History VideoGame / TalesOfDestiny2

* ArmorPiercingSlap: More like Armor Piercing Bone Crusher. Used by Nanaly on Loni.

** Harold also has to choose between saving the timeline and letting her brother die, or saving her brother and altering the timeline, as well as letting Barbatos activate Belcrant. She chooses the timeline, and her brother dies in her arms.

* Harold also has to choose between saving the timeline and letting her brother die, or saving her brother and altering the timeline, as well as letting Barbatos activate Belcrant. She chooses the timeline, and her brother dies in her arms.

* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Elraine tries to force Judas into this by trapping him in a PsychologicalTortureZone.]] It doesn't work.

** In his [[LotusEaterMachine]], Judas had to choose between submitting to Fortuna's will and betraying his new friends [[DealWithTheDevil (in exchange for a place in history as a hero)]], or being forced to relive [[spoiler: betraying his old ones]] forever. [[spoiler: He chooses the latter, but is fortunately saved from having to go through with it.]]

* TheAtoner: Judas.

* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: Occurs in the BadFuture that Nanaly comes from. People the world over willingly trade in their aspirations to live under Elraine's thumb, because she gives them everything they need. In the AlternateTimeline [[spoiler: Elraine]] pumps this up into a TerminallyDependentSociety.

* MeaningfulName: Kyle naming the mysterious swordsman "Judas".

** After Barbatos was defeated in the original timeline, it was judged that his crimes were so great that he was to be completely written out of history. The reason he fights as Elraine's [[TheDragon Dragon]] is to prove to the world he actually does exist. This is also the ultimate fate of [[spoiler:Fortuna, as well as Elraine. Reala... well, she gets better]].

* SadisticChoice: Kyle had to choose between keeping the world enslaved to fate or killing the girl he loves.

* ThePowerOfLove: This is what brings [[spoiler:Reala]] BackFromTheDead in the epilogue. It's also implied that [[spoiler:Judas]] is saved from being RetGone through the [[ThePowerOfFriendship bonds of friendship made during the game.

* LotusEaterMachine: The Illusion World dreams.

** MAkeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: [[spoiler: The second half of the game revolves around trying to retcon this after Elraine changed history.]]

** SetWrongWhatOnceWentRight: [[spoiler: The second half of the game revolves around trying to retcon this after Elraine changed history.]]

* DuelingMessiahs: [[Reala and Elraine, both saints of Fortuna trying to find the best way to guide humanity into happiness.]]

* ActionGirl: Nanaly, without a doubt.

* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:Judas]], although it is later hinted that Kyle has some lingering memory of [[spoiler:him]]. Averted by [[spoiler:Reala]], who [[spoiler:is revived and brought back to the timeline due to Kyle's strong heart]]. Effectively, this actually counts for [[spoiler:Nanaly and Harold]], too, as [[spoiler: The Nanaly Kyle knew was from the future. The Nanaly they could have met in their time would have only been nine years old. In Harold's case, she was from the past as Judas was]].

* TheDragon: Barbatos.

* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: Elraine and Fortuna believe that humans are too weak to take care of each other, and thus they need a more powerful guardian to rule their lives.
* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: Occurs in the BadFuture that Nanaly comes from. People the world over willingly trade in their aspirations to live under Elraine's thumb, because she gives them everything they need. In the AlternateTimeline Elraine pumps this up into a TerminallyDependentSociety.

* ThePowerOfLove: This is what brings [[spoiler:Reala]] BackFromTheDead in the epilogue. It's also implied that [[spoiler:Judas]] is saved from being RetGone through the bonds of friendship made during the game.

* ResetButton: [[spoiler:The ending. Fortuna is defeated, which erases all of her influence from the timeline, including the events of the game and the existence of Reala and Elraine. The epilogue shows that despite this, the party members still grow up to be pretty much the same people they were during the game, and Reala is reborn due to ThePowerOfLove]].

** Thanks to TimeTravel, [[spoiler: Judas does this to himself.]]

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong [[spoiler:During the epilogue, you can take a sidequest where you save Nanaly's brother from death by getting him the medicine he needs to live.]]

