History VideoGame / BravelySecond

* AnimeHair: Two years of stasis without anyone trimming his hair gives Tiz PeekABangs. It's so wild that a child asks his father if everyone in the world has hair like that, only for the father to ''believe'' it must be a new fad.

** Due to Tiz's PeekABangs, several job outfits will reflect on this. Everyone but him wears an eyepatch on their right eye when they equip the Pirate job, for example.

** The BonusBoss can hit very hard with its assortment of abilities, but [[spoiler: if the Companion starts the round [=KOed=], she ''will'' use Call Comrade to resuscitate it. This counts as healing, of course, so as long as Winter Storm is in effect, the Adventurer is effectively helpless.]]

* BonusBoss:
** There are the [[spoiler:7 Deadly Sins (the Nemesis from the previous game and by extension the same ones from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyThe4HeroesOfLight'') to power up the final job]].
** The above relocates [[spoiler:all of the elemental dragons guarding the spheres in every monument to enter Vampire Castle to the 3 dimensional dungeons and turning into the ChestMonster kind for the InfinityPlusOneSword weapons]].
** After the above is done, you can fight [[spoiler:the Adventurer and the Companion in the Dimension's Cauldron (the volcano dungeon in Eisen that used to lead to the Fire Temple)]]... [[spoiler:which THEN leads to a ''harder'' boss fight against the Adventurer in her Deneb form right immediately]].

** Defeating the BonusBoss [[spoiler:Deneb (aka the Adventurer)]] in one of the aforesaid {{Bonus Dungeon}}s will get you a unique sword and shield for your trouble: [[spoiler:the Spacetime Blade and Spacetime Bezel, fashioned after the pieces of the compass of space and time]].

* NeverTrustATrailer: Well, Never Trust a Demo, anyways. The ''Ballad of the Three Cavaliers'' demo has the player controlling Yew, Janne, Nikolai, and Magnolia with a full compliment of job classes to use... but only Magnolia changes outfits in the process. This ''seems'' to indicate that the other three will not be properly playable characters come the full game... but come the full game, Yew is not only fully playable but the ''central'' player character. [[spoiler:Janne and Nikolai aren't so lucky.]]

* ElaborateUniversityHigh: Al-Khampis, which is basically a city built to support the school and reminds you of something akin to [[LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex Academy City]].

* DualWielding: As well as the forte of the returning Ninja job, the Charioteer asterisk enables characters to forgo the use of a helmet to equip a weapon on that slot to strike with three weapons at once. Leveling the class further allows you to equip a weapon on your body slot as well, meaning you can wield [[UpToEleven four weapons at once!]] Finally, the returning Knight job maintains its Dual Shields support ability for the defensive equivalent.

*** ComicBook/IncredibleHulk: "Don't make me angry!" YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry!", [[HulkSmash "Edea Lee, Knights-Captain, SMASH!"]]

* {{Lunacy}}: The moon where Magnolia hails from. It's the place she can help nourish and where the party can[[EldritchAbomination fight really messed up bosses]] just like Norende in the prequel.

* AntiVillain: While [[spoiler: Norzen]] played this straight at first, like its predecessor, players find that the supposedly villainous group turned out to be this. [[spoiler: Kaiser Oblivion, also Denys Geneolgia wanted to kidnap Agnès and a time artifact to turn back time so the corruption of Eternia's Crystal orthodoxy never happened, and many of his allies and followers (except for Angelo and Aimee) were victims before Braev reformed Eternia's orthodoxy seventeen years before Bravely Second. Though some of the asterisk bearer's AntiVillain side were more prevalent by chapter 5. Bella and Cu Chulainn, for example.]]

** PlayedForLaughs in the case of Bella and Kikyo. Bella never got to introduce herself formally until the second time around... when Yew and Edea had already taken the asterisk from her, which she grudgingly points out in her second battle when she looks at Yew/ Meanwhile, Kikyo is still too shy to speak much out of disguise [[spoiler:and Whitson is taking that into account when he disguises as her]], so an annoyed Edea ''does it for her''.

