History VideoGame / RedSteel2

* LoadsOfLoadsOfLoading: Each chapter's map is divided into many small areas that the Wii needs to load in with intense disc activity, gated by doors that lock your movement and take time to open when you try to open them. Whether you're planning to travel from one far end of the map to the other or cut your way across a linear chapter, expect to have your patience (and your Wii's disc lens) tested time and time again by the sheer number of moments where you'll have to stand still watching a door take it sweet time to open.

* LoadingScreen: The loading screens are [[DynamicLoading blatantly hidden behind opening doors]].
* LockedDoor: This game features several variety of locked doors which can require either using a special switch you have to find, blasting the locks with your gun, whacking them with your sword, or just waiting until you have a mission that requires you to go through said door.

* CutscenePowerToTheMax: That fancy roll the protagonist does over the first boss's back? Would be nice if you could do that in-game.

* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler:The Hero's name is not revealed.]]

* AntiFrustrationFeature: The pause menu lets you restart a chapter (which can help you get past any [[GameBreakingBug game-breaking bugs]] as long as they don't block you from pausing the game) and adjust the game difficulty at any time.

* ContinuityReboot: There is absolutely no connection at all to the previous game. It has a different setting, characters, location, backstory, gameplay, premise, and graphical style.

%%* NiceHat: The Hero.

* PressXToNotDie: There is one cutscene quick time event of the instant death variety. And it's the ''only'' instance of this in the whole game. 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. Amusingly, there's one QTE as well where - with the hero hanging from the side of a truck, the driver holding a gun at him, and no easy way to dodge if the driver shoots - even the on-screen prompt doesn't know what button you should press, displaying just an icon of the Wiimote and three question marks. [[spoiler:The driver pulls the trigger [[ItWorksBetterWithBullets and hits an empty chamber]].]]

* SafeCracking: Hidden throughout the levels are safes that require the player to listen to the click of the tumblers on the wiimote.

* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Gian is a CynicalMentor with a dry wit, and one of the few times the hero speaks is to snark back at him.
-->Gian: So you have come to save us all?\\

Gian: You still have poor timing, and I see you have lost your sword, that's just great.

* SwordBeam, RazorWind: The Dragon. Not immediately obvious which it's closer to, since its main purpose is to push enemies away and stun them if they hit a wall and if not charged up fully, it does no damage whatsoever on its own.

* DiscOneFinalBoss: Payne and his Jackals are the main antagonists in Upper Caldera. Before you kill him he admits he was working for Shinjiro. When you travel down to Lower Caldera you find that indeed Shinjiro and the Katakara were in charge.

* AntiFrustrationFeature: The pause menu lets you restart a chapter (which can help you get past any GameBreakingBugs as long as they don't block you from pausing the game) and adjust the game difficulty at any time.

* AWinnerIsYou: After you beat Shinjiro in the final battle, The Hero kills him and it ends with a "The End" screen followed by the credits.

* BlackKnight: Okaji.

This game has [[SomethingCompletelyDifferent completely abandoned]] the modern {{yakuza}} setting of the [[VideoGame/RedSteel first game]] and moved to a CattlePunk setting, with a new hero, a new art style, and improved controls.

* BadassMustache: Songan and Jian.

* HeroicMime: [[NoNameGiven The Hero]] is just two lines of dialog short (Or too many) of being this.

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

* {{AKA 47}}: All guns, including listing various fictional ammo types as upgrades when you upgrade their damage. Amusingly enough, they call the tommygun a "Johnnygun".
* AintTooProudToBeg: Weirdly {{Zig Zagged|Trope}} after the battle with Payne. First he begs the Hero not to hurt you and claims that working for someone else, [[ISurrenderSuckers then he attacks the Hero]]. After this fails and he ends up dangling from a ledge, he goes back to begging for his life and claiming he didn't do anything the Hero. Finally when the Hero demands to know were his clansmen are, he goes back to screaming insults and threat even as he falls to his death.

* 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, or an upwards-pointed pointblank chest shot. Getting a head shot normally results in an instant kill and being awarded $200.
** Strangely, Headshots only insta-kill if you're far away. Presumeably, this is so you can FinishHim off.

* CattlePunk: The second game is set in dystopian Nevada.

* MadeOfIron: The Hero, especially in the game's [[CutscenePowerToTheMax cutscenes]]

** Shinjiro: Ego(and BigBad)

* PressXToNotDie: There is one cutscene quick time event of the instant death variety. And it's the ''only'' instance of this in the whole game. 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.

* SamuraiCowboy: Hell, we should rename this trope to Kusagari Style.

%%* DiscOneFinalBoss: Payne.

%%* FlunkyBoss: Payne.

* ObviouslyEvil: [[spoiler: Oh come on! Just look at Songan's 'stache! Theres no way someone with a stache like that can be completely trustworthy! Subverted in that he only betrays you reluctantly and gives you a chance to get back]] .

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

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

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Payne 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!
** He even pulls this ''in the boss fight''... he has a move where he grabs you and slams you to the ground. Then, as you lay there stunned, rather than finishing you off with his sword [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim or gun]]... he summons two gun-toting {{Mooks}}, giving you just enough time to get back on your feet so you can dispatch them in short order and return to whaling on him.

''Red Steel 2'' is a sequel InNameOnly to {{Ubisoft}}'s first-person shooter[=/=]swordfighting [[VideoGame/RedSteel launch game]] for the Nintendo {{Wii}}. It 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.