YMMV / Disgaea 6: Defiance of Destiny

• Anti-Climax Boss: The God of Destruction. Despite being hyped up in the story, he's quite the pushover as a boss due to him being a very weak Damage-Sponge Boss. All of the battles against him also lack variety as they use very basic stage design and lack Geo Symbols, making it very easy to just combo him to death.
• Fridge Brilliance: Why is Bieko the most powerful God of Destruction? That's obvious in hindsight, as Majins are absurdly powerful, even zombie Majins like Zed — the hallmark of which are the two huge horns coming out of their foreheads. Like Zed. And Bieko.
• Game-Breaker: The Witch's Elemental Burst special consumes all of her SP in exchange for a devastatingly powerful blow. It's meant to be a risky all-or-nothing attack that leaves her exposed if it doesn't kill her target. However, Elemental Burst's SP cost is fixed - it will never cost more or less than the Witch's max SP. Unlike every other attack in the game, its cost does not increase when upgraded, meaning you can level this sucker all the way up to the range where it will smack something for quintillions of damage without needing to increase your max SP just to cast it. With the right combination of evilities to max out your attack power, you can kill just about anything (including the game's ultimate superboss Baal on Rakshasa difficulty), and because of how much damage you'll be doing, the Magic Collection evility, which refunds 5% of the damage inflicted as SP, will make the move self-refunding, meaning it effectively has no drawbacks.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The Underling that would eventually become Ruffian Red becomes offended with Piyori's use of Might Makes Right in her pursuit of justice. Clearly, he hasn't watched previous iterations of the Prism Rangers because Prism Red has done many questionable things in his pursuit for friends, most notably in Disgaea: Hour of Darkness where he tried to hire demons to help him become an Overlord.
  • Whenever a Disgaea game is released, it is first released on a home console with the Complete version being ported onto a portable system years later. With Disgaea 6, at least in the West, this is reversed with the initial release being on the Switch (the home-portable hybrid console) and the Complete version being on the PS4 and PS5 (the more traditional home consoles).
• Tainted by the Preview: Disgaea 6 making the Video Game 3D Leap has been met with some mixed reception, as all past entries in the series were always in 2D. While some people prefer the original 2D sprite graphics and dislike the change, others believe that the new 3D models look fine and don't mind.
• Unexpected Character: While the paid DLC being characters from past Disgaea games was expected, what was not expected, however, was a free DLC pack containing hololive Japan streamers.
• That One Achievement: Completing all of the d-merits for even one character. Most of them aren't terribly difficult to achieve, especially once you get to post-game and your combat ability explodes, but by far the most tedious to complete is the "Defeat X amount of enemies" line, which requires a single character to defeat 100,000 enemies. Needless to say, even at max speed with all the attack animations turned off this will take hours to complete.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: A number of complaints levied at the game, besides the graphical situation, is the changes to the gameplay that have either significantly revamped or removed various features. Examples include: The Mastery System no longer awarded weapon skills, the Reincarnation system now requiring hundreds of reincarnations to get the full use of, the Juice Bar (which is how a lot of upgrades are purchased for your character and how you improve the Squad Shop), the XP Share-style leveling system which awards a bunch of XP to every unit that participated at the end of the round (even if they died), and others. Some of this is not explicitly seen as a bad thing, and has even found supporters, but these aspects get brought up frequently in complaints.

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