Ar tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica: Difference between revisions

A [[Manga]] adaptation exists.

 

 

Being as this is the page for the second installment, more general series tropes go on the ''[[Ar tonelico]]'' page.

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* [[Absolute Cleavage]]: {{spoiler|Part of Misha's [[Spy Catsuit]] in Frelia's binary sphere.}}

* [[A God Am I]]: {{spoiler|Infel and Nenesha claim to be the world's new Goddesses at the end of the game.}}

* [[Alien Sky]]: There's two moons, one with rings, and the sky itself occasionally has an artificial-looking ring visible in it. The rings are actually part of the tower, however, instead of something surrounding the planet.

* [[Cat Fight]]: Luca and Cloche twice. The first time is a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]], but the second one is played much more seriously, with both of them dropping [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|reasons the other sucks]] like bombs.

* [[Came Back Wrong]]: {{spoiler|Nenesha. Specifically as a Type 2, as her body was destroyed by Raki and only her Heart of Gaea from the failed attempt at Metafalica remained.}}

* [[Chained by Fashion]]: Cloche's Victim Pain costume.

* [[The Chosen One]]: Cloche, the Holy Maiden. {{spoiler|Or so they think. She ''is'' still a maiden - just a different type. The second chosen one is Luca, the real Holy Maiden.}}

* [[Freaky Friday Flip]]: Close-but-not-quite; while no actual body-swapping occurs, the one level of the Infelsphere (forcibly) has Luca and Cloche see how each other had to live by having one of them "reenact" certain events of the girl's life. Whose past gets seen depends on which route Croix takes.

* [[Gag Boobs]]: Taking a bath finally showed {{spoiler|Jacqli}} "the difference" in size between herself and Cloche.

** 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 ''actual drawn sprite'' of this alone makes this scene more hilarious than it has any right to be.

* [[Gainax Ending]]: If you chose one of the other girls, Jacqli's Cosmosphere ends this way. Gets even funnier when Jacqli basically tells you afterwards [[Shrug of God|I have no bloody clue. Fanwank something.]]

* [[Little Miss Badass]]: Cocona from ''Metafalica'' manages to push this to its limits. Wielding [[Improbable Weapon User|her concealed baton]] and roundhouse kicks, and an occasional magic attack, as her weapons, she not only fights on the front lines, but bodily protects the Reyvateils who are twice her mass and age {{spoiler|in spite of actually BEING a Reyvateil herself}}. Her EX attack involves ''[[Rule of Cool|creating a laser blade from her baton]]''.

* [[Little Miss Snarker]]: {{spoiler|Jacqli. Except that she's [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|really almost 400 years old]] and thus only looks like a loli, and Croix definitely doesn't see her as a "younger" sister, unlike Cocona.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Living with the Villain]]}}: Done interestingly. {{spoiler|Infel, the [[Big Bad]], poses as Cloche's Mind Guardian.}}

* [[Lost in Translation]]: Infel repeatedly makes [[Incredibly Lame Pun|bad puns]]. However, these were translated literally for the North American release, which turns Croix's [[Collective Groan|responses]] into strange non sequiturs.

* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: {{spoiler|Infel used to be like Cloche but a [[Despair Event Horizon]] pushed her to a darker goal.}}

* [[Luminescent Blush]]: {{spoiler|Jacqli}} gets this surprisingly frequently. Done hilariously at the end of her Cosmosphere. Normally, it involves a "marriage" ceremony with a speech. {{spoiler|Jacqli}} 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?

* [[Mayfly-December Romance]]: {{spoiler|Averted for Frelia and Shun. Shun was a human who willingly transformed himself into a digital lifeform to protect Frelia throughout her 700-year lifetime. However, his bio says that he wants to go back to being human.}}

* [[Meido]]: One of {{spoiler|Jacqli}}'s costumes.

* [[Mental World]]: In addition to the Reyvateil's Individual Cosmospheres, there is also the Infelsphere, which is a shared world that Luca and Cloche can enter, though Croix is able to join them with both girls permission at first.

* [[Nightmare Fetishist]]: Jacqli thinks a giant killer stuffed rabbit is cute (as well as thinking all the "normal" cute things are lame).

* [[Not Blood Siblings]]: {{spoiler|If you do not progress past Level 5 in anyone's cosmosphere in ''Metafalica'', Croix gets paired with Cocona, his adopted sister.}}

* [[The Obi Wrong]]: 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, [[The Woman Wearing the Queenly Mask|a woman very much used to giving orders]], ''she'' takes orders from him, too.

* [[Only Known by Their Nickname]]: {{spoiler|"Jacqli" is actually the name of her mech.}}

* [[This Is a Drill]]: Parodied in one of the synthesis conversations. Croix doesn't really get what makes the drill suit 'manly'.

* [[Timed Mission]]: Well, not really defined ingame as such, but due to a bug in a certain line of code that the translators apparently overlooked 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), [[Game Breaking Bug|the buffer overload kills the game]] if she has more than 20% of her HP. Otherwise, she merely tries to charge at you. This makes it nigh impossible to win later battles (in which the boss gains more HP and stat buffs) and the [[Last Lousy Point]]. 'Course, there ''are'' legal and not-so-legal methods to get around this. Mercifully, this is corrected in the EU release, though it seems very unlikely that it will ever see resolution in the US.

* [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia]]: {{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.}}

* [[Tsundere]]: Who other than Cloche? An attack of Luca's even says so!

* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: {{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 more or less an [[Assimilation Plot]].}}

* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: 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.

** Also, {{spoiler|in her Cosmosphere, Luca has a string of personalities that want to murder Croix fighting with other personalities that want to save Croix so that ''they'' can murder him in the next floor. Cloche's Armageddon self attempts to kill Croix so she won't have to suffer the pain of losing him after their relationship grows closer.}}

*** Not to mention her spell "Romance" which summons up a cleaver wielding psycho.

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