History VideoGame / DigimonWorld2

* DefeatMeansFriendship: If given enough gifts, a Digimon may join your team after being defeated.
Although bribery helps. A '''lot'''.

* GuideDangIt

* TankGoodness: The Digi-Beetles used to explore Domains. Akira's Digi-Beetle is weak in the beginning, but by upgrading it, it become more durable and learns how to shoot missiles and detect traps.

* TrialAndErrorGameplay: In regard of traps in Domains. The game can randomly generate an undodgeable trap (like a land-mine) or a bug that remove your party members in the path to the teleporter, forcing you to either trigger the trap or restart the level. Also, some traps may not be detected by the Digi-Beetle's radar.

* UselessUsefulSpell: MP-draining skills like Evil Touch are near-useless on AI-controlled Digimon because they have infinte MP (see TheComputerIsACheatingBastard). Similarly, demotivation does practically nothing to the AI.
* VillainousBreakdown: Damien doesn't take his repeated losses to Akira well.

* TrialAndErrorGameplay: In regard of traps in Domains. The game can randomly generate an undodgeable trap (like a land-mine) or a bug that remove your party members in the path to the teleporter, forcing you to either trigger the trap or restart the level. Also, sometimes, the traps location won't show up in the radar, even if you upgrade the Digi-Beetle.

* CoolCar[=/=]WeaponizedCar: The Digi-Beetle.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: Although bribery helps. A '''lot'''.

* PaletteSwap: Many of the palette swapped Digimon from World 1 return, although unlike the original, they can be obtained by the player in this game.

* TheRival: Bertran to Akira.
** UnknownRival: Akira does not know who Bertran is at first, and takes a while to grasp the concept.
* SacrificialLion: "Destroy the Leomon at Boot Domain" is your training mission before you become an official Tamer, TheProtagonist, and even get your own actual first mission. He gets to be a footstool for a higher purpose even in this Digimon-related media. (But he's actually not good here, so this is more of a RunningGag.)

* DifficultySpike: Blood Knight Digimon have multiple times the amount of HP that wild Digimon do, even compared to bosses. They also tend to coordinate attacks better.

** Betamon can be found even earlier than Kunemon, and digivolves into [=DarkTyrannomon=], whose primary skill, Fire Blast, is a decently powered group attack for the early stages of the game.

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[[caption-width-right:316:It's as awesome as it looks]]

** The [=MetalGreymon=] in BIOS Domain.

* CrutchCharacter: During an early point in the game you're given a chance to recruit a [=MetalGreymon=]. While it has decent stats at the time it's available (except for speed), later on you can get much stronger Digimon at lower levels. What makes this [=MetalGreymon=] especially notable is that the opportunity to recruit him comes at just about the point where your first Digimon should be reaching their level cap and thus will need to be DNA-Digivolved back down to Rookie; having an Ultimate to compensate for that is a huge bonus.
** There is also the Digimon Center that lets you trade Digimon. Most of the early traded Digimon are Crutch Characters.

* DiskOneNuke: Aside from the [=MetalGreymon=] you can find early on, Kunemon can be obtained very early and digivolves into Kuwagamon, who learns the powerful Scissor Claw technique that lowers your opponent's defense and can stack this debuff twice. When combined with its high attack and speed, it makes quick work of most enemies. Even if you did not pick Black Sword to have access to virus type gifts, you can find Toy Cars in treasure chests in BIOS Domain that will work on any digimon type.

** Kim encounters a robot named GAIA, who you help fix. [[spoiler: It turns out this is the final boss of the game, and you just helped fix it up.]]

* DiskOneNuke: Aside from the MetalGreymon you can find early on, Kunemon can be obtained very early and digivolves into Kuwagamon, who learns the powerful Scissor Claw technique that lowers your opponent's defense and can stack this debuff twice. When combined with its high attack and speed, it makes quick work of most enemies. Even if you did not pick Black Sword to have access to virus type gifts, you can find Toy Cars in treasure chests in BIOS Domain that will work on any digimon type.

* BaitAndSwitchBoss: [[spoiler:Overlord GAIA. It looks underwhelming at first - just one opponent - and can be taken out fairly quickly...and then its arms come off. Cue the ''real'' final battle.]]

* DiskOneNuke: See CrutchCharacter above.

* LevelGrinding: Your Digimon will eventually hit their maximum levels. When they do, you can combine two Digimon to create a new one and raise it from level 1 all over again. This requires you to constantly recruit more Digimon, only to combine them once they max out their levels. This is also how you get one Digimon to have more than 2 or 3 attacks in its moveset, and with careful planning (and a [[GuideDangIt guide]]) players can pretty much get any Digimon in the game they want.
** Let's try to be more expository here: Your Digimon have a Max Evolution Level attribute (Max EL). Every time a Digimon's level reaches the Max EL, it will hit a level cap. In order to processed, a monster Max EL can be raised by DNA-combining him with other monsters. But there are 3 downside to this: Your new monster will be back at lvl 1, meaning you will lose 2 monsters in order to gain one monster with higher Max El. The second one is that the Max EL raises very little, it becomes [Strongest Monster Level + (Weakest Monster Level/5)]. The third one is that both monsters should be at the level cap, or else you'll lose Max El you've gained.
** However, if you DNA Digivolve two Ultimates, they become a EL 11 Champion Digimon. If two Megas are combined, it produces a EL 21 Ultimate. But, if you combine and Ultimate and Champion, you still get a Rookie.

* AerithAndBob: All over the place. Bertran, Damien, and Joy are all normal if uncommon names, but then we get to Zudokorn and Piyette.

* BossRush: The tournaments that you're [[InevitableTournament required to participate in]] if you want to progress through the game. You have to win three battles in a row, ''without any items'', in order to move up a rank, and some of the higher ranks can be [[NintendoHard outright brutal]]. The highest rank, Chief, requires you to beat [[spoiler:each of the three Guard Team leaders]] in succession.

* DiagonalSpeedBoost: also saves your Energy Point.

* GrailInTheGarbage: Akira finds the [[spoiler:Ship Key]] this way: [[spoiler:a Digimon found it and was using it as a toy]].

* HelloInsertNameHere: You can name Akira, all of your partner digimon, and your Digi-Beetle.

* KamehameHadoken: When humanoid Digimon (Meramon, Leomon, [=WereGarurumon=]) use ranged attacks, the animation looks like this.

** If you side with the Blue Falcon team, the [[spoiler:Data Guardian]] knows a technique that halves one of your Digimon's HP.

* WhatAPieceOfJunk: Some time after building GAIA, Kim complained that the robot does nothing but mumbling something weird and she even call it a hunk of junk. Later in the game, it will turn out that how wrong she is.

* ChildSoldier: The Guard Teams are clearly Digimon-taming paramilitary organizations, given the way they walk and give salutation are unambiguously military-like. Yet, they include children like Akira, Bertran, Joy Joy, Lucky Luis, etc.

* ImprobableAge: You're a teenager or possibly preteen. You get to have monsters and drive a tank with barely any supervision. And apparently that's common place in this universe.

* WhatAPieceOfJunk: Some time after building GAIA, Kim complained that the robot does nothing but mumbling something weird and she even call it a hunk of junk. How wrong she turned out to be!

* AerithAndBob: All over the place. Bertran, Damien, and Joy are all normal if uncommon names, but then we get to Zudokorn, Piyette, and Akira himself.

* PreExistingEncounters: Technically, they're of the avoidable kind. Many are avoidable on paper only, since they move in response to the player's movements, and many rooms aren't large enough to exit them without being reached.