[PS2] Disgaea 2

August already? yes.

I disliked the free movement system after experiencing it firsthand, since I'll oibsess about the maximum distance I can be from the enemy before having to make an attack, and then attempt to move away even if only a little bit. I prefer the confines of the grid.
I'm excited as long as there's sufficiently new eyecandy and attacks. I don't want to see just a redone Dimension Slash; I'd like something even more exaggerated, like maybe a Galaxy Bang spell or something. If they can think of such huge attacks, I want them to be even more ridiculously painful looking.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I'm still getting this on the release date because I don't want it to fall into obscurity and miss my chance, even if a USA branch is now opened. I haven't sen Phantom Brave for quite a while, and luckily I saw Makai Kingdom still (as a used copy only) somewhere.

I hope the rest of the soundtrack catches my ear like Makai no Sasayaki or Mischievous Demon's Footsteps did in the first one. Out of the tracks I decided to try and get, Shinobi Dance was the only one I liked, and not even Etna Rock was excessively engaging.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Endgame screenshots? I saw a gameplay video on Youtube showing of high level techniques like Tera Star and such, although it was from the Japanese game. You could look at some of the pics in advertisements, since those are always pretty as well.

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I don't like the smaller and more compressed menu interface. It's like information overload with all the numbers, a reason why I didn't like Phantom Brave as much. The graphics are very colourful so far and rather different.

I'd be tempted to say that they nerfed guns big time being only able to shoot in straight lines now, but those straight lines reach reaaaallly far to make up for it. For some reason, I'm liking bows better now, probably because of the chest drop chance, and taking over the gun's former free range role.

I really was surprised with the anime intro and trailer though. They made the anime look so much better than it actually was.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Is it just me, is every ten floor much larger than the others? Every once in a while, I get a break on the normal floors and the exit is in close proximity to the base or not to much of a pain to get to. Whenever I get to the item general floors, the general tends to be an innocent on the top of some elaborate structure and the map is always strewn with enemies over a huge board. I miss when every tenth level had a chance to be relatively small.

I'm liking how stack attacks are quick experience for everyone. Just take out my Adell who luckily scored a Slap Back from Friday Mk2, and pile all the level ones on top of him. I'm only at the Coliseum and Adell can solo eveything so far.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by speculative

How do that stack attacks work? I've just finished the first couple areas but haven't had much of a chance to mess around yet.

If you have at least one person on top of you then you can also choose "attack" which will launch an enemies skywards, where all your teammates proceed to beat the opponent upwards, ascending the stack. The character on the top will slam the enemy down and you'll have dealt gigantic damage. If you have 10 people in the tower then the last attack is indicated with a small rainbow burst. The only catch is that after you attack, you can't throw the characters off, so that'll probably be the end of your actions for that turn. You can attack enemies from a distance though.


I'm at Chapter 10 now, and am finding reincarnation much, much more friendlier than transmigration, due to the levelling up being so much easier with all the options at your disposal. Although I'll have to slow down my playing, since 10-1 is a very annoying No Entry maze which requires throws and sacrifices (not all your characters will be able to progress until you trudge through just about the entire map).

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I believe it is equally divided, from watching the hilarious demo where everyone levels up from a single stack attack but I don't know for sure. It could very well be that the the initiator gets a larger chunk of the experience or something, but probably not.

Everything in the item world is always more spacious and large for me and I'm also getting much less maps that are smaller than 10X10 at minimum. Every 10th level is much more of a pain than the ones Digaea ever were.

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Guest

1. Whats the difference between 'Reincarnation' and 'Reincarnate to Atone for Sins?' The Subpoena NPC mentioned something about 'Reincarnate into a Prinny' but I don't see such a bill.

Reincarnate as a Prinny occurs later on and isn't available at first (I don't know the requirement). Normal reincarnation lets you start anew as another class or whatever you want to reincarnate into. Prinny reincarnation erases your felony count (one reason to be to keep track past 99 felonies if you manage to get that far), but apparently the benefits of felonies remain (exp up, dark assembly easier)

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Aw that sucks! I thought the endings from D1 were minimalistic and was sort of let down with each one, but if they don't give a solid conclusion in D2, I'm going to be left with an itch for a while. I'm only on the chapter with the maze of Basilicrows still, but so far I have the strong impression that

Spoiler:

the masked man and woman are Adell's parents who somehow came to work under Zenon

although that's just my conjecture and I'd have to actually play farther to see what happens.

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