Nippon Ichi (Disgaea, Makai Kingdom, etc.)

I'm tackling the post-game content in the middle of the story. :P

edited 19th Nov '10 2:19:24 PM by Miijhal

Nah, I just waited with it. Aside from the boss, I was basically too overpowered for the first dungeon.

Now, the second. Hoo boy.

Has a tendency to over-grind, so I know what you mean. In the DS remake, I was grinding a Legendary weapon (Some gun I don't remember) to L80 by the time I actually started on the 3rd chapter. Talk about smooth sailing after that...

EDIT: Remembered the improbability of the item level and corrected.

edited 20th Nov '10 10:12:47 PM by ryaw

Finally beat Flonne.

If you ever end up in that dungeon again, take a Paw Hand with you. Flonne's got some gear you're going to want to steal. I just don't know if you have to beat the game before it triggers her wearing it <_<

edited 21st Nov '10 4:03:32 AM by Ralphrius

I have a question regarding ZHP, how do unlock the costume shop? I heard you have to talk to the Prinny in your base 10 times but nothing happens when i do it.

Flonne does indeed have her very useful and abusable equipment on her before the post-game. Though, word of warning... used properly, with the right Shadowgram setup, that equipment can likely turn the rest of the main game into a joke. (and that's just with the basic Boosters)

And as for the costumes the Prinny unlocks, the trick is that you need to talk to him ten times within, like, ten seconds. Turn the text speed up to Crazy Cheetah, hold O and mash X! You should get it soon enough.

It worked! Thanks Dood!

@Ralph: Well, that just gives me more reason to overlevel my character MORE. :P

^^^ It gets even more fun when you throw that equipment in a Spring Room which turns it into the giga version.

Also, I still can't beat the second one. It's just too big a difference at some point ;-; Maybe I should turn the multiplier back on, that seemed to make it easier.

edited 21st Nov '10 1:57:57 PM by Ralphrius

"By the way, can he even talk?"

And now, time to have a strong desire for a sequel.

New Disgaea 4 footage. We get a glimps of a cutsceen as well as hear the voice actors.

I'm digging Valbatoze's voice.

I don't think I've offered enough effusive praise for the Absolute Victory Unlosing Ranger Theme semidynamic music-generation system yet. Even if it adds no value at all to the gameplay, the idea of generating a theme song from a bunch of samples depending on what kind of equipment your character is wearing is really cool to me.

Based on the new footage and the systems and screenshots I've seen, I'm getting kind of a "military campaign" vibe from Disgaea 4. Leaders giving speeches to their armies, capturing and interrogating war prisoners, moving your forces across maps to control territories, etc. I've been playing a few games like that recently, and I think that'd be an interesting direction for this installment to take.

Well, looking at wikipedia I guess that's sort of already known? I do find it amusing though that despite all this Overlord plot stuff none of the previous games actually involved you conquering the Netherworld.

edited 28th Nov '10 7:10:53 PM by Clarste

Based on the new footage and the systems and screenshots I've seen, I'm getting kind of a "military campaign" vibe from Disgaea 4. Leaders giving speeches to their armies, capturing and interrogating war prisoners, moving your forces across maps to control territories, etc. I've been playing a few games like that recently, and I think that'd be an interesting direction for this installment to take.

Well, looking at wikipedia I guess that's sort of already known? I do find it amusing though that despite all this Overlord plot stuff none of the previous games actually involved you conquering the Netherworld.

Sounds like Salvatore would be right at home. I liked the feel of Chapter 5 of Disgaea 3, so I'll be happy if there's more content along those lines.

Apparently there's two more new characters, Volcano an angel and Emilez some president's son, anyone have any more info? All I could find were pictures of Volcano.

Disgaea 4's theme is completely political, IIRC. But yeah, in any case, it's looking very good. N1's really going all-out with this one.

They're trying to recover from Last Rebellion.

They're trying to recover from Last Rebellion.

Was that game bad? I never got around to playing it.

According to wikipedia, the president of NIS apologized for unleashing something so horrible on us. So yeah, it's supposedly bad.

edited 29th Nov '10 4:10:53 PM by Clarste

That's pretty extreme. I guess that's why they foisted the PAL release off on Tecmo Koei.

Well some people said they enjoyed it regardless so while the quality may be up to the person financially it was actually one of the worst selling games of all time and a huge profit loss for N1.

The full quote, by the way:

Once we got Last Rebellion we realized it was not the kind of title we should release in the United States because of its quality. I feel really sorry for our customers because we released that title. That’s why I told Nao (PR Manager) we have to release the announcement for Last Rebellion, but never push that title. We cannot say it’s a really great title. We felt really sorry, but we had no choice to release that.