Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 7,9 (click to see context) from:
-->-- Text from the box for the [=PS1=] version of ''Strider 2''.
to:
-->-- Text '''Text from the box box''' for the [=PS1=] version of ''Strider 2''.
2''.
Changed line(s) 14,15 (click to see context) from:
The game was [[PortOverdosed ported to every known console of the time]], but following a [[VideoGame/StriderReturns Western-made sequel]] [[FanonDiscontinuity most people prefer not to talk about]], the series remained in hibernation until Hiryu's [[BreakoutCharacter surprise popularity boost]] in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomClashOfSuperHeroes'' opened the gates for a proper sequel. And so, ''Strider 2'' came out at the tail end of 1999 for the ZN-2 Arcade board, to later be ported to the UsefulNotes/PlayStation. A [[SpritePolygonMix 2D platformer using sprites on 3D backgrounds]], it follows roughly the same plot, [[NonLinearSequel albeit set 2000 years after the first game]]: Grandmaster Meio was defeated, but [[HappyEndingOverride his plans still were carried out]], and now he rules over an Earth populated by his own creations, [[CrapsackWorld a society wrecked by conflicts, genetic diseases and corruption]]. Just as Hiryu receives the order to eliminate Meio, the group is exterminated by Meio's followers with the assistance of [[GenocideFromTheInside Strider Hien]], a former comrade of Hiryu who has betrayed them to join Grandmaster Meio. As the SoleSurvivor of the organization, Hiryu puts everything aside and decides to carry out the Striders' last mission: to eliminate Grandmaster Meio. Just as before, Hiryu will have to deal with a colorful cast of enemies in order to finish this mission once and for all.
to:
The game was [[PortOverdosed ported to every known console of the time]], but following a [[VideoGame/StriderReturns Western-made sequel]] [[FanonDiscontinuity most people prefer not to talk about]], the series remained in hibernation until Hiryu's [[BreakoutCharacter surprise popularity boost]] in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcomClashOfSuperHeroes'' opened the gates for a proper sequel. And so, ''Strider 2'' came out at the tail end of 1999 for the ZN-2 Arcade board, to later be ported to the UsefulNotes/PlayStation.Platform/PlayStation. A [[SpritePolygonMix 2D platformer using sprites on 3D backgrounds]], it follows roughly the same plot, [[NonLinearSequel albeit set 2000 years after the first game]]: Grandmaster Meio was defeated, but [[HappyEndingOverride his plans still were carried out]], and now he rules over an Earth populated by his own creations, [[CrapsackWorld a society wrecked by conflicts, genetic diseases and corruption]]. Just as Hiryu receives the order to eliminate Meio, the group is exterminated by Meio's followers with the assistance of [[GenocideFromTheInside Strider Hien]], a former comrade of Hiryu who has betrayed them to join Grandmaster Meio. As the SoleSurvivor of the organization, Hiryu puts everything aside and decides to carry out the Striders' last mission: to eliminate Grandmaster Meio. Just as before, Hiryu will have to deal with a colorful cast of enemies in order to finish this mission once and for all.
Changed line(s) 143 (click to see context) from:
* SecretLevel: By clearing the original game in the UsefulNotes/PlayStation port of ''Strider 2'' and saving to a Memory Card, a new "stage 00" is unlocked in the latter. This stage was actually planned for the Arcade version, but was scrapped and left unused in the end.
to:
* SecretLevel: By clearing the original game in the UsefulNotes/PlayStation Platform/PlayStation port of ''Strider 2'' and saving to a Memory Card, a new "stage 00" is unlocked in the latter. This stage was actually planned for the Arcade version, but was scrapped and left unused in the end.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Spelling/grammar fix(es)
Changed line(s) 68 (click to see context) from:
* DadaAd: The commercial for the Japanese Mega Drive port is...[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z3mLchAV5o something to behold]]. The game's planner has said the company in charge literally told them they'd ignore the source material, and the entire staf was justifiable flabbergasted when they saw the end result.
to:
* DadaAd: The commercial for the Japanese Mega Drive port is...[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z3mLchAV5o something to behold]]. The game's planner has said the company in charge literally told them they'd ignore the source material, and the entire staf staff was justifiable justifiably flabbergasted when they saw the end result.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
* BackStab: In the original there's a chance some of the Russian soldiers in the first stage will fall back in abject terror in Hiryu's presence, and will remain in this state for as long as Hiryu faces them. But the moment the player turns around, these soldiers will stand up and quickly charge at Hiryu for a chance of hitting him with their bayonets.
