History VideoGame / RagnarokIILegendOfTheSecond

* ArtEvolution: In-game character models are ''much'' closer in appearance to the art style from ''Manhwa/{{Ragnarok}}'' than they were in ''Ragnarok Online'' or ''Gate of the World''.

''Legend of the Second'''s story opens with the events of ''Manhwa/{{Ragnarok}}'', in which Chaos--Odin's reincarnated son and the god of light, Baldur--fought the goddess Freyja with the help of a band of heroes, seeking to prevent her from destroying all of Midgard. In a final cataclysmic battle known as the "Day of Despair," Freyja was finally sealed in Vanaheim. Three hundred years later, Freyja's followers--calling themselves the Freyjanity--kidnapped children all across the Rune-Midgarts Kingdom. Following an investigation discovering the location of their research facility, King Reinhart ordered the Knights of Prontera to eliminate the Freyjanity and rescue the children.

Also known as ''Ragnarok Online 2'' or ''[=RO2=]'', this is the second attempt by Gravity Corporation to make a proper sequel to ''VideoGame/RagnarokOnline'', the {{MMORPG}} based on Myung-Jin Lee's ''Manhwa/{{Ragnarok}}'' graphic novel series. Development started back around July 2010, when Gravity announced that the previous sequel project, ''[[VideoGame/RagnarokIITheGateOfTheWorld Ragnarok II: The Gate of the World]]'', had been scrapped in favor of ''Ragnarok II: Legend of the Second'', which sports a new game engine (Gamebryo instead of Unreal Engine), a new art direction, and a reworked story. The Korean version launched on March 26, 2012, with the Southeast Asian version following on January 3, 2013 and the international version on April 18, 2013. Also available on Steam.

* SchizophrenicDifficulty: Localized in the final area of the game, Jawaii. The Ocean Island field map has monsters that will merrily oneshot you if you don't have enormous investment into your equipment, while the Normal and Hard versions of the Wonderland dungeon follow the same theme. The Easy version on the other hand, is a solo-only dungeon that gives you a 90% damage reduction buff which lasts until you leave the instance for free, with the kicker being that as outlined above, this buff is additive with other damage reduction effects, meaning that stacking it with an Armor 20 or higher Rune or a Knight's purple-rarity Master Level shield will give you a 100% damage reduction, rendering you invincible to the enemies and making your victory a foregone conclusion as long as you can tolerate getting stunned on a constant basis and don't do anything stupid or strange that can result in self-damage, like spamming the Soulmaker's Sacrifice attack without healing or using the Warrior's Battle Leap skill to scale a wall and then falling in such a way that you take lethal fall damage.

* BribingYourWayToVictory: Spinels, which allow instant resurrection instead of being forced to run back from your save point, and Graham Potions, which temporarily give 3,000 extra maximum HP (which can mean the difference between life and death in certain raids), as well as VIP Cards, which increase item drop rate and a modest boost to all stats, are very common items cited by players who accuse this game of having a PayToWin scheme. In the current day this is less true, as both 1-Day VIP Cards and Spinels (but not the improved Blue Spinels) can be purchased from the NPC Dapara for Mastery Points, which being the combo EXP/currency that you also use to level up, isn't incredibly difficult to obtain past a certain point.

* PantyShot: SO MANY female outfits and costumes can cause this, particularly during spell-casting animations. Noels included.

* JunkRare: Situationally, any blue Pandora's weapon that cannot be used by the character to receives it, as they cannot be traded. More generally, any white Pandora's weapon that can only be used by a second class is utterly worthless due to the fact that the job change quest was changed to just hand you a superior weapon at some point.

* BribingYourWayToVictory: Spinels, which allow instant resurrection instead of being forced to run back from your save point, and Graham Potions, which temporarily give 3,000 extra maximum HP (which can mean the difference between life and death in certain raids), as well as VIP Cards, which increase item drop rate and a modest boost to all stats, are very common items cited by players who accuse this game of having a PayToWin scheme.

* DiscontinuityNod: The Recruit class from ''The Gate of the World'' lives on! Or at least, its uniform does--as a purchasable costume. The item description even mentions the Dampf Flinte steam guns Recruits use.

** Gets censored in some countries by having short pants instead.

Ten years later, the orphans have grown into teenagers preparing to graduate from the Elemento Academy, a MilitarySchool nestled deep within Mt. Mjolnir--and that's where the player's journey begins ...

* StoryOverwrite: Noels, once you reach Maple Village, are treated as Elemento Academy graduates by NPC's, despite Noels having completely different backstories. It's especially jarring once you meet Zeras Hyperion in Prontera.

** The last boss in the Culvert of Abyss is a rat that looks like [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtle Master Splinter]], not to mention that he summons a [[GenderBending gender bended]] version of the said ninja turtles.

** The last boss in the Culvert of Abyss is a rat that looks like [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtle Master Splinter]], not to mention that he summons a GenderBended version of the said ninja turtles.