*** [[spoiler: At the end of Chapter 4, as the party is expressing their annoyance at Kaiser Oblivion getting away without them facing him once, Yew stops them, looking thoughtful, then directly addresses the player, knowing one little thing... Wasn't the HopelessBossFight Yew was in at the start of the game against Kaiser Oblivion? Cue the NewGamePlus unlock]]

** The Sword of the Brave, while only used as a plot device blade in order to reveal [[spoiler:Yew's past and set up the Yōkai Sub-Story]], appears again in [[spoiler:the SequelHook [[TheStinger Stinger]] and will most likely play major role in the next game]].

* CorruptChurch: You thought the Chrystal Orthodoxy was bad in the first game? [[spoiler: Turns out they are even worse this time around. The Crystal Guard in particular is shown to have been incredibly corrupt in the recent past and is pretty much the reason for almost every villain in the game joining the Glanz Empire in the first place. House Geneolgia in particular has a history of corruption and oppression, notably the founder as well as Yew's own father, who made his followers murder every member of the Crystal Guard who were against surrendering to the newly-founded Duchy of Eternia, all for his own personal quest for wealth and power. Oh, and the Great Plague, whose victims the Orthodoxy quarantined and left to die, which was one of the reasons Braev founded the Duchy in the first place? Turns out the Plague was spread by the Orthodoxy itself!]]

* DualWielding: As well as the forte of the returning Ninja job, the Chariot asterisk enables characters to forgo the use of a helmet to equip a weapon on that slot to strike with three weapons at once. Leveling the class further allows you to equip a weapon on your body slot as well, meaning you can wield [[UpToEleven four weapons at once!]] Finally, the returning Knight job maintains its Dual Shields support ability for the defensive equivalent.

* FantasticRankSystem: Al-Khampis has one based on their position in the school and society. Yew had a ranking of ''6-stars'' (a feat only 26 others in history have managed), indicating he had even more prominence during his days there than 5-star RichBastard Pudgius Bismol, who claims his Daddy own's half of the city... which is pretty much the only reason he made his rank. Pudgius himself immediately becomes submissive upon learning this, showing he adheres to the classism.

* SceneryCensor: During one scene where Yew falls off at Sagitta Village and Magnolia jumps after him [[spoiler:before inadvertently finding a material that would allow the ''Rubadub'' to fly]], as they hold hands and spin, a piece of rock obscures any chance of getting a PantyShot of the latter.

** Revealing outfits for have been altered to be less revealing, and shadows have been added beneath some skirts to prevent {{Panty Shot}}s.

* MoralDissonance: Most of the sidequests have you choose between two sides that both have a valid point. However, you can end up being very inconsistent in what you choose because you can only get one of the two Asterisks from the sidequest in each playthrough, meaning there's a good chance you'll end up going against what you want at least once because siding with your heart gives you the job you don't want.

* StatusAilment:

* IdenticalStranger: Danzaburo is literally [[spoiler:Kaiser Oblivion/Denys Geneolgia wearing a samurai getup]], but you can't tell the difference since he is wearing a big hat all the time, ''[[TwentyFourHourArmor even at the hot springs]]''.

* OneHandedZweihander: Greatswords are a new weapon class, with the literal Zweihander and Excalibur from ''Default'' being reclassed appropriately; they are, however, a one-handed weapon class. [[RealityEnsues They all have roughly the same accuracy rating as axes, being less accurate than regular swords]].

