History VideoGame / CytusII

[[spoiler:Ivy]]: "[[spoiler:Vanessa]]?"[[labelnote:*]]Vanessa is the main character from [[VideoGame/{{Cytus}} the first game]][[/labelnote]]

-->[[spoiler:Ivy]]: "Can you hear me?"\\

-->[[spoiler:Ivy]]: [=AEsir=]...... This shall be my new identity.

** And then there's Ilka DLC, which is the SpiritualSuccessor of the original game's Chapter L, gameplay-wise. Hard & Chaos charts are filled with note clusters and drag/click-drag notes (except with [[UpToEleven speed]] this time around). Four of the Chaos charts fall into the "Glitch" territory, with one of them having the InterfaceScrew associated with said difficulty.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: At least by RhythmGame standards, the game has a fairly sizable cast. Besides the main characters, there are also their family and friends, members from several different criminal organizations, and the people of varying ranks working for the ARC, all of whom have speaking roles and reoccur. [[spoiler:The 2.0 update also adds several Architect characters to the cast.]]

* AdultFear: Rampant child kidnapping and human trafficking are serious problems in the setting. [[spoiler:On a more personal level, there's also the fear of being sexually assaulted by someone you've come to trust, such was heavily implied to be the case with a teenage Aroma and Noah, her sister's husband.]]

* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:V. //System Offline// An orchestral remix of V.]] serves as the final song in the main storyline after you reached Vanessa level 25.
** TrueFinalBoss: After that, you have to play [[spoiler:II. Failure or success at pressing the button prompt at the beginning and at the end of the song determines the ending you got.]]

* DecoyProtagonist:
** Bo Bo. Because of it's role as Sagar's pet, it plays no direct role in it's own story as the central focus is on Sagar and Rin. It only occasionally appears in the background.
** [[{{VideoGame/Deemo}} Alice]] plays more of a supporting role in her own story with the main protagonist being Xenon.

* HarderThanHard: The three base difficulty levels are Easy, Hard, and Chaos, though in practice it comes out more to Easy, Medium, and Hard. Patch 2.7 adds the "Glitch" difficulty level, which has some truly ridiculous charts designed to challenge the world's best players during a tournament.

* EvolvingTitleScreen: Three so far portraying the progress of [[spoiler: Vanessa and Ivy's story]]:

** Upon reaching level 25 with the three original characters, the title screen changes to show [[spoiler:Vanessa]] lying down in the middle of the aforementioned Library. [[spoiler:This is from Ivy's point of view as she prepares to go rescue her.]]

* AddressingThePlayer: [[spoiler:Before PAFF attempts to delete Vanessa, she directly asks the help of an unknown iM consciousness, which is implied to be the player for their assistance. Your answer (By successfully pressing the button prompts) determines the ending. The 4.0 update takes this a step further, revealing that, in the present, the player ''is the only real character in the story''.]]

* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:According to the 4.0 update, ''the entire cast'', in a sense. The characters we see in the present story along with the story itself are mental constructs created by the protagonist based on events and people they observed with stuck in Virtual Space, while it is implied that most of humanity was wiped out by the Ender Virus.]]

* DreamingOfThingsToCome: [[spoiler:As revealed in the 4.0 update, none of the events of the story actually happened but are instead "possibilities" created from the protagonist's exposure to the stories of the characters. The story ends with the protagonist being given the knowledge to finally put an end to the cycle of killing that has threatened humanity time and again.]]

* TheEndingChangesEverything: [[spoiler:The 4.0 update drops a huge revelation that ''none of the endings have occurred yet''. That story was instead constructed in the protagonist's mind based on their exposure to each character's past.]]

* AddressingThePlayer: [[spoiler:Before PAFF attempts to delete Vanessa, she directly asks the help of an unknown iM consciousness, which is implied to be the player for their assistance. Your answer (By successfully pressing the button prompts) determines the ending.]]

* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler:According to the 4.0 update, ''the entire cast'', in a sense. The characters we see in the present story along with the story itself are mental constructs created by the protagonist based on events and people from their past.]]

* DreamingOfThingsToCome: [[spoiler:As revealed in the 4.0 update, none of the events of the story actually happened but are instead "possibilities" created from the protagonist's past experiences. The story ends with the protagonist being given the knowledge to finally put an end to the cycle of killing that has threatened humanity time and again.]]

* TheEndingChangesEverything: [[spoiler:The 4.0 update drops a huge revelation that ''none of the events of the story actually happened''. The story and characters were instead constructed in the protagonist's mind as a means to discover how to avert a repeat of the cycle in which the Architects threaten humanity with near-extinction.]]