[Disgaea]: D2 Out On Steam, D5 Coming To Nintendo Switch

Professor Snugglesworth

Rather than continue on with a new main character and a higher number, the newly announced Disgaea D2 will be a direct sequel to the original Disgaea: Hour of Darkness. Laharl, Etna, and Flonne will make their return as the main characters for the new game, and it will tell the story of what happens with them after the first game.

Disgaea D2 will be released exclusively for the PS3 on March 20, 2013 in Japan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgz4Pz18wzg&hd=1

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I'm stoked about this, seriously. That's not something I've felt with Disgaea in a long time, and it all has to do with the return of Laharl and friends.

In all honesty, I haven't enjoyed any of the protagonists introduced after the first Disgaea as much as I have with the original group. Laharl, Etna, and Flonne perfectly encapsulated the spirit of the series from the very beginning, and nearly every attempt NIS made afterward to change up the roster either resulted in lackluster replacements (Adel) or not-quite-there knockoffs (Mao).

I'm very happy to see the original trio back in action, and also like Laharl's swank new pants. Etna's smaller shorts...eh, I'll get used to it.

Also if you didn't notice, looks like the end of the trailer is hinting at

the return of Vulcanus

Yes to all of this. All hail the one true Overlord.

Fattronicus

Oh man. Goodbye 400 hours. I hope they get this to the US asap.

Raiden333

Alright Sony. You win. I'll get a PS3.

Fiaryn

Welp, I'm with the OP. I loved Disgaea 1 but could never get into any of the sequels. Laharl/Etna/Flonne was the draw for me.

You've got me back in Atlus. You win.

Professor Snugglesworth

Fiaryn wrote: »

Welp, I'm with the OP. I loved Disgaea 1 but could never get into any of the sequels. Laharl/Etna/Flonne was the draw for me.

You've got me back in Atlus. You win.

Now if only they'd get back Amanda Winn-Lee for Etna.

All of her other replacements paled by comparison.

vagrant_winds

The cast of Disgaea 4 comes te closest to being as good as 1's but it's still a gap.

I am so stoked for this.

Kay

I've completed Disgaea, Phantom Brave, Makai Kingdoms... Never managed any other Disgaea game. Colour me interested.

Sterica

Well, I want a refund for the money spent on that fake Disgaea 2.

Drascin

Yeah, the casts in the rest weren't as funny as the original trio, but I still wouldn't say they were bad. They were just different.

Henroid

This excites me because of the original cast being THE cast. They're why I loved the first game so much.

... Well actually don't get me wrong, the sequels hit it on the gameplay too and they were entertaining. But I like sequels that are, y'know, sequels and not spinoffs.

joshgotro

3DS release. Come on.

Rizzi

God damn.
I want this.

Magic Pink

Eh, I think I'm burned out on Disgaea.

Henroid

Magic Pink wrote: »

Eh, I think I'm burned out on Disgaea.

Yeah, you say that now, and then in a few months you'll see a clip of Laharl stating his fear of big-chested women, Etna will will be mocking him, and Flonne will be giggling in her naive way. You'll be right back on board.

Magic Pink

Yeah, I'd be lying if I said I'm not gonna buy it. But I think I put a total of MAYBE 3 hours in Disgaea 3 and not even 30 minutes in Disgaea 4.

I'm not proud of that.

curly haired boy

so this is like the Real Ghostbusters?

i know soooo many people who loved loved LOVED the first game.

Gaming-Freak

I kinda didn't like Disgaea 4. The cast was a little... they tried too hard. Disgaea 3 was fun because you had the protagonist, a total hilarious "evil" scientist, and the good guy, the hero, who was shocked by how crazy the world around him was, and how his heroism usually made things worse.

Disgaea 2 was my favorite though. Such a good game.

Daris

Bring on the fallen angel. THIS time the plot can revolve around corrupting the good, not vice-versa. Mwahahaha!

Xenogears of Bore

I thought the graphics couldn't get worse after D4 "made the jump" to next gen...boy was I wrong.

Still this is the first D game I've been interested in for some time. D1 is the only game in that series I like.

Dehumanized

i am pretty sure that that is not shorts that etna is wearing

that is just a kind of large belt you are not fooling anyone

Bursar

Fiaryn wrote: »

Welp, I'm with the OP. I loved Disgaea 1 but could never get into any of the sequels. Laharl/Etna/Flonne was the draw for me.

You've got me back in Atlus. You win.

NIS, not Atlus.

Shen

I only played around 2 hours of D4, thought I'd finally capped out my interest in the series before this announcement. The original cast remains my favourite, but honestly they've introduced way too many systems while not actually making the gameplay more interesting (or working on the visuals at all) for me to really get excited for this. Maybe if they dial back the complexity to Disgaea 2 levels and announce a Vita release.

Marikir

Oh damn. New Disgaea game with the original characters?

