History VideoGame / Saga2

* Creator/KenjiIto: His first game music composition.
* LastDiscMagic[=/=]NonElemental: The Flare and slightly weaker P-Blast spells which are [[spoiler:normally]] gotten near the end of the game. Not only are they the most powerful magic and hit all enemies in a battle, but the fact that they are non-elemental is a huge asset considering that in the late game many enemies are immune to any elemental magic.

* RobotGirl: The muse Euter. Complete with online chat speak such as Plz and using the number 4 instead of the word for.

* NonIndicativeDifficulty: While one might think a faster dragon is better in the Dragon Race, picking a faster dragon makes it more difficult. The faster dragons must fight more rather tough mid-bosses than the slower ones. On slower dragons, some of these encounters are taken care of by the other racers, and on the slowest, the player only needs to fight the last one. No matter which dragon the player chooses, they will win the race.

* StatGrinding: Humans and mutants have a chance to gain stats at the end of battle based on their last action, so using strength-based weapons gives you strength, agility-based gives agility, and spellbooks gain mana. Everything else does nothing (and mutants almost never gain strength), so unless you already know how it works, good luck. Also, which weapons are strength, agility, or mana based is never listed in-game, so testing them on robots is really the only way to be sure what you're getting.

* NonIndicativeDifficulty: While one would think a faster dragon is better in the Dragon Race, picking a faster dragon makes it more difficult. The faster dragons must fight more rather tough mid-bosses than the slower ones. On slower dragons, some of these encounters are taken care of, and on the slowest, the player only needs to fight the last one. No matter which dragon the player chooses, they will win the race.

* NonIndicativeDifficulty: The faster dragons in the Dragon Race make it harder as the player must fight more rather tough mid-bosses along the way. On slower dragons, some of these encounters are taken care of, and on the slowest, the player only needs to fight the last one. No matter which dragon the player chooses, they will win the race.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Compared to the first game...

* UnstableEquilibrium: The fastest characters ([[CaptainObvious those with the highest agility]]) in your party usually end up only getting further ahead, since they will always get a turn in battle (you have to act in battle to have any chance of a stat gain) and the slower characters might not.

* GoodMorningCrono: The game begins with the hero being awakened by his/her/its father, who gives him/her/it a piece of MAGI and leaves out the window. Played with in that it happens during the middle of the night.

* LaserSword: The “Laser” sword, which was actually called a lightsaber in Japan, now looks just like one, too.

* DegradedBoss: Some "bosses," especially early on are normal enemies from later worlds.

** Buying and equipping the complete set of Giants Armor in the 3rd world on a character will give them a ridiculous strength and defense total, so they can hardly be touched by enemies for a while. Even better if you have a Robot in the party since the cheapest piece, the gauntlets are just as good as the helm or body armor to them.

* FantasticVoyagePlot: Enemies micronize to enter Ki's body, your party does the same in order to save her.

** If you don't know how to kill Apollo, you might as well give up the game. [[spoiler:He'll die after a few turns, so your main objective is not to dish out everything you've got against him, but to survive.]]

* MagikarpPower: The martial arts weapons like Punch, Kick, etc. They start out weak, doing little or no damage, but get stronger as they are used up, and the last use will deal a ridiculous amount of damage.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: Not quite the same depth as ''VideoGame/{{Makai Toshi SaGa}}'' suffered, but it still needs a rewrite. Spruced up in the FanTranslation.
* BookEnds / HereWeGoAgain : The game both begins and ends with the protagonist's father announcing that he will be off to search for a legendary item. [[spoiler: During the ending, however, both the protagonist and their mother decide that they'll be joining him.]]

* JerkassGods: The most prominent villains are tyrannical gods.

Full Name: ''[=SaGa 2: Hihou Densetsu=]'' ("Treasure Legend"). The second game in the ''[[Franchise/SaGaRPG SaGa]]'' series for the UsefulNotes/GameBoy, released in North America as ''Franchise/FinalFantasy Legend II.''

* AllMythsAreTrue: {{Subverted|Trope}} twice: First in the Port Town in Apollo's world, where the inhabitants think that an [[spoiler: undersea volcano]] is actually the god Neptune, and the second when it is revealed that [[spoiler: the idea that the Statue of Isis / The Goddess was made out of 77 MAGI / Treasures,]] which had been taken as a given since the beginning of the game, isn't entirely accurate.