* YinYangBomb: Judas

* AwesomeButImpractical: There are plenty of spells that can stun enemies with ease, while physical attacks tend to be hampered with other stats to stagger the enemy properly. Counter-intuitively, the spells tend to be fairly unspectacular while the flashy moves come from the physical skills.
** Some of the most memorable mystic artes are the ones used by the melees, especially Loni's 15-Kanji Hi-Ougi, ''Shinten Rekkuu Zankou Senpuu Messai Shinbatsu Kassatsugeki''. (Which itself fits this trope due to its requirements and the fact that it can actually ''fail''. So if you want to use this on a ''boss'', you might as well use it as a finisher.)

-->''"Instant miracles are not brought to mix with life now. Time passes... Unite here and rise to the future! Righteous Holy Sword! I cut off the past... Scatter! Majin Rengokusatsu!"''

* PaperThinDisguise: Judas' mask: it's become a RunningGag in the TalesSeries of how poorly it functions as a means of concealing your identity. It doesn't help that Judas has an [[Creator/HikaruMidorikawa incredibly distinctive voice]]. (The excuse in-game is that Judas chose the mask not for its face-hiding abilities, but because it's made of dragon bone, which offers excellent physical and magical protection.)
** Though it actually does work as a disguise, due to his discretion. Everyone in-game that would recognize him is either dead or he intentionally avoids.

* RetGone: After Barbatos was defeated in the original timeline, it was judged that his crimes were so great that he was to be completely written out of history. The reason he fights as Elraine's [[TheDragon Dragon]] is to prove to the world he actually does exist. This is also the ultimate fate of [[spoiler:Fortuna, as well as Elraine. Reala... well, she gets better]].

* [[spoiler: SadisticChoice: Kyle had to choose between keeping the world enslaved to fate or killing the girl he loves.]]

* TomboyishName: Harold, again.
** To elaborate: she calls herself Harold in order to deceive the history books into believing that the famed genius and creator of the Swordians was male. At least, according to her that was "one of twenty-one reasons" why she did it.

* PaperThinDisguise: Judas' mask: it's become a RunningGag in the TalesSeries of how poorly it functions as a means of concealing your identity. It doesn't help that Judas has an [[HikaruMidorikawa incredibly distinctive voice]]. (The excuse in-game is that Judas chose the mask not for its face-hiding abilities, but because it's made of dragon bone, which offers excellent physical and magical protection.)

* NamesToKnowInAnime:
** JunFukuyama - Kyle
** ToshihikoSeki - Loni
** TomokoKawakami (and later YumiKakazu after [[AuthorExistenceFailure Kawakami's death]]) - Nanaly
** NorioWakamoto - [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCKxfcvXejU Ba-ba-ba--ba-ba-ba--ba-ba-ba--Ba... Barbatos Goetia]]

''Tales of Destiny 2'' (not to be confused with ''VideoGame/TalesOfEternia'' [[note]]When ''VideoGame/TalesOfEternia'' was originally released in America, it was called "Tales of Destiny II" because the word "Eternia" was trademarked by the WesternAnimation/{{He-Man| and the Masters of the Universe}} franchise.[[/note]]) is the fourth title in Namco's ''Franchise/TalesSeries'' and a direct sequel to ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny''.

* TraumaInducedAmnesia ([[spoiler:Kyle seemingly forgot the memory of when Barbatos killed Stahn, and it takes a MindScrew about halfway through the game for him to remember the event.]])

''Tales of Destiny 2'' (not to be confused with ''VideoGame/TalesOfEternia'' [[note]]When ''VideoGame/TalesOfEternia'' was originally released in America, it was called "Tales of Destiny II" because the word "Eternia" was trademarked by the WesternAnimation/{{He-Man| and the Masters of the Universe}} franchise.[[/note]]) picks up eighteen years after the first game ended and tells the story of Kyle Dunamis, son of Stahn. Having grown up on tales of how his parents saved the world, he's absolutely convinced that it's his destiny to follow in their footsteps and become a hero. Thus, as soon as he's of age he goes on a grand journey around the world looking for adventure, and happens to stumble across a MysteriousWaif and an epic quest involving TimeTravel and [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong Setting Right What Once Went Wrong]]. During his travels, he picks up his own band of misfits:

* '''Judas''': A mysterious DualWielding fencer wearing a [[PaperThinDisguise bone mask]]. The "wise guy" of the team. Despite his attitude, he seems obliged to protect Kyle. [[spoiler:He turns out to be Leon Magnus, BackFromTheDead]].

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