Devil Survivor 2: Difference between revisions

''But fear not. You will no longer feel anything...''|'''Quote from the Game Over screen'''}}

 

 

One ordinary Sunday [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]], [[Hello, Insert Name Here|a]] [[Ordinary High School Student|high school senior]] and [[Three Amigos|two of his classmates]] are headed back home after a mock exam session. But their trip home takes a grim turn when they each receive a email on their phones from [[Murder.Com|Nic]][[Meaningful Name|aea]], a "dead face delivery site" ([[Obvious Beta|in beta]]) supposedly able to show the user a photo depicting the death of any person typed into its search engine; however, it is dismissed as a hoax due to the inscrutable quality of the results.

Does this storyline and artistry seem familiar to you? Work on the Septentriones' story and art is done by none other that [[Bokurano|Mohiro Kitoh]]!

 

 

{{tropelist}}

* [[Action Bomb]]: Dubhe, Alioth and Merak's spawn.

* [[Ambidextrous Sprite]]: Fumi's dress and Makoto's badge.

* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Just like the first game, only even worse. {{spoiler|At least one of the player characters dies in any of the endings. About 2/3 of the cast can die, although the game is nice enough to force you to save people after you have killed off three characters, so you aren't left with a handful of characters at the end. Worst case scenario, five main characters will die by the end of the game.}}

* [[Axe Crazy]]: Bifrons ''likes'' to kill humans. He'll always ask the Anguished One if he can kill any humans in sight. {{spoiler|The only thing that keeps him in check is his master.}}

* [[Back From the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Nebiros brings back defeated demons using his Necromancy skill.}}

* [[Battle Royale With Cheese]]: The bulk of Day 7. ''Mostly'' nonlethal results.

* [[Bland-Name Product]]: A ruined "Starbacks" can be seen in Shibuya, and Yuzuru is apparently a reader of "Shoji Leap". And Daichi is into "Aberzombie" apparel. And Joe got scammed into buying an "Armanyo" suit.

* [[Blatant Lies]]: Grimehkala says something good will happen if you physically attack him. {{spoiler|He repels physical attacks}}.

** [[Half Truth|Well, something good for him, anyways]].

{{spoiler|'''Black Frost''': …Ho? What’re you saying, ho? You got me confused with somebody else!}} }}

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: A event with Joe has him and a NPC mention Billiken on day 2 as a doll and a God of Luck. Come day 6 and said doll is a boss.

* [[Chirping Crickets]]: Happens twice in one scene, during an event to revive Kama.

* [[Co-Dragons]]: Botis and Bifrons both serve {{spoiler|Alcor}}. Defeating both results in {{spoiler|Black Frost}} taking their place in every route but {{spoiler|Alcor's.}}

* [[Early Bird Boss]]: Botis, should you choose to fight him. Ziodyne and Shield All on Day 3? [[This Is Gonna Suck]].

** Though his speed is so low your entire party will get several shots at him before he moves more than once, and with some planning you can easily remove all his Extra Turns to trick it into spending all of his MP while you whittle away its HP. Also becomes a [[Disc One Nuke]] if you manage to crack those two skills with a Joint Crack.

* [[Eastern Zodiac]]: The demons unlocked through fate and the characters personalities tend to correspond with the Chinese Zodiac. Airi for example unlocks Sheep themed demons and Daichi unlocks Monkeys. The only exception being the Anguished One.

* [[Eleventh-Hour Ranger]]: {{spoiler|The Anguished One/Alcor}}

* {{spoiler|[[Everybody Lives]]: Implied in the hidden route's Restorer ending.}}

** Many of the cast members revealed so far resemble the [[Devil Survivor/Characters|previous game's cast]] to varying degrees.

** The Septentriones have been oft compared to the [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Angels]]; {{spoiler|the final one is even a [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]}}.

** Jungo and possibly the main character share their appearance with a previous [[Catherine|Atlus game protagonist]]...

* [[Eyeless Face]]: The random mooks from JP's are rendered this way.

