History VideoGame / AtelierIris2TheAzothOfDestiny

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Viese is one of the ''VideoGame/{{Atelier}}'' heroines who very much avoids this trap; if anything she's the franchise's most conservatively-dressed heroine, almost to the point of absurdity for her native climate (two or more layers of clothing for a paradise island that's apparently warm-temperate year-round?) [[MsFanservice Noin on the other hand]]...

''Atelier Iris 2: The Azoth of Destiny'' is the second in the Atelier Iris series of [[RolePlayingGames Role Playing video games]] which itself is a subseries of the ''VideoGame/{{Atelier}}'' alchemy-based [=RPGs=]. (Note: "Azoth" is an old alchemical term for mercury, once believed to be a wondrous substance.)

* RevealingSkill: The royals are apparently ''born'' knowing how to do it, as [[spoiler:Fee]] can do it on reflex when under stress, which is later used as proof that [[spoiler:she's Max's little sister Audrey, who was lost when the Empire conquered Slaith back when she was in diapers]].

* WeaponOfChoice: Characters stick with one weapon throughout the game, though Felt learns how to upgrade them.

* BalefulPolymorph: The Item Wish transforms enemies into special harvested items with potent equipment reviews. It is more likely to work when the enemies have been sufficiently weakened.

* '''Fee''', a female warrior sent to destroy the Azoth by a religious order.

* AccidentalMarriage: Poe ends up marrying a CatGirl when she overhears him reciting a love declaration and believes it to be directed at her.

* AlchemyIsMagic: Complete with InstantRunes for element extraction and item "initialization" (making a newly crafted item available for mana synthesis).
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: This is actually a core mechanic of the game and one of it's selling points; you can flip between Felt on the ground and Viese in Eden as you wish and progress the two stories as you see fit. (Well, to some degree, at least; advancing Viese's story requires certain triggers at points in Felt's story. [[spoiler:And the tales eventually merge, to boot.]])

* BalefulPolymorph: The Item Wish mana item transforms enemies into items. Also a UselessUsefulSpell because it has a horrible success rate.

* BlobMonster: The Punis, again.
* BreathWeapon: Gray, naturally. He starts with fire breath and can acquire ice breath almost immediately.
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:Palaxius]]
* CallToAdventure: Yuveria, to Felt

* {{Combos}}: Using the break attack on an enemy knocks them back in the initiative count, and if it puts them in the "break" part of the VisualInitiativeQueue, you get bonus damage and build up a chain for further break attacks keeping them there. The [[ComboBreaker chain ends]] if the enemy gets out of the break part of the initiative, and so fast enemies are hard to keep broken. Getting a chain grants you bonus experience and skill points.

* DuelBoss: Your first encounter with Fee, after rescuing Max, and the third fight against Chaos.

* ElementalTiers: Ice items are again the weakest, since there are only two of them and the stronger one only deals medium damage. Meanwhile, there are a lot more Fire-based items and the second strongest item (Cerberus Flute) is Fire-based. The strongest item, however, [[TakeAThirdOption deals all four elemental damage at once]].
* EmptyLevels: Any individual level's stat boosts are relatively minor: so minor they don't even tell you. The gains eventually add up but your real improvements are from passive skills, gear, and weapon synthesis.
* EncounterBait: The Aroma Pot mana item.
* EncounterRepellant: One of the earliest available mana items, the Fear Bottle.

* EvilCounterpart: Chaos, to Felt
** As well as [[spoiler:their respective Azoths.]]

* {{Expy}}: Yach and Hagel are reproduced, sprite and all, from the first game. This time Yach is a merchant in Eden (rather than a precocious child who wants to study alchemy), while Hagel is a smith hiding out in a mountain whose services you have to secure (instead of a weapon shop merchant). Then there is Tolena who look lot a like Pamela.
* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The desert people look a lot like Native Americans.

