History VideoGame / AtelierIris2TheAzothOfDestiny

* {{Expy}}: Yach and Hagel are reproduced, sprite and all, from the first game. This time Yach is a merchant in Eden (rather than a precocious child who wants to study alchemy), while Hagel is a smith hiding out in a mountain whose services you have to secure (instead of a weapon shop merchant).

* FunnyBackgroundEvent - Iris has an IdleAnimation where she mixes chemicals until they explode out of a beaker in a tiny mushroom cloud that does little more than ruffle her hair and clothes.

* TheKlutz - Coco the Wind Mana, who helps out in a shop in Eden. She regularly trips and drops everything, despite ''flying'' - because she often loses control of the tiny whirlwind that every Wind Mana uses to fly.

* MsFanservice - Noin goes around in what amounts to a sports bra and hot pants, plus boots and [[FashionableAsymmetry single heavy gauntlet]].

* SheCleansUpNicely - Noin, already something of an UnkemptBeauty and MsFanservice, gets a brief makeover. She lets her hair down, wears a shoulder-baring (among other things) LittleBlackDress, and gets her makeup done. Everyone is gobsmacked. It doesn't do much to change her behavior after the initial embarrassment wears off, though.
* ShoutOut - Poe declares, before going to flirt with (yet another) woman he just met, "[[Franchise/StarWars Blue 5 to Red Leader, I'm going in!]]"

%% * FragileSpeedster: Fee. Noin is a ''slightly'' more sturdy version, compared to Felt or (especially) Gray.

* LaResistance: Simsilt

* LukeIAmYourFather: Noin is [[spoiler:Galahad's daughter]] and Fee turns out to be [[spoiler:Max's long lost sister]].

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The desert people look a lot like Native Americans. Whether or not Gust brings up some UnfortunateImplications for American audiences with this is an exercise best left to the viewer.

* FragileSpeedster: Fee. Noin is a ''slightly'' more sturdy version, compared to Felt or (especially) Gray.

* NonStandardSkillLearning: Gray and Fee learn Dragon Slayer and Ein Zecksclaw respectively during the main story.

* ShoutOut: Through the above trope, Max eventually ends up calling Felt, [[AtelierIris Klein]].

* BetterThanItSoundsVideoGames: Excalibur can talk. Turns out to be a total Jerkass. Also turns out to have [[spoiler:an EvilCounterpart]].

Despite being a sequel, the game actually takes place several centuries before the first Atelier Iris (since the character of [[spoiler: Iris]] appears only as child.) It stars a pair of teenage alchemists, Felt and Viese, who, having grown up together, have the old Anime problem of [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend denying their obvious feelings for each other.]]

* '''Gray''', a humanoid dragon (actually a [[spoiler: warrior who gained a draconic appearance from fighting too many dragons]] );

* AccidentalMarriage - Poe ends up marrying a CatGirl when she overhears him reciting a love declaration and believes it to be directed at her.
* AlchemyIsMagic - Complete with InstantRunes for element extraction and item "initialization" (making a newly crafted item available for mana synthesis).
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent - This is actually a core mechanic of the game and one of it's selling points; you can flip between Felt on the ground and Viese in Eden as you wish and progress the two stories as you see fit. (Well, to some degree, at least; advancing Viese's story requires certain triggers at points in Felt's story. [[spoiler: And the tales eventually merge, to boot.]])
* AntiVillain - [[spoiler: Chaos]]. At least near the end, when you find out about his [[spoiler:dead little sister]].
* ArtificialHuman - [[spoiler: Yuveria is really just a machine/computer program.]]
* BagOfSharing - The Share Rings, which let Felt and Viese share items (including stuff Viese makes with all the things Felt finds in the lower world) despite their great distance from one another. Somehow, this still includes the rest of the party.