* [[Four Is Death]]: There are {{spoiler|five admins mentioned in the story. Polaris is fourth}}

* [[Gameplay and Story Integration]]: In the Turn Back the Clock ending, it is continuously stated that the protagonists will need a "strong willpower" to "keep their memories" after {{spoiler|Polaris rewrites the world back at how it was before}}. Guess how the [[New Game+]] mechanic works?

** Most likely has to do with them {{spoiler|being ''completely under her control''. They are probably trying to fight you to the death.}} While everyone else fought in the game {{spoiler|are in control besides Fumi.}}

* [[Greed]]: Billikens entire motivation during his battle. Where he hunts down anything that has macca and kills them to get it. If you don't have any he ''kills you anyway''. To the point even demons are terrified of him!

* [[Graceful Loser]]: Botis {{spoiler|in the last day battle against him commends you on having great strength as he dies.}}

* [[Gratuitous English]]: The e-mail message you get after the credits is in English even in the Japanese version.

* [[Life Drain]]: The [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Life Drain]] skill, drain does it as well as stealing MP, and {{spoiler|Bonus Boss Alice uses a powered up version called Vitality Drain. Which drains HP from ''every enemy'' within a range of six.}}

* [[Lighter and Softer]]: Unlike the first game, the characters are not locked in one city, so the claustrophobic atmosphere and more explicit decay of society into anarchy are missing. Compounding this is the increase in comic relief scenes and the Fate System allowing for rather sweet and happy moments. {{spoiler|The reason for this is that the characters are living comfortably within JP's headquarters and not on the streets. Where the chaos is spreading and affecting the normal civilians who attack JP's in order to get supplies so that they can survive.}}

* [[Literally Shattered Lives]]: Several times, you'll see some poor human get hit with a blast of ice magic, topple over and shatter. Ouch.

** Most notably seen with Merak's Circumpolarity [[Signature Move]] in the opening of the battle against him.

* [[Love Potion]]: Charm inflicts this. {{spoiler|Lilith's boss battle has all the other enemies on the field be men she's casted a spell over and her racial skill Temptation inflicts this on men, women, and demons.}}

* [[Luck-Based Mission]]: The fight against {{spoiler|Yamato}}. As usual for bosses, he gets an extra turn even while attacking from a range, moves insanely fast (though only two spaces at a time), and even if you ''can'' get close, there's a high chance that he'll use Megido twice in a row, which will kill pretty much anything. And of course no weaknesses and Reflect Phys. He also gets even ''faster'' as you defeat the demons around him, to the point where even ganging up on him can still end up with him having the faster turn.

* [[Magikarp Power]]: Daichi's stat growth doesn't give him particularly impressive Strength or Magic, making him much less desirable in the first days, where most of the battles are about dishing out as much damage in one blow as possible. Crack Multi-Hit and Multi-Strike, though, and his above-average Agility lets him plow through anything that isn't immune to Physical attacks (though arguably Keita does the same job but better, and Hinako has almost exactly the same stat growth but slightly more fragile).

* [[Make a Wish]]: {{spoiler|Upon being defeated, Polaris will basically grant a wish to whoever defeated him. Each route involves the characters making a different wish.}}

{{quote|'''[[Mascot Mook|Jack Frost]]''':"Gree-heetings from the bottom screen!"}}

* [[Meaningful Name]]: The Septentriones are named after an archaic word for "north". They are individually named after stars in the Big Dipper constellation, which is used as a guide to find Polaris, the ''north star''.

* [[Monumental Damage]]: Plenty of Japanese landmarks either get wrecked or are shown-to-be-wrecked over the course of the game.

* [[Multiple Endings]]: Like the first game in the series, there are multiple routes. This time the routes include {{spoiler|Ronaldo (Law Ending), Yamato (Chaos Ending), Daichi (With three endings, two neutral ones and one 'true ending'), and the Anguished One (A very strange, more Neutral ending)}}.

