The game is still just as fun as I remember it for the PS2. They also kept in the voices for most of the “cutscenes” if you can call them that. I guess they had to cut out some audio for the less important parts of the story to keep the game small enough to work on the DS. Right now I’m in chapter 4 of my first run through the story and my characters are around level 25. They’re still too weak to go up against the Dark Assembly, but I’m leveling them up in the item world and getting a bunch of HL in the process :)

The only downside I’ve seen so far with the DS version is that some of the more flashy attacks seem a bit slower than in the PS2 version. “Nightsever” is one of those attacks that seem slower, and it sucks since I use it so much. Other than that, everything else like geo panels and throwing seem to work the same as before. I took a little video of one of the chains I made with geo panels in the item world. Unfortunately, I messed up the position of the second-last geo symbol and didn’t clear off all of the panels.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YQgzWMu4b0

Today is Tuesday September 16, and that means that there’s only 1 more week until Disgaea is finally released on the DS in North America (September 23). I first played Disgaea a few years back on the PS2 and it quickly became one of my favourite games. Not only was the plot actually funny, but the characters were soooo cute (I guess I’m a sucker for anime-like characters with huge eyes and rounded faces). What I’m looking forward to in this release is being able to use Pleinair, who was originally a non-playable character ^.^

I also hear that there will be a map overview on the top screen. This would be really helpful considering the number of times I’ve thrown my characters beside enemies only to find out that there was a cliff and I’m actually a couple squares off ^.^; There also appears to be a few changes to the battle system, but you can read up on those by searching through google.

To end my post, I thought I’d share a pic I found (I have no clue who made it) of some Disgaea 2 characters doing a Gurren Lagann cosplay :D