Tales of Destiny: Difference between revisions

* '''Harold Berselius''': The creator of the Swordians. A freaky but good hearted [[Mad Scientist]] who turns out to be female, having chosen the name "Harold" to play a childish prank on historians (who would assume she was male). A powerful spellcaster.

 

 

First released in Japan in 2002, ''Tales of Destiny 2'' was the first Tales game on the [[PS 2]] (and 6th generation consoles in general), and it [[No Export for You|did not receive an English version release]]. The game got an [[Updated Rerelease]] on PSP in 2007 which was only released in Japan.

* [[Action Girl]]: Rutee, Mary, Chelsea, and Lilith.

* [[Amnesiac Dissonance]]: Mary.

* [[Awesome Yet Impractical]]: Attempting to cast any spell with the character you're currently controlling, except for fast-casting ones. Whatever character you're controlling (usually Stahn) makes a great tank for keeping enemies off of your other party members (like Rutee, who is usually the healer). The CPU-controlled party members, not so much. Any hit, no matter how small, interrupts your spellcasting. This leads most of the swordians' spellcasting ability to go to waste, especially a few of Dymlos's spells. You would deal a lot more damage with Stahn's physical special attacks while having Dymlos equipped as his swordian, than you ever would having Stahn equipped with anything else and having someone else using Dymlos to cast spells. Unless, of course, you're in an area with Fire-immune enemies....

* [[Art Evolution]]: Compare Inomata's character artwork between the original PSX game and the [[PS 2]] remake. It's almost like they hired an entirely new artist. (Ten years of improvement will do that.)

* [[Green Rocks]]: Lens.

* [[Heavy Sleeper]]: Stahn, and the relevant genes are passed down to Kyle.

** '''''"SATSUGEKI BUKOKEN!! ORYARYARYARYARYARYARYARYA!!!!"'''''

* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: Leon, and {{spoiler|Hugo}} in Leon's Side.)

* [[Say My Name]]:

{{quote| '''Stahn:''' ''"LEON!! LEOOOONNN!!!!"''}}

* [[SNK Boss]]: The [[Final Boss]] in the remake ({{spoiler|Miktran Excessive}}) very much counts. He [[Beam Spam|spams lasers]] like he's at a seventies discotheque and will punish you severely if you ever let him out of combo-lock. He [[Turns Red]] when his health hits 25% and breaks out his [[Limit Break|Blast Caliber]] at 5%. Furthermore, if you beat [[Bonus Boss]] {{spoiler|Barbaros}} before you fight him, he gains three secret [[Limit Break|Blast Calibers]] that are so powerful that even ''one'' is almost guaranteed to [[One-Hit Kill|wipe out your party]].

* [[Spoony Bard]]: Johnny/Karyl.

* [[Getting Smilies Painted On Your Soul]]: Occurs in the [[Bad Future]] that Nanaly comes from. People the world over willingly trade in their aspirations to live under Elraine's thumb, because she gives them everything they need. In the [[Alternate Timeline]] Elraine pumps this up into a [[Terminally Dependent Society]].

* [[Handsome Lech]]: Loni adheres to this trope slightly, being the only guy who ''dreams'' about flirting.

* [[Humans Are Flawed]]: ToD2 portrays its villains as practically being just because they want to compensate for humanity's flaws, and humanity ''is'' flawed. But the game's message is that everyone has to [[Earn Your Happy Ending|earn their happy ending]] by overcoming their flaws.

* [[Idiot Hero]]: Kyle is clearly his father's son.

* [[Kiai]]

{{quote| '''Barbatos:''' ''"BRRRRUUUUUAAAAA!!!!!"''}}

* [[Lotus Eater Machine]]: The Illusion World dreams.

* [[Mad Scientist]]: Harold.

* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Judas' mask: it's become a [[Running Gag]] in the [[Tales Series]] of how poorly it functions as a means of concealing your identity. It doesn't help that Judas has an [[Hikaru Midorikawa|incredibly distinctive voice]]. (The excuse in-game is that Judas chose the mask not for its face-hiding abilities, but because it's made of dragon bone, which offers excellent physical and magical protection.)

** Though it actually does work as a disguise, due to his discretion. Everyone in-game that would recognize him is either dead or he intentionally avoids.

* [[Rage Against the Heavens]]: Interesting example, as the religion based on the goddess in question isn't a [[Corrupt Church]]: they just have a different idea of what the goddess is supposed to be (eg: a good one).

* [[Reset Button]]: {{spoiler|The ending. Fortuna is defeated, which erases all of her influence from the timeline, including the events of the game and the existence of Reala and Elraine. The epilogue shows that despite this, the party members still grow up to be pretty much the same people they were during the game, and Reala is reborn due to [[The Power of Love]]}}.

** Thanks to [[Time Travel]], {{spoiler|Judas does this to himself.}}

* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]] {{spoiler|During the epilogue, you can take a sidequest where you save Nanaly's brother from death by getting him the medicine he needs to live.}}

* [[Tomboyish Name]]: Harold, again.

** To elaborate: she calls herself Harold in order to deceive the history books into believing that the famed genius and creator of the Swordians was male. At least, according to her that was "one of twenty-one reasons" why she did it.

* [[White Magician Girl]]: Reala

* [[Yin-Yang Bomb]]: Judas