* BalefulPolymorph - The Item Wish mana item transforms enemies into items. Also a UselessUsefulSpell because it has a horrible success rate.
* BecomeYourWeapon - Palaxius pulls this trope when he merges with the Azoth for the final boss fight.
* BetterThanItSoundsVideoGames - Excalibur can talk. Turns out to be a total Jerkass. Also turns out to have [[spoiler:an EvilCounterpart]].
* BlobMonster - The Punis, again.
* BoisterousBruiser - Gray ends battles with a hearty laugh.
* BookDumb - Felt, who learned Mana Synthesis pretty quickly, but was more interested in combat/sword-fighting to learn true synthesis and become a full-fledged alchemist such as Viese.
* BreathWeapon - Gray, naturally. He starts with fire breath and can acquire ice breath almost immediately.
* BrokenPedestal - [[spoiler: Palaxius]]
* CallToAdventure - Yuveria, to Felt
* CampCook - Noin

* CloudCuckooLander - Tolena
* CombatMedic - Noin is a capable brawler and also gets several group healing skills, reserving healing items for when you need the Skill Gauge for attacks or when Noin's not around (in contrast to the previous game, where items made up almost all your healing power).
* {{Combos}} - Using the break attack on an enemy knocks them back in the initiative count, and if it puts them in the "break" part of the VisualInitiativeQueue, you get bonus damage and build up a chain for further break attacks keeping them there. The [[ComboBreaker chain ends]] if the enemy gets out of the break part of the initiative, and so fast enemies are hard to keep broken. Getting a chain grants you bonus experience and skill points.
* CosmicKeystone - [[spoiler:The workshops, called the Paradies auf Eden, which are the engines in the real world by which the artificial world of Eden is maintained.]]
* CrapsackWorld - The world below Eden is initially portrayed as this, in contrast to Eden's {{Utopia}}. ([[spoiler: The truth is, naturally, a little more complicated.]]) This version of Regallzine is still quite easily the [[SlidingScaleofIdealismVersusCynicism grimmest]] setting the franchise has ''ever'' explored, though.
* CursedWithAwesome - Gray. Even though he wants to break the curse that made him half dragon, it has given him powers he would never have had as a human and since he is famous and his story is widely known, he is accepted everywhere so he doesn't even have the excuse of being an outcast after being turned into a monster. At the end of the game after he [[spoiler:kills the one who cursed him, he says its better he didn't change back as he would lose all the dragon powers he gained and they will need all the power they can get to fight Palaxius]].
* DoomedByCanon - [[spoiler: Being that 2 is a prequel to 1, and that Iris and the people that protected her were killed...]]
* DuelBoss - Your first encounter with [[spoiler:Fee, after rescuing Max]]. Not a hard fight, you can get by with just spamming Craft bombs and Heal Herbs.
* ElementalTiers - Ice items are again the weakest, since there are only two of them and the stronger one only deals medium damage. Meanwhile, there are a lot more Fire-based items and the second strongest item (Cerberus Flute) is Fire-based. The strongest item, however, [[TakeAThirdOption deals all four elemental damage at once]].
* EmotionlessGirl - Fee
* EmptyLevels - Any individual level's stat boosts are relatively minor - so minor they don't even tell you. The gains eventually add up but your real improvements are from passive skills, gear, and weapon synthesis.
* EncounterBait - The Aroma Pot mana item.
* EncounterRepellant - One of the earliest available mana items, the Fear Bottle.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt - Pretty much everyone assumes Viese and Felt are already an item, and refuses to believe any protests to the contrary.
* EvilChancellor - Theodore
* EvilCounterpart - Chaos, to Felt

