History VideoGame / FreedomPlanet2

* HateSink: Erin is an NPC in the Royal Palace, and is ''incredibly'' [[FantasticRacism racist towards water dragons]]. [[spoiler:Talking to him after beating the game reveals that he didn't learn a damn thing.]]

* SadBattleMusic: Askal's boss theme.

* HistoryRepeats: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] if you're playing as [[spoiler:Milla]] at the end of the Inversion Dynamo stage: [[spoiler:Serpentine attempts to use a "Resonance Link" to brainwash Milla just like Brevon brainwashed her in the first game. But ''this'' time, Milla is able to resist through ThePowerOfFriendship, blasting herself out of Syntax's clutches using her cube bursts and allowing you to still play as Milla during the subsequent boss fight against Serpentine's mech]]. If you're not playing as [[spoiler:Milla, she still manages to break free of the Resonance Link, but it takes a bit longer, as your player character has to beat Serpentine first]].
* IHaveManyNames: On Lilac's path, at the end of the Gravity Bubble stage, [[spoiler:Merga reveals that the "water dragons" weren't originally known by that name -- they were originally multiple species with different names who lived under the sea. But when the earth dragons colonized Avalice, they gave the species the collective name "water dragons" as a show of apparent solidarity, to make them apparent "brothers and sisters of the sea" to the earth dragons.]]

* InterfaceSpoiler: Both played with and actively defied. The Battesphere keeps the boss count for rematches capped at the number of bosses you've defeated, [[spoiler:and the museum adds an entirely new wing for Parusa, the second half of the game, to hide how not-so-close to finishing the game you actually are at that point]].

* ConservationOfNinjutsu: [[spoiler:The four heroines and General Gong all attack Merga in Shang Tu's palace during a boss fight, in a flashy bit of GameplayAndStoryIntegration, but the other four you're not playing as will be soundly defeated far more quickly than they would of been had any of them taken her on alone. Indeed, the only way to "[[HeadsIWinTailsYouLose win]]" is to outlast them and duel her solo.]]

* SlippySlideyIceWorld: Robot Graveyard is set in the snowy outskirts of the kingdom of Shuigang; eventually shifting to a massive junkyard with discarded robot parts; hence the level name.

* ShoutOut:
** One of the enemies is called a Traumagotcha, which is a floating mechanical orb with a screen featuring a little creature [[spoiler: or Serpentine's head, if infected by Code Black]], a clear nod to {{Toys/Tamagotchi}}.
** The Shuigang Palace has a [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FcoCbteXEAE6KKY?format=jpg&name=large portrait of a panda, presumably a former king]], in a pose that's a dead ringer for King Harkinian from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames Link: The Faces of Evil]]'' saying “mah boi, this peace is what all true warriors strive for”.
** You can find a hedgehog couple in Adventure Square – a [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog blue hedgehog named Sunny]] whose motto is “gotta take it easy” and dislikes going fast, and a [[Characters/SonicTheHedgehogMainCharacters pink hedgehog named Amelia]] who's [[ClingyJealousGirl a clingy wife]] to Sunny, [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure wields a mallet]] and has used it for, of all things, eating salad.
*** Later in the game, Amelia talks about how Aaa used to [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 follow her around like a tail]], and tells of Pinky, a character of an unspecified species who patrols Parusa's volcano and considers himself “[[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles a guardian of these emerald isles]]”.
*** After the game is cleared, Sunny recalls a recurring dream “where a mad scientist with crazy eyebrows [[Characters/SonicTheHedgehogDrIvoEggmanRobotnik wants to turn everyone into robots]]”, and Amelia speculates what threats may come in the future, be it evil clones, [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD time travel]] or “[[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW a nanomachine virus that turns everything it touches into zombies]]”.
** The Battlesphere ad has a blatant one.
--->''"[[VideoGame/BadDudes Are you a bad enough dude]] [[DareToBeBadass to survive]]'' the Battlesphere?''"''
** At the D-Pad arcade, one of the cabinets is running a ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' game with Ryu and Guile fighting on the screen.
*** Also at the D-Pad arcade is an NPC who makes references to a bunch of different games and shows via thinly-veiled expies, with the most obvious being {{VideoGame/Shantae}} and {{WebAnimation/RWBY}}.
** After Askal saves Milla from the descending spike trap in Robot Graveyard, she thanks him with: [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil1 "Thanks Askal! I was almost a Milla sandwich!"]].
** The second OptionalBoss in the Battlesphere is Lemon Bread, an {{expy}} of Melon Bread from ''VideoGame/GunstarHeroes'' and ''VideoGame/AlienSoldier''. It's the same anagram name ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' used for its own reference to that character.
** Upon talking to Milla in the final episode's hub area, she'll quote from ''WebVideo/PotionSeller'' by saying that even if you want her potions before going into battle they might be too strong for you.
** The first level at Bakunawa is a stage full of floating planetoids, spinning cylinders, and grind rails called [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 Bakunawa Rush.]]
** When you beat Captain Kalaw's first stage in the Sky Bridge boss fight, he reenters the fight shouting [[WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck "I am the terror that flaps for justice!"]]. The fight with him resembles a match of ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', and Kalaw even uses a move that greatly resembles Donkey Kong's "Spinning Kong" special.

