History YMMV / LaMulana2

** The Valkyries in the Divine Fortress as well as in [[spoiler:Spiral Hell]]. Whenever they get close to you, they back up five or ten blocks, ignoring all the walls, and shoot three "Einherjar" ghosts at you. It's basically impossible to kill them without sub-weapons, and hard mode ensures that there's at least one Valkyrie on ''every screen'' in the Divine Fortress. Fortunately, they do get easier as the [[spoiler:Crucifix]] makes you immune to the Einherjars.

* GoddamnedBats: The Lokapala soldiers found in the Immortal Battlefield. In a game where you primarily fight with whips and thrown projectiles, these guys come at you with ''fully automatic rifles''. They time their burst fires to hit you right after you lose MercyInvincibility, making it possible for them to [[CycleOfHurting stunlock]] you, and makes any shield short of the Angel Shield useless against them. And right as one sees you, [[EnemySummoner it will whistle, calling more comrades to appear from the Tree Of Life doors]]. What's worse is that as you progress through the game, they'll begin appearing in other areas as well.

* GoddamnedBats: The Lokapala soldiers found in the Immortal Battlefield. In a game where you primarily fight with whips and thrown projectiles, these guys come at you with ''fully automatic rifles''. They time their burst fires to hit you right after you lose MercyInvincibility, making it possible for them to [[CycleOfHurting stunlock]] you, and makes any shield short of the Angel Shield useless against them. And right as one sees you, [[EnemySummoner it will whistle, calling more comrades to appear from the Tree Of Life doors]].

** Version 1.4.4.2 reduced the difficulty by replacing the bottomless pit with a pool of lava. He's still hard, but not as unfair as before.

* TheWoobie: This game reveals Sakit, one of the bosses of the first game, to be this. [[spoiler: It's revealed that it was Abuto, not Sakit, who orchestrated the war of the giants. In truth, Sakit questioned the need for the giants to fight one another. In response, Abuto manipulated Sakit into murdering his wife Ledo to kick off the war. Sakit alone was made a scapegoat for the war and was imprisoned in the Underworld to have his intestines eaten for all eternity. And the worst part is that no one knew the truth for thousands of years, since it was Abuto who chronicled the history of his people.]]

** "Encyclopedia Completionist", which requires the player to complete the glossary, which can be done by talking to other characters and killing enemies. Sounds easy, right? Well, guess what: sub-bosses and Guardians do not get entries on the glossary by killing them. You have to find their entries that are hidden in the area that contain said bosses. While some of them are in plain sight, others are very well hidden and sometimes requires you to use the Hand Scanner to check some spots in the area. But wait, there's more! Some characters also have additional entries in the glossary. How do you get them? By doing the same thing, except they're scattered all around Eg-Lana instead of placed in a particular area. Not only that, but a few can be LostForever (though fortunately, collecting them on any playthrough or via any save counts towards the achievement.) To top it off [[spoiler:three of the entries can only be gotten during the EscapeSequence]]!

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: The hints for the puzzles are less confusing and vague than the first game. [[ThatOnePuzzle Sometimes]].

** The Crystal Skull Epitaphs are a mixture of regal language.... ''with SirSwearsALot and TotallyRadical mixed in.''

** [[BackgroundBoss Surtr]] used to be this in older versions of the game, since getting hit by most of his attacks punished you by pushing you into an [[BottomlessPits instant death pit]]. They changed the pit into a [[LavaPit magma pit]] in later versions, significantly simplifying the boss. However, they also removed a very easy way to cheese him.

* ThatOneLevel: The [[TheUnderworld Eternal Prison]] takes the cake in this game. When you first access this area through the corridoor of blood, your holy grail is disabled, meaning you can't warp out, and you immediately have to descend in a way that keeps you from leaving the way you came in. It only gets worse from there. Screens are filled with difficult enemies, spikes (which the lighting can render practically invisible), lava, and crushers. Its main gimmicks are the underworld gates, which need to be traversed in the correct order to reach the boss, and each one you cross will make another item unavailable until you leave the area. [[spoiler:In addition, the scythe gate will murder you when you attempt to go through it if you haven't lost access to ALL the other items you're supposed to.]] To make matters even worse, some gates will spit you back out of the area, requiring you to go through it all over again. This is all on top of the area containing some of the most difficult and annoying puzzles in the game.

** The Crystal Skulls Epiapths are a mixture regal language.... ''with SirSwearsALot and TotallyRadical mixed in.''

** The beherit. Anyone at all familiar with ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' would be very nervous about carrying this item around. When used to absorb dissonance, it ''screams'' as a bright orange flash erupts from it. Absorb ''all'' of the dissonance, and its face looks much angrier and its entire description is replaced with a single word in all caps: "DIE".
** Related to the above, the Corridor of Blood. The moment you look at it you get a message from Fobos and Xelpud talking about how ominous it is. If you walk into it when the beherit has absorbed that section's dissonance, upon entering the entire corridor will suddenly be splattered with blood. [[spoiler: But it's in the endgame, when you seal the Corridor of Blood, that all hell breaks loose. When you've acquired all of the dissonance and set the Corridor of Blood gates in the proper sequence, the entirety of Yggdrasil, from the Roots to the Icefire Treetop, has a malicious red mist resembling dissonance in the background, and some parts of the ruins look cracked.]]

