History VideoGame / HyperdimensionNeptuniaMk2

[[caption-width-right:350:[[UsefulNotes/{{PlayStationPortable}} Is]] [[UsefulNotes/NintendoDS your]] [[UsefulNotes/GameGear handheld]] as [[MoeAnthropomorphism moe]] as this?]]

Of course, this includes the younger sisters of the other goddesses, who are based on the handheld systems on the market at the time of this game's release, much like how Nepgear is based on the UsefulNotes/GameGear and how the goddesses are based on the home consoles on the market and the unreleased Sega Neptune.

A remake for the UsefulNotes/PSVita was later released, titled ''Hyperdimension Neptunia [=Re;Birth2=] SISTERS GENERATION'' (''Chō Ji Jigen Game Neptune [=Re;Birth2=] SISTERS GENERATION''). Akin to the earlier remake game for the PS Vita, ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaReBirth1'', this game also utilises the battle system from ''[[VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaVictory Victory]]'' in addition to ''[[VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaReBirth1 Re;Birth1]]'''s "remake system", which unlocks special modifications to the game. The remake features an improved framerate compared to the performance of the original [=PS3=] game, in addition to [[UpdatedRerelease reworked voice acting, music and visuals]].

* RecursiveCanon: In one of her Chirps, Vert mentions requesting for ''Neptunia mk2'' to be released for "[[UsefulNotes/Xbox360 the Box]]."

Visit the [[http://www.compileheart.com/neptune_mk2/ Japanese]] and [[http://www.nisamerica.com/games/neptunia2/index.php English]] websites.

* BeyondRedemption: During the Conquest Ending path, the party considers Linda irredeemable when she [[spoiler:ambushes and fatally wounded an already-battle worn Vert]]. It got to a point that ''Nepgear'', [[BewareTheNiceOnes of all people]], says "I should have done this a long time ago" after [[spoiler:killing her once and for all]].

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Compile Heart was clearly experimenting with this game. Although the combat system was different from the first game, it was still different from the one used in ''Victory'' and subsequent mainline games and remakes. Also, the cutscenes used 3D models instead of 2D pictures with LimitedAnimation; no game since then has had this kind of cutscene.

* AlternateUniverse: Just about everything has changed outside of the central premise, from the world's structure and how the main characters met. Additionally, this Gamindustri is officially known as the Hyperdimension, while the [[VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptunia previous]] Gamindustri is known as the Superdimension.

* BonusBoss: Tons in the coliseum, the hardest of them being [[spoiler:Delphinus]].

* DatingSim: The [[LesYay Lily system]]. [[VideoGame/AgarestSenki Possible shout out to another game by Compile Heart]].

* MoralEventHorizon: In-universe. During the Conquest Ending path, the party considers [[spoiler:Underling having crossed it when she ambushed and fatally wounded an already-battle worn Vert]]. ''Nepgear'' of all people says, "I should have done this a long time ago," after [[spoiler:killing her once and for all]].

* [[invoked]]ObviousBeta: The [=DLCs=] fixed this though. Even without the DLC, ''mk2'' is still not as bad as its predecessor in terms of being an Obvious Beta.

* AlternateUniverse: Just about everything has changed outside of the central premise. Even the world's structure and how the main characters met! This Gamindustri is now officially known as the Hyper Dimension, while the [[VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptunia previous]] Gamindustrie is known as the Super Dimension.

%%* DarkerAndEdgier: Definitely compared to the first. [[spoiler: ''especially'' if you're on the Conquest Ending. The multiple cases of Assisted Dei-Suicide alone would have contributed to it's M rating.]]

* DubNameChange: To match with the similar treatment for the [=CPUs=], any instances of "_____ the Hard" were changed to "CFW _____"

* AlternateUniverse: Honestly, just about everything has changed outside of the central premise. Even the world's structure and how the main characters met! This Gamindustri is now officially known as the Hyper Dimension, while the [[VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptunia previous]] Gamindustrie is known as the Super Dimension.

* CreatorCameo: When was the last time you've seen a creator of the game (or at least, have a hand in making the game aka Keiji Inafune) be there in person ''as a friggin summon''!?
* DarkerAndEdgier: Definitely compared to the first. [[spoiler: '''''especially''''' if you're on the Conquest Ending. The multiple cases of Assisted Dei-Suicide alone would have contributed to it's M rating.]]

* DatingSim: The [[LesYay Lily system.]] [[VideoGame/AgarestSenki Possible shout out to another game by Compile Heart.]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The Conquest Ending is heavily implied to be this. See DarkestHour above and ShootTheShaggyDog.]]
* DubNameChange to match with the similar treatment for the [=CPUs=], any instances of "_____ the Hard" were changed to "CFW _____"

* {{Fanservice}}: Wouldn't be Neptunia game without it.

* FiveManBand: Lampshaded by Nepgear and Nisa with the following party members.
** TheLeader: Nepgear (though Nisa fancies herself as this)
** TheLancer: IF
** TheSmartGuy: Gust
** TheBigGuy: Nisa (again, Nepgear in Nisa's mind)
** TheChick: Compa
* ForcedTutorial: Did you expect Compile Heart to let you off the hook in a ''Neptunia'' game?

