History VideoGame / BreathOfFireII

* DisadvantageousDisintegration: When hunting, Bleu/Deis [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill rains lightning bolts down on all the animals on the screen]]. This makes her the easiest character to hunt with... if you don't mind getting a lot of nearly-useless Charcoal. You ''can'' at least turn Charcoal into free Herbs by cooking (and then turn those into stronger items later), but that's only useful if you picked the Township option that lets you cook.

* DisadvantageousDisintegration: When hunting, Bleu/Deis [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill rains lightning bolts down on all the animals on the screen]]. This makes her the easiest character to hunt with... if you don't mind getting a lot of nearly-useless Charcoal. %%And despite some rumors, no, Charcoal is not useful for cooking.

* LastOfHisKind: Katt thinks she's one, as she's not seen any other [[BeastMan Woren]] around. [[spoiler: Tiga later explains to her that there are a very few of them scattered all over the world.]]

* LoveTriangle: Torubo hates Sten for abandoning the Princess, who loves him. Made more complicated by the fact Torubo pines for the Princess, himself.

* RepulsiveRingmaster: The Chief of the traveling circus, who keeps an imprisoned Grass Man as a star attraction. He eventually grows frustrated with the Grass Man's waning popularity and plans a blood sport where he'll feed the Grass Man to a monster. As you have need of a Grass Man's aid at that point, you intervene and are offered a choice between paying an exceedingly large sum of money or going and fetching a replacement creature for the event. No matter which you offer the ringmaster (the money, the creature, or just telling him to fuck off), he'll turn into a mammoth demon and fight you.

** The Queen of Tunlan was a gluttonous creature that desired nothing but to consume. Ryu and his party kill the demons inside of her before she becomes a full demon

** The eighth deadly sin, Despair, also makes an appearance with [[spoiler:Father Ganer]] who begs for death in his despair. [[spoiler:Sparing him can net the player the good ending]]

** The giant plant boss fought at the Hunter's Lodge is called [[Literature/FlowersForAlgernon Algernon]]. The two underlings it calls in battle are called Lienda and Eskey, anagrams for Daniel Keyes, the author of the novel.

* WiseTree: Gandaroof the Great Wise Tree. There are also several "minor" trees around the world.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: Surprisingly few examples for a game of its time. Among the worst, most blatant Bowdlerisations is the writing of man-crazy witch's name Nimpho Mani (as in, nymphomania) as Nimufu Mani.

* ButThouMust: Quite a few, such as when Petape [[BrokenBridge sinks your boat]], leaving you with no way out of [=SimaFort=] and therefore no choice but to save Jean. She later forces you to [[ForeignQueasine eat the food]] during the CookingDuel, then complains when you [[VomitDiscretionShot find it unpalatable.]]

* PunnyName. Alzheimer (Aruhamel), Aspara Gus (Spar), Eichichi ([[BoobBasedGag chichi literally means "udders"]]), Land Marks (Rand) and Nympho Mani (Nimufu) were LostInTranslation. Algernon and Township made it in, though. The FanTranslation preserves Eichichi's PunnyName by naming her Gigi Kupp.

* PunnyName. Alzheimer (Aruhamel), Aspara Gus (Spar), Eichichi ([[GagBoobs chichi literally means "udders"]]), Land Marks (Rand) and Nympho Mani (Nimufu) were LostInTranslation. Algernon and Township made it in, though.
** The FanTranslation preserves Eichichi's PunnyName by naming her Gigi Kupp.

