It´s finally here! Disgaea 3 arrived and as you noticed I haven´t been either online or anything for a couple of days. Two reasons for that:

1: I had to build my new desk which took longer than I expected.

2: Playing Disgaea 3.

So where should I start? I have no idea where I should start actually. So I´ll just babble randomly to see if I can get a satisfying result.

Story

Mao, the nr 1 honour student at Evil Academy is filled with rage, his father crushed his portable game system and with it, a save of 4 million hours gameplay.

Thanks to that Mao is set on defeating his father. But how does one defeat an Overlord?
After countless hours of research into anime, videogames and manga Mao has figured it out! You have to be a hero! That is the only way to defeat an overlord.

With his trusty butler Geoffrey he sets out to find a hero, luckily there was one on campus so Mao cornered him and brought him “in” and stole his title of hero.

Quest completed, then he fought against his father, or rather his hand(hell that´s one huge hand!!) and lost, even though with the power of being a hero!! Wait a minute, Almaz wasn´t a hero, only a hero wannabe. SHOCK!!

But something is happening with Mao as he has the title of hero, hell he´s even starting to act like he has a heart. Or so it seems but he is actually a real meanie, being the Nr1 Honour Student at Evil Academy means not going to class, being mean and evil and if anyone is against you, beat them to a pulp.

Characters

Mao – the nr 1 honour student with a EQ of 1,8 million, even so he´s not so bright and has some issues, like wanting to kill everyone who has salt and pepper on their sunny side up eggs…

Raspberyl – the biggest delinguent of Evil Academy, she goes to every class and has perfect attendance, hell she even voluenteers for work and drags anyone she can with her!! She must be mad.

Almaz – The wannabe hero with a big crush on his princess. Quite nave and isn´t up to much unless it´s working for Mao, getting your title switched and becomming more and more like a demon is bad for a human…

And that are the main characters I´ve gotten and faced so far. Haven´t played that much yet. It just takes time.

Battles

Disgaea has always been about two things, battles and humour. We get both here in Disgaea 3, the geopanels have gotten themselves and upgrade and become geo blocks, which you can use to stand on or throw them at panels like hte geopanels worked.

What is new is that if you have a lot of the same geo blocks stacked on eachother, if you throw one of the same colors against or on top of those blocks they all dissapear, any enemy/character standing on top of them when they dissapear falls and gets hurt much like when you change the colors of a geo panel if you´re standing on it.

Another new thing for the battles are skill merging, have a special skill you like? Try using that skill together with any other special skill, it might create a more lethal version.

Blade rush for example, I thought it would be nice if it turned out to be a X-slash like in Chrono Trigger where Crono and Frog dash trough the enemy and love and behold, it worked like charm

Magichange is also a new thing. Every monster can change into a certain weapon that is then used by the character it did a magichange with. They gain new abilities and even have a special move of their own. The setback is that if the magichanged character dies then both characters die. And they inherit all aspects, so if you mix a prinny with a thief(which is good since the prinny turns into a gun) and then throws this thief she goes BOOM since she is like a prinny.

And the magichange only works for two rounds, after that the weapon dissapears and you´re back to normal.

The way you aquire skills are also new, since you have to buy them with mana… quite boring since mana is the only thing you have to use on creating new characters, passing homeroom classes, getting evilities, getting new skills, uppgrading these skills and just so much.

Evilities are somewhat of special abilities, every character has his/her own special ability. Almaz take less damage from higher level enemies for example while Mao is stronger the more enemies there are on the screen.

Every character has his/her own sets of evilities to learn and they vary. Mao can learn to get a 10%+ on his HP stat while Almaz can learn to get double healing from healing spells. The only setback is that you can only have two of these at the same time, atleast for now.

Classrooms and placements mean a lot since you have to place two characters in the same club if you want to magichange, if they are placed next to eachother in class they have a higher rate of making a teamattack so there are so much to say and I´ve forgotten about some stuff I think.

Comedy

A trademark of the Disgaea series are a lot of quotes. So far I haven´t written that many down, but Mao quotes Laharl with “What´s yours is mine and what´s mine is mine” so there are a lot of stuff going on that you just have to love.

For one quote that appears just in the beginning of the game

Good boys shouldn´t be in school.
Go outside and get hurt
- Healer Disgaea 3

It really says it all. A school for demons, going to class makes you a delinquent and that is bad.

Finishing touchs

Hel I love this game. I thought I liked Disgaea 2 but this is way better on every front. I can tell you it looks brilliant in HD on the PS3, attacks are new and just wonderful.

I can see that this is one title I´ll be playing for a long long time. From what I can see though there is one thing I´ll be missing. A pure winged slayer attack since the new versions seems to have a triangle instead of a 3×3 pattern so for power leveling I guess I have to get every character up to date with a Big Bang attack. Which is kinda tedious.

For the catlovers, fear not as the Hell Kitty from Makai Kingdom is here to stay. As cute and deadly as it was in Makai Kingdom Only this time it can´t attack with a ball & chain or morningstar, it slaps you dead with a fish instead. It magichanges into a fist as well so for fist characters they make a good combo.

