BraLoD said:
Disgaea.
Has always been great, it gets technically better on every installment, even if my favorite chars are still from the first game (well, they appear on every following game as well, lol).
I like it because once I start playing it, I just don't want to stop to.
The story is fun and very comic, the characters are great and interesting, you have so many things to consider it's just ridiculous.
People often say it's a grind fest, but that's only true for the very last bosses of the post game, that are so powerful you just don't have another option than getting ridiculously strong just as well, but that involves making use of other things than leveling up, leveling up is one of the most inneficient ways to power up and stop being useful by that time, you can literally make a full 10 chars party of lv. 9999 and you'll have your ass completely handed to you by the last boss(es), but what will you need to grind? Your way up to it's full potential exploring some mechanics one after the other, and not just experience or money, you'll need to use the reincarnation, learn how to use the item world and its residents and that you can even become an space pirate, how to improve items and that you really need that thieving skill you most likely ignored on your first time playing the game, you'll have to pass bills that will likely involve you making use of the bribing system, you'll understand how to use geo effects for more than just battling, then you'll realise the difference of having a good party and making use of combos and different abilties effects and ranges, you'll realize some chars will only learn their best skills on superior tiers, you'll see there is a difficulty setting hidden inside the actual game for you to open up a whole new dimension of what to face and make use of it to improve.
Once you actually discover the game for what it is, it's hard not to love it and the people behind it, you'll realise the actual amount of work and care put into every inch of the game that it just doesn't care to show you if you are not worth it and go there try to learn it in its fullest.
Disgaea is such an amazing thing, sadly because it doesn't have much commercial appeal and forces the player to work to discover all there is to it, there is not much hope it'll ever receive as much recognition as it deserves.
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