** Finding the guy who teaches Ryu's Elemental Dragon upgrade isn't terribly obvious. Fittingly enough, the Prima Strategy Guide actually references this secret with the heading, "Why People Buy Strategy Guides". Miss your first chance, and Wildcat, a boss who would be a total pushover with said upgrade, instead becomes ThatOneBoss and you have no way of going back for the upgrade. Your second chance lasts the whole game after a certain point, but it's still quite well hidden. And you don't get the "G. Dragon" upgrade, which surpasses it, until very late in the game. Up to that point ''every boss'' is ThatOneBoss because they are all designed expecting you to be using the Elemental Dragons and therefore dealing far more damage than you're capable of with your pathetic Elemental Puppies.
** Avoiding the BittersweetEnding requires picking out a certain NPC to live in your new village, saving [[spoiler: the old man strapped to the Eye Machine boss]], and finding the hidden control room under the village. Miss the first, you'll never see the third. Miss the second, you'll never get the third to work. You'll not get a single hint as to what it does until you've already got it working.
** The Township's potential inhabitants themselves are a large GuideDangIt on top of that. To the uninitiated: From an early point in the game, you're tasked with turning a single run-down building into a bustling town. The first step is to find a carpenter to build a few houses; the choice of carpenter decides the layout and style of the residential buildings, as well as the function he and his wife serve in their own building. (Hint: The one you want will eventually allow you to cook items, which is a huge GameBreaker when you consider that you can buy two cheap items and turn them into one item that permanently raises one's stats.) Pick a carpenter you don't like, and you can't change them. More to the point, your town has a rather paltry maximum of six houses, so if you're too generous early in the game, you're stuck with losers like Poo (who sits around thanking you and eventually sells an item... ONCE) or El (who literally does nothing). Inviting some of these losers leaves you unable to give houses to people like Yozo (who offers the unique deal of raising one's max AP) or the {{Permanently Missable|Content}} Barose (who offers the equally-unique deal of granting spells to any party member you want). The real problem comes into play when you realize that each tenant will only occupy a "certain" house in the township; if you invite El, you can never invite Yozo. A real GuideDangIt for people wondering why a prospective tenant suddenly lost all interest in moving into your town.

** The first battle with Barubary.
** Optionally, the duel with Tiga.

* IHaveYourWife: [[spoiler:The Church of St. Eva]], after Rand's mother refuses to donate her land.

* InformedDeformity: It would make a lot more sense if Nina's black wings were actually... y'know, ''black''. This might be explained by 1) with the 8-Bit engine, if they really ''were'' black, they'd likely just look like a shadow following her, and 2) you meet Nina around the same time you meet Patty, so the colour change was so you wouldn't mistake one for the other.

* LastOfHisKind: Katt thinks she's one, as she's not seen any other [[BeastMan Woren]] around. [[spoiler: Tiga later explains to her that there are very few of them scattered all over the world.]]

* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler: Patty is actually Yua, Ryu's sister]]. This is barely alluded to, with only one quick line ("[[spoiler: I want my brother!"]]) despite being a central aspect of the TheDragon's plan, and is never followed up. See WhatHappenedToTheMouse

* MissingMom: [[spoiler:She's around; she's just not able to do much, what with the whole "[[BarrierMaiden holding closed the door keeping the horde of demons and their god from escaping Infinity]]" thing.]]

* MoneyForNothing: Get the cook carpenter for Township, and you'll be able to make gold bars out of fish or other cheap things.

** Monster Island.

* TournamentArc: Coursair's battle tournament. Subverted by Augus, the crooked manager, into a BloodSport.

** After Patty ([[spoiler:who is really Yua, Ryu's long-lost sister]]) serves her purpose in the plot, close to the end game, she is unceremoniously thrown in the tall grass and ''never seen again''.

* BoringButPractical: Chopchop[=/=]Slice only does around 60 damage, but it’s consistent, defense-piercing damage that doesn’t miss, and there’re several late-game monsters that have high defense who fall very quickly to it.

* BreatherEpisode: The next major dungeon after the [[ThatOneLevel brutal]] and fairly dark Highfort sequence is going into the Tunlan queen’s body. In contrast to the previous dungeon, you can back out at any time to go get supplies, the enemies are far easier, and the mood is generally lighter.

* RealityEnsues: When Ryu (or whoever is in front at your party at the moment) eats cuisine made with worms, roaches, and flies, they naturally throw up.

