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Five_X2011-01-16 12:39:16

I just heard my friend mention that Disgaea is a good game, and I've heard others make the same sentiments, so here I am. I sincerely hope I don't fail too hard.

Hey, this is by NIS. They made... I dunno.

There's a sort of intro image, and once it scrolls to the bottom, I get to the menu screen. Wow, it's bare. Time to start...

Scenery Gorn!

So, a demon King died, and his demon kingdom is full of usurpers getting all up in his old kingdom.

"Prince!" Why yes, I am ready to party like it's 1999, thank you.

Damnit, I'm not an effeminate '90s musician. Apparently I'm some dude in a coffin who won't wake up. Nice dungeon, tho. Likin' the flail.

I get woken up by a pink haired girl who points a gun at me. I like this place already...? That makes me wake up, for sure. Aaaaaand, it seems this girl very well may want to kill me, THE GREAT LAHARL!

I can really sympathize with this guy. I mean, why does it seem that everyone who tries to wake me up wants to kill me?

So this girl is pretty happy to deliver the news that King K has died. Died thirty-five minutes- er, two years ago.

I'VE SLEPT TOO LONG!!!

Ar har har. "The Netherworld has gone to hell."

So we've gots to stop some demons from taking over our throne, because we are LAHARL! Also the girl's name is Etna. Good to know. Names are nice.

"Episode 1: Prince of the Netherworld"

Well, I'll start that one later, and leave you with this introduction.

...Seriously, this LP is completely blind. I have no prior knowledge of this game.

Comments

Fluid Since: Dec, 1969

Jan 27th 2011 at 6:24:45 PM

Personally, "Nightdwellers" was the only level in this set I really hated. Tactics become entirely moot when your entire team is getting randomly teleported every turn.

SpellBlade Since: Dec, 1969

Jan 27th 2011 at 6:29:58 PM

Oh goody, "the part" is coming up next..

IIRC, the enemy levels take a jump right about now.

SpellBlade Since: Dec, 1969

Jan 27th 2011 at 6:31:28 PM

^^ Yeah, that one got my mages killed pretty badly.

EndarkCuli Since: Dec, 1969

Jan 27th 2011 at 10:32:16 PM

On the topic of Stealing, I know that Rogues have double the odds of other characters, and the rate of success increases the higher the person's level is. Also, I wouldn't be surprised if rare items (which can be powered up more than the regular versions via Item World) were even harder to steal than average ones. There's probably an exact formula, but I'm not going to bother making a trip to Game FA Qs to look it up.

arbane Since: Dec, 1969

Jan 27th 2011 at 11:50:54 PM

IIRC, the stat bonus on the (Whatever) Glove items also influences your chance to steal.

Five_X Since: Dec, 1969

Jan 28th 2011 at 12:27:27 AM

Yeah, I was using the best gloves I could buy (at the time, I have better ones now), but Marx is somewhere around level 3, so yeah... I'll go have him fight the bourgeoisie.

IniquitusTheThird Since: Dec, 1969

Jan 28th 2011 at 2:05:07 AM

Ah, it's been a while since I played this game...

Oh, this is gonna be good.

Equippable Horse Wiener.

That is all.

And we're not kidding, the enemy levels really begin to jump like crazy soonish..

68.113.209.20 Since: Dec, 1969

Jan 28th 2011 at 9:40:18 AM

Btw, if you really are getting bored with the lack of challenge, you can pass a measure in the Dark Assembly to up the levels of all the enemies. If it gets too much, you can drop them down later.

Blissey1 Since: Dec, 1969

Jan 28th 2011 at 11:27:00 AM

The main factor in stealing things is your thief's level compared to the enemies level. Better get to leveling Marx! Cause you're gonna want to be stealing stuff from the boss of the next chapter!

Five_X Since: Dec, 1969

Jan 28th 2011 at 2:36:59 PM

Marx is leveling up pretty nicely, I've had him team attack stuff with his mentor, Laharl, so that he gets some of the experience. I think I'll stop level-grinding him once he's about level 20.