There is no greater sense of the earth falling out from beneath you like winning this game.  After spending hours creating a narrative of interstitial cuts between the romantic lives of two characters who love each other and a conflict between their mechas as they duke it out in a massive intergalactic battle to the... end... Not necessarily their death, but definitely their end, there is no sense of triumph in victory.

Breakup on Re-Entry allows for the breathing space required to generate characters who are real, who are in love, and who ultimately, are doomed. Star-Crossed Lovers (Lovers, in a Dangerous Time).