** Hel. While she starts out as a CuteMonsterGirl, just looking at her as she sits on her throne you can tell there's something unnatural about her from her idle movements. Then you fight her. [[spoiler: She does nothing until you hit her a few times, at which point her legs are suddenly replaced by a mass of tentacles. Damage her further and she breaks free from the tentacle mass and starts floating around to strike you with her halberd. When you defeat her, you get the typical red flash you get from beating a Guardian...and then she suddenly ''screams'' as tentacles burst from her eye sockets and her mouth, and she goes in for one last attack as her now severed arms attack you.]]

* ThatOneLevel: The [[TheUnderworld Eternal Prison]] takes the cake in this game. When you first access this area through the corridoor of blood, your holy grail is disabled, meaning you can't warp out, and you immediately have to descend in a way that keeps you from leaving the way you came in. It only gets worse from there. Screens are filled with difficult enemies, spikes (which the lighting can render practically invisible), lava, and crushers. Its main gimmicks are the underworld gates, which need to be traversed in the correct order to reach the boss, and each one you cross will make another item unavailable until you leave the area. To make matters even worse, some gates will spit you back out of the area, requiring you to go through it all over again. This is all on top of the area containing some of the most difficult and annoying puzzles in the game.

* DisappointingLastLevel: [[spoiler:Many consider the last area of the game (Spiral Hell) to be a complete letdown (past the initial PTSD caused from the opening screen/opening riff of the music) compared to the rest of the game due to a lack of challenge. Even the EscapeSequence at the end doesn't bring much tension compared to the first game since the sequence itself doesn't have a time limit.]]

** Hel, considering her status as the last of the 9 guardians and boss of the incredibly difficult Eternal Prison area, is a fairly simple fight. In her first phase, she doesn't even move, using only simple, predictable projectile attacks. Her second phase isn't much better: She's capable of moving, and gains an attack that's somewhat harder to dodge, but is entirely predictable. While the moving platforms can make getting hits on her somewhat annoying, a careful player can easily whittle her health down without taking much damage. She does, however, have a [[TurnsRed final phase]], where she moves more erratically and her scythe spins around the arena in addition to the projectiles from the first phase... but at that point, she's literally three hits away from death.
* DisappointingLastLevel: [[spoiler:Many consider the last areas of the game (especially Spiral Hell) to be a complete letdown compared to the rest of the game due to a lack of challenge. Even the EscapeSequence at the end doesn't bring much tension compared to the first game since the sequence itself doesn't have a time limit.]]

** The Hall of Malice, Eg-Lana's version of the Dimensional Corridor. It doesn't seem that hard at first, but once the area is activated with the Cog of Antiquity, things go downhill at this point: just like last time, you're unable to warp out of the area until you beat all the sub-bosses in the area. Said sub-bosses are very challenging and requires a lot of ammo to be taken down, since most of them can't be defeated with just the primary weapons. Oh, and just like last time, the area will lock you on a route until all the sub-bosses from that route are dead. Thankfully you can return to the village at any moment between routes and once all of them are dead, the area will allow you to use the Grail again once Echidna's Ankh is revealed.

** [[HailfirePeaks Icefire Treetop]], one of the earlier areas of the game which can be accessed after defeating Nidhoggr in Roots of Yggdrasil, especially if the player didn't acquire the Scalesphere and the Ice Clock. Filled with annoying ceiling enemies that can lunge at you and knock you off platforms, ice physics, the most obnoxious platform segments with breakable platforms and two new hazards: Icy water and poisonous lava. Icy water can drain your health slighty faster than regular water without the Scalesphere while poisonous lava can drain your health ''in a second.'' Even the Ice Cloak and the Scalesphere combined only reduce the damage to "manageable" rather than eliminating it. Did I also mention that the Guardian of this place is [[GoddamnedBoss Surtr?]]

** "Encyclopedia Completionist", which requires the player to complete the glossary, which can be done by talking to other characters and killing enemies. Sounds easy, right? Well, guess what: sub-bosses and Guardians do not get entries on the glossary by killing them. You have to find their entries that are hidden in the area that contain said bosses. While some of them are in plain sight, others are very well hidden and sometimes requires you to use the Hand Scanner to check some spots in the area. But wait, there's more! Some characters also have additional entries in the glossary. How do you get them? By doing the same thing, except they're scattered all around Eg-Lana instead of placed in a particular area. Not only that, but a few can be LostForever (though fortunately, collecting them on any playthrough or via any save counts towards the achievement.)

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: The Crystal Skulls Epiapths are a mixture regal language.... ''with SirSwearsALot and TotallyRadical mixed in.''