History VideoGame / RedSteel2

* LostForever: Got past Rattlesnake Canyon without getting every single upgrade? Those are impossible to get now.

* BadassLongcoat: The Hero.

* BoringButPractical: The Tiger, a move that allows you to block an opponent's attack and stun them, is by far the least flashy of the Kusagari Powers. However, it leaves your enemies wide open for a while, and always works, even against Giant Mooks or bosses, making this one of the more useful moves.
** And kneecapping and then finishing gun mooks or lowly sword mooks. It's not exciting, but it's the best way to take them out fast.
** There's also the alternative - [[BoomHeadshot Aerate his skull]] with the [[RevolversAreJustBetter revolver]], then use the Rush on him. Gets old just as fast, but you get more money.
** The [[SawedOffShotgun double-barrel]] is [[OneHitKill incredibly effective]] against ninjas

* CelShading

* DiscOneFinalBoss: Payne.
* DoomedHometown: Caldera.

* FlunkyBoss: Payne.

* KatanasAreJustBetter: Played straight.

* LocomotiveLevel

* NiceHat: The Hero.

* PowerTrio: The Villains(Who also partially form a FiveBadBand):
** Shinjiro: Ego(And BigBad)
** Okaji: Super Ego (And TheDragon)
** Payne: Id (And TheBrute)

* OffhandBackhand: The Storm, when used against enemies close enough to you that are behind you. It counts as an OneHitKill on any {{Mook}} and works on giant ones as well, who normally need to be finished off from behind.
** That said, they have to be telegraphing an attack for you to be able to use the instant kill.

* TheUnreveal:([[spoiler: Neither The Hero's name, nor why he was banished from his clan are revealed.]])
** The latter is explained in a promotional webcomic.

* {{Troperiffic}}: Hell yeah!
* WakeUpCallBoss: If you haven't mastered the combat system yet, Payne will definitely make you....well, [[IncrediblyLamePun feel the Payne]].
** Shinjiro is this even more so. Don't duel him without getting all the health and armor upgrades first at the very least!

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Speaking of Payne, he takes the cake for this one: Not only does he forego the chance to simply kill the protagonist in the beginning, effectively dooming his gang and himself in the process, he also neglects to take away the hero's GUN!

* TheObiWan: Jian (despite his obvious dislike of the situation) towards The Hero.

* AwesomeYetPractical: The higher-level special moves can be chained together with skill, and you earn a ton of cash for each successful technique. If you ''finish'' with a special, however, you get a multiplier on top of the regular cash bonus, which can turn just a few random mooks into a gold mine.
** In particular is "The Shot". It's a way to use up ammo ''and'' gain cash bonuses.

* EasyModeMockery: A variant: The final upgrade to the Sidewinner rifle gives it explosive shots, but it doesn't yield any money on kills or combos.

* BadassMustache: Songan.

* BoomHeadshot: The Special ability "The Shot" does this if used as a finishing move with the revolver: other guns go for a pointblank stomach shot, a PistolWhip followed by a quick vertical burst and an upwards-pointed pointblank chest shot. Getting a head shot normally results in an instant kill and being awarded $200.

* GiantMook: Of the [[DropTheHammer sledgehammer]], [[MoreDakka minigun]] and [[BladeOnAStick naginata]]-wielding variety. The former 2 can only be hit reliably and finished off from behind.

* LostForever: Played through the game without getting all the upgrades? Those are impossible to get now.

* ObviouslyEvil: [[spoiler: Oh come on! Just look at Songan's 'stache! Theres no way someone with a stache like that can be completely trustworthy!]]

* KatanasAreJustBetter: Played straight

* ShockwaveStomp: The Bear

* SpinAttack: The Storm

* MismatchedEyes: The Hero has a brown right eye and a green left eye.

* WakeUpCallBoss: If you haven't mastered the combat system yet, Payne will definately make you....well, [[IncrediblyLamePun feel the Payne]].

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''Red Steel 2'' follows a [[NoNameGiven nameless]] [[HeroicMime almost silent]] hero, who returns to his home town after having been banished by his clan only to find it completely overrun by a violent bike gang called The Jackals who attack him and take his [[MacGuffin sora katana]]. The hero has to work together with the only locals still fighting back, uncover the reason for the invasion and avenge his clan.

* ShoutOut: One of the missions is called [[YouHaveToBurnTheRope You Have to Cut the Rope]].

* GratuitousJapanese: Less then the first game. In this game most of the Japanese tends to be either "katana" or specific clan names.
* HeroicMime: [[NoNameGiven The Hero]] is just two lines of dialog short(Or too many)of being this.

* {{Expy}}: Though not the straightest example, its pretty clear that The Hero is a mix between [[DollarsTrilogy The Man With No Name's]] stoic personality, [[{{Trigun}} Vash the Stampede's]] gun slinging and fashion sense, and [[SamuraiJack Samurai Jack's]] sword skills.

* PressXToNotDie: There is one cutscene quick time event of the instant death variety. The standard finishing moves could also count, although they are entirely optional and the one you can perform at any given time depends on what kind of stun the enemy is currently in, which is again dependent on what kind of move you hit them with to begin with. And it's the ''only'' instance of this in the whole game.

* BoringButPractical: The Tiger, a move that allows you to block an opponent's attack, is by far the least flashy of the Kusagari Powers. However, it leaves your enemies wide open for a while, and always works, even against Giant Mooks or bosses, making this one of the more useful moves.

* {{BFS}}: Okaji's.

* MismatchedEyes: The Hero has a brown right eye and a green right eye.

* MismatchedEyes: The Hero has one red eye and one green.

* BodyArmorAsHitPoints: Makes more sense in the second game, where upgrading parts of your BadassLongcoat gives you layers of armor on top of your life bar that can take up to 4 hits before you start to take damage to your lifebar. The actual lifebar is upgraded via the parts of the clan emblem at the back of the said BadassLongcoat.

* FridgeLogic: [[RewardingVandalism The town must have a really crappy economy.]]
** "Those bandits are robbing our banks! They're carrying off all our gold!" Apparently, there was so much of it, they stuck them in boxes around the town.

* PressXToNotDie: There is one cutscene quick time event of the instant death variety. The standard finishing moves could also count, although they are entirely optional and the one you can perform at any given time depends on what kind of stun the enemy is currently in, which is again dependent on what kind of move you hit them with to begin with.
** Particularly {{egregious}} is the fact that the aforementioned button-mashing cutscene is the ONLY ONE IN THE GAME.

* RuleOfCool: Red Steel 2 loves this trope. Half the special attacks are probaly impossible to do in RealLife. The Kusagari powers are DEFINATELY impossible.