KaiTenSatsuma
09-03-2006, 06:26 PM
i figured since i reviewed the first disgaea and another NIS game i might as well follow up and do the second one, please note im not completely done with the game since i only got it yesterday, but i think ive covored enough of it to make a pretty fair review. (all considered 30 hours between friday 7pm, to 8pm saturday, and being at the end of chapter 11, AND not being bored or annoyed or anything sounds more than fair to me)
In Disgaea 2, in a world seperate from the netherworld that our friends Laharl, Etna and Flonne where left at, you take control of a young man named Adell, the only human left in his world. When you start the game you see him standing next to a 3x3 demon names "Mom" who is standing near what looks like a giant pot, with the intention of summoning an Overlord named Zennon.
and thats all im saying to keep spoilers low, its hard enough already...
The battle system is pretty much ripped from Disgaea with a few minor tweaks, my favorite among them the new "Tower Attack", remember how in Disgaea you could grab many characters and lift them together to use them to get from point A to B quickly? Well now you can do the same thing, and do massive damage using that giant tower of characters you have, this is a good way to level really low level characters since everyone gets XP for kills this way.
Also in the battle system is a slew of new weapon skills for the original 7(6) Disgaea weapons, there are no joke weapons like in Makai Kingdom, so i apologize to all who enjoyed it, on the topic of weapons, Adell is a Fist user, so heads up to all unused to fist weapons (i know i didnt, i just stuck with swords and spears with the occasional axe) Use of a weapon over a long time creates a "Lover" item innocent, but ill go into that later.
Music is composed by Sato Tenpei, the same man from the 1st Disgaea, you can tell by listening to some of the new peices, and some remixed new peices, the music is debatable depending on your taste, i enjoyed it personally.
The graphics used in battle and the map are sprites like in the old game, except higher detail and in battle many effects seem to be hand drawn, or at least are computer generated so well you cant tell the difference, unlike Disgaea most character chat takes on a map with the sprites moving, and acting along with their lines with a decent amount of full body character picture chats (if you dont know what im talking about imagine what they did in Disgaea while people talked)
ok music....graphics...battle.... ah right story.
Cant say much without spoiling anything... the story is much more connected than it was in Disgaea, but with all due respect Disgaea was modeled to be like an anime, and Disgaea 2 with more story, the least i can say is that it is fitting. The story is divided between 13 chapters, which are chock full of cameos of characters between makai kingdom and Disgaea 2, there may be more but i am uncertin.
ill go in depth more as soon as i completely finish the game, i apologize but these usually take around 45 minutes. add whatever comments you like i guess.
In Disgaea 2, in a world seperate from the netherworld that our friends Laharl, Etna and Flonne where left at, you take control of a young man named Adell, the only human left in his world. When you start the game you see him standing next to a 3x3 demon names "Mom" who is standing near what looks like a giant pot, with the intention of summoning an Overlord named Zennon.
and thats all im saying to keep spoilers low, its hard enough already...
The battle system is pretty much ripped from Disgaea with a few minor tweaks, my favorite among them the new "Tower Attack", remember how in Disgaea you could grab many characters and lift them together to use them to get from point A to B quickly? Well now you can do the same thing, and do massive damage using that giant tower of characters you have, this is a good way to level really low level characters since everyone gets XP for kills this way.
Also in the battle system is a slew of new weapon skills for the original 7(6) Disgaea weapons, there are no joke weapons like in Makai Kingdom, so i apologize to all who enjoyed it, on the topic of weapons, Adell is a Fist user, so heads up to all unused to fist weapons (i know i didnt, i just stuck with swords and spears with the occasional axe) Use of a weapon over a long time creates a "Lover" item innocent, but ill go into that later.
Music is composed by Sato Tenpei, the same man from the 1st Disgaea, you can tell by listening to some of the new peices, and some remixed new peices, the music is debatable depending on your taste, i enjoyed it personally.
The graphics used in battle and the map are sprites like in the old game, except higher detail and in battle many effects seem to be hand drawn, or at least are computer generated so well you cant tell the difference, unlike Disgaea most character chat takes on a map with the sprites moving, and acting along with their lines with a decent amount of full body character picture chats (if you dont know what im talking about imagine what they did in Disgaea while people talked)
ok music....graphics...battle.... ah right story.
Cant say much without spoiling anything... the story is much more connected than it was in Disgaea, but with all due respect Disgaea was modeled to be like an anime, and Disgaea 2 with more story, the least i can say is that it is fitting. The story is divided between 13 chapters, which are chock full of cameos of characters between makai kingdom and Disgaea 2, there may be more but i am uncertin.
ill go in depth more as soon as i completely finish the game, i apologize but these usually take around 45 minutes. add whatever comments you like i guess.