* FloatingContinent: Eden appears to be a large island floating in empty sky with nothing beneath. [[spoiler:This is because it's in a pocket universe not much bigger than the island itself.]]
* FragileSpeedster: Fee, who has a fantastic speed and okay damage, but can't take hits too well. Noin was in the running, especially when you only had Felt and Gray to compare her to, before Fee showed up and stole the title.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Iris has an IdleAnimation where she mixes chemicals until they explode out of a beaker in a tiny mushroom cloud that does little more than ruffle her hair and clothes.
* GenkiGirl: Noin, and Viese to a small extent (although she may be a bit more of a {{Pollyanna}}).
* GlobalCurrency: Cole. Accepted in two worlds, at that. [[spoiler:Because they used to be one.]]
* GoodRepublicEvilEmpire: Slightly averted as the Simsilt group seeks to restore the ''Monarchy'', but you still have the basic structure.
* HealingCheckpoint: Camps, marked by glowing purple circles. Healed automatically upon use, after which you enter a large tent where you can chat with other party members, save, and switch between Felt and Viese.
* HumanResources: Felt extracts elements from any enemy he kills, even humans.
* HundredPercentCompletion: The item and monster compendiums return from the first game.

* InterfaceSpoiler:The very fact that Viese has stats (HP, MP, etc.) should make it rather obvious that she's gonna end up joining the party somewhere down the line.
* ItemAmplifier: Your last party member [[spoiler:Viese]] also has both Power Item and Wide Item skills. Unlike Klein, though, she has item-unrelated [[TheMedic healing skills as well]].

** Item synthesis in Viese's workshop, where you combine harvested materials to create new items. The materials have various properties that they grant to the finished item, such as improved damage or increasing various stats. You create worn equipment as well as disposable items this way. Viese then "initializes" the (disposable) mana items so they can be created with the second kind of crafting...
** Mana synthesis, which involves using extracted elements (taken from enemies and bits of scenery) to reproduce a mana item. Both Felt and Viese can perform it. It allows making mana items in abundance quickly and cheaply.
** Weapon synthesis, combining a weapon with a specific item to improve or otherwise alter its stats. Makes them more powerful, lets them deal elemental damage, and is the main source of new attack skills. Only Felt can do it, at an anvil in camping spots.
* ItsUpToYou: Justified. Felt was the one on the spot when the Azoth needed to be drawn, and the situation ''needs'' an alchemist who is willing and able to fight. Nobody else in Eden had the right skill set, and nobody in Belkhyde even knows there's a problem and probably wouldn't care because it's not their world falling apart and oh did you happen to notice TheEmpire trying to conquer everything over here, we're kind of busy.
* KameHameHadoken: Some of Noin's skills.

* KnightTemplar: Galahad, one of the Imperial Champions.
** More of a WorthyOpponent. Galahad doesn't believe in what Theodore is doing, and often actively criticizes it. But he also happens to be part of the MyCountryRightOrWrong school of thought.

* LazyBackup: Subverted. You can only use three party members in a fight at a time, but the reserves will trade places with downed party members.
* LeakedExperience: And [[TechPoints skill points]]!
* LevelGrinding: TechPoints Grinding, really. It's easy to end up with a pile of unlearned skills because you just kept going on with the story at a steady pace, rather than stopping to grind or taking advantage of break attacks and combo chains. You can also equip two of the same Alchemy Item to get double skill points on a single skill, if there's one you must have quickly.
* LightningBruiser: The FinalBoss is one of these, to many a player's frustration.

* MagicIsEvil: Alchemy is seen as TheDarkArts due to the shaded past it has, to the point where Noin states using it dooms you.
* MagikarpPower: Poe. Very weak when he first joins, but eventually he can be one of your party's best damage dealers.

* MeaningfulName: Most of the Manas, when they aren't engaging in ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming. For example, Klavia the Sound Mana: ''clavier'' refers to most keyboard instruments, and is the French for keyboard, while ''klavier'' is German for piano.
* MoneySpider: Very poor Money Spiders, though.

* NonStandardSkillLearning: Gray and Fee learn [[spoiler: Dragon Slayer and Ein Zecksclaw]] respectively during the main story.

