They really don't make attack helicopters like they used to.
Despite the kids being forced to ride a tank and fight for their lives once again, the stakes for most of Fuga: Melodies of Steel 2 are less far-reaching than that of the first game, given how Gasco isn't embroiled in a destructive Berman invasion. Instead, we have a few more personal stakes, some horrors of science in the form of the Berman Geists and the Belenos, and the grand return of the Soul Cannon in more ways than one.
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- The very first cutscene of the game shows Malt and some of the other kids on the Tarascus standing off against the rogue Taranis, the latter tank having their friends captured aboard while they have unsettling expressions and glowing purple-pink eyes. Mei is then immediately warped away to the eldritch chamber we all know and dread, the Soul Cannon assembles itself and prepares to fire. The Managarm is fired from the Tarascus as a countermeasure and gets into a brief Beam-O-War with the Soul Cannon… but then we see the Soul Cannon's energy beam head-on, with the kids yelling out in despair before the screen fades to black. You'd be forgiven for assuming that this was merely a nightmare that Malt was going through.Malt: No! Mei!
- Some of the Berman Geists have rather unsettling appearances, per the fleshy appendages covering them. The first few types of them merely have moss or mushrooms covering them, but later into the game they begin to look covered in meat and muscles outright. For some specific examples:
- Fleischers are this game's version of the Wächter from the last game, only completely covered in flesh and having the power to upgrade certain enemies to especially fleshy forms.
- The Verschlinger (pictured above) is a variation of the last game's Elwetritsch, and is by far the most organic-looking Geist by that point in the game, with muscle fibers and bones covering it, along with having grown gigantic teeth upon its midsection. As an added bonus, its name means "devourer" in German.
- The Vordenker is this game's version of Blutwurst's Gretchen tank, with the main difference being how it has a giant brain hidden inside its shell. And yes, not only it has its own version of Blutwurst's "Hell Breeze" attack from the last game, but it can inflict Fear on one of the kids just by opening its defenses.
