[General Discussion] RPG hype getting the better of you

I second La Pucelle Tactics, since at the time, everything about it seemed so wonderful and wacky. When I finally got it, I'd played a couple of chapters and it was surprisingly bland, despite the character designs and battle system. Too lackluster for me in a lot of respects and I felt like there was lots of room for improvement. I hadn't played Disgaea at the time.

After playing Disgaea I had expected every title with "NIS" somewhere on the box to be just as fantastic as my Disgaea fanboy instincts expected it to be. Although as a result, Phantom Brave and Atelier Iris weren't very exciting for me. I only played a couple of chapters of Phantom Brave and it was too much customization with a different kind of charm from Disgaea. Atelier Iris, I finished to the end, but apart from the alchemic synthesis, it was a horribly generic rpg in several ways. I had also looked forward Makai Kingdom and everything else, but learned my lesson from those two games.

Jam it back in, in the dark.