History VideoGame / FugaMelodiesOfSteel2

->''Kaze ga oshieru ikisaki e susumou\\
Shinjiru sono-te o hanasanai yō ni\\
Hoshi ga tomosu made''
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** The unlockable Secret Movie [[spoiler:teases a third game in the series. In it, Malt sees a BadFuture where a new war has claimed the lives of his friends, the children are told Petit Mona is "a birthplace of heroes" and that at least Boron is a reincarnation of a legendary warrior, it's hinted that Jihl's spirit is still tied to Hanna after his sacrifice, Flam has regained consciousness, Maestro watches over "a new beginning", and Malt proclaims this will be the story of how he betrayed the world. Locations shown include a city full of skyscrapers, a structure that looks suspiciously like [[VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter the Futzu Tower]], and outer space and even the moon]].

** Early into Chapter 10, [[spoiler:Jihl informs Hanna that he's just been sent the coordinates for the last Altar. Hanna's response is, "Sent? By who?"]]

Like with the first game, a series of web animations known as ''Comedies of Steel 2'' have been uploaded to [=CyberConnect2's=] [=YouTube=] channel following the game's release. As of this writing, they are only available in Japanese with no English subtitles, but they can nevertheless be found [[https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkryP5_y-sRczHygcpgGINoDzwgLjUuzt&feature=shared here]].

** Chapter 3. [[spoiler:Jihl gains access to the Belenos, and uses it to heavily damage the Taranis and destroy the Tarascus, causing Hanna's evacuation teleportation to fail and her body to dissipate into light. The remaining children are so outraged that the remains of the ruined tanks resonate with them and merge into a single machine: the Exo-Taranis.]]
** Chapter 7. [[spoiler:After thinking they heard Hanna's voice guiding them in the previous chapter, the children are able to confirm that she still exists...as a VirtualGhost inside the Belenos' system. Destroying the Belenos will thus permanently erase her, but she encourages them to chase Jihl down and do so, for ''Jihl's'' sake, before the Belenos' power consumes him. Then, in the next port town before the next chapter begins, Vanilla receives a message claiming that her father, Shayne Muscat, is still alive.]]
** Chapter 10. [[spoiler:Hanna learns that someone has been guiding Jihl all along. Jihl completes the Belenos, having had a change of heart and planning to use it to resurrect Hanna. However, the Belenos' hidden programming activates, trapping Jihl and merging him with its biomachinery. When the other children catch up, they learn who Jihl's secret benefactor was: Cayenne the tutor, who had faked his own death and used Nono magic to appear as President Muscat for the past six months, then faked that death as well. Cayenne then uses magic to force his former pupil Vanille to set off a suicide bomb in the Exo-Taranis, and then uses the Belenos at full power against the incapacitated children, killing them all.]]

*** It's stated in the library entry for Lhassa Apso that the hot springs of Dachs (as in [[AnimalThemeNaming "dachshund"]]) were created as a result of the land rupturing from the Vanargand's attack, along with the destruction of the island's lava beds and sulphur deposits. While Lhassa Apso was a location created for ''Fuga'', Dachs was originally mentioned in a Japanese-only art book for ''Solatorobo''.

->''"You'll pay for it all and more! I will find you, wherever you are… I'm coming for you, Jihl. [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness I'm coming to kill you!]]"''

->'''Malt:''' How far could the Taranis have gone? It's not like something that huge could stay hidden out of sight.\\
'''Kyle:''' Could say the same about this hunk of junk. Man, it feels like a bad dream being in here. I never would've imagined we'd be chasing after the Taranis in a Berman tank.

->''"[[spoiler:Jihl]]… I'll make you regret ever being born! For [[spoiler:stealing Hanna away]]— for causing us all this grief! You'll pay for it all and more! I will find you, wherever you are… I'm coming for you, [[spoiler:Jihl]]. [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness I'm coming to kill you!]]"''
-->-- '''Malt'''

* DarkerAndEdgier: The game is even darker than its predecessor, which was already pretty dark by ''Little Tale Bronx'''s standards. This is due to many factors, such as even more fanfare made out of the Soul Cannon use, darker plot with more named characters unavoidably dying, the harrowing effect these deaths have on surviving children, and additional tragedy and atrocities revealed in the setting's background.

%%** The name of the game's new antagonist, Jihl, may be a shout-out to King Jhil from Anime/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind.

*** The industrial city of Pharaoh has been established as the nation's new capital, replacing the ruined Paresia. It'll remain the capital by the time ''Solatorobo'' occurs.
*** Between Chapter 4 and 5, one NPC will note that the island of Basset is a place where airships are known to crash, and the Library entries discuss that the island suffers from a lack of resources due to its distance from Pharaoh. By the time of ''Solatorobo'', Basset is a slum town composed almost entirely of wrecked battleships.
*** The Library entry discussing the forests of Vizsla mentions that the local wildlife has begun to mutate and grow following Gasco's fragmentation. By the time of ''Solatorobo'', the island of Vizsla is covered with mushrooms so massive that the island's residents have built homes upon them, and giant insects like ladyshrooms and scarabees have also come into existence.