** The "A" in "A. Sludge" stands for "[[ILoveNuclearPower Atomic]]", which might explain [[spoiler:why most of the monsters in the island where you fight them are giant]].

* SevenDeadlySins: An interpretation of the major demons fought throughout the game: Joker is lust, Trout is greed, etc.

** Yet ''another'' example: Finding all six of the elemental shamans. Using these can power up your characters drastically, but only two of them are encountered in the course of normal play, and of the remaining four, only one (Shin) fails to qualify for this trope, and you get her right before TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon. Seso is at least possible to run into by chance... Except that when you do, she's TakenForGranite, and good luck remembering to go back for her after you lift the curse on everyone in the tower. Solo requires you to donate 2000Z to Namanda, when the game only lets you donate 100Z at a time - the only hint you're given is a wise tree telling you to "be generous with your donations!" and it's entirely probable for a player to miss this tree altogether. The worst part is that Solo won't even show up until after [[spoiler: you level the St. Eva Church]], in a place the player is less than likely to return to, and if you didn't donate 2000Z by this point, Solo is [[PermanentlyMissableContent lost forever]]. And the last shaman, Seny, somehow manages to be even worse - randomly showing up in a dungeon the player beat three hours ago, with no indication whatsoever that anything is different there. This, by the way, is the second method of finding Seny - the first method is such utter GuideDangIt that it took the playerbase '''fifteen years''' after the game's release to find it. If this isn't indicative of ''II'' taking GuideDangIt UpToEleven, nothing is.

* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:Midway through the game, the Rangers Guild gets what their most veteran members declare an impossible task: to slay a monster near the town of Gate, where Ryu and Bow first met. They quickly realize it's Barubary, the same monster that nearly killed them as children and [[JumpedAtTheCall take up the mission without a moment's hesitation]]. You can opt to ramp this trope's invocation UpToEleven in the final dungeon, by having Ryu take Barubary on ''solo.'' Revenge will ''never'' be sweeter.]]

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Each Shaman's [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair hair color]] corresponds to their respective element.

* The cameo: Bo and Karn from the first game ([[GenerationXerox or possibly their descendants]], considering that they're still alive and don't even recognize Bleu) appear on a small northern island.

* LeotardOfPower: They actually have an armor called [=LeotrdCL=], wearable by the female characters. It's not very protective, though.[Note]Apparently, "[=CL=]" stands for either "Cloth" or "Clothing"[/Note]

* RequiredPartyMember: You need Sten to get to Highfort. And Katt to enter the Whale and [=CotLnd=].
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: It doesn't matter if you think you're God: [[spoiler: if you kill his friends in front of him, Ryu ''will'' bring you down no matter how many explosions you throw at him.]]

* CrystalDragonJesus: The church of St. Eva worships one. [[spoiler: Or rather, [[PathOfInspiration they worship an arch-demon ''pretending'' to be one.]]]]

* RelationshipValues: Ryu's Dragon Tear measures how other characters feel about him. {{Subverted|Trope}} in that it barely has any impact on the storyline. It allows Ryu (and by extension, the player) to figure out the feelings of the person he's talking to, which can be useful to get some nice upgrades from a couple NPCs.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Each Shamans' [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair hair color]] corresponds to their respective element.

** Makes some sense in-series as, unlike the other Ryus of the series, Ryu is a [[HalfHumanHybrid half-breed]]; his access to the dragon genes would be weakened. As is explained in-game, interbreeding with other clans can lead to loss of clan abilities and eventually leads to the future generations becoming Clanless - humans, that is. It's a well-established piece of lore in the series and is made clear when Nina has her little talk with an old friend...

* NobodyPoops: Averted. ''II'' is the only game in the series to include bathrooms in every house, and even two instances where the bathroom ''is the dungeon''.

* MyCountryRightOrWrong: Ray knows that [[spoiler: the Church of St. Eva is bad]], but fights you anyway out of loyalty to his adopted father.

