About a quarter of the music tracks in The Ur-Quan Masters sound like lategame Earthbound music invented in parallel by Westerners
Someone mod the Earthbound naming screen Wow into this
• There are "timed events" and you can get a "bad ending" for advancing the plot too slowly, but the game offers generous time leniency for even a first playthrough.
• The voice-acting is fine. It takes itself about as seriously as the text and music takes itself seriously.
The Ur-Quan Masters is on Steam, so here's a few tips for new players:
• The game is mainly a point-and-click adventure with heavily front-loaded resource-gathering and Spacewar-style combat systems. Don't be intimidated – those systems recede in importance later in the game.