"Earth is now a sea of flames!"
- Aleste 2 features a lot of alien-infested landscapes and machinery. It is perhaps one of the darkest games in the series as a result. Furthering this is that each area has a distinct amount of loading time, giving you enough time to dreadfully wonder just what sort of hellscape you're going to fly over next. Some specific examples:
- Area 2 has you fight the B90 Gickant, twice. At first it seems to be just a rogue Earth bomber. When you face it again at the end of the stage, it's since been visibly taken over by the Vegant, being covered in plant-like tendrils and flesh.
- Area 3, the Corrupted Sea, appears to be an ordinary Earth ocean at first, and you fight some pretty normal-looking battleships at first. But then you start seeing spots of green alien biomass, and by the end of the stage it's all you see of the sea below. The green infected sea makes a reappearance in Area 5, the Cruel Sea.
- Area 4 is a Pocket Dimension and one of the Vegant's bases. It appears to be the ruins of DIA 50, overrun by red flesh and giant eyes. When you defeat Brahwell at the end, a cutscene ensues where Brahwell reveals that while Ellinor spent what was certainly no more than a day from her point of view fighting him, three months have passed outside and the Earth has gone to hell. Ellinor basically tells him to piss off and uses her ship's guns to finish him off, and you get a lovely close-up of Brahwell being plugged and screaming as he perishes.
- Area 6, the Cancerous City, is a city skyline (similar to Area 2 but from higher above) that's been absolutely overrun by yellow bio-mass and green alien creatures lurking about. (Picture Round 4 from the first Aleste, but even worse.) Looks like Brahwell wasn't just screwing with Ellinor after all. Oh, and this is the longest stage in the game.
