- Awesome Music: The menu theme is pretty awesome - in both its original and English versions. It kinda makes you wait for the song to end before going back to playing the game.
- Bizarro Episode: The Ruin Branch becomes much more Denser and Wackier after Bastion loses the Ultragunner. It begins as a search for Milea, but then it becomes much more silly and comical than the rest of the game, culminating in a final battle against some weird-looking ATACs (called the #69), because Faulkner forgot he had the Zulwarn.
- Moment of Awesome: The final battle between Bastion and Faulkner, hands down. Theme Music Power-Up, dramatic dialogue, a demonstration of every move the characters can use... just epic. Working Designs noted the awesomeness of the sequence and actually added voice overs in it (the Japanese version only had text) to up its anime-like feel.
- Narm:
- The intro suffers from incredibly Limited Animation, with the showdown between Ultragunner and Zulwarn being barely animated at all.
- The name of Bastion's Midseason Upgrade is either the incredibly out of place Ultragunner, which has a design evoking a Knight in Shining Armor and has no guns whatsoever (it Ursragna in the original Japanese version), or the laughable-sounding TIC-TAC.
- The final boss of the Ruin path is called _#69_ (#86 in Japan), a pink, goofy egg-shapped machine that's pretty much a head with limbs. Of course, the outtake intro pretty much acknowledges it as a joke.
- That One Level: Capital Clash, the 19th mission of the Kingdom Branch in which you have to deal with a total of 11 Sharkings ATACs (counting the boss). What make the level difficult, is that you start the battle surrounded and will be attacked before you can move the units, and because the arena is a mostly open space, leaving little room for protection. To make things worse, the first four times you defeat a Sharking, a new one will spawn to take its place.
- The Woobie: Thompson. After fighting the Junaris Empire for many years, he was finally forced to betray his homeland after Faulkner kidnapped his family, and used him to lure the Kingdom soldiers into a trap to kill them. In both the Kingdom and Empire Branches, he is killed by his former friends, while praying for his family safety.
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