Disgaea Infinite is a Visual Novel for the PSP, modeled after a 2008 Japan-only game called Infinite Loop: Kojou Ga Miseta Yume*
(translation: The Fortress that Gives Dreams)
.It takes place sometime after the events of Disgaea: Hour of Darkness. Overlord Laharl, while scheming to steal one of his vassal Etna's favorite snacks, becomes the victim of an assassination attempt. Etna and Flonne are initially accused of trying to kill him (given that they had actually tried to do so in the past), but are cleared of suspicion when Laharl turns his wrath on the Prinnies. Since none of them are willing to come forward and confess, Laharl threatens them with the most heinous of punishments a Prinny could ever receive — a salary cut!One of the Prinnies stumbles upon a magical pocket watch called TickTock, who grants him a chance to go back in time and find out who tried to assassinate the Overlord. The Prinny is also granted the ability to possess the other characters so that he can see the events from their perspective, and limited mind control abilities, which he can use to make them say things they wouldn't normally say (with sometimes hilarious results). He'll have to use the powers granted to him by TickTock to save the Overlord, and most importantly...his life savings!
Fate Worse than Death: The harshest of the 108 punishments Laharl threatens to dish out is the dreaded "negative salary". Since Prinnies already work for peanuts, this effectively means that they will pay him for their labor.
Funny Afro: Jennifer briefly grows one after Thursday's power-up unit malfunctions and she gets caught in the explosion.
Etna gets two when Laharl blasts her with a flamethrower when he realises he's putting up posters.
Gameplay and Story Segregation: Subverted. Flonne wears her Angel Trainee costume from the first game here. Turns out that this is quite a plot point in one of the endings.
Got Me Doing It: Whenever Prinny uses his mind control powers, the character he's possessing will end their sentence with "dude" (instead of the usual Prinny Verbal Tic of "dood"). Laharl quickly gets annoyed by this when other characters do it, and tells them to "stop talking like the damn Prinnies".
Etna: Assassinated? The hell are you talking about? You look healthy and, uh, alive.
Laharl: Of course I am! An assassination couldn't possibly be enough to kill me!
Not Himself: Anyone's reaction to being mind-controlled.
The Glomp: You can mind-control Laharl into glomping Jennifer. She makes a remark about him going through puberty after he regains control over himself and freaks out.
The Other Darrin: Lampshaded in the database entry for the Prism Rangers. Because the Show Within a Show is shot live and both heroes and villains have a good chance of dying, the producers often scout or kidnap likely replacements.
Overly-Long Gag: "Laharl, absent-minded and confused, puts up the posters like a zombie!"
Out-of-Character Moment: The prinny can cause some temporary, though really hilarious, ones when it mind controls the characters. The ones where Etna and Laharl are made to act all nice and like good guys take the pudding!
Rule of Funny: Almost every time someone gets mind controlled, a very bizarre sequence is shown in addition to the altered dialogue that no one seems to comment on. For instance, in one scene, for no apparent reason Flonne and Laharl both jump into two Humongous Mechas and run into each other.
The scene of Laharl ceasing to think after putting up too many posters, complete with a shot of him frozen in space, is a reference to one villain's Fate Worse than Death in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
In one scene, Laharl and Etna fight each other as though they were in a fighting game. The HUD? Straight out of BlazBlue.
Some of the moves from the pre-battle animation also look like ones of a certain pair of characters from Guilty Gear (specifically, Laharl being Ky-like & Etna being Sol-like).
The Talk: Jennifer offers to give this to Laharl, since he's "at such a complicated age." He refuses, but the prinny can mind-control him into accepting.
Tsundere: Laharl has a veryhard time congratulating Flonne or telling her that he'd miss her even though it's pretty clear that he would. There's also an entry about the term in the game's database, depicting Adell and Rozalin.
Violation of Common Sense: At one point, you can possess a Geo Symbol. Getting stuck in this form at the end of the first loop triggers a bad ending where Etna destroys it out of frustration, trapping his soul in limbo.
What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?: Just before his "assassination", Laharl uses a super move to get rid of a small pile of garbage containing what he thinks is Etna's favorite Super Rare Pudding.
Happens very often in this game. Another example is Laharl "straightening posters" by going into SEED Mode, targeting the posters, and performing the Freedom Gundam's Hi-MAT Full Burst. And then let's not forget the over-the-top reactions of whoever eats the Super Rare Pudding...
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Captain Gordon, 37th Defender of Earth and Hero of Justice can handle demons, monsters and aliens with ease, but put him in the same room as a cockroach, and watch him go spastic.
Yank the Dog's Chain: You just had to end the game with Asagi losing yet another chance to become a main character, didn't you, Nippon Ichi?
Also, in one of the endings Flonne finally receives her Prism Rangers vs. Effort Ninja Gorillian DVD with Beryl even going out of her way to get the limited edition version with the soundtrack and figurine. Unfortunately, she's unaware of the fact that said DVD is actually a Blu-ray and all attempts to have it play in her DVD player are in vain. It got better with Thursday's help - the one time that his upgrade actually WORKS!
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