While the graphics are incredibly crisp and the animations are smooth, the fact that the game is being played on the PS Vita’s 5” screen just doesn’t do the game justice in all aspects. I feel like I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t find something wrong with the game, albeit incredibly minor. Also as some additional fan-service, D4: a Promise Revisited has a slew of returning characters from other NIS games including some personal favorite of mine Ash & Marona ( Phantom Brave), Overlord Priere ( La Pucelle Tactic), and Flonne (Disgaea). Let’s face it, you can customize just about anything in the game. Just like in D2: A Brighter Darkness, you can also customize how much HL (in-game money), experience, mana, and the difficulty of enemies by using the in-game Cheat Shop. You can customize your pirate ship with various parts, make custom maps using the level editor, and customize the senate for passing bills. Pirates in the item world also return, but this time you can make your own to attack your friends and other random people on PSN. There are also some new character classes that you can create which include the medic, necromancer, kunoichi, celestial host, death saber, and prism ranger. You can level up to 9999 if you want to, inflict hundreds of millions of damage points (in fact there is a trophy for inflicting 10 billion damage), and now we even get those Peta skills for extra damage. One of the things that I have always come to love about Disgaea is that you can literally play to your heart’s content. This includes all of the songs from the original and DLC, which can be purchased with in-game money (not real money) if you get lucky enough to find the random character in the item world, otherwise you have to wait until you get further along in the main story and you can unlock it via a senate bill. For starters it includes all of the past DLC for the PS3 version of Disgaea 4, which is definitely a nice touch. This PS Vita version of the game has all sorts of new goodies. Two monster types can fuse together to make a super large monster, a human-type can “magi-change” with a monster type to turn them into a weapon with special skills. Attacking an enemy next to a teammate has a chance for a team attack and the animations for everything are gorgeous on the PS Vita. Such elements include reincarnating your characters (start over at level 1, but with increased base states and skills from their old class), the item world (which allows you to “dive” into randomly generated dungeons with multiple floors for each item to level them up and increase stats), and lifting/throwing your teammates to create tower attacks or cover other areas of the map. Tried and true Disgaea elements return in D4 which should be no surprise to fans of the series. The real meat of the game comes from the SRPG elements, customization, and of course gameplay. Now we get to dive a little deeper into the back-story of the Tyrant (and our beloved protagonist) Valvatorez, his faithful servant Fenrich, and the mysterious Artina. One of the things about the PS3 version of Disgaea 4 was that some of the history which led to exactly how the main characters became who they were was left out. That being said, I actually do enjoy the story in D4, as it not only emphasizes the importance of sardines, but also provides those good morals that seem to have been lost on the current generation, such as the importance of keeping a promise and honoring your word. In fact, take the already fantastic original version, add some new spells, new gameplay mechanics from D2: A Brighter Darkness and Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention, and some more detail into the back-story between two of the key characters, and you got yourself Disgaea 4: A Promise Revisited.Īs I have said in the past, I don’t usually play Disgaea games for their story. The original game, as well as all of the previous games in the Disgaea series, provides hours upon hours of hilarious dialogue, randomness, and that SRPG customization addiction that I crave. The Disgaea series is back and ready for action once again, this time on the PlayStation Vita, in the form of a Disgaea 4: A Promise Revisited.
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