Devil Survivor 2: Difference between revisions

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]]!

 

 

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* [[A Child Shall Lead Them]]: In the Chaos route epilogue, {{spoiler|the group of people earlier seen defending a little boy in one of Makoto's Fate events is being led by him, who the game still addresses as "Timid Boy"}}.

* [[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.}}

* [[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]]}}.

* [[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]].}}