YMMV / Red Steel 2

• Anticlimax Boss: The final fight in your rematch with Shinjiro is really easy. You can perform the Tiger on him and kill him with a few shots from your upgraded rifle.
• Awesome Art: Admit it, the cel-shaded graphics are beautiful.
• Complete Monster: Shinjiro is the leader of the Jackal Gang and Katakara who annihilated the Kusaragi Clan. Seeking the Gale Sword, Shinjiro led the genocide that turned the desert into a ghost town full of bandits before hunting The Hero who had the sword, using any means to kill him, even sacrificing his men as fodder in his many schemes. After losing Payne and Okaji, Shinjiro took the Hero's friends hostage, and force his allies to betray him before luring him into a brutal final duel. Despicable enough to do anything for the precious Gale Sword, Shinjiro left the once-thriving desert into a wasteland full of the worst of the worst.
• Demonic Spiders: The machine pistol ninjas. They are just as good as you with powerful melee and ranged capability. If you're not careful, their rapid gunfire can deal massive damage in a heartbeat.
• Fridge Logic:
  • The town must have a really crappy economy.
  • "Those bandits are robbing our banks! They're carrying off all our gold!" Apparently, there was so much of it, they stuck them in boxes around the town.
• Game-Breaker: The Tiger. This even works on bosses, making the difficulty drop like a rock for the whole game.
• Narm: "I'm gonna cut your throat with your own Katana! Poetic ain't it?"
• Surprisingly Improved Sequel: The first game was very much hit-and-miss, with extremely finnicky controls. This sequel does away with all that by capitalizing on the Wii MotionPlus and many critics found a lot to like about it.
• That One Boss: Shinjiro's first encounter. He moves and attacks very quickly and deals a lot of damage if one doesn't use the Tiger efficiently.
• That One Sidequest:
  • The wanted poster sidequests can be a bit tough because they might blend in with the intentionally drab Cattle Punk environments.
  • Hope you have a Bladder of Steel to score a gold medal in challenge mode for Rattlesnake Canyon. It's a long, long, level and that doesn't help matters when Auto-Save is disabled in challenge mode, meaning that you must complete a chapter in one sitting.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: It's clear they were trying to do more with the plot, but it feels really barebones for the most part. Not only do you never find out why you were banished from your clan, but the characters are mostly flat and what little exposition there is doesn't really do much for the story.