except in that case the game barely provides you with any clues as for what you're supposed to do.
Ditto for how to open the tomb of the Cocytan inventor.
