Deja Review: Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention
We’re of the firm opinion that your time is too precious, too valuable to be spent reading a full review for a game that was already reviewed many, many years ago. What’s the point of applying a score to a game that’s old enough to be enrolled in the sixth grade? That’s why we invented Deja Review: A quick look at the new features and relative agelessness of remade, revived and re-released games. Disgaea is a series that just seems to work better in portable form. The series’ approach to character building – in which you can basically raise levels to stratospheric proportions with time, effort, and the best power-leveling locales – is more suited to on-the-go play. It’s a lot easier to make your way through the randomly generated Item Worlds to level up your gear in thirty-minute commute blocks, putting your system to sleep as needed, than it is to devote hours to a single grind session squatting in front of a TV.
It’s for this reason that I tend to invest far more time in the portable versions of Disgaea than their console counterparts. I’ll generally put down the console editions once I’ve cleared the main story, but I’ll invest an absurd amount of time in the portable editions to scout out many of their extras, simply because the format makes them more easily digestible. The number of hours played on my Disgaea 2 PSP save have long since passed the triple digits.
Now, we’ve got Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention on the Vita. I’ve always felt that D3 was the weakest of the series in terms of both gameplay and its story and characters. That doesn’t mean it’s bad, just not as good as some of the other installments. I had hoped that playing it in my preferred format would change my mind, but, unfortunately, it didn’t. It’s still my least favorite Disgaea game. However, it’s still a very good portable strategy game with several noteworthy new additions.Continue reading Deja Review: Disgaea 3: Absence of DetentionDeja Review: Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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