Final Verdict

Disgaea is not without flaw. The first few hours of the game are mostly an exercise in powerleveling so you can clear the end of the first chapter. You may be repeating the battles more often than you want to. Fortunately the game picks up quite a bit from there, but it can be quite a turn-off early in the game.


Where Disgaea really fails is in being an outstanding example of a genre many gamers simply do not care for. This is a game for people who take great joy in leveling their characters to the point where the peons the game throws at you are hardly capable of touching you, let alone killing you. The impressive thing is that the game manages to be engaging to that type of player without becoming a game where you have to keep track of every tiny stat on all of your characters. Throw in multiple endings and you could be playing this game for a long time to come. Still, the casual player may find this game tiring, but for the people it’s aimed at, Disgaea is a rare event.