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Disgaea thread

Mao is the best protagonist.

Is D5 any good?

I only played the 4th one but if the switch has breath of the wild, monster hunter, and a good Disgaea game im totally on board

Dark Knight da bes.

Yeah D5 is tits. Never played a Disgaea game before and I'm impressed. Presentation, characters, music, gameplay, it's all good.

I still want to play Prinny Can I really be the Hero, my friend swears by it

how long does it take to up class mastery and is there a way to check progress of it? also why do I prefer the english voices to the jap ones in D?5

The gameplay is top notch but the characters and story are awful even by disgaea standards. At least there's Red Magnus.

I swear by it too.

Aside from the last boss, as a lefty that has issues button mashing with my right hand that guy was a mother fucker.

That's not Valvatorez

>Valvatorez
Muh nigga

I want her to sassy walk on my dick

Mao is just Laharl done wrong

Boy, I sure do like to hear about PROMISES, and SARDINES, and WHIPPING THEM INTO SHAPE, and PROMISES, and SARDINES, and WHIPPING THEM INTO SHAPE, and PROMISES, and SARDINES, and WHIPPING THEM INTO SHAPE, and PROMISES, and SARDINES, and WHIPPING THEM INTO SHAPE, and...

They overdo the sardines joke. Other than that I like that he is kind of a good guy, but not as boring as Adell, and he does get some decent gags when they break away from his sardine shit. I at least like a lot of his prinny jokes or how he stormed a large part of the government over a typo in a newspaper.

Go to the status screen and move over to the class mastery page, stars will fill up green to indicate how much progress you have made.

As for how long, early game it takes a long while, but once you start fucking about with the cheat shop, abusing Prinny Instructor, etc., it becomes trivial. Hell, once you reach LoC, a single kill will usually max you out.

>not liking sardines
what a fag

How do I effectively fill the bonus gauge?

overly long combos

This will not end well.

>you will never be Etna's private prinny toilet

No one is as boring as Adell. But like a lot of D4's cast, he just never goes anywhere. He never changes, he never grows, he never struggles, he's just there, more often than not repeating the same jokes. Also he let Fuuka in the party, that's unforgivable.

Set up your entire team before executing attacks. You do more damage this way too.

Use team attacks, do this by standing next to an enemy with allies standing next to your attacking character, and using a regular attack.

Or just use a Sage and blast everything with a Land Decimator.

>start playing d5
>get quest to destroy boxes on maps
>throw prinny at some boxes
>lands on the boxes and doesn't blow up

?????????

Also any early game tips? I've seen some shit like grinding 2-1 but I don't get the point of grinding bonus ranks full of 25 hl and 10 exp. maybe if I can boost that shit with laws but not right now

thanks man

>No one is as boring as Adell
true dat
Axel was the only savior of D2
>grinding
>in first story playthru
nigga, complete game once
No disgaea games require any grinding for first playthru

All pre-post game grinding is based around having the cheat shop, which you will get soon. You can however chuck enemies onto each other to combine their levels, have one character pick up said enemy to give you one turn to prepare, then kill it with tower attacks. It's not an amazing strategy, but it will get you a few levels if you're somehow having trouble progressing.

>Laws
Nah son, we Cheat Shop now.

Just look for maps that have neat groupings of enemies, or check back on some maps that had geo panels that boost foes. Some of those maps change to EXP-boosting panels after clearing them once, so you can grind easily there.

That said, you shouldn't need to grind too much for most of the main game as long as you keep your gear up to date.

Who here is getting Witch and the Hundred Knight 2.

Who's ready for Metallia's possible other dimensional blood sisters considering the heroine and two other Witches got Hundred's eyes for a third eye?

you kinda late for party on that one, JP release was awhile ago and NISA will never localize it anyway

You shut your whore mouth. HK sold decently in the Wester, they're going to get HK2 over here and localized.

Yeah, sure
Right after Coven, am I right?
Oh, and NISA totally lied on their presentation earlier this year about all big announcements already being made and no other are planned.
They'll probably pick up other random game to localize instead of Witch 2.