* ExperienceBooster - The one who deals the final blow in a fight gains a +10% experience bonus.
* {{Expy}} - Yach and Hagel are reproduced, sprite and all, from the first game. This time Yach is a merchant in Eden (rather than a precocious child who wants to study alchemy), while Hagel is a smith hiding out in a mountain whose services you have to secure (instead of a weapon shop merchant).
* FantasyCounterpartCulture - The desert people look a lot like Native Americans. Whether or not Gust brings up some UnfortunateImplications for American audiences with this is an exercise best left to the viewer.
* FantasyGunControl - Very oddly used here. Poe, obviously, avoids this completely... but at the same time he has a "magic" gun which isn't a standard weapon at all. The Imperials don't seem to use personal firearms at all, and even cannons don't show up that much, despite the culture of Regallzine being fairly advanced otherwise. [[spoiler:Granted, this might have to do with people's perceptions of alchemy before Felt arrives on the scene, but still.]]
* FloatingContinent - Eden appears to be a large island floating in empty sky with nothing beneath. [[spoiler:This is because it's in a pocket universe not much bigger than the island itself.]]
* FragileSpeedster - Fee. Noin is a ''slightly'' more sturdy version, compared to Felt or (especially) Gray.
* GenkiGirl - Noin, and Viese to a small extent (although she may be a bit more of a {{Pollyanna}}).
* GlobalCurrency - Cole. Accepted in two worlds, at that. [[spoiler:Because they used to be one.]]
* GoodRepublicEvilEmpire - Slightly averted as the Simsilt group seeks to restore the ''Monarchy'', but you still have the basic structure.
* HandCannon - Poe's absurd doomcannon is ''as big as he is''. And then of course he's always hitting on Viese whenever possible...
* HealingCheckpoint - Camps, marked by glowing purple circles. Healed automatically upon use, after which you enter a large tent where you can chat with other party members, save, and switch between Felt and Viese.
* HeroesPreferSwords - Felt. It made him the odd man out in Eden where there's nothing to fight, but that just made the people of Eden genuinely grateful when he stepped up to take the Azoth and go figure out what the hell just happened.
* HumanResources - Felt extracts elements from any enemy he kills, even humans.
* HundredPercentCompletion - The item and monster compendiums return from the first game.
* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey - Noin blatantly flirts her way past a border checkpoint.
* InterfaceSpoiler - The very fact that Viese has stats (HP, MP, etc.) should make it rather obvious that she's gonna end up joining the party somewhere down the line.
* ItemAmplifier - Your last party member [[spoiler: Viese]] also has both Power Item and Wide Item skills. Unlike Klein, though, she has item-unrelated [[TheMedic healing skills as well]].
* ItemCrafting - Three main types:

* ItsUpToYou - Justified. Felt was the one on the spot when the Azoth needed to be drawn, and the situation ''needs'' an alchemist who is willing and able to fight. Nobody else in Eden had the right skill set, and nobody in Belkhyde even knows there's a problem and probably wouldn't care because it's not their world falling apart and oh did you happen to notice TheEmpire trying to conquer everything over here, we're kind of busy.
* JumpedAtTheCall - Felt had been trying to pull the Azoth from the stone it was trapped in nearly every day for several years already. He didn't just jump at the call, he'd been picking up the phone and yelling impatiently at the dialtone almost daily for years now.
* {{Kamehamehadoken}} - Some of Noin's skills.
* KidWithTheLeash - Felt, keeping the Azoth in check (a fact for which [[spoiler:the world should be infinitely grateful]]).
* KnightTemplar - Galahad, one of the Imperial Champions.