There are so much to say and I can´t really spell it out since it would spoil to much. I´ve heard people talking about the story being to much a like the original Disgaea but so far I have to disagree since sure the whole emotions part is something that has been in with all Disgaea games, but other than that this has little to do with the original. Atleast for a first impression.

Can´t talk much more, have to start playing again!! I only have a couple of days left before school starts to get serious. So I have to play as much as possible.

But I do recomend that you get yourself this title if you liked the two earlier games.

From my knowledge, Haruhi is cosplaying as Dante from the Devil May Cry series. She looks good in anything she decides to do doesn´t she?

Bloodred clothing, the two guns. Just brilliant, only thing that really isn´t Dante from my memory is what she is saying. But oh well, my memory might be really bad at this moment.

What else is jackpot then? Finally my Disgaea 3 has been sent. So hopefully next week will I have it in my hands and I´ll be able to play it. Sofar from what I know it will rock this year and will easily be one of the contestants for the game of the year.

Just take a look here:

Nice right?

Visit the official homepage and watch the special section for more greatness.

And from the looks of it, finally the english voices are something that you don´t cover your ears when you hear. Which is a great improvement.

As for characters, a great mix of male and female versions of what seems to be most of the main classes that has appeared in Disgaea and Disgaea 2. Which is freaking great.

Now all I need is for the damn game to arrive here so I can start playing. Then I´ll be happy, right now I´m having such a headache I can barely think straight and I´m depressed. But hey it´s a weekend and I always feel depressed when it´s weekends. I have no understanding of to why I feel down though… yeah right I know perfectly well why I feel depressed and down at the moment.

But oh well, Jackpot for finally getting the e-mail so I can start waiting for the game. And a nicely Haruhi cosplaying as Dante is very nice.

edit – After taking a look at some cutscenes it is indeed Jackpot that Dante says so she is cosplaying as Dante

Watch this movie and cry:

Why leave characters not doing anything? Unless you want to level a specific character up you don’t leave any characters not doing anything.

You don’t attack your own teammates. Unless you’re aiming for a bad end and when you aim for that you collect all friends in a nice square and then kill them of all in one shoot.

You don’t attack a enemy with a mage’s normal attack. They have skills for that. Mages should never be involved in melee combat.

You don’t stand next to an enemy and attack with a bow. If they have a bow they are either a healer or a archer, and they use bows for a reason: Low def and low HP don’t make them to good melee fighters.

Just some problems I find at the first glance. What I do like though is the quality of animation. The story parts I know of are just great. This movie shows some of the story

I laughed, I smiled and hell I just can’t wait to get my hands on this game. It’s soon late August when the game is being released. The only setback is that school starts at the same time…

Oh well. Disgaea 3 will probably be the very best game I’ve played ever, espacially if the quality is the same as Disgaea 2.

I was browsing on the internet one day, in the very month of july, there was an intresting thing I found, and I jumped out of joy.

Short Notice and Freaking YES!

Ar Tonelico 2 is heading to the states this year! The only thing that could have been better is the month: December. P4 and Ar Tonelico 2 in the same month? What shall I play first?

I´m looking forward to them both. As they both have brilliant games out now. And from what I know all they have done is enhance the gameplay and made it better than the previous game.

Thanks to Disgaea 3 I won´t have to feel that I´m waiting though

So such a wonderful winter this will be!!

When are you going to enroll to the Prinny State University? I wish that I could have gone to Anime Expo 2008 and bought a hoodie or something that had this motive, I just freaking love it!! Would be so damn cool to use this and make your own shirt or something.

But oh well, you can´t get them all I assume. Would have costed me to much to get everything I want. Ticket, entry fees and everything.

On to some better news:

Disgaea 3 is all about school. Soon it´ll come to the states and hell I´m going to preorder the freaking biggest set from Rosenqueen that I can find. It doesn´t cost me more than getting 1 game here in Sweden so hell yes.

Soundtrack, digital disc, game, walktrough, music, and one free item that is randomly choosen: hope I get the artbook.

I´m a bit scared to show this link but hell: It´s Disgaea 3 we´re talking about here, the biggest freaking awaited game I´ve had since Ar Tonelico. Why am I scared you ask? They only have a limited stock of the items there So I got to be fast, I hope VG+ answers my mail fast, otherwise I´ll have to get myself two copies of Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice since I want all the extra goodies. So anyone from Sweden that might want to get themselves a copy of Disgaea 3 if VG+ can´t remove my preorder of it?

School´s best student wants to defeat his own father which is an overlord. Only way to beat an overlord? Become a Hero!! How do you become a hero? You kidnap the self proclaimed Hero Alma and then force him to tell you how to become a hero.

And Rasperry, the school´s worst student, it´s a demon school for god´s sake and she´s attending!! Only bad students to that! Good students are skipping classes since it´s more fun to be out doing hellish mayhem than being in school.

I´ll stop here, otherwise I´ll go crazy from wanting this game to much. It´s kinda nice as well since it´s released in Late August, and I start school again in Late Augsut Match made in heaven. To bad this aint the Demon School, I would be the number one student there :p

oh, I almost forgot: Official Site for Disgaea 3 – VISIT OR PAY DEARLY!!

edit – VG+ was able to cancel my preorder so I could get
Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice No. 1 Honor Student Set
Banzai for VG+ and Rosenqueen!! Now all I need is for the package to arrive.