Funny and Badass at the same time.

User Rating: 9.5 | Makai Senki Disgaea 3 PS3
the only game that i've played before Disgaea 3 was Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness for the psp - and i loved it. although i couldn't squeeze enough hours for the psp game (university days, and my hands hurt when playing too long on the psp slim), i swore to all my ancestors that i will pre-order this game. and so i went to amazon and got the game.

the first thing that i noticed, is that the characters are pixelated when i have the zoomed-in camera. and this is the ONLY con of the game.

First off, the music is off-the-hook. if anyone still remembers the sonic 2 (genesis) soundtracks, then this game's music is on par with it. from the enthusiastic, hyper music to the more dreadful ones, the songs vary depending on what situation you're in.

the characters, are as lovable as the original Disgaea ones. The story is nonsense,(the Demon Prince wanting to kill his father i.e. the Overlord because his father detroyed all his gaming/manga data), but that's what humour is all about. no other game could pull off such humour and jokes like Disgaea does.

and the content is this game is AWESOME. you have your regular storyline stages, and some cutscenes, AMAZING JAPANESE VOICES, character sprites, etc.

and then, you have this classroom kind of thing where you arrange your characters, or propose a bill in fron of the homeroom staff like More Exp points, More Expensive stuff, Character creation, Stronger Enemies, Unlocking of purchasable items in the weapons and armor shops, etc.

you also get the item world wherein you characters can enter an item's "world" and battle through it level by level. a regular item has 10 levels, a rare item has 30 levels, and a legendary item has 100 levels. as you go higher, this item will level up i.e. my falchion has attack 5 and after 10 levels its attack will become 26 or something like that. also, within these item worlds, you can 'subdue' its specialists i.e. kill them in battle and so these specialists add additional stats to the weapons base stats i.e. Sentry adds defense. and if you successfully subdue a specialist, you can now transfer them to another item, so the additional stats wil lbe carried over to your new item.

in the latter part of the game, aside from the main storyline (which can get you to level 100 or above), you can unlock different worlds, each has different levels. and the enemies here are like lvl 1000-9999 which is a long way to go and so the gameplay hours will really be demanding if you want to finish the game completely.

there's also the different character classes i.e. Fighter, Archer, Healer, Mage and as these characters level up you can gain access to these characters' higher job classes witrh of course, higher base stats. e.g. Priestess, Angels, Majins, Snipers, etc. the Monster class, apart from the Humanoid classes (Healer, Mage, etc.), can turn into weapons and can be used by the Humanoid classes. how cool is that?

anyways, i've spoiled too much. so go get the game now. cheers.