* RealityEnsues: Firearms are a newly-introduced weapon type. Bows have not been retired, and both have an attack rating influenced by dexterity rather than strength. Consequently, any given purchasable firearm will always be superior to a bow available from the same armoury, unless the one equipping it has better proficiency with bows than firearms (although most bows also come with status effects or other special properties)

* ContinuitySnarl: Most information seems to indicate that ''Second'' takes place in ''Default''[='=]s first world. However, Mephilia Venus apparently claimed all of ''Default''[='=]s summons prior to a Yulyana-advised reversion, of which she only had Girtablulu until the fourth world; Erutus Profiteur and Ominas Crowe makes mention to "the final battle in Eternia" and "those ridiculous teams" from the fifth world; and Lord [=DeRosso=] appears to be KilledOffForReal following his HeroicSacrifice against Ouroboros in the final world, though there is a mention of him possibly being around in the entry of the Vampire Bat bestiary.

* ContinuitySnarl: Most information seems to indicate that ''Second'' takes place in ''Default''[='=]s first world. However, Mephilia Venus apparently claimed all of ''Default''[='=]s summons prior to a Yulyana-advised reversion, of which she only had Girtablulu until the fourth world; Erutus Profiteur and Ominas Crowe makes mention to "the final battle in Eternia" and "those ridiculous teams" from the fifth world; and Lord [=DeRosso=] appears to be KilledOffForReal following his HeroicSacrifice against Ouroboros in the final world.

* BossInMookClothing:
** Not quite, but the same principle. In the bestiary, you may notice that you're missing a few of the first "tier" of Imperial soldiers even as you approach the end of the game. You finally encounter them in the last Imperial area, and it turns out that they're the Empire's strongest forces, being either a BoxedCrook, an elite trying to catch the enemy by surprise, or a SuperPrototype.
** By Chapter 4's ending, [[spoiler:the bleak world of Luxendarc is stuck frozen in time, with the random encounters everywhere being obscenely overpowered ''Ba'als'' wrecking havoc due to the moon having been sent to another world by Anne]].

* InfinityPlusOneSword: The Yōkai asterisk is the final asterisk you can get in the game and has some of the most powerful moves in the game and grants the useful "Awakening" skill. However, that requires you grind the job level to maximum to get all these moves. Since you get this near the end of the game and only after doing all the other sidequests, the only real use it will have is to assist in the {{Bonus Dungeon}}s

* NoIndoorVoice: Cú Chulainn.

* OminousFloatingCastle: The Skyhold.

* MoralDilemma: Most of the sidequests have you choose between two sides that both have a valid point. However...
** MoralDissonance: You can end up being very inconsistent in what you choose because you can only get one of the two Asterisks from the sidequest in each playthrough, meaning there's a good chance you'll end up going against what you want at least once because siding with your heart gives you the job you don't want.

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Yew's companions take turns writing their own comments in Yew's Diary. While the default text is written by Yew, Tiz writes in green, Magnolia writes in blue, Edea writes in orange, [[spoiler:and a mysterious man writes in purple]].

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience:
** After Yew's Diary becomes "''everyone's'' diary" at the start of Chapter 1, each of the characters write in a different color pen. As a concession to the colorblind, when they contribute to Bestiary entries where the player can read them, they also each have their respective icons. Yew writes in black, represented with the Crystalguard emblem; Edea writes in orange, represented with her bow; Magnolia writes in blue, represented with [[MeaningfulName the flower that shares her name]]; and Tiz writes in green, represented with one of his belts/restraints from the White Magic Chamber. An unknown individual also writes in ''purple'', represented with a quill; this leads Yew to refer to him as the "Man with the Purple Pen" [[spoiler:until he introduces himself as Altair]].
** Ba'als that show up at Fort-Lune can be weakened by players' Buster Ships before being battled; both come in five colors, with Ba'als being weakened faster by ships of the same color. Like the Bestiary, they also have recognizable symbols so a color-impaired player can still identify them appropriately.

This game is set to be followed by (and not confused for) ''VideoGame/BravelyDefaultII'', which (much like [[Franchise/FinalFantasy its parent series]]) is a NonLinearSequel set in an entirely new world and is in the works for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch for 2021.