* ColonyDrop: [[spoiler:In the best ending, Ganer drops the entire [=TownShip=] on the gate to Infinity in order to seal it so that Ryu doesn't have to make the same sacrifice his mother did.]]

* FakeLongevity: One particularly annoying example stands out. After helping Ray save the villagers in Capitan, he says he wants to give you a blessing, and asks you to take him back to where your party gathers. So, you have to travel on foot all the way back to [=TownShip=], just so Ray can give a spell to a party member of your choosing. [[note]]Never mind that 4 of your 6 party members are already right there in Capitan with him, and the only 2 that aren't both eventually learn the spells he offers just from leveling up anyway.[[/note]] Then, you get to travel all the way back from [=TownShip=] to Capitan again, whereupon Ryu is shoehorned into attempting [[FusionDance to fuse with a Shaman]], which awakens his dragon powers and destroys the Shamans' house. So, the Shamans force you to take them back to [=TownShip=] and give them part of the house there. At least the trip back to [=TownShip=] this time is just done via cutscene, but the trip back to Capitan AGAIN to recruit a carpenter is NOT. Thankfully, you don't have to personally escort the damn carpenter back to [=TownShip=] yourself, and after all that's done you can FINALLY move on with the plot.

** Another example involves a secret character: [[spoiler: Deis, a recurring character from the first game.]] Sure, finding this character isn't as hard as some of the others on the page, but it's still a GuideDangIt in its own right. The search involves two simple steps: First, you have to walk into a random (albeit marked) spot in the middle of a desert to find an empty abode, containing little more than two unhelpful spirits that simply proclaim that "[their] master is away". Then, you're expected to visit a building in the first town -- one that you've had no business in for the whole game -- and talk to a random NPC within, who inexplicably transforms into [[spoiler: Deis]]. Considering that the character is met at a high level (relative to the level you're expected to be when you first enter the aforementioned desert) and knows a ton of powerful magic, pulling this off [[GameBreaker makes things considerably easier.]]

* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: [[CatGirl Katt]], [[BeastMan Tiga]] and [[SnakePeople Bleu / Deis]].

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Sten fakes us out of one, then Nina gets robbed of hers by Mina. Just after you enter Evrai, the amount of sacrifices is considerably increased; Tiga and Ray go down for your sake, followed by Rand's attempt only for his mother to switch places with him, and Ganer is more than willing but it depends on you; some time later it's Valerie's turn so you can progress; and finally Ryu has two different situations: One in which everyone is willing but he must ''not'' sacrifice a friend, and the last one in the [[MultipleEndings normal ending]] where he takes up his mother's place.]]

* IHaveNoSon: Windia's royal family has disowned Nina. Her mother refuses to acknowledge they're even related. [[spoiler: They were supposed to kill Nina because of a prophecy about a black winged royal bringing destruction to Windia. Instead, they sent her to [=HomeTown=] when she was a little girl, and they faked her death to ensure that she would be safe]].

* InformedDeformity: It would make a lot more sense if Nina's black wings were actually... You know, black. This might be explained by 1) with the 8-Bit engine, if they really were black, they'd likely just look like a shadow following her, and 2) you meet Nina around the same time you meet Patty, so the colour change was so you wouldn't mistake one for the other.
* ItsAllUpstairsFromHere: Witch Tower and Sky Tower.
* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:Midway through the game, the Rangers Guild gets what their most veteran members declare an impossible task to slay a monster near the town of Gate, where Ryu and Bow first met. They quickly realize it's Barubary, the same monster that nearly killed them as children and [[JumpedAtTheCall take up the mission without a moment's hesitation]]. You can opt to ramp this trope's invocation UpToEleven in the final dungeon, by having Ryu take Barubary on ''solo.'' Revenge will ''never'' be sweeter.]]
* JapaneseRanguage: The cast lists at the end of the game is filled with blatant misromanizations of proper English words. Apparently, lumberjacks in in this game are called "ramberjacks".