* BilingualDialogue: The first ''Strider'' is well-known for its multi-language cutscenes, where Hiryu responds to Tong Pooh's Chinese with Japanese and can easily understand Mikiel's Russian or the Amazon girl's gibberish language.
* DualBoss: The Researchers in ''Strider 2'' fight together as a single boss with a shared health bar.
* DualWielding: Strider Hien wields a Geometrical Cypher, a set of Cypher swords that can be joined together into a boomerang-type weapon. Although mainly used as a projectile, he can also strike wielding each sword separately.
* DualWielding: Strider Hien wields a Geometrical Cypher, a set of Cypher swords that can be joined together into a boomerang-type weapon. Although mainly used as a projectile, he can also strike wielding each sword separately.
* ExtremityExtremist: The Kuniang girls in both games fight using their martial arts proficiency, and all their attacks are exclusively kicks.
* FlunkyBoss:
** Mid-way through the Metall Hengst boss fight, soldiers will start jumping into the screen to fight alongside their leader.
** Grandmaster Meio's modus operandi is this: summoning different life forms to attack Hiryu alongside him. In the first game these were normal animals (piranhas, wolves and Pteranodon), in the second these are highly bizarre lifeforms with elemental powers.
** Mid-way through the Metall Hengst boss fight, soldiers will start jumping into the screen to fight alongside their leader.
** Grandmaster Meio's modus operandi is this: summoning different life forms to attack Hiryu alongside him. In the first game these were normal animals (piranhas, wolves and Pteranodon), in the second these are highly bizarre lifeforms with elemental powers.
* GenocideFromTheInside: The demise of the Striders prior to the beginning of ''Strider 2'' is facilitated by Hien betraying them and siding with the Grandmaster.
Changed line(s) 110 (click to see context) from:
** As part of the CanonWelding with ''Franchise/StreetFighter'', Zeku is explicity referred to as the "1st generation Strider Hiryu" in his character setting, and it also says he will be succeeded by the original scarf-less Hiryu from the original ''Strider'' and by "a 3rd generation", which more than likely refers to the Hiryu from ''Strider 2''.
to:
** As part of the CanonWelding with ''Franchise/StreetFighter'', Zeku is explicity referred to as the "1st generation Strider Hiryu" in his character setting, and it also says he will be succeeded by the original scarf-less Hiryu from the original ''Strider'' and by "a 3rd generation", which more than likely refers to ''Strider'', here called the Hiryu from ''Strider 2''. "third generation" after Zeku, implying another "Hiryu" (possibly a student of Zeku) existing in-between them.
Changed line(s) 119 (click to see context) from:
* NubileSavage: The Amazons from the eponymous stage look quite good for being an isolated woman-only community dealing with ''ressurected dinosaurs''.
to:
* NubileSavage: The Amazons from the eponymous stage look quite good for being an isolated woman-only community dealing with ''ressurected dinosaurs''.''resurrected dinosaurs''.
* OutsideGenreFoe:
** As a dystopian sci-fi setting, every single boss in both games is either human, robot or mechanical-supported enemy...with the exception of the Dullahan, who is a fully supernatural entity formed by the restless spirits of tortured prisoners.
** One can make the case for the Kuniang girls as well, as they fight completely with their martial arts skills and have no advanced weaponry or external enhancements of any kind, unlike similar bosses like Solo (who uses weapons and a flight-capable armor) or Strobaya (a cyborg enhanced through drugs), making them more at home in a {{Wuxia}} setting than a sci-fi world.
* OutsideGenreFoe:
** As a dystopian sci-fi setting, every single boss in both games is either human, robot or mechanical-supported enemy...with the exception of the Dullahan, who is a fully supernatural entity formed by the restless spirits of tortured prisoners.
** One can make the case for the Kuniang girls as well, as they fight completely with their martial arts skills and have no advanced weaponry or external enhancements of any kind, unlike similar bosses like Solo (who uses weapons and a flight-capable armor) or Strobaya (a cyborg enhanced through drugs), making them more at home in a {{Wuxia}} setting than a sci-fi world.
