History YMMV / TalesOfDestiny2

* GameBreaker: All magic in this game is overpowered compared to melee, but Harold's full Crazy Comet spell is so insanely powerful the full version has to be showcased on bosses because the usual enemies won't survive long enough for the whole thing. The last stage ''heals your party after dealing high thousands of points of damage''. It's only balanced by requiring a lot of TP to use (you're guaranteed to have to use a TP restoring item on her to use it) and only being unlockable on the second playthrough of the game. In later games, the spell is turned into a proper Mystic Arte, requiring you to be in overlimit to activate it.

* GrowingTheBeard: Despite some mixed reactions to some story elements, this game is the first to introduce two of the franchise's staples- Grade and the Grade Shop.

* GameBreaker: All magic in this game is overpowered compared to melee, but Harold's full Crazy Comet spell is so insanely powerful the full version has to be showcased on bosses because the usual enemies won't survive long enough for the whole thing. It's only balanced by requiring a lot of TP to use (you're guaranteed to have to use a TP restoring item on her to use it) and only being unlockable on the second playthrough of the game. In later games, the spell is turned into a proper Mystic Arte, requiring you to be in overlimit to activate it.

* UncannyValley: Reala is a stick figure. Even with this game's art style, she looks weird. Her dress also makes her legs look much longer than they actually are and her torso look much smaller than it should be. This extends to even cameo appearances where she looks out of place, especially in her cameo for VideoGame/TalesOfGraces where she looks like a ten year old girl. There's also the issue of her skin tone being oddly pale with dark lips. She's supposed to be an example of RavenHairIvorySkin but comes off as more of an EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette combined with the obvious thinness.

* UncannyValley: Reala is a stick figure. Even with this game's art style, she looks weird. Her dress also makes her legs look much longer than they actually are and her torso look much smaller than it should be. This extends to even cameo apperances where she looks out of place, especally in her cameo for VideoGame/TalesOfGraces where she looks like a ten year old girl.

* UncannyValley: Reala is a stick figure. Even with this game's art style, she looks weird. Her dress also makes her legs look much longer than they actually are and her torso look much smaller than it should be.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Many plot threads, especially near the end of the game, are quickly glossed over, such as the budding friendship between Harold and Judas over losses of people close to them, the revelation that Stahn was [[spoiler: DeadAllAlong, with Kyle witnessing his father's death]], Phillia possibly recognizing Judas, the StableTimeLoop created by [[spoiler: Chaltier's]] sacrifice (which causes some [[TimeyWimeyBall timey wimey]] FridgeLogic with the game's ending taken into account) and anything to do with Nanaly and Loni that didn't involve each other to instead focus on Kyle and Reala's relationship. While the development was good to avoid any [[StrangledByTheRedString string strangling that some Tales games suffer with official couples]], that's a lot of glossed over material.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Many plot threads, especially near the end of the game, are quickly glossed over, such as the budding friendship between Harold and Judas over losses of people close to them, the revelation that Stahn was [[spoiler: DeadAllAlong, with Kyle witnessing his father's death]], Phillia possibly recognizing Judas, the StableTimeLoop created by Chaltier's sacrifice (which causes some[[TimeyWimeyBall timey wimey]] FridgeLogic with the game's ending taken into account) and anything to do with Nanaly and Loni that didn't involve each other to instead focus on Kyle and Reala's relationship. While the development was good to avoid any [[StrangledByTheRedString string strangling that some Tales games suffer with official couples]], that's a lot of glossed over material.

* AngstWhatAngst: Kyle's [[spoiler: father was killed in front of him and his mother was crippled.]] He's sad about it, but doesn't seem to mind too much even when he remembers. Averted with Loni, who does remember and ''is'' upset about it.

