Finally my quest to find a game to replace Final Fantasy Tactics is over!
User Rating: 10 | Makai Senki Disgaea PS2
It's been about 4-5 years now since I've been hoping for a good title that would come out and hook me again like Final Fantasy Tactics did back on the PSX. A game in its genre, with tactical RPG that would get my brain involved! I was looking almost daily in direction of Square awaiting and hoping. Then it became Square-Enix and got hopeless releasing scrap and ridiculous titles like Final Fantasy X2, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. Well looks like I was looking in the wrong direction! I learned that the best things always happens when you're not awaiting them! I gave up on my quest to find my FFT a replacement about a year ago. Curiously, that's EXACTLY when I got first introduced to Disgaea! I was at the local Microplay retailer and I get along pretty well with its owner and we use to talk a lot and all. He told me :"You liked Final Fantasy Tactics uh?" I said :"You bet, Nothing's gonna ever be better!" Then he said : "I have something here that may interest you!" He showed me Disgaea's game so I could look at what it looked like (From the retail box) At first I saw the cover and saw Atlus Co. I was like: "Who the hell are they?" The cover didn't get me right away cause I thought it looked a bit too cartoonish. But the second I peeked at the back of the box and saw the pictures I was shocked!!!!! I was like :"HOLY SH**** this game is EXACTLY like FFT!!!" That day I wasn't expecting to spend any money I just went to the store for browsing, roaming around... but I bought it INSTANTLY! He told me:"You wanna play it first? I could pop it in a PS2 so that you could get a feel of what it's like, or you could rent it first?" There were only 2 copies on the shelves so I told him: "NO!!! I want it NOW!!!" This game is A-W-E-S-O-M-E and it even made shadow to FFT! I think it's even better since instead of fighting in single character turns (Ennemy, one character, ennemy, one character, etc..) You get to put up a strategy for your whole team and then execute it, then it's the whole ennemy team that is on attack! It brings the possibility of Group Attacks! This is awesome! If your characters are on adjacent tiles, they get along well and all they can randomly put out Group attacks! That's simply amazing, it improves the strategy side of the game! Beware cause ennemy can do that too! Another thing that is wonderful about disgaea is that you can get through it with minimal knowledge. You can play it lightheaded without allowing too much time for sidelines or you can get to the core of the game to exploit every single gameplay features! Anyway, for those of you who liked FFT and the likes, get this game fast cause I heard from microplay's local owner that Atlus stopped producing it already and will get hard to get soon! I paid 69,95$ canadian dollars and to tell you, If I knew this game was this good, even had it been 99.95$ I would've buyed it anyway! Lol! I have over 15 PS2 games and Disgaea is still amongst the 3 I play the most! This game is one of the rare ones I rate PERFECT! Yes that's right! I didn't find any better game in its genre yet and found not a single thing to complain about!
