

Tropes associated with Tales of Xillia 2: The game received a shortened but largely faithful manga adaptation by Ryu Naitou, which began serialization in Dengeki Maoh the same month as the game's Japanese release.īeware of unmarked Late Arrival Spoilers from the prequel. Furthermore, Ludger now has a special Limit Break gauge that activates his powerful Chromatus form, teleporting the battlefield into a parallel world where he gains incredible power for a short time.įor the first time in a mothership Tales title, Ludger is a silent protagonist, whose spoken dialogue is limited to Dialogue Trees that appear in skits and cutscenes, and decides the game's Multiple Endings.

Link Artes have been split into Unique Artes and Common Artes, the latter of which can be performed between any two characters that have the appropriate move. The combat system ( Cross Double Raid Linear Motion Battle System) lets Ludger swap weapons and fighting styles on the fly, switching between twin blades, twin pistols and a hammer. In the ensuing chaos, Elle's father's pocketwatch merges with the identical watch carried by Julius, revealing that Ludger possesses the power of the Chromatus, an ability passed down through the Kresnik clan.Īll of the main characters from Xillia return, including some characters that were killed and make appearances in fractured dimensions. After failing to pass the entrance examination and become an agent himself, Ludger finds a new job as a cook at a train station, briefly meeting Jude Mathis on the way there, but is swept up in an Exodus terror attack and finds himself protecting Elle Marta, a little girl seeking the Land of Canaan, a mythical place said to grant wishes. Ludger Kresnik lives in Trigleph with his older brother Julius, one of the top agents of Spirius Corporation, a company with overwhelming influence over Elympios. But not all is well: the terrorist group Exodus continues to stir tensions between the two countries, the denizens of which struggle to accept each other, and a new conflict threatens both worlds. One year after the fall of the Schism, the newly unified Rieze Maxia and the country of Elympios are working towards peace and harmony, and research into the newly-developed Spyrite technology promises to one day end Elympios' dependence on the environmentally-degrading Spyrix, allowing the barren land to recover. It received an international release on August 19th, 2014 in North America and August 22nd, 2014 in Europe. The game was released on November 1st, 2012, exclusively on the PlayStation 3. Tales of Xillia 2 is the fourteenth mainline entry in the Tales Series, and a direct sequel to Tales of Xillia.