* CompleteMonster: Barbatos Goetia was a former member of the Er'ther Army, who sold out his people to the Aetherians during the Aeth'er Wars so that he could be on the winning side. Due to the scale of the atrocities he committed, Barbatos's name was removed from history altogether. Following his resurrection by [[BigBad Elraine]], Barbatos acts as her personal assassin, going after the heroes who saved the world from the resurrection of the Aethersphere and the superweapon Belcrant. In order to kill two of these heroes, Stahn and Rutee, Babartos uses a little boy as a hostage and threatens to kill him unless they drop their weapons. After they do so, Barbatos kills Stahn and cripples Rutee. Barbatos then tries to kill High Priestess Philia Felice and King Garr Kelvin of Phandaria, the latter of which he attempts to kill after crashing an airship into the royal castle as a distraction. When he returns with Elraine to the past, Barbatos encounters Dymlos, the old enemy who had killed him, and, in revenge, kidnaps a girl who's in love with Dymlos to use her as a hostage to force the weakened Dymlos to duel him. And ''then'', he taunts Harold about not being able to save her brother's life if she doesn't change the past. [[ItsAllAboutMe Utterly self-centered]], Barbatos's ultimate goal and obsession is to force history to recognize him as a hero, even as he commits every evil deed imaginable and [[EvilCannotComprehendGood has no comprehension of what true heroism is]].

* CompleteMonster: Barbatos Goetia was a former member of the Er'ther Army, who sold out his people to the Aetherians during the Aeth'er Wars so that he could be on the winning side. Due to the scale of the atrocities he committed, Barbatos's name was removed from history altogether. Following his resurrection by [[BigBad Elraine]], Barbatos acts as her personal assassin, going after the heroes who saved the world from the resurrection of the Aethersphere and the superweapon Belcrant. In order to kill two of these heroes, Stahn and Rutee, Babartos uses a little boy as a hostage and threatens to kill him unless they drop their weapons. After they do so, Barbatos kills Stahn and cripples Rutee. Barbatos then tries to kill High Priestess Philia Felice and King Garr Kelvin of Phandaria, the latter of which he attempts to kill after crashing an airship into the royal castle as a distraction. When he returns with Elraine to the past, Barbatos encounters Dymlos, the old enemy who had killed him, and, in revenge, kidnaps a girl who's in love with Dymlos to use her as a hostage to force the weakened Dymlos to duel him. [[ItsAllAboutMe Utterly self-centered]], Barbatos's ultimate goal and obsession is to force history to recognize him as a hero, even as he commits every evil deed imaginable and [[EvilCannotComprehendGood has no comprehension of what true heroism is]].

** This could be justified because up until [[VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia the next game]], the Tales team are still experimenting on what works or not, in terms of story especially. They [[GrowingTheBeard successfully came with their own brand of Deconstructed Heroines theme next game]], so Reala thankfully would be the last of straight out Sues in Tales. And even so, Reala's pretty miserable on her own with her quest of the DuelingMessiah she had and she certainly develops into being able to FaceDeathWithDignity in the end of the quest, her biggest problem to the fandom just so happens that [[SpotlightStealingSquad her storyline hogs the majority of the screentime]].

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Because of Reala's [[SpotlightStealingSquad tendency to be more in the spotlight]], some characters, like Loni and Nanaly, kind of stops being relevant after the LotusEaterMachine arc.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Reala falls into this category as well, and even spreads it to other characters. She's a [[MarySue Sue]] without any deconstrucion, and the plot focuses on her so much, the other characters suffer for it.

** This could be justified because up until [[VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia the next game]], the Tales team are still experimenting on what works or not, in terms of story especially. They [[GrowingTheBeard successfully came with their own brand of Deconstructed Heroines theme next game]], so Reala thankfully would be the last of straight out Sues in Tales.

* GameBreaker - Harold's Crazy Comet spell and its extensions are very powerful. In ''ToD2'', magic heavily outweighs physical attacks in terms of damage. Yeah.

* TierInducedScrappy: Nannaly. Only one mystic arte, primarily focused on attacking, in a game where magic is considerably more buffed compared to others...people tend to ditch her when Harold comes along.

* CompleteMonster: Barbatos ranks up there along with the likes of [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Terumi Yuuki]] as an utterly unabashed gigantic evil bastard who manages to be hilarious in the same time, making him an EnsembleDarkhorse as well.

* TierInducedScrappy: Nannaly. Only one mystic arte, primarily focused on attacking, in a game where magic is considerably more buffed compared to others, and the worst victim of the SpotlightStealingSquad...people tend to ditch her when Harold comes along.

** Heck, some dramas treat this as a PaperThinDisguise. one good one was when Stahn saw Leon (as Judas) and greeted him as Leon.

* CompleteMonster: Barbatos ranks up there along with the likes of [[BlazBlue Terumi Yuuki]] as an utterly unabashed gigantic evil bastard who manages to be hilarious in the same time, making him an EnsembleDarkhorse as well.