History VideoGame / SakuraWars2ThouShaltNotDie

''Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die'' is the second installment in Creator/{{Sega}}'s ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'' series, the first game in the series to involve Creator/ProductionIG (with Creator/BeeTrain as assistants) and the last ''Sakura Wars'' game on the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn. First released for the Saturn in 1998, it has since been ported to the UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast in 2000, as well as Windows computers from 2001 to 2007 and the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable in 2006 along with the first game.

* CastingGag: As with ''Anime/TenchiMuyoRyoOhki'', Creator/AkioOhtsuka and Creator/YoshikoSakakibara voice the parents of one of the game's main heroines.

A direct sequel to the game was released in 2001, titled ''VideoGame/SakuraWars3IsParisBurning''. An OVA series, ''The Radiant Gorgeous Blooming Cherry Blossoms'', was released in 1999 and set in the interval between ''Sakura Wars'' and ''Thou Shalt Not Die''.

''Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die'' is the second installment in Creator/{{Sega}}'s ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'' series, the first game in the series to involve Creator/ProductionIG and the last ''Sakura Wars'' game on the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn. First released for the Saturn in 1998, it has since been ported to the UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast in 2000, as well as Windows computers from 2001 to 2007 and the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable in 2006 along with the first game.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Kyogoku has no problem with deeming his henchmen as liabilities if they're no longer needed in his EvilPlan. Just ask Suiko or Kazuma.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:
** Towards the end of Suiko's battle with the Flower Division in Chapter 6, the Demon King tells her that Kyogoku has deemed her a liability.
** Once Sakura and Ogami break Kazuma out of Kyogoku's mind control, Kyogoku declares that Kazuma's no longer a useful asset to his plans.

** Towards the end of her battle with the Flower Division in Chapter 6, the Demon King tells Suiko that Kyogoku has deemed her a liability.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Once Sakura and Ogami break Kazuma out of Kyogoku's mind control, Kyogoku declares that Kazuma's no longer a useful asset to his plans.

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One year after their battle with Aoi Satan and the Hive of Darkness, the Imperial Assault Force's Flower Division is called into action once again to fight the Black Demons, a new evil force that threatens Tokyo. Along the way, the Flower Division gains two new recruits, the Japanese-Italian Orihime Soletta, and the German Leni Milchstraße.

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* FromBadToWorse: In the second half of the game, Kyogoku has the IJA launch a coup d'etat on Tokyo. The Flower Division's efforts to stop the coup fail when Kyogoku has a body double commit suicide so that he can revive the ''Musashi''. ''Then'' he brings down the ''Musashi'' on Tokyo to cause utter chaos. And all of this happens

** Shinnosuke Yamazaki gets killed off by the Demon King at the end of the first chapter.

* CanonImmigrant: Wakana Shinguji, Kazuma Shinguji, Tadayoshi Kanzaki and Shigeki Kanzaki from the first OVA all make brief appearances in this game.

* BittersweetEnding: Kyogoku is dead, ''Musashi'' is destroyed, the Black Demons are no more and Tokyo is safe once again. But Kazuma sacrifices himself for good to save Sakura in the FinalBattle and Ogami has to leave for Paris.

* BackFromTheDead: As it turns out, the Demon King is actually a revived Kazuma Shinguji, Sakura's father.

* BittersweetEnding: Kyogoku is dead, the Black Demons are no more and Tokyo is safe once again. But Kazuma sacrifices himself to save Sakura in the FinalBattle and Ogami has to leave for Paris.

* ActuallyADoombot: In Chapter 10, Kyogoku's death during the failed coup on the Great Imperial Theatre actually turned out to be a body double so he can resurrect Musashi.

** Chapter 10 ends with Kyogoku's resurrection of Musashi.

* LoadBearingBoss: Since Kyogoku's mecha, the Shinno, is directly connected to Musashi, the lair collapses when Kyogoku is killed by Ogami.

* RammingAlwaysWorks: Yoneda rams the ''Mikasa'' into Musashi so that the Imperial Combat Revue can infiltrate the lair and kill Kyogoku.

* TrashTheSet: Ogami destroying Shinno and killing Kyogoku destroyed the supports holding the Musashi, causing it to collapse.

* YouCantThwartStageOne: Despite their valiant efforts in Chapter 10, the Flower Division is too late to stop Kyogoku's resurrection of Musashi.

** Some of the levels can end in this manner if you fail your objectives. For example, chapter 7 may end with Ogami failing to defuse the bomb to save Orihime and Ogata, killing them; and chapter 11 may end with the Mikasa's engines being destroyed or Tsuchi-gumo jumping into the exhaust port to blow the ship up, both killing everyone instantly.

** If you fail to save all seven engines on the Mikasa, the ship will be destroyed.
** If you [[TimeLimitBoss don't stop Tsuchi-gumo]] in time, she will jump into the Mikasa's central vent.

* OneHitKill: If you take too long to kill Tsuchi-gumo in chapter 11, she will jump into the Mikasa's central vent and kill you instantly along with everyone else.

* RammingAlwaysWorks: Yoneda rams the Mikasa into Musashi so that the Imperial Combat Revue can infiltrate the lair and kill Kyogoku.

** If you take too long to kill Tsuchi-gumo aboard the Mikasa, she enters the central vent and kills everyone aboard instantly.
** Also, if all seven Mikasa engines get destroyed, the ship explodes and everyone dies.

* RearrangeTheSong: The opening theme song from [[VideoGame/SakuraWars1996 the original 1996 game]] was rearranged to include a third verse written by Oji Hiroi.