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Disgaea Afternoon of Darkness

The Netherworld – a place darker than a pitch-black cave, located deeper than tht edepth of the seas. It is a cursed land where evil reigns and foul beings dwell. Nobody knows its whereabouts, but everyone fears its existence. THe story takes place two years after the death of King Krichevskoy, the ruler of the Netherworld. His son Laharl slept for two full years, unaware of his father’s death, while demons fought for supremacy over the Netherworld. With the help of his subordinate Etna, her . . . er, unique army of Prinny underlings, and one confused angel named Flonne, the egocentric, megolomaniac Prince Larharl fights his way to become the next King! Turn a board in your favor by exploiting the effects of Geo Squares, Geo Symbols and, new to the PSP version, Geo Cubes! Buy your favorite music tracks in the game with Netherworld currency and play them whenever you like. Encounter a variety of incredible allies, enemies and bosses, including a special boss that did NOT appear in the original PS2 version of Disgaea! ESRB Rated T for Teen

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Addictive as hell
Probably one of the best games I’ve played in years. The PSP version of Disgaea features everything that made the original so amazing, plus plenty of bonus features not found anywhere else. (At least, anywhere other than the DS version, but more on that in a bit)

As for getting your bang out of your buck, i’m not sure you’ll ever find a better deal. Disgaea on PSP has enough content to easily last you hundreds of hours of gameplay. It might be a bit repetitive to some, but for fans of strategy RPGs, this game is worth every penny!

Last, I’d go so far as to say this is the best version of Disgaea available. While it doesn’t have the playable Plenair character found on the DS version, it does have everything else. In addition, it also looks and sounds a hell of a lot better than it does on DS. (Not to sound like a Sony fanboy, but i’ve tried it on DS. The game does not look good, and the audio grates on my ears) That said, you’re getting the best in video and sound as well as getting the vast majority of extra content available in any Disgaea (1) version.

4 Stars Refreshingly Funny Epic Adventure
Disgaea has a humor that caught me off guard and that personally I find a bit refreshing. Game play is turn based strategy and is very well done. Perhaps it is my lack of skill in this game style, but I have found that a fair amount of level/skill grinding is essential, which leads to relatively decent time gaps between story sequences. Overall a great story, great humor, good game play, decently challenging, and did I mention long? I’d recommend this game to everybody.

5 Stars The best waste of time, now in the palm of your hand!
I love this game, all the way back to when I first played it on the PS2. I’m glad that for the port, new content was added, such as Etna mode, more levels, and multi-player trading and combat via WLAN.

Good game ported to handheld = Good

Good game ported to handheld with new content = Better

5 Stars Amazing
This game was very good, as was the series in a whole. the only thing i got a problem, with was the weapons system, the old one was better! XD

5 Stars Disgaea Upgraded
great like the original with a more features, love the fact that I can fight other players.

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Disgaea Afternoon of Darkness

The Netherworld – a place darker than a pitch-black cave, located deeper than tht edepth of the seas. It is a cursed land where evilreigns and foul beings dwell. Nobody knows its whereabouts, but everyone fears its existence. THe story takes place two years after the death of King Krichevskoy, the ruler of the Netherworld. His son Laharl slept for two full years, unaware of his father’s death, while demons fought for supremacy over the Netherworld. With the help of his subordinate Etna, her . . . er, unique army of Prinny underlings, and one confused angel named Flonne, the egocentric, megolomaniac Prince Larharl fights his way to become the next King! Turn a board in your favor by exploiting the effects of Geo Squares, Geo Symbols and, new to the PSP version, Geo Cubes! Buy your favorite music tracks in the game with Netherworld currency and play them whenever you like. Encounter a variety of incredible allies, enemies and bosses, including a special boss that did NOT appear in the original PS2 version of Disgaea! ESRB Rated T for Teen

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars This is a deep game
This game takes a lot of time but it is fun while you are logging the hours away. I’m a fan of anime and love the subbed versions of series and this game comes with a neat feature that you can have the original voice recordings as you play the game. The English ones aren’t bad but it is nice to switch it up every once in a while. The game is solid. It has been a while since I’ve played something that kept me going for so long. There is strategy and then so much more to explore. You get more game for your buck with this one.

5 Stars Disgaea Upgraded
great like the original with a more features, love the fact that I can fight other players.

4 Stars Good Port of a Solid Game
A fairly direct port of the popular PS2 game “Disgaea: Hour of Darkness”, “Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness” mostly keeps things the same, though a few new features are added.

The game should be familiar to anyone who has played the original Disgaea, but as a refresher for those who haven’t: Disgaea is a turn-based tactical role playing game. Using a grid system, characters move, attack, and use special abilities. The RPG element comes in as characters improve through battling, compared to the disposable soldiers of many RTS games. There are, furthermore, many classes to choose from, including warriors, mages, and thieves. This is a system seen in games like Tactics Ogre, Final Fantasy Tactics, and many others.

For its part, Disgaea brings a lot of elements that are unique to it and its sequel. For example, the RPG system includes not only the effects on the character’s leveling up, but also a teacher/student system that grants abilities to other characters. Geo Symbols, another feature of Disgaea’s combat, are colored pyramids that, when put on certain location types, can give off various effects to connected areas. The ability to lift and throw characters, either as an offensive attack or to give allies a boost in a certain direction, is also present. Units with similar types can use team-up attacks that boost their power when they’re near each other.

In Disgaea, you take the role of Laharl, the Prince of the Underworld. After being awoken from a 2-year nap, Laharl finds that his father, the King, has passed away, and in his absence the underworld has been rife with conflict over who the next overlord will be. With his faithful vassal Etna in tow, Laharl seeks to regain control of his empire. The story and dialogue are rife with comedy – unusually clumsy assassins, parodies of the Power Rangers and Flash Gordon, and the general apathy that Laharl’s underlings display toward him. The writing is excellent, and the PSP edition allows you to use both the English and Japanese voice acting.

The graphics have been well maintained in the transition to the small screen. They actually seem to fit better on the PSP, without as many obvious pixels and edges. Both the graphics and the sound are unchanged from the PS2 version, the only new features being the aforementioned dual language audio choice and a new music changing option.

As a whole, Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness is a good port of a solid game. It doesn’t change much, but there wasn’t much that needed to be changed. If you’ve played the game before, though, it’s not exactly worth buying again.

8/10.

5 Stars An OCD completionist’s dream
I picked this up, having been a fan of the original Disgaea years ago. I’m happy to say that this is an excellent port of the original, with some great bonus content added. Gameplay is nearly perfect, with some very welcome features that make gameplay speedier than before, such as allowing users to skip lengthy battle animations. For those with too much time on your hands, you can enjoy leveling up your characters along with leveling up your weapons and accessories until the cows come home. Not really for the casual RPG gamer, but statistic-loving gamers will be completely in heaven.

4 Stars Endless Fiddling
This game allows you to fiddle with your characters endlessly. You can spend hours and hours improving their skills, their stats, their levels, their abilities, their equipment, etc. The universe is surreal and humorous enough to be a nice bridge between the battles you fight, but it doesn’t get in the way of the game play. If you like optimizing all the little details of your characters and you like deciding which particular aspects you want to spend hours improving, then this game is the game for you. The only game better for endless fiddling is Disgaea II (where they improved the balance and breadth of the characters)

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