[PS3] I have to buy a PS3 (Disgaea 3)

Being a total Disgaea fanboy, I'm sold already, especially since I'm not much of a graphics whore anyways. I can't possibly speculate how much more they could add, with Disgaea 2 already giving a plethora of additional options, and can only hope for more rampant overkill. Pretty silly, how this game is my dealbreaker for buying a PS3 whenever in the distant future this should be released to us.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Disgaea 3 Website Up!

Oh yeah~~~~ I came so hard at this news.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Oh yes. Despite still basically looking like Disgaea 2 with new characters, those ridiculous new tower flail and cyclone attacks are hilarious to watch. I really don't see how they can further up the ante on the overkill nature of the attacks, as even summoning the moon to collide into the battlefield looks like standard fare now. Regardless, I'm getting this game well before I ever get a PS3 8-)

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

It looks like the English trailer is out and highlights new features to be hyped about:
Disgaea 3 English Trailer

I'm sure that there has to be something exciting about switching seats with classmates, magichange and geoblocks. At least the attacks are getting more ridiculous. A spacial ricochet which knocks the moon onto the earth, square onto the battlefield is certainly grandiose enough as it is.

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

The guide is already out? I haven't seen it anywhere, unless this is the Japanese version.

Of course, Disgaea 3 is also one of the reasons I got my PS3, so naturally it's already preordered also for the purpose of snatching up that collector's soundtrack too. All the new classes and attacks and geo systems are sure to eat up all my time from Wednesday onwards.

With the release of Disgaea 3 so soon, I do hope that Broccoli eventually also translates a Disgaea 3 artbook in a similar fashion to the first two artbooks for the series. I think the first two were well done and of course an artbook is an artbook.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I was able to play the game for several hours on end last night, naturally being engrossed in it. Although it really does seem to trade off on several points so far, with the new mechanics, but despite that I still find it enjoyable.

The whole game is much more mana-centric now, since you're really forced to acquire and use mana this time around. No longer is it reserved for just voting purposes and character creation, but pretty much your entire skillset which you can buy with enough mana. Not to mention the inclusion of mana potions which are specifically designed to give you mana when consumed in battle.

Also, the whole storyline (loosely a storyline) angle is confusing with bad being honorable and good being deliquent. Certainly amusing, although I'm not a fan of the spanish orcs. I was having trouble picturing Mao's voice, and it doesn't seem like they matched the voice to the character either, in my opinion.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Taco

They'd better have upped the mana you get from monster kills, or else it seems like this incarnation of Disgaea features more grinding than ever before.

Prinnies are apparently worth double mana, but other than that, it seems like it'll take until mid-game before you get any real momentum going with mana acquisition. Skills like Blade Rush cost 10 mana to buy, but Hurricane Slash is 300 mana, while the tech after is 600 :/ Not to mention that there Evilities to buy and equip which average at around 100 mana each, as well as to do all the homeroom (Dark Assembly) stuff with mana.

Originally Posted by Soluzar

I'm almost certain this feature was in Disgaea 2.

I've encountered 0 mana potions in D2, and even if they were a part of it, in D3 it's much more pronounced, being in sale en masse in stores now, and even having the game explicitly tell you that it's an option if you need to get more mana.

Originally Posted by Soluzar

Wasn't this basicallly the same in Disgaea 2 as well, what with the felonies being a mark of status

Yeah, although in D2 that was pretty much the extent of it, and Adell was still reluctant to demonic behaviour and such. Here it's really confusing since every aspect of school life is pretty much an entire contradiction. So much to the point that Raspberyl's lackeys even say "Good Day" and "Please" and "Thank You" as battle cries! That on top of everything else such as the teachers encouraging the students that accidentally attend class, to not attend class.

FELIPE NO

Definitely! The main story battles in D3 do not seem anywhere near as harsh as the previous two. If anything, I'd say they give you plenty of maps that are good to train on, some being better than others as usual, but none of this Enemy Boost X 9 and Enemy Boost + 150% littering a map. My friends always express great surprise when I tell them I beat Disgaea 3 already, within 2 weeks of release.

This may be a long shot, but has anyone ordered the game off of Rosenqueen to get the "Devil Label" singles CD? The reason I ask is because I would really like the Full version of Maritsu Evil Academy, and the dl link on the person's blog has long expired. This isn't in the game's music shop, or on the official OST and it comes with the full version of Sinful Rose and Laharl's Hymn.

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