History VideoGame / ArTonelicoIIMelodyOfMetafalica

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: The BonusBoss can be fought consecutively without fighting any battles in-between, unlike the previous game's bonus boss that required five regular battles between each fight.

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: Jacqli/Mir is this, particularly if you take her path. If you don't, she likes to pretend she's not... but she still is.]]

** [[spoiler: Even though Cloche didn't go to such extremes, it shows when you figure out why her Cosmosphere's so messed up...]]

* CameBackWrong: [[spoiler: Nenesha. Specifically as a Type 2, as her physical body took a stab to the heart by Raki and only her Heart of the Land from the failed attempt at Metafalica remained.]]

** [[spoiler: Gengoro/Nenesha and Infel, who were first introduced as Mind Guardians. Later it was eventually revealed that Gengoro had shapeshifted into Nenesha while Infel simply resided in Cloche's Cosmosphere as a pseudo-Mind Guardian, eventually serving as the final bosses in the game.]]
** [[spoiler: Luca was first introduced as Croix's long-distance girlfriend and Reisha's adoptive daughter. It turns out that she is the Goddess Maiden.]]
** [[spoiler: Leyka is Reisha's long-lost daughter who had been kidnapped when she displayed IPD symptoms at a very young age, and was presumed to be dead near the end of the Phase 1. It turns out the current Maiden of Mio who has been instated as Lady Cloche is none other than Leyka herself.]]
** [[spoiler: Amarie, whose introduced as a mysterious follower and becomes a party member.]]

** [[spoiler: To create Metafalica, Cloche needs to collect their power and pass it on to Luca.]]

* CreepyChild: [[spoiler: Alice in Cloche's Cosmosphere eventually shows herself to be this; first the mysterious appearances and then the vicious punishments later on.]]

* DarkMagicalGirl: [[spoiler:Jakuri]] fits this trope very well. First her color scheme is dark colors compared to the leads. She's more cynical compared to their optimism about Metafalica. She's an enemy that later has a HeelFaceTurn. [[spoiler: Her Cosmosphere story has her play this part as well.]]
* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler: Infel has been dead for centuries, but due knowing how to control Infel Phira and her will to carry out her Ascension Project, her consciousness remain within its data banks. When Metafalica is sung successfully, Infel Phira is reformatted and Infel is literally ''deleted''.]]

* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Infel passed it 400 years ago when Nenesha and Ana died.]] It lead her to the AssimilationPlot because she gave up on anything better.

** {{Fauxshadow}}: During an early cutscene, just after you team up with Leglius, with Cloche pointedly standing behind him, while Cocona stands behind you, in a similar alignment to a knight and their Reyvateil partner, with Cocona dropping ''several'' hints to potentially being one. Moments later, Leglius tells you to flee, and [[TheUnchosenOne Cocona never partners with Croix.]] [[spoiler: It's not until the '''''next''''' game that she awakens her Song Magic...]]

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* IdiotBall: Averted. [[spoiler: Croix remembers the fact that [=IPDs=] can't have mind guardians at a certain point and confronts Infel about it in Cloche's route, who only gets evasive, and combining that with Croix admitting to having read her diary, it's impossible to get any information from her.]]

* LittleSisterHeroine: Coccona is [[NotBloodSiblings Croix's adoptive sister]] and very cute. She confides in Cloche that she is in love with him but his only love is as a brother because of their age difference. [[spoiler: She's the default love interest.]]

* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: Infel does everything for the sake of her beloved Nenesha.]]
* LuminescentBlush: [[spoiler: Jakuri]] gets this surprisingly frequently and it's done hilariously at the end of her Cosmosphere. Normally, it involves a "marriage" ceremony with a speech. [[spoiler: Jakuri]] breaks the rules and has [[spoiler: Ayatane]] forgo this because it's embarrassing (whilst blushing), and her "Costume Get" image, normally with a default expression, has her blushing while rolling her eyes. {{Tsundere}} much?

* TheMole: [[spoiler: Amarie joins the main party as a spy for the Sacred Army.]]

* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: [[spoiler: "Jakuri" is actually the name of her mech. Her true name is [[VideoGame/ArTonelicoMelodyOfEtemia Mir]].]]

* [[PrinceAndPauper Princess And Pauper]]: Zig-zagged. [[spoiler: Luca starts as the maiden and Cloche as the common girl when they're born, then they're switched, then they both become commoners after Alfman's coup, then end up swapping roles in the opening flashback, then both end up as the maiden and... It keeps going from there.]]

%%** [[spoiler: Spica is revealed to be this. She gets better, though is eventually revealed to be something of an OldMaid in the process]]

* TraumaInducedAmnesia: [[spoiler: Cloche, given that she was taken from her parents at ''three years old'' and experimented on because she was a high level IPD. Her first memories were of her being told her new name.]]

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: [[spoiler: The Grand Bell's plan for Metafalica is spreading I.P.D, denying them treatment, lossing part of the world, declaring war on the godddess...]]

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: Infel, who was driven by the pain of losing Nenesha to find a way to eliminate all unhappiness... Too bad her method, Sublimation, happened to be an AssimilationPlot. And there's also the fact that it wasn't even her fault that the Metafalica attempt she did with Nenesha was a failure: it was all because most of the [=IPDs=] at the time refused to cooperate with her when they looked inside her mind and ended up hating everything they saw about her, so they just stopped singing when she needed them the most.]]
* XanatosGambit: There's one in [[spoiler: Frelia's]] Binary Field. The syndicate assigns Kurowaki to fight an enemy of there's and find a lost briefcase. If he obeys and completes the mission, great. If he betrays them again, like they expect him to, then he's likely to find said enemy anyway and try to join her. Even if he runs away at least he won't be a problem for them anymore.

