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Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories
Posted: 2006-08-31 01:35pm
by Dorsk 81
I'm kinda pissed, because it won't be out over here for atleast another month, maybe two depending on which site you look at. However it was released in the US on tuesday, so has anyone picked it up yet?
Posted: 2006-08-31 06:24pm
by Ravencrow
It's out in Singapore, the US version -- I have it. Just started playing yesterday. It plays exactly like the original, but there's a lot of new features with regards to the Dark Assembly and Item World.
Posted: 2006-08-31 07:16pm
by Sharp-kun
I'm very tempted to order the US version. Especially if they do what they did with the first Disgaea and have the option for Japanese voices on the US release, but remove it for the UK one. WHY??!!
Posted: 2006-08-31 07:17pm
by Sharp-kun
One question actually:
Captain Gordon.
Is he there?
Posted: 2006-08-31 07:27pm
by Molyneux
This may be slightly off-topic, but I just wanted to ask someone who's played the Disgaea games...
How does La Pucelle: Tactics stack up to the rest?
Posted: 2006-08-31 07:34pm
by SAMAS
LPT is fun, but you can definitely tell that Disgaea was an improvement over it.
Posted: 2006-08-31 08:56pm
by Ravencrow
Molyneux wrote:This may be slightly off-topic, but I just wanted to ask someone who's played the Disgaea games...
How does La Pucelle: Tactics stack up to the rest?
Personally, I prefered LP's story to Disgaea, but overall in terms of gameplay and customisation, Disgaea is better than LP. I also liked being able to convert enemy monsters to my side and then training them, though in the end, the game relies a lot more on the story characters than the one's you convert. (You don't make units in LP.) It's definetly worth playing.
Posted: 2006-09-01 12:57am
by Grandmaster Jogurt
Sharp-kun wrote:One question actually:
Captain Gordon.
Is he there?
He's not in the manual's character list, even though Laharl, Etna, and Flonne all are. However, there have been cameos of characters from other N1 games so far, so he might be involved in the game at one point. I haven't gotten that far.
I really like the game so far. It avoided the tiny sprites and lack of grid that N1's recent games have used but took the good parts of those games (you get EXP from healing and buffing now!).
Also, there are a lot of new classes and, best of all, they balanced the weapons. There are reasons to use bows and spears now!
Posted: 2006-09-01 04:36am
by Ravencrow
Yes, the healer can actually kill something with a bow.
Posted: 2006-09-02 05:50pm
by Shadowhawk
Grandmaster Jogurt wrote:Also, there are a lot of new classes and, best of all, they balanced the weapons. There are reasons to use bows and spears now!
Wait, there weren't any reasons to use spears in the first one?
My two biggest damage characters, Etna and a Samurai, were spear users from the start and were unmatched until Laharl got the Diabolic Blade from one of the castle vassels in the final chapter.
It helps that I managed to get Legendary spears for both of them relatively early on, but those Legendary spears long outperformed the legendary sword I found for Laharl in early game. Good range, good damage, powerful single-target specials (Avalanche was my bread & butter). They're not as great for area effect, but Asteroid Drop, Turbulence, and Spear Storm are still quite powerful, and less of a pain to use than Winged Slayer.
Posted: 2006-09-02 06:09pm
by Vanas
Shit, it's out that soon over here? I need to get done with Makai Kingom.
I keep trying to get back into Disgaea, but it hurts. The story's great, but why must you make my healers kill people? That's.... wrong.
Posted: 2006-09-02 06:42pm
by Dorsk 81
Shadowhawk wrote:Wait, there weren't any reasons to use spears in the first one?
One word, Longinus. Gave it to Etna and she kicked all kinds of ass.
Posted: 2006-09-02 07:21pm
by SAMAS
Vanas wrote:Shit, it's out that soon over here? I need to get done with Makai Kingom.
You think that's bad? I'm still on Phantom Brave.
I keep trying to get back into Disgaea, but it hurts. The story's great, but why must you make my healers kill people? That's.... wrong.
Just let them participate in combo attacks with guys that can actually do some damage.
Posted: 2006-09-02 07:35pm
by Praxis
When I first saw the title of this game on a blurry 640x480 screen on my friend's old computer a while back, I thought it said Diarrhea 2: Cursed Memories
Posted: 2006-09-02 08:14pm
by Grandmaster Jogurt
Shadowhawk wrote:[snip quote]
Wait, there weren't any reasons to use spears in the first one?
My two biggest damage characters, Etna and a Samurai, were spear users from the start and were unmatched until Laharl got the Diabolic Blade from one of the castle vassels in the final chapter.
It helps that I managed to get Legendary spears for both of them relatively early on, but those Legendary spears long outperformed the legendary sword I found for Laharl in early game. Good range, good damage, powerful single-target specials (Avalanche was my bread & butter). They're not as great for area effect, but Asteroid Drop, Turbulence, and Spear Storm are still quite powerful, and less of a pain to use than Winged Slayer.
*shrug* Maybe. I stopped using spears about halfway through the story because I was disappointed that my spear users were underperforming compared to the other characters, so I guess my view wasn't very accurate.
Regardless, spears got a boost in the sequel, since they now give defense bonuses and increase your dodge rate from the front (or something; the manual is confusing in the latter regard).
Posted: 2006-09-02 10:03pm
by SylasGaunt
Have it, love it.