* {{Panacea}}: The Cure Jar item, which [[spoiler:is acquired by the plot to recruit Fee]] and cures the StatusEffects.
* RandomDrops: An important source of some crafting materials.
* RandomEncounters: Random encounters drain a meter in dungeon areas, so when it empties you'll have no more encounters until you leave the dungeon entirely or rest. Each screen in the dungeon actually has a separate meter.
* RedOniBlueOni: Felt and Viese, although they aren't antagonistic in any way, and the colors associated with them are actually ''reversed''; Felt's normal outfit includes a blue overshirt, while Viese typically capers around in a maroon dress.
** More standard example is the Azoths. The Azure Azoth is good while the Crimson Azoth is evil. [[spoiler:And the BigBad of the game, no less.]]

* RoyaltySuperPower: Ein Zecksclaw, a skill known only by members of the the Slaith royal family.
* RunningGag: PlayedForLaughs with Felt and Max, where Max consistently says Felt's name wrong.
* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:Eden and the powers of Mana and alchemy were sealed off in the floating continent of Eden to prevent alchemy being used for war again in the wider world of Belkhyde. Neither Eden, alchemy, nor the Mana are evil, but, well, power corrupts]].

* SortingAlgorithmOfWeaponEffectiveness: Yes, you have to craft all the way up each weapon's upgrade tree even if you somehow acquired the final required item and Mana before touching weapon synthesis.

* TalkingWeapon: The Azure Azoth and its evil counterpart, the Crimson Azoth, are talking swords.

* TrickBullet: Some of Poe's skills.
* TurnedToStone: Chaos likes doing this. [[spoiler: Palaxius does it to all of Eden upon awakening.]]
* UnderratedAndOverleveled: Subverted with [[spoiler:Viese]], who joins at the ''third to last chapter'' at level ONE. Somewhat justified since the plot of the chapter she joins is to backtrack to previous areas.

* UselessUsefulSpell: The Item Wish item can instantly kill enemies by turning them into rare items (however, you won't get SP or Experience Points) and is necessary for obtaining certain ingredients for the recipes. The item's success rate seems vary according to your, and the enemy's, current Level.

** Gray prefers DualWielding his Dragon Killer gauntlet... shield... sword... thingy.
** Fee also goes for DualWielding her one-handed [[SinisterScythe Assassin Scythes]], though they're more like sickles (and one skill's description calls them such).

* {{Panacea}}: The Cure Jar item, which [[spoiler:is acquired by the plot to recruit Fee]] and cures the StandardStatusEffects.

* SequelDifficultyDrop: ''Atelier Iris 2'' is a much easier than his predecessor, as you can carry up to 99 units of the same item (rather than 9), every party member can use Mana Items (in the first only Klein could do it), and there is no random encounters in Eden (meaning that Viese can extract elements and farm items without any trouble).

* SequelDifficultyDrop: ''The Azoth of Destiny'' is much easier game than ''Eternal Mana'' for many reasons:
** In ''Eternal Mana'', you could only carry up to 9 units of the same item (be it healing herbs or rare materials for alchemy); now you carry up to 99.
** The world map is now a PointAndClickMap.
** There is a limit on how many [[RandomEncounter random encounters]] you can trigger in each dungeon area. And there is no battles in Eden, meaning that Viese can extract elements and farm items without any trouble.

* ActionizedSequel: The new battle-system is more dynamic, the plot is focused in stoping the empire and salving Eden, rather than learning alchemy and exploring a lost city, and you no longer use tools to solve puzzles or reach hidden items.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared to Eternal Mana, where the main antagonist only appears briefly before the final confrontation and the Alkavana Knights were more of a GoldFishPoopGang than a threat, the war against the EvilEmpire and the crisis on Eden in ''Atelier Iris 2'' is taken much more serious.

* DuelBoss: Your first encounter with [[spoiler:Fee, after rescuing Max]]. Not a hard fight, you can get by with just spamming Craft bombs and Heal Herbs.
* DuelToTheDeath: The final encounter with Chaos is fought with Felt alone. The two fight [[spoiler:in front of the Guardo Continental Drive containing Eden, Chaos using his Crimson Azoth against Felt's Azure Azoth.]] It also counts as a prelude to the true final fight for [[spoiler:Elasmus, the soul imprisoned in the Azure Azoth, against Paracelsus, his former master imprisoned in the Crimson Azoth.]] Though Felt bests and critically injures Chaos, Chaos still has the last laugh by [[spoiler:using Exanosis on Felt, turning him to stone.]]