** Nitta is a character and Shijima is a reason from [[Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne|Nocturne]]

* [[My Rules Are Not Your Rules]]: Drain functions differently in battles between NPCs, not actually draining anything.

* [[Nice Hat]]: Yuzuru's flat cap (overlapping with [[Sharp-Dressed Man|the rest of his attire]]), Airi's white pillbox hat, and Jungo's black bucket hat much like Atsuro's hat in the last game.

* [[Noble Demon]]: Botis.

** Oddly, though {{spoiler|the Neutral variant provided by the Anguished One is a weird mix of the freedom of Chaos and the guidance of a benevolent Law figure.}}

* [[OOC Is Serious Business]]: {{spoiler|Pretty much all of the characters, if you develop fate with them. Io expresses her true thoughts, Daichi gets over his cowardice and attacks demons voluntarily, Joe foreswears being late ever again, Keita saves his teammates, and Fumi stops her experiments to save Jungo (or Daichi)'s life.}}

* [[Post-Modern Magik]]: Traditional demon summoning rituals are transformed into a cell phone app.

* [[Previous Player Character Cameo]]: If you defeat Bifrons and Botis early then on {{spoiler|every route except Alcor's he'll be replaced by the messenger of Love and Justice [[Devil Survivor|Black Frost]].}}

** {{spoiler|Oh. Bit like [[Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne|Kagutsuchi]], then?}}

* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: If you defeat all the demons before defeating Ghost Q he'll decide to run away and must be beaten before he escapes to unlock him.

** To [[Looney Tunes]] when one of your dialogue options is [[Bugs Bunny|"What A Maroon!"]]

** One of the conversations with Io has her asking you how you knew she was looking for a bookstore. One of your responses is "[[The Dark Tower|Maerlyn's Grapefruit]]."

** After telling the protagonist {{spoiler|that he proposed to his girlfriend}}, Joe sings a ''strange song'' as he walks away.

{{quote|'''Joe''': [[The Lonely Island|''Girl you know we've together such a long, long time... doot do doo do...'']]}}

** One of the demons you can fuse is [[Joan of Arc]]. [[Kill It with Fire|Guess what her weakness is?]]

* [[Strength Equals Worthiness]]: {{spoiler|Bonus Boss Beelzebub}} entire reason for being a boss fight. {{spoiler|He's heard great things about the Protagonist and has come to test that strength.}}

** {{spoiler|[[Bonus Boss]] Belial and Nebiros picking the player characters to be Alices friends is because they are so strong that they are worthy of being her friends.}}

* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: {{spoiler|Alcor, though his [[Blue and Orange Morality|values]] fall under different principles.}}

** {{spoiler|Yamato and Ronaldo fall under this better than Alcor does.}}

* [[The Capital of Brazil Is Buenos Aires]]: According to [[All There in the Manual|the game's artbook]], Ronaldo is half Brazillian, but if you go through his route he'll occasionally greet you in Spanish.

* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: The protagonist and the others were going to be killed by a crashing train; in pops an Obariyon, who holds up the train and cheerily says, "No dying that way! I need to kill you!"

** Or, staying in the franchise, [[Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne]]. World ending? Check. Gathering the will of humanity under one philosophy in order to create a new one? Check. Having to fight the administrator of worlds itself at the end to create said world? Check. Note that these themes are common in the entire franchise, but this game really does feel like a 50/50% mix of the original Devil Survivor and Nocturne...

* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Yamato, Keita, and The Anguished One.

* [[Your Days Are Numbered]]: Every day starting on Sunday one Septentrione attacks Japan. Because the alien invaders are named after the stars in the Big Dipper constellation, Hinako speculates that there will be a total of seven Septentriones, with the attacks lasting a week. And according to Yamato the Septentriones have the ability to destroy the entire world.

 

{{reflist}}

[[Category:Visual Novel]]

[[Category:Atlus]]

[[Category:Horror Video Games]]

[[Category:Nintendo DS]]

[[Category:Shin Megami Tensei]]