** In the English dub the organization's name is [=RRoD=], short for Regal Regiment of Defense.

* GottaKillThemAll: [[spoiler:The Conquest Ending route plot is this; you have to kill all the goddesses. It's disturbing, to say the least.]]
* GratuitousEnglish: The EndingTheme has quite a bit of it.

** Even if you have your party pimped out with awesome equipment and doing fine against the first fight with CFW Magic, the game will still continue as if Nepgear and company are [[HopelessBossFight still getting owned by her.]]

* HammerSpace: "Don't ask where they hide their weapons."
* HotSpringsEpisode: What you will be rewarded when you get to Chapter 7. The trophy for this scene lampshades it.

* ItsAWonderfulFailure: [[spoiler: The Conquest ending. See DarkestHour above and ShootTheShaggyDog.]]
* JigglePhysics: Vert and Compa, mainly.

* ObviousBeta: The [=DLCs=] fixed this though. Even without the DLC, ''mk2'' is still not as bad as its predecessor in terms of being an Obvious Beta.

* RuleOfSymbolism: How the fans usually interpret the [[spoiler:Conquest Ending. Ending the UsefulNotes/ConsoleWars by turning one of its companies into a monopoly is a horrible idea. Piracy will always continue to exist despite any effort to crack down on it. A monopolistic industry will stall without competition. And a gaming world without competition will not improve and will fall apart sooner or later. It's even lampshaded by Deity of Sin Arfoire herself in that particular ending]].

* SwordOfPlotAdvancement: [[spoiler:The Magic Sword found only in the Conquest End.]] [[PlayerPunch Have fun obtaining it.]]
* TakeThat: It happens [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ9Km7WW2aE here with the four goddesses arguments over consoles]].
** The Scout named [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/neptunia/images/1/14/Misuo.png/revision/latest?cb=20140311200043 "Misuo"]] is a parody of the infamous [[TheScrappy Mist Rex]] from VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsK, and most of his lines are parodies of Mist's [[MemeticMutation horribly written dialogue]] from that game. Such as "This world isn't worth saving!" and "I'm used to suppressing riots."

* TheWarOnStraw: Straw digital pirates.

'''White Disc (Original):''' THow did this happen?\\

* DubNameChange: Or rather, ''un''change. Pirachu gets his name swapped back to Warechu.

* WakeUpCallBoss: [[spoiler:Rom and Ram. Both transformed]] and with some ridiculous stats to boot. Going in below level 16 makes the fight nearly impossible and level 23 and up is recommended for an even fight. It doesn't help that RED and Compa's defensive stats are quite low at this point in game.

* ItsAWonderfulFailure[=/=]KillEmAll: [[spoiler: The Conquest ending. See DarkestHour above and ShootTheShaggyDog.]]

* MultipleEndings: There are a lot of them. ''[=Re;Birth2=]'' adds one more. This gives the game the most endings in the whole franchise with a total of [[UpToEleven nine endings]]!

* RuleOfSymbolism: How the fans usually interpret the [[spoiler:Conquest Ending. Even if you end the UsefulNotes/ConsoleWars by having one Super Console that plays everything, piracy will always continue to exist. With only one super console, the industry will stall without competition. And a gaming world without competition will not improve and will fall apart sooner or later. It's even lampshaded by Deity of Sin Arfoire herself in that particular ending]].

* PantyShot: All over the place.

* NoBodyLeftBehind: [[spoiler:The CPUs when sacrificed to the Malice Sword.]]

* LivingWeapon: Pippin from FairyFencerF appears in the game as a DLC sword, and is implied to be a sentient weapon.

%%Shorthand for the second game should be capitalized as mk2, not Mk2 or mk-2. For the third game, use Victory, not V, since the English name has been confirmed to use the former, and the Japanese title has both.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In the Holy Sword ending, Nepgear discusses this trope when she suspects [[spoiler:the Gehaburn inflicted this on the goddesses to make them fight each other. Considering how quickly the team reconciled and came up with a better solution after breaking the sword, she might not be far off.]]

* DatingSim: The [[LesYay Lily system.]] [[AgarestSenki Possible shout out to another game by Compile Heart.]]

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Mushroom enemies are classified as plants even though they're actually fungi, a completely separate living organism from plants. Though this is probably justified and perhaps deliberate because ''Neptunia'' is based on video games, so it is likely basing the enemies on a common mistake that most developers fall victim to when comparing fungi to plants.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Mushroom enemies are classified as plants even though they're actually a fungus, a completely separate living organism from plants.

* DarkestHour: The absurdly disturbing Conquest Ending for the entire cast. Nepgear is forced to [[spoiler:kill all of her CPU friends and her only living relative, all in a last-ditch attempt to prevent the end of the world. And it's heavily implied that her actions didn't prevent the tragedy,but in fact ''ensures'' it.]]

