[PS2] Disgaea 2

I'm loving the game so far, and the trailer for the anime series was a nice treat.

I got to chapter 6 but then got sidetracked with leveling up my characters (as is the norm witht these games). Thank god for the power-leveling trick on 4-3 (took me 3 hours to get my characters from 25 to 9999, now I have to reincarnate a few times ) otherwise this game would have taken forever.

Presently I'm a little disappointed about not seeing other characters from the series (Mid-boss?) but I guess once I play/slaughter the normal story that will change. Another annoyance is the fact that you must create a character of a new class to open up the next level of class. In previous games if you got a certain class to level 100 that usually opened up all the levels of that class. But now you have to either create a new character or reincarnate into the the next level before you open up following level.

But beyond that I am having a blast. If you just want to play around and not grind for hours on end, I recommend the 4-3 power leveling trick. Everything becomes so much easier when have unlimited mana, hl, and lvl 9999 characters. It is choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend it.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Also to add something to this "trick":

Stand around and level up all of the enemies to roughly the same level as your highest level character. Then go kill all but one of them with your high level character (usually the Nekomata at the bottom of the map stays there). You can even have your weak character pick up your high-level character and power level them with the group attack.

Put everyone back in the base and continue to wait until the remaining Nekomata is double your highest level and draw it out with a weak character (I used Taro), throw it using a Knight or two, and capture it.

The reason you want to level everything up before you kill them is because the hospital price to resurrect your new Nekomata is insanely high. Killing high level enemies helps compensate for that.

And the numbers don't have to be exact. My level 1000 captured a level 2800 which captured a level 4200 which captured a 9999. One level 9999 can catch 3 or more 9999s which you can then reincarnate as whatever you want, or run amok in the Dark Assembly and pass everything by force. This also is a quick way to gain hospital prizes as reviving a 9999 fillls up a lot of HP and SP.

Power level your other story characters at the Cave of Ordeal Battle 4 using the stacking trick mentioned above. At this point there is no reason to keep your pre-Nekomata characters as you can always reincarnate a Nekomata into any class you want.

It took me 5 hours to go from a party with a level 30 Adell as my powerhouse to a party full of reincarnated (from 9999) genius class 5 characters with the best buyable armor and weapons in the game.

And yes, this is in the official guide under "Power leveling".

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Has anyone else played Zetta yet? Did they get a different voice actor for him, he sounded... odd.

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

I finally beat the game for a "normal" ending after powering up enough to beat Zetta. Was anyone else just completely let down by the ending? There was no explanation, just a picture on the screen that fades out and then the credits. No reactions from the characters. No conclusion to the story. Nothing. After all that I was at least hoping for an anime sequence, even Laharl had one of those in this game. Sure, there was a "letter" after the credits but it showed nothing and still didn't explain anything about the *main* characters.

Is there a "better" ending to the main storyline? All the other ones seem to be bad or just abruptly end like this.

If not, talk about a let down.

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