Devil Survivor 2: Difference between revisions

* [[Bonus Boss]]: {{spoiler|Belial, Nebiros, Lilith, Beelzebub, Sage of Time, and Alice are all NG+ bosses, with Alice being the ultimate boss of the game. Ghost Q and Billiken aren't mandatory in sense that if you spend your time elsewhere, you can skip fighting them, but the former expects you to fight him solo with the MC and the latter has several cutscenes dedicated to him. Beating all of them makes them fuseable, although you need to beat Alice to make Belial and Nebiros fusable}}.

* [[Broken Masquerade]]: The existence of demons is worldwide this time around, so no one can deny demons exist this time round.

** Averted in the first battle. You can choose to die, automatically getting a [[Nonstandard Game Over|mission fail]].

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Daichi. You can eventually get him to man up in the end... or [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|keep]] [[Jerkass|picking]] on him instead.

* [[Eastern RPG]]: Though it's a somewhat non-standard one. No [[Starter Equipment|weapons or armor]]. No [[We Buy Anything|shops]] (except for the Demon Auction). No [[Healing Potion|healing items]] or items of [[Standard RPG Items|any kind]]. No [[Fantasy Character Classes|character]] [[Job System|classes]]. No [[Dungeon Crawling|dungeons]].

* [[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.

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

* [[Expy]]:

* [[Foreshadowing]]: The theme that plays when the protagonist is registering for Nicaea ([[Hello, Insert Name Here|which is where you give the protagonist his name]]) is the Anguished One's [[Leitmotif]]. {{spoiler|Turns out the Anguished One is the one who made the site.}}

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

* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: During the fight with bonus boss {{spoiler|Lilith}} you have to avoid {{spoiler|defeating any of the men under her control or you'll kill them and fail the mission}}. No reason is ever given for why this differs from all of the fights with civilians or [[J Ps]] members.

** 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.}}

** 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.}}

** Even without the double Megido hanging above your head, he has Revive (Recarm on fallen allies at start of skirmish) and one of his demons has Samarecarm.

* [[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).

* [[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)}}.

** {{spoiler|The Kill Polaris Neutral ending is a [[Bittersweet Ending]], somewhat heavy on the bitter. The good part is that NOTHING supernatural can ever screw with humanity ever again, and our fate is ours alone to decide. Unfortunately, besides the Void being replaced by ocean, none of the damage done by Polaris has been undone, which means only central Tokyo is the only land that exists in the whole world with any humans, as over 99% of humanity and the Earth's topography is now gone forever.}}

** {{spoiler|The Anguished One's route has you defeating Polaris and having Alcor replace him as the world's administrator. The world is reborn with man deciding its fate. Alcor becomes God, but loses his physical form and though the heroes lose the ability to interact with him, they still feel his presence.}}

** {{spoiler|In the hidden route. You and your friends [[Cosmic Retcon|reset]] the world. The heroes vow not to forget one another. Bits of their [[Character Development]] show. Daichi promises to become more mature. Io is bold enough to walk up to you and ask to hang out. Hinako and Airi are getting along well enough to put on a concert together. Keita--who's now a boxer of some renown--is helping Jungo sell chawanmushi. The fear that all the events may happen again is proven invalid when the Nicaea app says that its services are no longer needed and wishes you good luck.}}

** Nitta is a character and Shijima is a reason from [[Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne (Video Game)|Nocturne]]

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

* [[Noble Demon]]: Botis.

* [[Noble Shoplifter]]: Done at one point by Daichi towards the beginning of the game. {{spoiler|Unfortunately, given just how quickly civilization breaks down, this act quickly become good intentioned but fairly meaningless.}}

* [[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.}}

* [[The Peeping Tom]]: in the "Secret Garden" cutscene, Daichi and Joe decide to spy on the female cast members' physical exam.The main character can join them too, leading to an eavesdropped conversation of the girls comparing their "assets", and several minor [[What the Hell, Hero?]] moments later on.

* [[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 (Video Game)|Black Frost]].}}

* [[Prop Recycling]]: A LOT of art assets from the first game get reused here.

** {{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]]."