I used to play the hell out of 1 and 2 back in the PS2 days, but I haven’t touched the series beyond that, and haven’t even played 1/2 much in the last 10 years.
How would you rate 4 in comparison? I noticed it was on sale in the Switch eShop, and I’d love to have one of the series to play on the go.
What I loved about the ones I played:
- Story had a good balance of comedy and heart
- Flexible and fun character building, with decent enough defined classes to get you started
- Tons of post-game/side content (I didn’t like every piece of it, but I liked how much there was to try.)
- CAPTAIN GORDON, DEFENDER OF EARTH
- Perfect geochains, though I was usually too smoothbrain for it.
What I didn’t like:
- Item world, IIRC worse in 1 than 2?
- Adell’s siblings
- Demon court thing?
I love disgaea 1 and 2, but I think 4 is an enormous upgrade in basically every single way, including quality of life.
If you enjoyed D1&D2 at all, I highly recommend D4 and suspect you’ll enjoy it even more than the first two.
For the record, I think 4&5 are the crown jewels of Disgaea; easily my favorite games in the series