History VideoGame / Evoland2

** The RhythmGame battle is extremely forgiving about missing inputs, so even if you're a bit awkward at either hand-eye coordination or rhythm, as long as you don't miss too many in a row you'll still be able to beat it.

* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] and [[ZigZaggingTrope played straight]] with Fina. In the laboratory and Demonia campaign, where she can attack independently, she is the only ranged attacker. For the rest of the game, her gameplay contribution is smashing things.

* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: Yoda Tree, he is called for a reason. Later subverted hilariously when Yoda Tree doesn't talk with his way of speech when thanking you. He realizes his error, cuts off, and reiterates what he was saying with the signature verbal tic.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Menos is usually quite serious and strong both physically and mentally, but he's reduced to trembling and stuttering when he learns that the Haunted Forest is genuinely filled with ghosts, immediately cowering behind Kuro, which Fina teases him about.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: In the original release, the book you get from the future Genova library and give to the young girl trio for a Collectible Star is called "50 Drinking Games", which Saku understandably questions why you'd give to a trio of innocent little girls. Apparently that was considered too troublesome to depict, so for the CompilationRerelease it was changed to the more family-friendly "50 Ghost Stories", though the line about them waiting until they're older to read it is kept.

* ArtShift: The art is characteristic of the era you're in, evolving the further you are into the future. The Magi era has monochrome pixel graphics, alike to those displayed by the original Platform/GameBoy with thin lines dividing each pixel. The past era has 16-bit pixel art graphics, alike those displayed by the SNES. The present era features pixel art commonly used by indie games today, while the future era uses 3D graphics accompanied with post-processing effects.

* HalfHumanHybrid: Ceres is half-demon half-human, although her demon traits are more visible. [[spoiler:During the ending, a baby resembling her is seen in the abandoned Lost Island cabin with Menos and Velvet. Contrast to Fina's UnevenHybrid status.]]

* SwordBeam: In the platformer-based sewer level, Kuro inexplicably becomes able to shoot sharp beams from his sword, when during prior levels he could only engage in close combat and needed Fina for ranged attacking.

** The CharacterFillibuster:demon in the past era Demon Camp does some LampshadeHanging on how [[WelcomeToCorneria everybody repeats the same phrases when talked to]] like they have memory problems that make them forget that they've already said something, to which he posits a theory about whether everybody is actually a bunch of robots programmed to say things written by somebody else.

** Fina has a tendency to obliviously make meta references to aspects of the game, such as feeling less "detailed" following the ArtShift from 32-bit to 16-bit after their first experience with TimeTravel, or initially referring to the easily-tricked prison guards as "scripted" before using different terms.

* CharacterFillibuster: Unlike most minor [=NPCs=] in the game, which only have one quick line they say when interacted with, a demon in the past era Demon Camp prattles on and on after being interacted with, taking a few minutes to get through without speeding through the text. He lampshades this, as apparently none of the other demons want to talk to him because they fins his endless speech annoying.

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Any time an ally leaves your party on-screen, such as Menos at the past Demon Camp or him and Velvet in present era Demonia Ruins, you are prevented from summoning them until they visibly return.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Fina has a tendency to obliviously make meta references to aspects of the game, such as feeling less "detailed" following the ArtShift from 32-bit to 16-bit after their first experience with TimeTravel, or initially referring to the easily-tricked prison guards as "scripted" before using different terms.

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: When Minos and Velvet leave the screen in present era Demonia Ruins, you cannot summon them while you can still summon Fina.

* PermanentlyMissableContent: Averted, as you can revisit most places including [[spoiler: Giro's lab once the anomaly is standing over it in the present]]. You can even get back into prison by talking to a guard in past Genova.

* TimeMachine: Expect to deal with them with a lot. Comes in two variants:
** The time portal variant in the form of Magiliths. They remain fixed in place and takes you to the past, present and future eras. Only one Magilith takes you between the Magi and the future era. They can be destroyed.
** After obtaining the module dropped by the Exogarth, your Flying Machine becomes one and can travel through all four eras.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Fina has a tendency to obliviously make references to game aspects, such as feeling less "detailed" following the ArtShift from 32-bit to 16-bit after their first experience with TimeTravel, or initially referring to the easily-tricked prison guards as "scripted" before using different terms.