* LadyOfWar - Fee, very much so.
* LaResistance - Simsilt
* LargeHam - Poe, particularly when speaking to women in his usual flowery manner.
* LazyBackup - You can only have three party members in a fight at a time, while enemies can have many more, for... some reason. But your backup will trade places with downed party members once you actually have more than three people in the party at once.
* LeakedExperience - And [[TechPoints skill points]]!
* LevelGrinding - TechPoints Grinding, really. It's easy to end up with a pile of unlearned skills because you just kept going on with the story at a steady pace, rather than stopping to grind or taking advantage of break attacks and combo chains. You can also equip two of the same Alchemy Item to get double skill points on a single skill, if there's one you must have quickly.
* LightningBruiser - The FinalBoss is one of these, to many a player's frustration.
* LukeIAmYourFather - Noin is [[spoiler:Galahad's daughter]] and Fee turns out to be [[spoiler:Max's long lost sister]].
* {{Magitek}} - Quite a lot of it hidden in the background of the world, though almost nobody knows about it anymore [[spoiler:or how to maintain it]].
* MeaningfulName - Most of the Manas, when they aren't engaging in ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming. For example, Klavia the Sound Mana: ''clavier'' refers to most keyboard instruments, and is the French for keyboard, while ''klavier'' is German for piano.
* MoneySpider - Very poor Money Spiders, though.
* MysteriousWaif - [[spoiler: Iris]]
* NominalImportance - Noin manages to [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] this trope a couple times, such as when she insults an Imperial soldier by calling him a "random encounter."
* NonStandardSkillLearning - Gray and Fee learn Dragon Slayer and Ein Zecksclaw respectively during the main story.
* NowWhereWasIGoingAgain - The save screen shows an icon of Felt or Viese to indicate which one the main plot is currently following, and you can get hints about where to go next from party members in the camp.
* {{Panacea}} - The Cure Jar item, which [[spoiler:is acquired by the plot to recruit Fee]] and cures the StandardStatusEffects.
* RandomDrops - An important source of some crafting materials.
* RandomEncounters - Random encounters drain a meter in dungeon areas, so when it empties you'll have no more encounters until you leave the dungeon entirely or rest. Each screen in the dungeon actually has a separate meter.
* RedOniBlueOni - Felt and Viese, although they aren't antagonistic in any way, and the colors associated with them are actually ''reversed''; Felt's normal outfit includes a blue overshirt, while Viese typically capers around in a maroon dress.
** More standard example is the Azoths. The Azure Azoth is good while the Crimson Azoth is evil. [[spoiler: And the BigBad of the game, no less.]]
* RewardingVandalism - You'll be stealing from a lot of barrels, and extracting elements from a lot of other things across the game.
* RoyaltySuperPower - Ein Zecksclaw.
* RunningGag - PlayedForLaughs with Felt and Max, where Max consistently says Felt's name wrong.
* SealedEvilInACan - [[spoiler:Eden and the powers of Mana and alchemy were sealed off in a pocket dimension to prevent alchemy being used for war again in the wider world of Belkhyde. Neither Eden, alchemy, nor the Mana are evil, but, well, power corrupts]].
* ShoutOut - Through the above trope, Max eventually ends up calling Felt, [[AtelierIris Klein]].
* SmugSnake - Imperial Consul Theodore.
* SortingAlgorithmOfWeaponEffectiveness - Yes, you have to craft all the way up each weapon's upgrade tree even if you somehow acquired the final required item and Mana before touching weapon synthesis.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS - When she was debuted in Japan Viese's name caused a lot of linguistic contortion in trying to spell her name in English; Japanese lacks ''both'' a true V sound and a construct used like the English "ie", so what most people ended up with was some variation of "Wisey". This still occasionally trips people up when they encounter early promotional material (or when they encounter certain [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks hardcore]] [[FanDumb fans]]).
* {{Stripperiffic}} - Viese is one of the [[AtelierSeries Atelier]] heroines who very much avoids this trap; if anything she's the franchise's most conservatively-dressed heroine, almost to the point of absurdity for her native climate (two or more layers of clothing for a paradise island that's apparently warm-temperate year-round?) [[MsFanservice Noin on the other hand]]...
* SwordBeam - Some of Felt's skills send a blast of energy from the Azoth to strike multiple enemies.
* TakeYourTime - Handwaved in the case of Fee's poisoning. The healer in Max's camp can keep her stable indefinitely, they just can't fully cure her.
* TalkingWeapon - [[spoiler: The Azoth]]
** [[spoiler: The Crimson Azoth too.]]
* TechPoints - Some items have "Secret Factors," or skills you can use while equipped. You learn the skills permanently once you earn enough skill points from battle. Different characters may have different skill point costs to learn the same skill (such as the Damask Ring's "Defense Up" passive boost, which takes 350 SP for Felt but 550 for Noin). Generally, weapons teach you new active skills while alchemy items teach new passives.
* ThouShaltNotKill - Felt. Thou Shalt Not Let Die, too, evidently. He goes out of his way to help a poisoned Fee, [[HonorBeforeReason even though she tried to]] ''[[HonorBeforeReason kill]]'' [[HonorBeforeReason him earlier]]. [[GameplayAndStorySegregation Only applies in cutscenes, though]].
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks - Several of Fee's skills involve throwing her dual sickles.
* TrickBullet - Some of Poe's skills.
* TurnedToStone - Chaos likes doing this.
* UnderratedAndOverleveled - [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with your last party member [[spoiler: Viese]], who joins at the ''third to last chapter'' at level ONE. Somewhat justified since the plot of the chapter she joins is to backtrack to previous areas.
* {{Utopia}} - Eden approximates this, [[MeaningfulName if you couldn't tell from the name]].

* WarpWhistle - The Return Gem, a mana item that teleports you to the beginning of a dungeon.
* WeaponOfChoice - Characters stick with one weapon throughout the game, though Felt learns how to upgrade them.