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The trope that sets the plot into action. Later, you get to meet the guy who fired the laser.
* LastOfHisKind: Katt thinks she's one, as she's not saw any other around. [[spoiler: Tiga later explains to her that there are very few of them scattered all over the world.]]
* LeotardOfPower: They actually have an armor called [=LeotrdCL=], wearable by the female characters. Not very protective, though.[Note]Apparently, "[=CL=]" stands for either "Cloth" or "Clothing"[/Note]

* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler: Patty is actually Yua, Ryu's sister]]. This is barely alluded to, with only one quick line ("[[spoiler: I want my brother!"]]) despite being a central aspect of the TheDragon's plan, and is never followed up. See What Happened to the Mouse?

** The "A" in "A. Sludge" stands for "Atomic", which might explain [[spoiler:why most of the monsters in the island where you fight them are giant]].

* LoveTriangle: Trubo hates Sten for abandoning the Princess, who loves him. Made more complicated by the fact Trubo pines for the Princess, himself.

* MissingMom: [[spoiler:She's around, she's just not able to do much...]]

* MultipleEndings: There's a bad ending [[spoiler: where everyone gets killed and the demons win]], a bittersweet ending [[spoiler: where the world is saved but Ryu sacrifices himself to seal the entrance to the underworld]], and the good ending, [[spoiler: where Ryu's sacrifice is averted by his father, who plummets Township onto the underworld's entrance, sealing it under thousands and thousands of tons of rock]]. You can only get the good one if you don't kill a certain person during a boss battle.
* MutuallyExclusivePowerups: Each of the six Shamans can only be fused to one character at a time, with several characters' most powerful forms requiring a specific combination of Shamans. Want to use Nina's most powerful fused form? Then you're not gonna be having Sten's or Jean's in the same party.

* {{Nerf}}: The original allowed you to stay in dragon form indefinitely after an initial outlay of AP. In this game, the dragon transformation is a [[SummonMagic one-off deal]], and it consumes all your AP with it. The damage the dragon forms deal also relies on how much AP Ryu has at the time of casting. Somewhat mitigated by the fact Ryu can cast the dragon forms multiple times if the player constantly replenishes his AP.
** Makes some sense in-series as Ryu is half-breed, unlike the other Ryu's in the series (he's the only one who isn't full Brood) thus his access to the dragon genes would be weakened (as is explained in-game. Inter-breeding with other clans can lead to loss of clan abilities and eventually leads to the future generations becoming Clanless - humans, that is. It's a well established piece of lore in the series and made clear when Nina has her little talk with an old friend...)
* NobleDemon: Barbaroi/Barubary. If Ryu decides to face him [[DuelBoss one-on-one]], he will praise him for his honor and courage. Win, and he'll give the location of a useful accessory.

* OptionalPartyMember: Bleu/Deis is not necessary to finish the game. That said, she's an [[GameBreaker absolutely badass mage]] with a skill that recovers her HP for free and she likely starts several levels above your other characters, so it's probably wise to pick her up.

* PaperThinDisguise: The [[FakeKing fake Jean]] looks nothing like the real one. Subverted in that his subjects [[ApatheticCitizens don't really care]], thus the fake Jean can get away with being thinner and handsomer.

* PathOfInspiration: [[spoiler:The Church of St. Eva]]. Probably one of the earliest examples of a video game using a religious organization as an antagonist force.

** The area right near Sima Fort. Just southeast of it is a signpost. South of this signpost are orange crabs that are meant to be fought a bit later that will come out and they give far more XP than normal, and they all die very fast to Nina's S.Boom spell that she learns about the same time you get to this area.

** Building up the [=TownShip=] community requires previous planning, as there are only 6 available houses, each one with their corresponding tenant. Since it only takes speaking to the tenant to make him/her join, it is quite easy to talk to the wrong {{NPC}} and have a house with an important one occupied forever.