I've been grinding using item world. I've done maybe three runs in there, about 30-40 floors, and my highest level char is around 50. I'm in chapter four, after where you fight the yellow prinny. This is my first disgaea game.

From what I'm reading, I'm doing it wrong and I should just go through the story?

Where does the autistic grinding that I thought disgaea was famous for begin?

I'm operating under the assumption I can fuck off from the main story and do other shit at some point

Y-Yeah! just like how etrian odyssey 5 is getting a localization! surely our nip overlords won't fail us..

Play the story levels more or less back to back. The real game starts in post game

Unfortunately they gate a hell of a lot of useful mechanics behind story progression, so you're better off advancing until you get the cheat shop, unlocking a Sage, then blitzing the story maps.

You can play however you want.
"grinding" in disgaea never actual "grinding", it's more about finding exploitable gameplay mechanics to make yourself stronger with minimum hassle.
sure then

Well fuck. Is that where the story ends entirely? Or is there a post game story as well? Or is it just grinding infinitely?

It'll happen. It takes time.

see
Post game is a slew of abusing mechanics to make yourself strong enough to beat the next milestone superboss. For me, the real fun is the journey to that point. And making an army of flat chests

That was pretty shitty. Being entirely dependant upon button mashing, when every other boss used a "find weakness, stun, retaliate" approach.

shove pram in a corner and wait 50 turns simulator 2k17

>Stronger with minimal hassle.

Spoken like a true demon, dood.

>mfw seeing Baal for the first time
>mfw he tore my face off before I could even get anyone onto the map

I'm okay with a character never really growing as long as he's entertaining or engaging to watch. All of Valvatorez's character development was done in the past, and he does act as a guiding figure to Desco and Emizel and some of the non party characters, which I like.

He's also the best Prinny master by a landslide.

He's not a Prinny master. He's a Prinny INSTRUCTOR. Don't get it wrong.

I see.
That sounds phenomenal.
I love cowtits and yet I'm gradually getting all flat chests, is this normal senpai?

Can this be a NIS girls thread?

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>Hundred Knight would fuck some random bitch witch known as Agni.
>Hundred Knight wouldn't fuck his daughter and her lesbian friend.
Was he gay?

generics are your friends user. fill a squad with nothing but rockin tits.

>mfw I want to play that
>don´t want to buy ps3 version
>don´t have a ps4

hopefully we will get a switch version, but at least I can play with metallica on disgaea, when I will get my switch.

Disgaea 6 when?

after makai wars

I dunno. Didn't Disgaea 5 tank on PS4? At the same time I hear it's doing good on Switch. I want a re-release of Soul Nomad. Or a sequel. Still their best game by my book.

item world grinding is pointless until post game. you are better off grinding chara world, maxing all class masteries and aptitudes and the serum.

the item world is useful when you go post game since you will start getting rank 36-40 items which scales its stats better in the item world.

basically the post game is grinding to defeat Baal, the optional superboss of every Disgaea game, this time has a posse with him

I want to adopt usalia!

OOOOOHOHOHOHOHO

BUNNY CUNNY

It's been 12 years
what's great is I wholeheartedly believe its coming one day..

I want to combat the declining birth rates with her.

>game was planned never comes out
>nis themself make fun of that

Why are they so based? While other companies would do everything they can to let everyone forget about it they still are here and talk about that.

>Disgaea 6 releases
>it's about Axel fucking up screening and production of Makai Wars, like he did in Axel Story

>Hero Prinny is the male main lead of Makai Wars
I would give all my shekels.

Yeah, I was on him for at least a few days. I'd have to pause the game when at a good angle, adjust my left hand for mashing, pause at a good time to back off, and get back to normal.

Was a very satisfying game aside from that, and I never played the second one because I was worried they'd do that again.

Bought Rozalin's game yesterday. Might start playing it soon.

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Stop lying. The characters in this game have actual development and are more than just their gimmick unlike 4

>SUPER
>SUPER
>SUPER
>SUPER

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Red Magnus is the worst one.

