The Heavy Guard can be used by pressing the guard input. In addition to the Light Guard, already presents in the first installment, executed when the character is in a neutral state (or crouching for a Light Guard against low attacks), there is now the Heavy Guard. The Beast Drive is accompanied by remarkable animations as the battle zones change their colors and details and as the fighters use, generally, long and brutal combos. The Beast Drive uses up the entire Beast Gauge and reverts back the fighter into his human form once the move is finished. To use it, the fighter as to be in Beast mode. The principal addition from Bloody Roar 2 to the franchise is the Beast Drive, a devastating special attack unique for each fighter. By doing these changes, Bloody Roar 2 established the basics, gameplay-wise, of the rest of the series. If Bloody Roar 2 retakes the gameplay of his predecessor, some new features appear as well as some that are now gone. Now that Zoanthropes need help more than ever, Yugo, along with Kenji and Alice, sets out as the new leader of a group that sets out to pave their way to a bright future. After multiple fights and a Long intervention, Shenlong discovers his true nature and dissolves the Zoanthrope Liberation Front before he dismembers himself. They finally understand the true ZLF leader is Shenlong, Long's clone created by the mad scientist Busuzima. Shina, a leopard zoanthropes and Gado's adopted daughter, persuades herself that her foster father is the ZLF leader, or the "Alpha", behind this conspirator. Rumors began leaking out that the Front secretly kidnapped Zoanthropes and held them hostage. But the Front's terrorist tactics raised suspicion. They called themselves the " Zoanthrope Liberation Front " (ZLF) and declared war on the hunters. Reacting to the bloodshed, a group emerged that supported the Zoanthropes. Reports of Zoanthrope hunts and their toll in human life flooded the news. Hostilities between humans and Zoanthropes exploded. The Zoanthropes rightfully earned their name as "enemies of the human race". But the Zoanthropes' inhuman dealings with their victims caused worldwide revolt. The Zoanthropes' mutiny in the original Bloody Roar destroyed the powerful multi-national organization. Now, more than ever, the world needs new leaders to bridge the gap, heal the wounds, and create a new era of peace."įive years have passed since the collapse of the Tylon Corporation. As the rift between human and zoanthrope widens, total chaos and destruction seem inevitable. The ZLF even targets its supposed brethren, punishing or abducting zoanthropes who refuse to collaborate. Indiscriminate violence claims the lives of many innocent people. The world learns too late that the ZLF is actually a terrorist organization convinced of zoanthrhope superiority and advocating global rule by zoanthropes. ZLF followers, claiming to fight for zoanthrope rights, use their exceptional combat skills as zoanthropes to overwhelm the forces of the human world.
Thus persecuted, the zoanthropes look for hope in a newly formed underground organization: The Zoanthrope Liberation Frontor ZLF. Fear and envy among ordinary humans soon lead to prejudice and oppression against zoanthropes. This fierce struggle shocks the world.Īlthough they succeed in thwarting the evil plans of Tylon, the zoanthropes unwittingly withdraw worldwide attention to their existence and their amazing abilities. Opposing Tylon is a group of renegade zoanthropes fighting for the dignity of their kind. The giant multinational Tylon corporation secretly plots to reap huge profits by exploiting these superhuman abilities. As technology advances, genetic scientists gain the ability to awaken the beast-like powers that lie dormant in human genes. Their existence has been the stuff of legend since the dawn of human history. Beings possessed of animal strength and human intellect.