History VideoGame / RedSteel2

* BareYourMidriff: Tamiko.

Hero: It's nice to see you to\\

* 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.

* UncertainDoom: The game doesn't clearly ascertain whether or not [[spoiler:Tamiko]] truly died after [[spoiler:taking a bullet from Shinjiro when the Hero entered Tiger's Nest]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: You never hear of what happens to your allies and Songan after the end of the 5th level.]]

%%* NiceHat: The Hero.

* DualWield: Jackal gunslingers.

* DieChairDie: You may well kill more boxes than baddies in this game.

* RewardingVandalism: Oh so much. Every object that's not explicitly blocking your way in one way or another is practically made out of money, considering how much of it falls out when you destroy them.

** [[spoiler:After you fight the BigBad Shinjiro for the first time, Jian [[TheReveal reveals]] that this villain was once a young Kusagari who then betrayed his entire clan for reasons still unknown]].

** Strangely, in [[spoiler:the caves with poisonous gas at Rattlesnake Canyon, there is a safe you can crack for extra cash in one of the poisonous caves]]. If you approach the safe to crack it, you are invulnerable during the safe crack sequence and can't take any damage until you finish or quit.

* MarathonLevel: Rattlesnake Canyon is the longest of the seven chapters. The middle three chapters can also become this in Challenge Mode, because autosave is disabled in such mode and any chapter you start in Challenge mode must be completed in one sitting. Hope you have a BladderOfSteel to conquer any these three levels on Challenge Mode![[note]]If you ''really'' need to take a break when playing any of these levels in Challenge mode, then for your console's sake, open the HOME Menu so that you don't grind down its disc lens, which the game ''will'' constantly task, even when the game's paused.[[/note]]

** [[spoiler:After you fight the BigBad Shinjiro for the first time, Jian [[TheReveal reveals]] that he was once a young Kusagari who then betrayed his entire clan for reasons still unknown]].

* WreckedWeapon: A few swords get snapped in half throughout the course of the story.

* AutoRevive: "Ace" playing cards from each of the four suits of a card deck can be purchases from Songan's casinos that will instantly revive you and give you back part of or all of your standard health bar the next time you are struck down in battle, allowing you to keep fighting instead of having to reload from a checkpoint.

** Strangely, in [[spoiler:the caves with poisonous gas, there is a safe you can crack for extra cash in one of the poisonous caves]]. If you approach the safe to crack it, you are invulnerable during the safe crack sequence and can't take any damage until you finish or quit.

* 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). You can also adjust the game difficulty at any time from the main menu.

* BlackBlood: Blood-like paint effects, usually in brown or black, mark your deadly sword slashes.

* BloodlessCarnage: Well, sorta: while it's not red, every slash, stab and gunshot is accompanied with a large burst of sand-yellow liquid, allowing the game to barely get away with a T rating. Arguably, if they had gone for red blood instead, they would've probably had to tone the actions themselves down a good deal.