** [[spoiler:Getting [=TownShip=] to fly requires saving Ganer in a boss fight where it might not even occur to you that saving him was an option. If he dies, too bad, because now you're permanently locked out of your replacement GlobalAirship AND the GoldenEnding. Hope you had an extra save file from earlier, or have fun starting the entire game over again.]]

* PunnyName. Alzheimer (Aruhamel), Aspara Gus (Spar), Eichichi (chichi literally means "udders"), Land Marks (Rand) and Nympho Mani (Nimufu) were LostInTranslation. Algernon and Town Ship made it in, though.

* RelationshipValues: It also measures how close are the characters to Ryu. Subverted in that it barely has any impact in the storyline. It allows Ryu (and by extension, the player) to figure out the feelings of the person he's talking to, which can be useful to get some nice upgrades from a (very shy) recruitable NPC.
* ReligionOfEvil: Played with [[spoiler: the Church of St. Eva]]. While it's secretly bad to the bone, its believers (and many of its puppet preachers) genuinely believe it's so good and noble as they were told.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: It doesn't matter if you think you're God: [[spoiler: If you kill his friends in front of him, Ryu ''will'' bring you down no matter how many explosions you throw at him.]]

** All the bouncers on Wildcat's Cafe have their names given in the CreativeClosingCredits. They are all characters from Creator/{{Capcom}}'s WrestlingGame ''VideoGame/SaturdayNightSlammasters''.

* {{Stripperific}}: Katt only wears a small top, foot coverings, and gauntlets. Patty dresses in a LeotardOfPower. All the Elemental Shamans barely wear anything at all as they are just strips of cloth.

** In the best ending, [[spoiler: Ryu is told that [[BigBad Deathevan]] [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil may return]], so he prepares to sacrifice himself by using his dragon form to seal the entrance to the underworld just as his mother did (which is what happens in the bittersweet ending). Then Ryu's father shows up, flying [[FloatingContinent Township]] overhead, which he [[ColonyDrop drops onto the gate]], burying it completely.]]
* ThePowerOfFriendship: Not only is it actually a running theme in the game about how far Ryu will go for his friends, or how much all of his companions are willing to go for him for being there for each of their own problems, [[spoiler: it also turns out that this is the true power of Anfini: to revive all of Ryu's friends after being killed by Deathevn so they can help in the final battle.]]

* TownWithADarkSecret: Several locales in this game use this trope with Evrai being the most prominent example.

* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: Infinity. In a twist, there's an entire town of friendly NPC's about halfway through.

* TheWanderingYou: this game has this in general, but the worst case happens when you reach Capitan and save the townspeople there. Ray wants to reward you with a blessing, so you have to go back to the hideout... at the other end of the continent. Once you have the blessing, you have to walk back to Capitan, where Sana the Fire Shaman drags the main character off for some [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything private business involving "uniting"]]. When you've finished setting the house on fire you get back to town and a man says your friends got bored and walked back to the hideout on their own. You're then (thankfully!) warped back home and told to get a carpenter... from Capitan. Once you get there for the ''third'' time and hire a carpenter, you're finally allowed to move on with the plot. Fortunately not too long after you'll start to gather transport methods that save a ''lot'' of frustration.

* WhereItAllBegan: [[spoiler:Ryu's hometown Gate is where the final dungeon is located]].
* WholePlotReference: The Wildcat Diner where a monster cat asks you how you want to be cooked is lifted straight out of ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Restaurant_of_Many_Orders The Restaurant of Many Orders.]]''

* WombLevel: Grampa the Whale and the Queen of Tunlan.
* WrenchWench: Eichichi (Gigi). Has massive breasts and finds machines... Stimulating. Probably would be MsFanservice, too, if the sprites in this game were large and detailed enough.
%%* YouCantGoHomeAgain

%%* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: The toilet.
%%* AlmightyIdiot: Deathevan after he goes OneWingedAngel.
* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: The page picture is the original Japanese box art. North America got something close to what one would find in ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian''. In short, [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/ba/Breathoffire2_box.jpg Bow looks like he wants to chew you... with the rest of the crew trying to do the same to you.]]
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: In some events you take control of Sten, then Nina, and then [[spoiler: Ryu's mother Valerie]].
* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:Particularly if you're in the Church of Saint Eva. Tiga, Claris, Ray, Rand's mother, and potentially Ganer all bite it in that area.]]