** And "Flashbang Poe, The Gun Mana" has...well, [[HandCannon take a wild guess]].
* YoungerThanTheyLook - Invoked by [[spoiler: Fee of all people when the gallery tells you that her age is 14. To quote a GameFaqs user: O.o Fee's 14!?]]

* CursedWithAwesome - Gray. Even though he wants to break the curse that made him half dragon, it has given him powers he would never have had as a human and since he is famous and his story is widely known, he is accepted everywhere so he doesn't even have the excuse of being an outcast after being turned into a monster. At the end of the game after he [[spoiler:kills the one who cursed him, he says its better he didn't change back as he would lose all the dragon powers he gained and they will all the power they can get to fight Palaxius]].

* MeaningfulName - Most of the Manas, when they aren't engaging in MythologicalThemeNaming. For example, Klavia the Sound Mana: ''clavier'' refers to most keyboard instruments, and is the French for keyboard, while ''klavier'' is German for piano.

* '''Felt''', who, besides wielding the Azoth, learns how to upgrade weapons on Belkhide;

* '''Poe''', a fairy who looks like a little boy but is actually an incorregible womanizer (and fights with a gun!)

* FragileSpeedster - Fee

* ItemCrafting - Two main types:

** Mana synthesis, which involves using extracted elements (taken from enemies and bits of scenery) to reproduce a mana item. Felt is restricted to mana synthesis, and Viese can perform it as well. It allows making mana items in abundance quickly and cheaply.

* AccidentalMarriage: Poe ends up marrying a CatGirl when she overhears him reciting a love declaration and believes it to be directed at her.

* ArtificialHuman- [[spoiler: Yuveria is really just a machine/computer program.]]

* BecomeYourWeapon: Palaxius pulls this trope when he merges with the Azoth for the final boss fight.

* ElementalTiers: Ice items are again the weakest, since there are only two of them and the stronger one only deals medium damage. Meanwhile, there are a lot more Fire-based items and the second strongest item (Cerberus Flute) is Fire-based. The strongest item, however, [[TakeAThirdOption deals all four elemental damage at once]].

* InterfaceSpoiler: The very fact that Viese has stats (HP, MP, etc.) should make it rather obvious that she's gonna end up joining the party somewhere down the line.
* ItemAmplifier: Your last party member [[spoiler: Viese]] also has both Power Item and Wide Item skills. Unlike Klein, though, she has item-unrelated [[TheMedic healing skills as well]].

* NonStandardSkillLearning: Gray and Fee learn Dragon Slayer and Ein Zecksclaw respectively during the main story.

* RoyaltySuperPower: Ein Zecksclaw.

* UnderratedAndOverleveled: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with your last party member [[spoiler: Viese]], who joins at the ''third to last chapter'' at level ONE. Somewhat justified since the plot of the chapter she joins is to backtrack to previous areas.

* CursedWithAwesome - Grey. Even though he wants to break the curse that made him half dragon, it has given him powers he would never have had as a human and since he is famous and his story is widely known, he is accepted everywhere so he doesn't even have the excuse of being an outcast after being turned into a monster. At the end of the game after he [[spoiler:kills the one who cursed him, he says its better he didn't change back as he would lose all the dragon powers he gained and they will all the power they can get to fight Palaxius]].

* KidWithTheLeash - Felt, keeping the Azoth in check (a fact for which [[spoiler:the world should be infinitely grateful]]).
* KnightTemplar - Galahad, one of the Imperial Champions.
** More of a WorthyOpponent. Galahad doesn't believe in what Theodore is doing, and often actively criticizes it. But he also happens to be part of the MyCountryRightOrWrong school of thought.

* HandCannon - Poe's absurd doomcannon is ''as big as he is''. And then of course he's always hitting on Viese whenever possible...

* UnderratedAndOverleveled: Brutally [[AvertedTrope averted]] with your last party member [[spoiler: Viese]], who joins at the ''third to last chapter'' at level ONE. Somewhat justified since the plot of the chapter she joins is to backtrack to previous areas.

* AntiVillain - [[spoiler: Chaos]]. At least near the end, when you find out about his [[spoiler: DeadLittleSister]].

* '''Fee''', a female warrior sent to destroy the Azoth ([[spoiler:it's a misunderstanding]]) by a religious order.

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'''Tropes within the game:'''

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