I used to play the hell out of 1 and 2 back in the PS2 days, but I haven’t touched the series beyond that, and haven’t even played 1/2 much in the last 10 years.
How would you rate 4 in comparison? I noticed it was on sale in the Switch eShop, and I’d love to have one of the series to play on the go.
What I loved about the ones I played:
- Story had a good balance of comedy and heart
- Flexible and fun character building, with decent enough defined classes to get you started
- Tons of post-game/side content (I didn’t like every piece of it, but I liked how much there was to try.)
- CAPTAIN GORDON, DEFENDER OF EARTH
- Perfect geochains, though I was usually too smoothbrain for it.
What I didn’t like:
- Item world, IIRC worse in 1 than 2?
- Adell’s siblings
- Demon court thing?
I love disgaea 1 and 2, but I think 4 is an enormous upgrade in basically every single way, including quality of life.
If you enjoyed D1&D2 at all, I highly recommend D4 and suspect you’ll enjoy it even more than the first two.
For the record, I think 4&5 are the crown jewels of Disgaea; easily my favorite games in the series
As someone who played 1 and then 5, I was really annoyed by how nice most of the demons in 5 are.
Also that one character whose arc is about coming to terms with the fact that her family is actually broke, when she had built her identity around being rich… but MFer you’re a demon overlord! Your overlord power is mind control! Just take other people’s money!
Yeah it takes awhile to realize that every netherworld is different with different customs, and that Laharl’s has the most “demonic behavior” default demons of the whole series. The series quickly abandons the real “demon” energy in favor of just focusing on character and setting tropes and stereotypes instead
So I found out after I posted this that there’s a demo, and 40 minutes in I already like Valvotorez more than Laharl, and at least on par with Adell. Seems like I’ll finish the demo to eb sure, and probably pick it up.
If that’s the case you should get it. 4 was easily my favourite gameplay wise but the characters weren’t my favorite
Pop back in after you’ve played a bit and let us know what you think!
Dark Assembly was amazing, you shut your mouth
It wasn’t necessarily a badly-designed feature, I’m just bitter because I sucked.
Played 1,2,4 and 5 .
Mechanics I would say I liked 4 compared to 1,2 while 5 has formula a bit reinvented so it’s different at all in good and bad ways.
Story wise 1,2 and 4 are great, 5 story is meh.
So if you want to try after 4 the 5th… Just tune out of the story, it’s not even close to others. Personal stories in 5 are kinda good but overall story is trash.
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