Happy happy, joy joy!

Xenogears of Bore

Bursar wrote: »

Fiaryn wrote: »

Welp, I'm with the OP. I loved Disgaea 1 but could never get into any of the sequels. Laharl/Etna/Flonne was the draw for me.

You've got me back in Atlus. You win.

NIS, not Atlus.

Atlus did localize the only good Disgaea game though.

Fiaryn

Shen wrote: »

I only played around 2 hours of D4, thought I'd finally capped out my interest in the series before this announcement. The original cast remains my favourite, but honestly they've introduced way too many systems while not actually making the gameplay more interesting (or working on the visuals at all) for me to really get excited for this. Maybe if they dial back the complexity to Disgaea 2 levels and announce a Vita release.

This is the one thing I'm wary of is the original Disgaea was already pretty grindy and obtuse, and the later games just piled on more and more and more and more.

I'll suffer through some degree of it in the name of Laharl/Etna/Flonne though.

The Wolfman

I thoroughly loved every single Disgaea game. But I do have the echo the opinion here. The original game and crew just had that... spark. Maybe because it was the first and completely unique. Maybe because the characters were truly that great. Who knows. But I am definitely looking forward to a right and proper sequel with them.

Fiaryn wrote: »

This is the one thing I'm wary of is the original Disgaea was already pretty grindy and obtuse, and the later games just piled on more and more and more and more.

I'll suffer through some degree of it in the name of Laharl/Etna/Flonne though.

I dunno. You're totally right the later games did up the grind factor. But I also found they were a lot more easier to break. 2 let you cheese your way to a lv9999 using level doubling geo panels. 3 let you flat out duplicate items, which besides the obvious uses also let you build up specialists at an exponential rate. And 4 was even easier in terms of specialist leveling, and also had item cloning too (including a 100% easy way to do it, but was technically a bug which I believe was patched out a while ago).

To put it another way, the original Disgaea is the one I find to be the hardest to crack into the postgame bits. Every game since then has made it easier to do so.

Shen

I think they needed to make it easier to break, what with all the extra nonsense they added. Pirate maps, Land of Carnage, lovers, dual stat specialists, level 200/300+ items, Dark World, Class World, evilities, Machange...

Disgaea 1 might have been the hardest postgame to get into, but it was also over pretty quickly. Do the bonus maps, get Priere and Marjoly, capture some Surts, kill Baal/UPB, beat Item God 2. Simpler times :P

SightTDW

I've never actually finished a Disgaea game, but I am crazy excited for this. The cast was what kept me engaged in the first game.

My arm is currently throbbing in pain from trying to finish Prinny: Can I Really be the Hero as I type this. Seconding the want for a Vita release (for this and 4).

Henroid

SightTDW wrote: »

I've never actually finished a Disgaea game, but I am crazy excited for this. The cast was what kept me engaged in the first game.

My arm is currently throbbing in pain from trying to finish Prinny: Can I Really be the Hero as I type this. Seconding the want for a Vita release (for this and 4).

You have to finish the original game. The ending is tremendous.

Xenogears of Bore

Well you can finish D1 or you can finish D1.

One takes forty hours. The other forty DAYS.

Gaming-Freak

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

Well you can finish D1 or you can finish D1.

One takes forty hours. The other forty DAYS.

An army of Majins + the main characters + 1 angel at level 9999.... yup. DAYS.

Syphyre

I agree with everyone else in this thread. Having the original cast back makes me smile.

SightTDW

Well, Prinny is cleared, so it'll be 40 days until I'm physically capable of playing anything that isn't turn based anyway.

Xenogears of Bore

Gaming-Freak wrote: »

Xenogears of Bore wrote: »

Well you can finish D1 or you can finish D1.

One takes forty hours. The other forty DAYS.

An army of Majins + the main characters + 1 angel at level 9999.... yup. DAYS.

I can't tell if you are agreeing or disagreeing with me but it took me and a friend about all of our remaining summer to beat the final final boss, and we played the shit out of the game.

I'm sure these days people know all the tricks on how to do it faster but man we had a lot of work building up our duders to the point where we could survive.

38thDoe

Great, now I need to get a PS3 for one game >_<

Drez

Whaaaaaaaaaaaat?

Wait, let me rephrase that.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

Lanrutcon

Nin nin nin

Lindsay Lohan

Should I play the original? The only PS2 in the house is in my son's room. Is it available handheld in any form?

Fattronicus

It's on PSP and DS. PSP version, last I knew, has a glitch that makes levelling up a tad easier if you have both options open to you.

Basil

Yaaaay, I missed Laharl.

Lindsay Lohan

I have both but the cartridge slot on my DS has been wonky lately so I'll probably go PSP. Is it Afternoon of Darkness for the original game? Does anyone know if it's on PSN (I have a Go)?