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Originally designed as a cutesy shooter, it got a [[Darker and Edgier]] makeover halfway through development and ended up better for it. When the game begins, the three Jet Force members are separated and have to take their own individual paths to the [[Big Bad]]'s headquarters. Once they reunite, they're given upgrades (Juno and Vela get jetpacks, while Lupus is transformed into a tank) and are allowed to visit each others' previously exclusive levels. This is necessary for [[One Hundred Percent Completion]], which then unlocks the true final level and the [[True Final Boss]].
This being a Rare game, it also contains a good amount of their characteristic humor, such as furry dice in the cockpit of the Jet Force Gemini ship and a major character with the distinctly un-[[Sci Fi]]-ish name "Jeff". The main criticism comes from the [[One Hundred Percent Completion]] quests, which range from [[Nintendo Hard|teeth-grindingly hard]] to [[Guide Dang It|hand-bangingly unintuitive]].
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* [[Alien Blood]]: Green, with an option for Rainbow.
** Averted with the Tribals, whose blood is [[Nightmare Fuel|BRIGHT]] [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?|RED]]
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* [[Boss Room]]
* [[Breather Level]]: The Water Ruin stage, which has ''absolutely no enemies.'' Gem Quarry too, but you have a [[Unexpected Gameplay Change|gem-scooping]] [[Mini Game]] to do there.
* [[Bug War]]: The whole game is based around blowing up various bugs into green goo. Why this hasn't been listed sooner escapes reason.
* [[Collision Damage]]: A bit odd for a third-person shooter, but it's there.
* [[Controllable Helplessness]]: You can twitch after dying.
* [[Cool Pet]]: Lupus. What's cooler than a dog with a GUN mounted on his back?
** Not to mention his foot-rocket boosters and tank upgrade.
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** And any time you decide to [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|shoot a baby Tribal's parents]].
* [[Cutscene Power to the Max]]: In the pre-boss cutscene on Eschebone, Lupus uses his hovering ability about 8 times longer than he can in gameplay. In several other cutscenes, he hovers a good deal higher than he can jump.
* [[Do Not Run with a Gun|Do Not Strafe With A Gun]] and the bosses will fill you full of holes.
* [[Dual Boss]]: The Eschebone Mantises, also [[That One Boss|those two bosses]].
* [[Easy Levels, Hard Bosses]]
* [[Evil Laugh]]: Mizar before he fights you, and also after he [[That One Boss|kicks your ass]].
* [[Evolving Credits|Evolving Title Screen]]: Depending on how far you were into the game, the title screen would change in order - Juno running solo, Juno & Vela running, the whole team running, the whole team running in their upgrades, {{spoiler|the whole team walking on the Federation homeworld in celebration.}}
* [[Expy]]: Magnus. Think Yoda, only with floppy ears and greener.
* [[The Federation]]: The Union, although only briefly mentioned in-game and in the manual.
* [[Free Sample Plot Coupon]]: Cruelly inverted. When Mizar escapes from his palace after Lupus easily defeats him, he threatens the characters to redirect an asteroid to blow up planet Earth. Aware of this, King Jeff tells the protagonists that there is a huge mothership that will help them intercept the asteroid and find a way to stop it, but it's missing twelve pieces. Eleven of these pieces are scattered through the galaxy, so the three characters have to do a [[Fetch Quest]] to retrieve them. The 12th piece, technically the first, is in Jeff's hands, but [[No Hero Discount|he won't give it away until all 282 missing Tribals in the game are rescued]]. He doesn't even care if the aforementioned asteroid manages to hit Earth in the meantime.
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** Finding porn for a slavemaster giant mole seems worth a mention
* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: Vela.
* [[Gotta Catch Them All]]: The ship pieces ''and'' the Tribals. As in, you need to collect all the ship parts to get to the [[Final Boss]], and you need to rescue all the Tribals, ''everywhere'', to get all the ship parts. That particular side-quest causes the latter half of the game to drag.
* [[Guide Dang It]]: Considered the game's primary weakness.
** A good example is the second level. To progress, at the bare minimum, the player needs to shoot a panel in an easily missed segment of a room, located in a different room than the objective is, with no clue as to the location (and no indication is given that these panels are not decoration!). For more fun, [[
** Probably the ultimate example, though, is the sheer obscurity of what you need to do to get one of the ship parts needed to take on the final boss. First, find a hidden passage so you can do one of the Floyd racing/shooting minigames. Then get a Gold rank on said minigame, which requires pretty much memorizing the path and the things you need to shoot. This will give you a set of earplugs. Now, take these earplugs to a ''bear'' on one of the hidden planets. No, the game doesn't tell you anything more than the fact that the bear is having trouble sleeping because of all the noise Mizar's troops are making.
* [[I Surrender, Suckers]]: If you catch a Drone unarmed, they'll raise their hands up in surrender. Often if you turn your back on them they'll pull out a grenade, and... Bye-bye, large portion of your health!
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* [[Moral Dissonance]]: Jeff refuses to give you the last spaceship part until you save [[One Hundred Percent Completion|all]] the Tribals. Note that this essentially means despite being one of the good guys, Jeff is holding ''all of Earth'' ransom for his people.
** Sometimes the drones will surrender to you in a room with a Life-Force door. The only way to get through the door is to commit a war crime.
* [[More Dakka]]: Chain guns and rocket launchers are your best friends.
** There's also one type of flying drone that shows up in groups of at least 12, each of which will shoot around 10 shots at a time.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Being the only female cast member, Vela was likely designed with a ''[[Most Gamers Are Male|certain audience]]'' in mind. She wears no helmet so we can see her [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|blue hair]], has a neckline along with the usual assets and of course a tiny skirt.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: {{spoiler|King Jeff has one of these moments after he, in a fit of rage, uses his rather incredible magic powers to ''zombify the entire planet of Tawfret''. Granted, that was a mistake: he was ''aiming'' at the bug soldiers, but one of them shot him and the zombie-beam hit a tree instead...}}
* [[Naming Conventions]]
** [[Meaningful Name]]: The star sign Gemini is the twins.
** [[Odd Name Out]]: The main trio and villain have astrologically themed names, while the tribal leader is named (King) Jeff.
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