* YouShallNotPass: Immediately after his HeelFaceTurn, [[spoiler: Alfman]] does this to the Divine Army so the main cast can continue their climb. After the heroes move, he invokes IAmYourOpponent.

A [[http://www.at2.metalbat.com/ retranslation]] patch of the BlindIdiotTranslation was completed in December 29th, 2016.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: This is has become far more apparent now that a bunch of outraged fans took it upon themselves and completed a retranslation for the game. Certain characters just come off completely wrong and some plot points are either missing or mangled due to NISA not translating things properly or just not putting in the effort to wrangle Japanese puns into something that makes sense in English. That's without mentioning the utter lack of QA that missed multiple problems such as broken palettes or missing graphical effects, in addition to several other minor bugs.

* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Cloche. A major part of her backstory is presenting an image of a regal, imposing, and above all ''flawless'' leader to her public.

* QuicklyDemotedLeader: Leglius is technically Croix's boss at first... but still often takes orders from him after rejoining. Even when Croix is transferred to being directly under Cloche, [[TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask a woman very much used to giving orders]], ''she'' takes orders from him, too.

* GagBoobs:
** Taking a bath finally showed [[spoiler:Jakuri]] "the difference" in size between herself and Cloche. Just to give an idea of the difference: the [[AllThereInTheManual official data]] have their respective Three Sizes. [[spoiler:Jacqli]]'s 71 cm. Cloche's is 91 cm. Luca's 78 cm. Luca also makes comments about Cloche's chest size in the Infelsphere.
** At one point, Luca is attempting to find a way for Soope to hide itself from civilians. Luca suggests that it hides in her clothing pretending to be her boobs, with obvious results. The ''drawn sprite'' of this alone makes this scene more hilarious than it has any right to be.

** [[spoiler: Spica is revealed to be this. She gets better, though is eventually revealed to be something of a ChristmasCake in the process]]

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: The Pepens, [[VerbalTic yan]].

* MegaTwintails: Cloche's Pretty Viola costume has her hair in spiraled pigtails.

** {{Fauxshadow}}: During an early cutscene, just after you team up with Leglius, with Cloche pointedly standing behind him, while Cocona stands behind you, in a similar alignment to a knight and their Reyvateil partner, with Cocona dropping ''several'' hints to potentially being one. Moments later, Leglius tells you to flee, and [[TheUnchosenOne Cocona never partners with Croix.]] [[spoiler: It's not until the '''''next'''' game that she awakens her Song Magic...]]

* AbsoluteCleavage: [[spoiler:Part of Misha's SpyCatsuit in Frelia's binary sphere.]]

* NiceHat: Infel's hat stands out in particular for its size.

* WitchSpecies: Reyvateils are an artificially created subspecies of humanity and the genes that make them what they are all masked by the Y chromosome, making reyvateils a magic wielding exclusively female race.

* StandardStatusEffects: There are a lot of effects like virus, sick and pain... but you'll probably never notice them given that most enemies don't seem to use them on you, most attacks and spells don't inflict them and the only way you're likely to even know they exist is because you can craft items to cure them.

* GiftOfSong: The main character writes a song as a gift for one of the heroines in her ending, using the language that only the heroine's race sings out of. This is especially impactful as he is the only human to ever attempt to do so in the whole series.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Many times.
** Edible Underwear is an item you can make. Jakuri will offer to wear it. "Don't bite my butt!"
** Bondage outfits for Cloche and Luca. It's up to interpretations whether this is more audacious than the towel and Y-shirt outfits in the first game.

* ZettaiRyouiki: Luca's standard and Tres Super Bien costumes, Cloche's Standard (in a way) and Metamorole Model costumes, [[spoiler:Jacqli]]'s Spirit Gunner costume, and Skycat. The costune designer must have a fetish for this trope.

* LoveHurts: Croix doesn't have it any better than [[VideoGame/ArTonelicoMelodyOfElemia Lyner]] ever did. Croix [[spoiler:was almost killed 4 of the 9 levels in Luca's cosmosphere, killed by the sucidal Cloche and squashed like a bug in the third Reyvateil's hate for humanity.]]

* {{Catfight}}: Luca and Cloche twice. The first time is played for laughs, but the second one is played much more seriously, with both of them dropping [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech reasons the other sucks]] like bombs.

** [[spoiler: Reika is Reisha's long-lost daughter who had been kidnapped when she displayed IPD symptoms at a very young age, and was presumed to be dead near the end of the Phase 1. It turns out the current Maiden of Mio who has been instated as Lady Cloche is none other than Leyka herself.]]

*** "Cloche" means "bell" in french. The Grand Bell Holy Maiden's name is a direct translation of "bell" in another language.
** Luca's last name (Truelywaath) became Trulyworth at the expense of some symbolism using the Hymmnos language and bilingual pun made in Hymmnos and English.

* TimedMission: Not defined ingame as such, but due to a bug involving the complete deletion for an attack's code that was apparently overlooked by the QA staff in the US release (and, mind you, patchers came up with just a few lines of code that corrected this), the last fight (and the subsequent optional boss battles) against [[spoiler:Raki]] have a time limit of three turns - on the sixth action of the boss (usually the third round), [[GameBreakingBug the game trying to call up an attack whose whole coding was erased causes it to crash]] if she has more than 20% of her HP. Otherwise, she merely tries to use her ultimate attack against you. This makes it nigh impossible to win later battles (in which the boss gains more HP and stat buffs) and the LastLousyPoint. Mercifully, this is corrected in the EU release, though it seems very unlikely that it will ever see resolution in the US.

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[[caption-width-right:256:From top to bottom, clockwise: Cloche, Luca, Croix.]]