* RankInflation: ''Strider 2'' has a rank system that grades the player's performance at the end of each stage. Lowest to Highest it goes from E to A, then S, SS and Star (literally a yellow star)
Changed line(s) 156 (click to see context) from:
* WarElephants: The Frozen Mammoth in ''Strider 2'' is this taken to the extreme: bring back a fossilized mammoth from perma-frost, change the parts that are unusable with mechanical ones and give it laser beams, and you got a very terrifying bioweapon.
to:
* WarElephants: The Frozen Mammoth in ''Strider 2'' is this taken to the extreme: bring back a fossilized mammoth from perma-frost, change the parts that are unusable with mechanical ones and give it laser beams, and you got a very terrifying bioweapon.bioweapon.
* WorthyOpponent: Solo seeks a fight with Hiryu to match his supposedly-unmatched skills as the strongest human in the world against one of the fabled Striders. In the end, he ends up biting ''way'' more than he can chew.
* WorthyOpponent: Solo seeks a fight with Hiryu to match his supposedly-unmatched skills as the strongest human in the world against one of the fabled Striders. In the end, he ends up biting ''way'' more than he can chew.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Deleted line(s) 141,142 (click to see context) :
* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Any characters of English or otherwise unspecified nationality (in this case, Meio and Solo) speak perfectly legible English.
--> "Hmm... It is Strider Hiryu. He will ''never'' leave Eurasia alive!" [[TheDragon "I got you."]]
--> "Hmm... It is Strider Hiryu. He will ''never'' leave Eurasia alive!" [[TheDragon "I got you."]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
By TRS decision
Whip It Good is now a disambiguation page. Moving entries to appropriate tropes when possible.
Whip It Good is now a disambiguation page. Moving entries to appropriate tropes when possible.Changed line(s) 158,159 (click to see context) from:
* WarElephants: The Frozen Mammoth in ''Strider 2'' is this taken to the extreme: bring back a fossilized mammoth from perma-frost, change the parts that are unusable with mechanical ones and give it laser beams, and you got a very terrifying bioweapon.
* WhipItGood: Beard Jr. uses a whip.
* WhipItGood: Beard Jr. uses a whip.
to:
* WarElephants: The Frozen Mammoth in ''Strider 2'' is this taken to the extreme: bring back a fossilized mammoth from perma-frost, change the parts that are unusable with mechanical ones and give it laser beams, and you got a very terrifying bioweapon.
* WhipItGood: Beard Jr. uses a whip.bioweapon.
* WhipItGood: Beard Jr. uses a whip.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* AllJustADream: All the ports by Tiertex end by revealing that the game was just a simulation.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
trope disambig
Deleted line(s) 74 (click to see context) :
* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: ''Strider 2'' features robot penguin bombs which throw themselves at Hiryu. At the end of the 1st area in the Antarctic stage, Hiryu gets a small following of real ones too.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Changed line(s) 90 (click to see context) from:
* GodhoodSeeker: The Grandmaster's main obssession is to attain godhood. Failing on forcing the entire planet on worshipping him as one, he resorts to [[KillEmAll killing all life]] and recreating it, so that he'd become their one and only Creator God.
to:
* GodhoodSeeker: The Grandmaster's main obssession is to attain godhood. Failing on forcing the entire planet on worshipping him as one, he resorts to [[KillEmAll killing all life]] life and recreating it, so that he'd become their one and only Creator God.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Changed line(s) 72 (click to see context) from:
* DynamicDifficulty: Both games ramp up difficulty the less the player dies, which tries to make some features less NintendoHard (but there's too many [[ClassicVideoGameScrewYous fun units]] to throw away).
to:
* DynamicDifficulty: Both games ramp up difficulty the less the player dies, which tries to make some features less NintendoHard (but there's too many [[ClassicVideoGameScrewYous fun units]] to throw away).NintendoHard.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
TRS dewicking
Deleted line(s) 75 (click to see context) :
* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: Hien [[WeaponTwirling spins]] his [[DoubleWeapon dual-bladed cypher]] to parry your attacks, [[PrecisionGuidedBoomerang throw his blades like boomerangs]], and fire a beam of concentrated lightning at you.
Added DiffLines:
* SpinAttack: Hien [[WeaponTwirling spins]] his [[DoubleWeapon dual-bladed cypher]] to parry your attacks, [[PrecisionGuidedBoomerang throw his blades like boomerangs]], and fire a beam of concentrated lightning at you.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
An Axe To Grind is no longer a trope
Changed line(s) 47 (click to see context) from:
** The Amazons from the fourth stage use either this or [[AnAxeToGrind axes]].
to:
** The Amazons from the fourth stage use either this or [[AnAxeToGrind axes]].axes.