* LazyBackup: You can only have three party members in a fight at a time, while enemies can have many more, for... some reason. But your backup will trade places with downed party members once you actually have more than three people in the party at once.

* RoyaltySuperPower: Ein Zecksclaw.
** RevealingSkill: The royals are apparently ''born'' knowing how to do it, as [[spoiler:Fee]] can do it on reflex when under stress, which is later used as proof that [[spoiler:she's Max's little sister Audrey, who was lost when the Empire conquered Slaith back when she was in diapers]].

* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:Eden and the powers of Mana and alchemy were sealed off in a pocket dimension to prevent alchemy being used for war again in the wider world of Belkhyde. Neither Eden, alchemy, nor the Mana are evil, but, well, power corrupts]].

* UnderratedAndOverleveled: {{Averted|Trope}} with your last party member [[spoiler:Viese]], who joins at the ''third to last chapter'' at level ONE. Somewhat justified since the plot of the chapter she joins is to backtrack to previous areas.

* UselessUsefulSpell: The Item Wish item, which can instantly kill enemies by turning them into rare items. But with a poor success rate and only a few very weak enemies, generally found in the first few dungeons and which you can kill with one regular hit almost from the start of the game. You still need it to gather some of those items, so it's more like grinding for RandomDrops by paying elements.

* VisualInitiativeQueue

* BagOfSharing: The Share Rings, which let Felt and Viese share items (including stuff Viese makes with all the things Felt finds in the lower world) despite their great distance from one another. Somehow, this still includes the rest of the party.
** [[FridgeLogic Maybe they just give Felt their stuff for him to send?]]

* {{Kamehamehadoken}}: Some of Noin's skills.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: When she was debuted in Japan Viese's name caused a lot of linguistic contortion in trying to spell her name in English; Japanese lacks ''both'' a true V sound and a construct used like the English "ie", so what most people ended up with was some variation of "Wisey". This still occasionally trips people up when they encounter early promotional material (or when they encounter certain [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks hardcore]] {{fan|Dumb}}s).

* TalkingWeapon: [[spoiler:The Azoth]]
** [[spoiler:The Crimson Azoth too.]]

* TurnedToStone: Chaos likes doing this.

Despite being a sequel, the game actually takes place several centuries before the first Atelier Iris (since the character of [[spoiler:Iris]] appears only as child.) It stars a pair of teenage alchemists, Felt and Viese, who, having grown up together, have the old Anime problem of [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend denying their obvious feelings for each other.]]

When their homeland, Eden (where humans and Mana, the spirits of the Alchemical elements, coexist peacefully) literally starts to vanish, Felt finds himself chosen by the titular Azoth (actually a [[spoiler:talking sword]]) to go to another world to investigate the cause. While separated, the two friends keep in contact thanks to a [[BagOfSharing magical device]] that allows them to share items (and letters.) Felt discovers that on the other world, Belkhyde, alchemy is a near-forgotten art (and is considered an art used for ''evil''), an abusive empire rules, and an evil version of [[spoiler:the Azoth]] is loose. Viese helps mostly by making alchemical items for Felt, though she does have her own adventures on Eden concurrent with Felt's, including investigating a mysterious little girl...

* '''Gray''', a humanoid dragon (actually a [[spoiler:warrior who gained a draconic appearance from fighting too many dragons]] );

* '''Fee''', a female warrior sent to destroy the Azoth ([[spoiler:it's a misunderstanding]]) by a religious order.

** Max eventually ends up calling him [[AtelierIris Klein]] in the English translations.

''Atelier Iris 2: The Azoth of Destiny'' is the second in the Atelier Iris series of [[RolePlayingGames Role Playing video games]] which itself is a subseries of the [[AtelierSeries Atelier]] alchemy-based [=RPGs=]. (Note: "Azoth" is an old alchemical term for mercury, once believed to be a wondrous substance.)