** First: The citizens of [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Fantasy Counterpart Amphibian France]] Sima Fort on the whole can tell that the person claiming to be prince Jean is an impostor bent on stealing the throne. They also on the whole care a great deal more about [[FrenchCuisineIsHaughty haute cuisine]] and pursuing their various artistic passions than they do about the ongoing coup d'etat.

* AttractMode: Depending on how many times you let the title screen loop, you'll see story scenes for each party member explaining what they were doing before the plot of the game after the TimeSkip. You'll then see them participate in a quick battle.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Averted by the Death spell; unlike most SNES JRPG's this one is SimpleYetAwesome since it works on a majority of non-boss enemies (but has a pretty simple animation).

* BlindIdiotTranslation: A famous exponent, to boot; this game came as close to a TranslationTrainWreck as is possible without becoming totally incoherent.
* BookcasePassage: The hidden entrance to Bando's crypt. A [[PercussiveMaintenance sharp blow]] from Katt's stick reveals it.
* {{Bookends}}: Depending on your actions towards the end, then the game will both [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/bof/images/5/51/Valerie_dragon_form_artwork.png/revision/latest?cb=20111230125633 begin]] and [[https://lparchive.org/Breath-of-Fire-II/Update%2094/116-Breath_of_Fire_II_(USA)107.png end ]] with a dragon blocking the path from Gate to Dologany.
* BottomlessPitRescueService: Nina, if she's leading your party in a dungeon, and not transformed into her angelic shaman-fused form. Averted in Thieves' Tomb, though, possibly due to the pits moving around.
* {{Bowdlerise}}: Surprisingly little. Among the worst, most blatant Bowdlerisations is the writing of man-crazy witch's name Nimpho Mani (as in, nymphomania) as Nimufu Mani.

* ButThouMust: Quite a few, such as when Petape [[BrokenBridge sinks your boat]], leaving you with no way out of Sima Fort and therefore no choice but to save Jean. She later forces you to [[ForeignQueasine eat the food]] during the CookingDuel then complains when you [[VomitDiscretionShot find it unpalatable.]]
* CagedInsideAMonster: There is a boss with a figure listed as old man chained up to the side of it, killing the boss without killing the man allows you to rescue him.
* CantCatchUp: It takes roughly half the game to clear Bow's name, by which time he'll be far behind everyone else in [[CharacterLevel exp]] when he rejoins.
** To be fair, he ''can'' catch up; it'll just take some time grinding him. (And it's well worth it too, as he becomes the party's best healer.)

** Since this game avoids LeakedExperience, anyone who you don't use will remain at their original level. This isn't a problem in most cases, even when the game forces you to use a particular character, because you always have at least your other three "mains". Except in two cases, with Sten and Rand. Sten will have to fight a tough boss (albeit with little HP) and go through a short dungeon on his own. The game forces you to use him before then long enough so that he should barely survive. Rand, however, is a completely other story. If you've never used him, he'll be around level 7 or 8 when he will have to solo a very strong enemy with high HP and strength. Be ready to grind a few hours to get Rand up to par!
* CashLure: You can catch the fish man merchant Maniro by baiting your hook with a bit of gold.

* ClearMyName: Bow. Infamous for being one of the longest {{Fetch Quest}}s in JRPG history. Humorously, this plot culminates in rescuing Jean, after he's jailed for [[{{Irony}} impersonating the Prince]], which is another quest for [[ClearMyName clearing the name]] of another character. This whole quest takes up about 4 out of 10 chapters.
* {{Cloudcuckooland}}: Sima Fort. The resident are so laid back, they don't even care if there's a coup d'état.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Each of the Shamans' [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair hair color]] corresponds to their respective element.
* {{Confessional}}: A selectable option at every St. Eva church. The priest's response changes according to Ryu's current mission.

