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* [[Aborted Arc]]: ''TW2'' seems to suffer heavily from this. The story goes on nicely until {{spoiler|you finally make it out of the [[Swamps Are Evil|Goddamn Swamp]], then you have to head out for the Big Bad's fortress only to end up being handed a [[Twist Ending]] the size of the castle you're infiltrating}}. It seems the game was originally planned to be significantly larger but the developers had to shorten it due to time and money constraints, so you get the feeling of having "skipped" a certain portion of the story when getting an ending which doesn't make much sense and feels extremely rushed and even lame.

** The first chapter is about recruiting a rebellion and building a massive army using the same mysterious Verita that Gandohar uses. {{spoiler|This army is never heard from again.}}

** Of course, [[What Could Have Been]] ensues.

* [[Action Girl]]: Dar Pha and Reesa in Part Two.

* [[Artifact Title]]: Before the game was even released, in fact. The website for the original games has an outdated synopsis that challenges you to choose which of the Two Worlds you will save. This has nothing to do with the released game or its sequel.

* [[Automaton Horses]]: averted within the limits of the game mechanics in both parts.

* [[Blow You Away]]: Air magic is used in the game and is combined with lightning magic, i.e. [[Shock and Awe]]

* [[Boss Corridor]]: In ''TW2'', with [[Suspicious Videogame Generosity|lots and lots of potions]] along the walls.

* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: {{spoiler|Gandohar}} in the second game has been taking multiples levels in this, as opposed to how he was almost [[Affably Evil]] in the first game.

** Another, somewhat more successful try to do something about that is the New Ashos University in [[TW 2]].

* [[Constructed World]]

* [[Continuity Lock Out]]: There is little to no in-game information about who's who and who stands for what in the Part Two.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: The plot of the second is somewhat darker than the first, which was fairly lighthearted by contrast.

* [[Dem Bones]]

* [[Dishing Out Dirt]]: One of the schools of magic.

* [[Dual-Wielding]]

* [[Dummied Out]] In the instruction book there are pictures which suggest there were going to be more equipment, also with using creat codes, you can find things in the game engine not in the final game

* [[Evil Is Hammy]]: Aziraal, Sordahon, and {{spoiler|Gandohar}} just can't resist [[Chewing the Scenery]].

* [[Flunky Boss]]: The second game's boss summons increasing numbers of minions several times during the fight.

* [[For Massive Damage]]: The Humbling Blow skill from the second game knocks opponents down; if you then follow up with a standard attack while they're lying on the ground, you instakill them automatically, potentially dealing tens of thousands of hitpoints worth of damage in a single blow.

* [[Four Point Scale]]: Played straight with the usual big-name sites and publications, who gave it a 7 out of 10, but averted with pretty much everyone else, who gave it a 2.

* [[Invisible Wall]]: in spite of being a [[Wide Open Sandbox]], TW 2 has its fair share of them. Sometimes it's justified by the plot, but most of the times you'll be just teleported back if you manage to set foot in a location you weren't meant to.

* [[It Got Worse]]: Regardless of the ending you picked in the first game, it only got worse by the second.

** Averted in TW 2.

* [[Kick Them While They Are Down]]: The second game allows you to learn a skill that enables you to kick your opponents in the face, then stab them in the gut them while they're splayed helpleslly on their back.

* [[Medieval European Fantasy]]

* [[Minus World]]: The interior of Eikronas, the largest of the islands, is supposed to be inaccessible. It's blocked off by steep cliffs and, should you manage to make your ways onto those, a layer of invisible walls that teleport you back to the shoreline. There is, nevertheless, a gap in those that allows the player to slip through and explore the mostly barren landscape beyond and even make their way to the swampy area in the middle [[Sequence Breaking|before being transported there in the proper course of the story]].

* [[Necromancy]]

* [[Non Indicative Title]]: ''Two'' Worlds? There's Antaloor and... that's it. It might refer to the divide between the human and orc civilizations in the first game, but that doesn't end up being that important to the plot in the long run.