* ArrangedMarriage: The thrust of the Mini-Story of Venus's World is the arranged marriage between Flora / Olivia and Nils / Julius, despite the former's love for Leon / Anthony.

* BookEnds / HereWeGoAgain : The game both begins and ends with the protagonists' father announcing that he will be off to search for a legendary item. [[spoiler: During the ending, however, both the protagonist and his / her / its mother decide that they'll be joining him.]]

* ChineseGirl: Lynn / Lin.

* LastDiscMagic / NonElemental: The Flare and slightly weaker P-Blast spells which are [[spoiler:normally]] gotten near the end of the game. Not only are they the most powerful magic and hit all enemies in a battle, but the fact that they are non-elemental is a huge asset considering that in the late game many enemies are immune to any elemental magic.

* LighterAndSofter: Compared to the first of the ''[=SaGa=]'' series. [[spoiler: EverybodyLives (except a few redshirts) in this game. Well, everybody who wasn't evil and corrupted by the MAGI, anyway.]]

* [[spoiler:SecretOtherFamily: Lynn turned out to be the daughter in what appeared to be Dad's second family, and the main character assumed the worst of him at first. Turns out that the family was Mask's family, and Dad was helping care for them in Mask's absence.]]

* {{Cap}}: Subverted. The game can display only up to 999 HP, and once a Human or Mutant has 999 or more HP, they cannot gain any more either through battles or Body potions. They can keep any excess from a gain that will put them over 999 HP though, making the theoretical max HP for them to be 1038 from using a Body potion when they have 998 max HP. It just won't be displayed properly. The remake averts this case displaying four digits, although the same logic that they cannot gain HP when they have 999 or more still applies.
** In the Game Boy version at least, the money counter will only display up to 999,999 but it is possible to actually have more than that, and can be seen by going slightly over 999,999 and buying something and noticing the new total is not 999,999 minus the cost of the item.

** The Glass sword actually is pretty practical for the final battle, since it ignores the O-All skill and ridiculous defense that the final boss has.

* UselessUsefulSpell: Somewhat subverted, as certain bosses are vulnerable to Sleep, Paralysis, and Stone.

* TooAwesomeToUse: Now averted for the most part. Most single-drop weapons from the previous version like the Gungnir, Muramasa, Yoichi Bow (Samurai Bow), Glass Sword and Wave Cannon (Hyper) are now also pre-set drops from the Arena of the Dead or random drops from the Soul's Dark Regions, both of which can be repeated to your heart's content.

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Despite the obtuse gameplay that would characterize the ''[=SaGa=]'' series, ''[=SaGa=] 2,'' like its predecessor, was one of the original Game Boy's most memorable [=RPGs=], thanks in part to what was at the time a high level of character customization and varied set pieces -- one minute you'd be exploring a high-tech metropolis ruled by a beauty obsessed tyrant queen who has forced two young lovers apart, and the next you'd be in a world inspired by medieval Japan to take part in a detective story.

Full Name: ''[=SaGa 2: Hihou Densetsu=]'' ("Treasure Legend"). The second game in the ''VideoGame/{{SaGa}}'' series for the UsefulNotes/GameBoy, released in North America as ''Franchise/FinalFantasy Legend II.''

** TheFourGods return; they are some of the tier-5 ultimate transformations for your monsters.

* ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin: Due to Nintendo censorship, the opium being smuggled in the Edo World is '''bananas''' in the North American version. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d somewhat, as a townsperson comments on why bananas would be illegal in the first place.

** There's also the Hyper cannon, which wins any non-boss battle (even mini-boss battles are fine), but it can only be used three times and there's only one in ''the whole game''.
*** Since the Hyper Cannon had 3 charges, it could be given to a robot, resulting in a permanent Hyper with 1 charge that would refill on resting. Only the fact that most story bosses were immune to it kept this from becoming a GameBreaker.

* PointOfNoContinues: Your game will be immediately over if nobody in your party can fight anymore after defeating Odin at Valhalla Palace.