* CookingDuel: A literal example.
* CorruptChurch: [[spoiler: Evarai can be seen as this]]. One of the first games to pull this trope off effectively.
* CreativeClosingCredits: Rather than showing up the development staff, the credits lists the names of ''every single'' character in the game, even minor {{NPC}} and town dwellers, some times in full-name basis. This is also so full of {{Shout Out}}s to western culture that it counts as BilingualBonus for the Japanese.

%%* CrystalDragonJesus: The BigBad is one.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Much moreso than the first ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireI'' game. Heck, compared to a lot of SNES games at the time, this certainly fit.
* DeathMountain: Mt. Fubi, Mt. Rocko and Mt. Maori.

* DressingAsTheEnemy: Katt wearing a nun's habit.
* DubNameChange: Plenty, mostly due to the BlindIdiotTranslation as it seems the translator doesn't even knew how to render names right (''Rand Marks'' instead of Land Marks). Other cases are due to space restrictions (Jean and Spar), making up new ones (Katt) or, randomly, because they wanted to adhere to VideoGame/{{Breath of Fire|I}}'s translation (Bleu, some magic spells).
* DuelBoss: More than a few. Ryu gets a couple, though one (Tiga) is unwinnable and the other (Barubary) is optional. Nina, Rand, Sten and Bow (optional) get theirs as well.
* EarlyBirdCameo: [[spoiler:The worst ending]] shows the silhouette of the BigBad, far before he normally appears.

** Likewise, after the difficulty is partly smoothed out by Ryu getting his Baby Dragon transformations, soon after you reach [=SimaFort=] enemies once again have enough HP that it won't one- or two-shot them...unless you [[GuideDangIt spot the hermit]] [[CaveBehindTheFalls behind a random waterfall]] on the world map which unlocks Ryu's adult dragon skills.
* EldritchAbomination: The more you go through the game, the more the enemies start becoming this. In the beginning, we're talking things like two-headed werewolves. By the end of the game, you'll be seeing mini-Cthulhu's in priest gear, giant bloated scorpions with ''human skulls for heads'' and... And... [[http://spriters-resource.com/snes/breathfire2/sheet/19935 and whatever the hell THIS is supposed to be]]!

* EvilTowerOfOminousness: Infinity is an ''underground'' variant. Specially seen in the game's intro.

* FakeLongevity: One particularly annoying example stands out. After helping Ray save the villagers in Capitan, he says he wants to give you a blessing, and asks you to take him back to where your party gathers. So, you have to travel on foot all the way back to [=TownShip=], just so Ray can give a spell to a party-member of your choosing. [[note]]Nevermind that 4 of your 6 party members are already right there in Capitan with him, and the only 2 that aren't both eventually learn the spells he offers just from leveling-up anyway.[[/note]] Then, you get to travel all the way back from [=TownShip=] to Capitan again, whereupon Ryu is shoehorned into attempting [[FusionDance to fuse with a Shaman]], which awakens his dragon powers and destroys the Shamans' house. So, the Shamans force you to take them back to [=TownShip=] and give them part of the house there. At least the trip back to [=TownShip=] this time is just done via cutscene, but the trip back to Capitan AGAIN to recruit a carpenter is NOT. Thankfully, you don't have to personally escort the damn carpenter back to [=TownShip=] yourself, and after all that's done you can FINALLY move on with the plot.

* ForeignQueasine: The frog-people's culinary, with its use of worms, roaches and flies. Ryu gets to taste some... With [[VomitDiscretionShot predictable results.]]
* FreeFallFight: Sten and Trubo battle on a collapsing bridge as it plummets.
* FusionDance: There are six recruitable shamans. Most of the party members can merge with up to two of them at a time. Ryu, on the other hand, absolutely ''can not'' because of his draconic heritage, but attempting to do so unlocks his dragon potential.