DS #2401: Disgaea: Hour of Darkness (Japan)

[Pikachu025]

What the? How did they fit this 600MB-ish game into a 64MB cart without removing the voice acting? o___o

 

[Kamakazie]

Pleinair is playable

Whuhuh?! How.

 

[Ruri]

I have never seen the appeal of this game. There is no freaking strategy to this, you just power level like mad and have one over leveled character beat the living snot outta everything that lives. How is that strategic?

Disgaea actually has a lot more in-battle strategy than most strategy RPGs, especially in the random levels like the dungeon world. Most strategy RPGs just involve putting together a winning team and using it over and over until everything is dead; in Disgaea, it's more like "Ok, in this level the floor is radioactive, so I'll have Laharl toss Etna onto that ledge so she can throw the radioactivity-pyramid down to Flonne, who can throw it into the enemy's side of the field while my mage goes and steals their invincibility-pyramid.

But a much better way to understand Disgaea is like this: Most strategy-RPGs, and RPGs in general, are "balanced". If your character is higher level, you'll win; if you're lower level, you'll lose. There are a few basic strategies you use again and again, but that's the way the genre works.

Disgaea is not like that. Your characters in Disgaea do not play fair. At all. Disgaea is all about exploiting the system in the most absurd ways imaginable (and the game exploits the system right back at you -- the level where all the enemies start out invincible and you start out losing 20% of your HP a turn thanks to the radioactive floor is not an exaggeration.) You can beat much more powerful opponents in Disgaea by abusing the system, and lose to much weaker opponents if you don't do it right.

 

[Thorisoka]

I am a little shocked at the 512mbit size as well. For the PSP, it is a fairly large game. And maintaining the voice acting on the DS, i was sure that this game would be 2gbit.

Hope they dont sacrifice quality to make this game fit on a DS card.

Funny thing is that IGN's preview stated All of the original English voice acting will appear in Disgaea DS. The first game on PS2 also included a Japanese language track, but unfortunately space restrictions on the DS will prevent players from experiencing the non-translated voices.

Space restrictions at 64MB... oh well, undubbing is easy on DS.

 

[bryehn]

this isn't even close to fully voiced. so far only the intro was, none of the story parts are voiced like the ps2/psp versions

 

[imtony]

Can't wait til the US release. Still playing it on my PSP

 

[AshuraZro]

You can beat much more powerful opponents in Disgaea by abusing the system.

Such as one map where every tile is invlunerable but one, so instead of destorying the gem, you just pile all the enemies into one and put him on that space. Then spend some time whaling on him, bam. Fire up a shitload of levels.

So yeah, plenty of comments do float but that mean it's not a fun game!

 

[RanmaFreak]

It's funny that this game came out when it did, because I literally just began playing the PS2 version over when I looked online and saw this here.

Can't wait for an english release so I can take this game on the Go! I'd use my PSP, but I bricked it a month ago!