** [[spoiler: Torque, despite the major presence he had last game, is nowhere to be mentioned, aside from (possibly) an off-hand comment by one of the duck NPCs early on]].

** When you beat Captain Kalaw's first stage in the Sky Bridge boss fight, he reenters the fight shouting [[WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck "I am the terror that flaps for justice!"]]

*** Later in the game, Amelia talks about how Aaa used to [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2 follow him around like a tail]], and tells of Pinky, a character of an unspecified species who patrols Parusa's volcano and considers himself “[[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles a guardian of these emerald isles]]”.

* GreenHillZone: Dragon Valley from the first game makes a comeback as the very first stage, and shows much more signs of lush green environments and nature-themed areas compared to the previous version.

The sequel to the surprise indie hit ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet'', the game was an unexpected announcement on December 25, 2015. After the Kingdom Stone was destroyed at the end of the first game, a water dragon named Merga broke out of her prison. [[TimeSkip Three years later]], Lilac and Carol's treehouse has been destroyed by a rampaging robot, so they and Milla need to do missions for the Magister of Shang Tu alongside Neera Li in exchange for a place to stay. Soon, however, it will turn out that these seemingly-minor incidents all have something more going on behind them. Who is Merga? What is she planning? Has an old enemy returned, as some fear? And when certain truths are uncovered, will they tear the trio apart?

* EternalEngine: The Shade Armory in Shuigang is Serpentine's current base of operations after Brevon left Avalice, and it stations several types of Shade Troopers, who have their armors built in the armory. To go through the level, you need to deal with several threats, like spinning sawblades and green liquid that you can drown in if you're not careful.

* PalmtreePanic: Tidal Gate takes place on a tropical beach, filled with water and aquatic-themed enemies. It's a [[BreatherLevel break]] after [[spoiler: the heavy revelations earlier, and the tough Globe Opera levels prior to that]].

* ModelMuseum: A literal one becomes available after the Avian Museum stage, letting you look at the individual sprites that each boss is comprised of. The exhibits need to be repaired using the three currencies in the game due to them having been destroyed in the aforementioned level, with the owner blaming your chosen player character and Aaa for the ruination.

** One of the enemies is called a Traumagotcha, which is a floating mechanical orb with a screen featuring a little creature [[spoiler: or Serpentine's head, if infected by Code Black]], a clear nod to [[Toys/Tamagotchi Tamagotchi]].

* ContinuingIsPainful: If you run out of health, you're given an option to either start your next life from the previous checkpoint, or get up on the spot. The latter option, however, will only give you half of a life point (and it will only be available if your body is still intact: being crushed or having your body otherwise destroyed will force you to start over from a checkpoint). If you run out of lives, you can also choose to continue from the previous checkpoint, but it will cost you 500 crystals and affect your stage ranking.