Etna > Flonne > Majorita >>>> Archer >>> Thief >>>>> everyone else

Red Magnus is basically Zetta if he weren't the strongest Overlord in the cosmos.

I just want a nonsensical, funny and comfy story like Disgaea 1. Will D5 deliver?

When will NISA announce Zero and CS 3?

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>Will D5 deliver?
It takes itself much more seriously than D1, so probably not.

I also found the characters impossible to care about, but that's probably more of a me problem.

No

I think killia is alright aside from the whole UHH THE DARKNESS INSIDE OF MEEE thing

NANI is that?

>Ally kill count 0
You haven't been playing the game correctly I see.

>He never changes, he never grows, he never struggles
Because he's not that kind of main character. Valvatorez himself gets basically no growth at all because he already went through all that shit a very long time ago, he isn't some teenager struggling with daddy issues that needs to find himself. Valvatorez part in the story is to rear the others, he's acting as a facilitator, a guide, and instructor for their growths.
Also you are absolutely blind if you think nobody in D4 had any kind of character development, absolutely everyone but himself are nowhere even remotely close to the people they were when they first got introduced at the end of the game. It doesn't quite hold your hand as much as the formulaic and boring as shit ""character development"" you get in D5 where it quite literally slaps you in the face over and over until you can't help but be tired of it, but that doesn't mean they aren't there.

Why does the demo crash when I try to use tower laser while using a tower made of my entire party?

How much postgame stuff does D5 even have anyway? What's the estimate of getting to fight Baal?

No, D5 takes itself incredibly serious. You are better off giving the other games a shot.

There isn't much to do in D5 postgame, it's weaker than even original D3's.
Getting strong enough for Baal is pretty easy too, if you know what you are doing it takes maybe 7-10h after you beat the main story's final boss to get strong enough. There's a speedrun that kills him in a little over 10h from a fresh file.

Every disgaea game since 3 I've said this is the game where I beat Baal, I cry when I look at his map and always get only halfway there.
Beating the other postgame stuff isn't close to half as hard as Baal itself

Man, what a shame. I love D1 because of how ridiculous Laharl is and the story never take itself seriously. Why the fuck did they started to change it from D2 on? D3 was OK I guess.

D2, D3, and D4 all were incredibly tongue in cheek and had loads of that still.
It wasn't until D5 that they decided to go full on no fun allowed and started treating Disgaea like all the things the previous games kept making fun of.

>D2
>tongue in cheek
that's a lie
it's most boring and terrible story there is, there is close to zero enjoyable humor in the main story
Only Axel Mode saves it

Money. Disgaea got about as successful as it could get and started having to sell to the people who liked the shit it was making fun of. If there is a D6, I expect it to either have some genuinely dark humor because it doesn't matter at this point or sell out completely.

It's only good if you have never played good disgaea game. Play 1 or 2.

The gameplay doesn't really hit the peak until 3, unfortunately.

nah, 1st is okay, 2nd is already damn good, aside of felony mechanics
main problem of 1st is wasted actions of you kill someone before last actions were planned

D2 had good gameplay. It had a nice amount of mechanics and they didn't get needlessly complicated yet. Honestly I think it has better gameplay than vanilla D3 still. The remake of that and D4 blow it out of the water though.

They don't do that again, there is an optional mashing thing you can use on the final boss if the timer gets close to running out that does a lot of damage but you can beat the boss before that happens without needing good mashing.

I don't remember if 1 had full blown tower mechanics, but I do know that you don't have to reincarnate to get upgraded classes in 5 and a lot of the systems are much smoother. It's not so much the big differences that matter but all the small ones that have added up. 4 was hot trash but the gameplay was a phenomenal improvement over 1 and 2.

I don't think any of them are bad gameplay wise, just that all the little improvements make up for how bad the characters and story have gotten.

I just hit chapter 6. When should I do the dlc missions?

After you killed the last boss

Cuckphina, fuck off.