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: When she was debuted in Japan Viese's name caused a lot of linguistic contortion in trying to spell her name in English; Japanese lacks ''both'' a true V sound and a construct used like the English "ie", so what most people ended up with was some variation of "Wisey". This still occasionally trips people up when they encounter early promotional material (or when they encounter certain [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks hardcore]] [[FanDumb fans]]).

* {{Stripperiffic}}: Viese is one of the [[AtelierSeries Atelier]] heroines who very much avoids this trap; if anything she's the franchise's most conservatively-dressed heroine, almost to the point of absurdity for her native climate (two or more layers of clothing for a paradise island that's apparently warm-temperate year-round?) [[MsFanservice Noin on the other hand]]...

* UnderratedAndOverleveled: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with your last party member [[spoiler:Viese]], who joins at the ''third to last chapter'' at level ONE. Somewhat justified since the plot of the chapter she joins is to backtrack to previous areas.

* AntiVillain: [[spoiler:Chaos]]. At least near the end, when you find out about his [[spoiler:dead little sister]].

* BecomeYourWeapon: Palaxius pulls this trope when he merges with the Azoth for the final boss fight.

* BoisterousBruiser: Gray ends battles with a hearty laugh.
* BookDumb: Felt, who learned Mana Synthesis pretty quickly, but was more interested in combat/sword-fighting to learn true synthesis and become a full-fledged alchemist such as Viese.

* BrilliantButLazy: Felt, at least when it comes to alchemy. One of the reasons he's BookDumb. He also takes to blacksmithing really well, but only learns because Hagel wouldn't let him not learn it.

* CampCook: Noin
** Also a LethalChef, though she does improve slightly over time...
* CloudCuckooLander: Tolena

* CursedWithAwesome: Gray. Even though he wants to break the curse that made him half dragon, it has given him powers he would never have had as a human and since he is famous and his story is widely known, he is accepted everywhere so he doesn't even have the excuse of being an outcast after being turned into a monster. At the end of the game after he [[spoiler:kills the one who cursed him, he says its better he didn't change back as he would lose all the dragon powers he gained and they will need all the power they can get to fight Palaxius]].

* EmotionlessGirl: Fee

* EvilChancellor: Theodore

* HandCannon: Poe's absurd doomcannon is ''as big as he is''. And then of course he's always hitting on Viese whenever possible...

* HeroesPreferSwords: Felt. It made him the odd man out in Eden where there's nothing to fight, but that just made the people of Eden genuinely grateful when he stepped up to take the Azoth and go figure out what the hell just happened.

* JumpedAtTheCall: Felt had been trying to pull the Azoth from the stone it was trapped in nearly every day for several years already. He didn't just jump at the call, he'd been picking up the phone and yelling impatiently at the dialtone almost daily for years now.

* KidWithTheLeash: Felt, keeping the Azoth in check (a fact for which [[spoiler:the world should be infinitely grateful]]).

* LadyOfWar: Fee, very much so.

* LargeHam: Poe, particularly when speaking to women in his usual flowery manner.

* MsFanservice: Noin goes around in what amounts to a sports bra and hot pants, plus boots and [[FashionableAsymmetry single heavy gauntlet]].
* MysteriousWaif: [[spoiler:Iris]]

* SheCleansUpNicely: Noin, already something of an UnkemptBeauty and MsFanservice, gets a brief makeover. She lets her hair down, wears a shoulder-baring (among other things) LittleBlackDress, and gets her makeup done. Everyone is gobsmacked. It doesn't do much to change her behavior after the initial embarrassment wears off, though.

* SmugSnake: Imperial Consul Theodore.

* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Several of Fee's skills involve throwing her dual sickles.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:Would you believe that Fee is actually '''14'''?]]

** ShoutOut: Max eventually ends up calling him [[AtelierIris Klein]].
*** He only does this in the English translations. The Japanese audio makes no mention of any name mangling. If anything, he doesn't give poor Felt a name at all, essentially going Hey You! all the time.

* ShoutOut: Poe declares, before going to flirt with (yet another) woman he just met, "[[Franchise/StarWars Blue 5 to Red Leader, I'm going in!]]"