* [[Obviously Evil]]: The Orcs are obviously evil due to being, well, Orcs. Their human allies are obviously evil due to their eerie voices and [[Faceless Mooks|face-concealing masks.]] The Orc part is subverted in the second game.

* [[One-Winged Angel]]: The final boss of ''TW2'' transforms into a {{spoiler|[[Scaled Up|dragon]]}} before the final fight begins.

* [[Our Demons Are Different]]

* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: These are Western Dragons, played very straight.

* [[Portal Network]]: The elves left one behind when they fled Antaloor, but the humans who then settled there did not know how to use it. A series of side-quests involves you helping a researcher reactivate the [[Portal Network]]. Completing said side-quest is its own reward, since you can then [[Warp Whistle|use it yourself.]]

* [[Porting Disaster]]: ''Two Worlds'' was obviously meant to be a PC game. The Xbox 360 version has inferior graphics, an almost-unusable user interface, and [[Obvious Beta|more bugs than you can shake a can of RAID at.]]

* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]]: The Hero will sometimes let one loose when enemies appear.

** '''"Reminds me of my in-laws."'''

** '''"Interesting guests!"'''

* [[Precursors]]: The elves.

* [[Save Game Limits]]: You can save at any time in ''TW2''... except during the final boss battle.

* [[Scaled Up]]

* [[Scenery Porn]]

* [[Sequence Breaking]]

* [[Shoulders of Doom]]: Even on lowly leather armor.

** [[Ghostbusters|"Are you a God?" "No." "Then DIE."]] [[Deadpan Snarker|"I'd like to change my answer."]]

** There's an entire questline that is a shoutout/homage to Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, complete with the holy grail being your reward.

** There's another sidequest that involves getting rid of the ghosts of some annoying imperial toll collectors...who happen to be medieval [[Expy|Expies]] of the [[Marx Brothers|Marx Bros.]] It also contains mild Ghostbuster references - the Groucho Expy says "If you don't pay the toll, you can't cross the stream" (to which your character replies "''What'' stream?" - the area you're in is almost bone dry), and when you talk to them before enacting your plan to exorcise them (trick them into following you into a nearby room with a mirror so that they look into it, realize they're dead and pass on), they refer to themselves as the Scoleri brothers, after the ghostly gangster brothers from Ghostbusters 2.

** [[The Shining|All work and no play makes Gorlag a dull boy.]]

** The final quest is called [[Degrassi|whatever it takes]]

** One of the quests you can do is called [[Jurassic Park|Drakonai park]], it requires you to kill a group of raptors on an island

** You can find a ship's log in a wrecked pirate ship. According to the log [[Pirates of the Caribbean|the captain's name was Jack and the first words recorded in the log are "the rum's gone"]].

* [[Standard Fantasy Setting]]

* [[Warp Whistle]]

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] / [[Anti-Villain]]: {{spoiler|Gandohar turns out to be one}} in the Part Two.

** This game SERIOUSLY had a lot of potential. The first part takes place in Northern Antaloor, which was just recently shaken by a bunch of sleezy jerkasses who took control of the region via political intrigue and imposed a bunch of laws the populace hates. The main quest of that area involves a lot of political intrigue and the like that could have been fleshed out and given more overall depth. In the South, there's a lot of tension and concern over the invading Orc armies, and in fact when you get to the capital city of Cathalon, you can see siege machines being set up across the river by Orcs. Once again, the epic potential of this stock Fantasy trope is epically wasted because, all in all, you don't really even do too much to help end the war. Seriously, had Southpeak actually had people smarter than retarded orangutans for writers, Two Worlds could've been quite a game.

* [[Where It All Began]]: The final chapter of the second game.

** And then there is that tavern in New Ashos, with the drunkards called Macek, Jarek and so on. Might be an [[Easter Egg]] from the Polish team of developers, though.

* [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]]: And butchered modern English. None of the peasants can decide how to pronounce the names of their towns, no one told them how, and some of them don't even know how to pronounce ''real'' words.

** Parodied in the sequel where there is one person who speaks Olde Timey, and the hero basically walks away saying he has better things to do than figure out what he's saying.

 

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