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Just like ''[[VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaReBirth1 Re;Birth1]]'', Gust and Nisa are not present. They've been absent since ''Victory'' and were outright written out of the story here and in ''[=Re;Birth1=]''. However, 5pb. and Rde return after having received this treatment previously.

* BonusBoss: Tons in the coliseum, the hardest of them being [[spoiler: Delphinus]].

* DarkerAndEdgier: Definitely compared to the first. [[spoiler: '''''especially''''' if you're on The Conquest Ending. The multiple cases of Assisted Dei-Suicide alone would have contributed to it's M rating.]]
* DarkestHour: Nepgear in the absurdly disturbing Conquest Ending. She takes her experiences pretty well, not completely reaching the DespairEventHorizon, particularly considering that she's being forced to [[spoiler:kill all of her friends--including two small children while they sob on each other and hold hands after their older sister was just stabbed to death--and her only living relative, along with practically every single person she's become friends with throughout the game, all in a last-ditch attempt to prevent a tragedy that she ultimately doesn't prevent, anyway.]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The non-canon Conquest Ending. See DarkestHour above and ShootTheShaggyDog[=/=]SuicideForOthersHappiness below.]]

* GottaKillThemAll: [[spoiler:The Conquest Ending route plot is this; yes you have to kill all the goddesses. Thank you Compile Heart...]]

** There's also the first battle against [[spoiler:a [[ThatOneBoss Killachine]]]]; even though the damn thing fades out via the standard enemy death animation, the party's dialogue goes on to reveal that it was too powerful for them.

* HungryWeapon: [[spoiler:The Malice sword, which grows more powerful as it consumes [[KillTheGod fallen CPUs]] until it becomes the Gehaburn. "Feeding" it and using the word on Arfoire is the point of the Conquest Ending, where where after learning about that aspect forces Nepgear to avoid using the sword and try to find an alternative, only to be forced to kill her friends and sister with it anyway.]]

* ItsAWonderfulFailure[=/=]KillEmAll: [[spoiler: The Conquest ending. See DarkestHour and HungryWeapon above and ShootTheShaggyDog[=/=]SuicideForOthersHappiness below.]]

* MoodWhiplash: Goes through it ''bad'' during the Conquest Ending. In between all the drama and [[spoiler:killing your good friends to power up your weapon]], the battle dialogue stays the ''exact'' same. So now it seems like Neptune is unironically cracking jokes and trash talking [[spoiler:all her friends right before she kills them.]]

* MultipleEndings: There are a lot of them. ''[=Re;Birth2=]'' adds one more.
** This game has the most endings out of the whole series with a total of [[UpToEleven nine endings]]!

* RuleOfSymbolism: How many fans interpreted the [[spoiler:Conquest Ending. Even if you end the UsefulNotes/ConsoleWars by having one Super Console that plays everything, piracy will always continue to exist. With only one super console, the industry will stall without competition. And a gaming world without competition will not improve and will fall apart sooner or later. It's even lampshaded by Deity of Sin Arfoire herself in that particular ending]].

* ScriptedBattle: Your first boss fight in this game is against CFW Judge, and even if you unload Nepgear's most powerful attack at that point against him, it will only do zero damage.
** In fact, even if you're at [[{{AbsurdlyHighLevelCap}} maximum level with the DLC]] and could {{One Hit Kill}} CFW Judge, you STILL do zero damage.

* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler:The Conquest Ending. Nepgear feeds the demon sword by killing ''all of the other [=CPUs=]'' with it, then destroys Arfoire with the fully powered sword. Arfoire, however, seems to take being defeated quite well, all things considered... The reason why is that, by having killed the other [=CPUs=], Nepgear has fated the world to have no competition, and therefore no progress. With no progress, Gamindustri will ultimately crumble, and Arfoire will then return to feast on the remains. The implications of this are that the [=CPUs=] all died, not to avert Gamindustri's end, but to make it inevitable. Thankfully, this is only one of Multiple Endings, so it is not strictly canon.]]

* RecursiveCanon: In one of her Chirps, Vert mentions requesting for ''Neptunia mk2'' to be released for "[[{{Xbox360}} the Box]]."

* SameContentDifferentRating: A case of rating lowering from the original M to a T. Even though the game is still the same bar the voice acting. Meaning either the NISA inflated the rating because of the darker and edgier approach or the ESRB being more lenient.

** The Scout named [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/neptunia/images/1/14/Misuo.png/revision/latest?cb=20140311200043 "Misuo"]] is a parody of the infamous [[TheScrappy Mist Rex]] from VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsK, and most of his lines are parodies of Mist's [[MemeticMutation horribly written dialogue]] from that game. Such as "This world isn't worth saving!" and "I'm used suppressing riots."

* {{Mordor}}: The Gamindustri Graveyard. Bonus points for the [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/neptunia/images/9/9d/Hyperdimension-Neptunia-mk2_2011_04-21-11_013.png ominous tower with an eye on it]].

* {{Mordor}}: The Gamindustri Graveyard. Bonus points for the [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110605024621/hyperdimensionneptunia/images/d/db/Graveyard.jpg ominous tower with an eye on it]].