* NonMaliciousMonster: [[spoiler: The boss of chapter 7 is a sentry robot, reprogrammed by the Female Engineer to protect the pilot of the Belenos (which happens to be Jihl). [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath It's possible to end the fight with it prematurely if you tell it that you don't want to harm Jihl]], in which case it stands down (though you won't get the XP and items reward after the battle in this case).]]

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** Every time you start NewGamePlus, your KarmaMeter resets back to zero. While this can remove the frustration that comes with trying to unlock the bonus Empathy or Resolute Epilogues following the GoldenEnding, the caveat of this is that it also removes all Leader Skills earned from the previous run, meaning unless you have the Gasco Medal on hand (which is crazy expensive and only available on New Game Plus), you'll never have the points needed to unlock all of the Leader Skills on both sides of the Judgement scale in a single playthrough.

* BettyAndVeronica: Vanilla has a couple of ShipTease moments in her link events with Malt, on top of the Count repeatedly assuming Malt is her boyfriend when passing out his comics. As a stern, hard headed rich girl Vanilla is a near 1:1 example of a Veronica to Hanna's down-to-earth cheerful Betty.

* BreakingOldTrends: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. The first ''Little Tail Bronx'' game to be a direct sequel rather than a NonLinearSequel, and the first game to not be tied to any anniversary in [=CyberConnect2=]'s history.

* CallBack: [[spoiler:When the children start fighting against the resurrected Vanargand, the music starts playing "Flower On The Trails", the iconic vocal theme from the first game.]]

** Per the last game's confirmation that Gasco will eventually become Shepherd, the map of Gasco seen in this game looks nearly identical to how Shepherd appears in ''VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter'', with a few minor differences. Some areas also have themes that are [[RearrangeTheSong remixes]] of their ''Solatorobo'' counterparts, in ways that vary from subtle to obvious. Other geographical things to note are:

** Socks expresses an interest in Old World technology when the children enter one of the [[spoiler:Crusade facilities]]. Likewise, when [[spoiler:the children learn Jihl's backstory, he specifically is the one to point out how unbelievable that the technology to create "hybrids" existed-- a nod to how [[VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter his distant descendant Merveille]] will help to create some of these hybrids herself.]]

* BagOfSpilling: Justified. The children spent the whole of the previous year living as normal civilians and their powers are tied to the Taranis itself. So when the Taranis goes rogue and the ones that were not captured had to use the Tarascus [[spoiler:and later the Exo-Taranis]] instead, they had to restart from level 1 or in the case of the other rescued children, at a much lower level.

* EmptyPilesOfClothing: [[spoiler:After being a victim of TeleFrag, Hanna's jacket is the only thing that remains.]]

* TechnologicallyAdvancedFoe: In addition to Berman Geists you will also occasionally encounter robots remaining from the Old World, most often found in and around [[spoiler:Crusade facilities]]. They are not that much stronger than contemporary machines but they do have their own tricks - for one, they don't have any Weaknesses, meaning they normally cannot be delayed, and some of them are capable of GatheringSteamn, automatically increasing their armour level and gaining access to new attacks throughout the fight. They also shoot lasers instead of bullets and artillery shells.
* TeleFrag: A newly revealed function of both the Taranis and Tarascus is the ability to teleport crew members to other locations within the tank, as well as between one another if they're able to get within spitting distance. The children use this functionality to rescue their trapped friends on the Taranis, [[spoiler:but the process being interrupted leads to Hanna's apparent death as the tanks are wrecked by Belenos before she fully re-forms.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: Use of the Soul Cannon has much more fanfare attached compared to the previous entry: in which it boiled down to a short firing scene, last words on the selection menu and a TragicKeepsake that could be found outside the chamber after the fact. Now the firing sequence is a 20 turn countdown which the player must desperately outrace, and should they fail we see the child's final thoughts as the cannon fires, watch them be scribbled out of the happy peacetime scene shown at the game's start, and followup scenes of the surviving characters mourning their friend.

* DownloadableContent: Much like with the first game, there's a Deluxe Pack that contains additional sleepwear outfits for the children, [[https://s.famitsu.com/serial/fuga/202306/20306700.html but a Season Pass has been confirmed that will contain additional DLC]]. Interestingly, they were able to strike a proper deal with Bandai Namco for this, as a ''VideoGame/TailConcerto'' costume set is the first [=DLC=] pack.