Christi Junior on Nostr: 1/3 While I do love me some Disgaea, it did take a while before I bought the latest ...
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While I do love me some Disgaea, it did take a while before I bought the latest entry in the series, Disgaea 7. I wouldn’t exactly say that I had gotten burned by the previous game, Disgaea 6 (it was ultimately a fun experience that I spent some 60 hours on), but compared to the best games in the series it evidenced such a dramatic drop in quality that it did leave me somewhat concerned about future games. Moreover, as dialogue-heavy, story-driven strategy RPGs, Disgaea titles are very vulnerable to being tarnished by trannylators, and Disgaea 7’s feudal Japan-style setting didn’t really do anything special for me either.
However, once the game had actually been released, the buzz surrounding it seemed quite positive, and I didn’t see any reports of major of troonlator leftist propaganda having been inserted either. So eventually I gave Disgaea 7 a chance, and ended up having a thoroughly good time playing through it, remaining hooked from start to finish. While not the best Disgaea game out there, I’d definitely call it something of a return to form for the series.
If you have never played a Disgaea game before, I’d describe it a Strategy RPG on Crack – the attacks are spectacular and over-the-top, you can level up your characters all the way to Level 9,999 (and just keep grinding and boosting your stats WAY past even that point), you get to play around with tons of really overpowered abilities, and enjoy ludicrous levels of customization. That said, a game like Disgaea 7 hardly forces you to make much use of most of its numerous mechanics, and while the series is famous for its level grinding, that isn’t something to worry about prior to the postgame – you shouldn’t really need to grind at all to beat the story, and the main game actually does a good job respecting your time. Hell, at various points I actually adjusted up the difficulty to avoid the game becoming too easy.
The actual battles also allow for all sorts of nutty strategies, like tossing both your own and enemy units all around the map (the Prinny units will even act like Suicide Bombers if thrown), or stacking your units on top of each other, and then beating up your enemy with the tower of characters you just stacked. Compared to most other games in its genre, battles in Disgaea go by pretty quickly, with the game boasting a greater number of maps to compensate. These shorter, bite-sized battles make a game like Disgaea 7 easier to just pick up and play than the likes of Fire Emblem or Triangle Strategy.
Also, while strategy RPGs are often set during medieval times and take themselves pretty seriously, Disgaea is essentially a comedy set in this fantasy underworld (known as the Netherworld) full of weird and wacky demons. I guess the setting shares certain similarities with something like Hazbin Hotel, the difference being that Disgaea is not gay, retarded or Satanic. It’s all in good fun – the demons mostly seem to be various races of creatures born and raised in the Netherworld, while the human sinners sent down there as punishment for earthly misdeeds are transformed into Prinnies (the Disgaea series’ penguin-like mascot character) and forced to become wage slaves. While the Heaven equivalent (called Celestia) sometimes comes into conflict with the Netherworld, the angels are generally not portrayed as bad guys because of it, and the leading angels are ultimately good and reasonable (it’s usually rogue actors among either demons or angels that cause trouble).
Meanwhile, if you already ARE familiar with the Disgaea series, you’ll be pleased to learn that Disgaea 7 corrects a lot of the previous game’s missteps: This time the story campaign isn’t marred by ridiculously repetitive boss fights (I think you fought that God of Destruction nigger around 20 times in Disgaea 6), but feels well-paced and satisfying. There IS one recurring boss fight, but it’s hardly all that excessive, and comparable to your multiple fights with Bloodis and Majorita in Disgaea 5. Also, the game doesn’t start you off at some stupidly high level like Disgaea 6 did, which largely robbed you of that all-important sense of progression (eventually reaching stupidly high power levels feels much more earned and impactful if you start off really weak).
While I do love me some Disgaea, it did take a while before I bought the latest entry in the series, Disgaea 7. I wouldn’t exactly say that I had gotten burned by the previous game, Disgaea 6 (it was ultimately a fun experience that I spent some 60 hours on), but compared to the best games in the series it evidenced such a dramatic drop in quality that it did leave me somewhat concerned about future games. Moreover, as dialogue-heavy, story-driven strategy RPGs, Disgaea titles are very vulnerable to being tarnished by trannylators, and Disgaea 7’s feudal Japan-style setting didn’t really do anything special for me either.
However, once the game had actually been released, the buzz surrounding it seemed quite positive, and I didn’t see any reports of major of troonlator leftist propaganda having been inserted either. So eventually I gave Disgaea 7 a chance, and ended up having a thoroughly good time playing through it, remaining hooked from start to finish. While not the best Disgaea game out there, I’d definitely call it something of a return to form for the series.
If you have never played a Disgaea game before, I’d describe it a Strategy RPG on Crack – the attacks are spectacular and over-the-top, you can level up your characters all the way to Level 9,999 (and just keep grinding and boosting your stats WAY past even that point), you get to play around with tons of really overpowered abilities, and enjoy ludicrous levels of customization. That said, a game like Disgaea 7 hardly forces you to make much use of most of its numerous mechanics, and while the series is famous for its level grinding, that isn’t something to worry about prior to the postgame – you shouldn’t really need to grind at all to beat the story, and the main game actually does a good job respecting your time. Hell, at various points I actually adjusted up the difficulty to avoid the game becoming too easy.
The actual battles also allow for all sorts of nutty strategies, like tossing both your own and enemy units all around the map (the Prinny units will even act like Suicide Bombers if thrown), or stacking your units on top of each other, and then beating up your enemy with the tower of characters you just stacked. Compared to most other games in its genre, battles in Disgaea go by pretty quickly, with the game boasting a greater number of maps to compensate. These shorter, bite-sized battles make a game like Disgaea 7 easier to just pick up and play than the likes of Fire Emblem or Triangle Strategy.
Also, while strategy RPGs are often set during medieval times and take themselves pretty seriously, Disgaea is essentially a comedy set in this fantasy underworld (known as the Netherworld) full of weird and wacky demons. I guess the setting shares certain similarities with something like Hazbin Hotel, the difference being that Disgaea is not gay, retarded or Satanic. It’s all in good fun – the demons mostly seem to be various races of creatures born and raised in the Netherworld, while the human sinners sent down there as punishment for earthly misdeeds are transformed into Prinnies (the Disgaea series’ penguin-like mascot character) and forced to become wage slaves. While the Heaven equivalent (called Celestia) sometimes comes into conflict with the Netherworld, the angels are generally not portrayed as bad guys because of it, and the leading angels are ultimately good and reasonable (it’s usually rogue actors among either demons or angels that cause trouble).
Meanwhile, if you already ARE familiar with the Disgaea series, you’ll be pleased to learn that Disgaea 7 corrects a lot of the previous game’s missteps: This time the story campaign isn’t marred by ridiculously repetitive boss fights (I think you fought that God of Destruction nigger around 20 times in Disgaea 6), but feels well-paced and satisfying. There IS one recurring boss fight, but it’s hardly all that excessive, and comparable to your multiple fights with Bloodis and Majorita in Disgaea 5. Also, the game doesn’t start you off at some stupidly high level like Disgaea 6 did, which largely robbed you of that all-important sense of progression (eventually reaching stupidly high power levels feels much more earned and impactful if you start off really weak).