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TGS 2011: Android gamers getting Disgaea: Netherworld Unbound
If you haven’t played the original Disgaea yet, NIS America is taking one more step to ensure you do. At the Tokyo Game Show 2011, the company announced that there is going to be an Android version of the now classic strategic RPG released. Sometime before 2011 ends, GMO Gamecenter USA will have a free-to-play version of the game to download to your Android cell phones and devices.
Disgaea: Netherworld Unbound is a port of Disgaea: Hour of Darkness…
Review: Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten for PS3
Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten is the latest and greatest in the legendary Disgaea series of strategic RPGs. It’s got all new, HD graphics, a brand new Netherworld and overlord to meet and even more opportunities to create the biggest and baddest party in Hades.
Since the theme is promises, let’s start this review with one. If you take a chance on Disgaea 4, I promise you won’t regret it…
Disgaea 4 is coming this Fall and NIS America needs help naming stuff
NIS America is really excited about Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten, especially since the release is coming so quickly! Both North America and Europe will see the game in Fall, 2011, with North America already having a more solid, September release window. Preparing and localizing a game is a lot of work, and it seems the company needs a little help with the finishing touches. So it’s announced the “Come up with Dis-name-a Contest.”
The “Come up with Dis-name-a Contest” isn’t one where you actually win anything tangible…
Disgaea 4 will be cheaper than the average PS3 game
Good news from NIS America! You’re going to be paying less for Disgaea 4 when you pick it up later this year for your PS3. Instead of paying $59.99, which is pretty much the standard retail price for any new console game, you’ll only pay $49.99. I guess this means you won’t have to put as much money aside this summer.
Disgaea 4 stars Valvatorez the vampire. He used to be quite fearsome, until he met a woman named Astina who didn’t cower before him in terror. This led him to stop drinking blood and abandon his evil pursuits until he could scare her, but she died so now he’s just a prison warden guarding Prinnies…
Feel like an overlord with Amazon’s Disgaea Deal of the Day
Never played Disgaea? Come right this way! Amazon wants to introduce you to the series the best way it knows how, by making every Disgaea game released so far part of it’s March 9, 2011 video game Deal of the Day. If you want to get technical, then almost every Disgaea game is reduced. Disgaea DS (DS) and Disgaea: Hour of Darkness (PS2) aren’t listed on the Deal of the Day page, but are marked down to $17.19 from $29.99 and $13.90 from $19.99, respectively. The PSP port of the original game’s on the Deal of the Day page though, so it’s still represented…
Gamertell Review: Disgaea Infinite for PSP
There are two things NIS America is known for – the Disgaea series and taking chances on eclectic games. With Disgaea Infinite, NIS America is combining the two to bring North American gamers a brand new Disgaea adventure that’s also a visual novel.
Visual novels are still a relatively new medium in the US and haven’t been embraced by the general public just yet, but NIS America is going about introducing them in a smart manner. The company’s first visual novel carries a budget price ($19.99) and features a cast of familiar characters from the beloved Disgaea: Hour of Darkness.
Unravel an assassination attempt with Disgaea Infinite
NIS America is continuing to test the visual novel waters in North America. It’s first attempt was Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love for the PS2 and Wii, a game that was part visual novel, part dating sim and part strategic RPG. It’s next attempt is the PSP game Disgaea Infinite, which is now available for $19.99 in stores on UMDs and as a download through the PlayStation Store.
Disgaea Infinite stars a Prinny tasked with what initially seems like an impossible job. Someone attempted to assassinate Laharl, demonic overlord, and Laharl has picked a Prinny to find out who was behind the attempt
NIS America taking a chance on Disgaea Infinite
Visual novels still are a niche genre in North America, though games like Heileen, Lux-Pain and even Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor are helping to pave the way. So it’s kind of surprising to hear that NIS America is stepping up to release the Disgaea PSP visual novel Disgaea Infinite in English. But, the company is, and will have the visual novel starring Laharl, Etna, Flonne and lots of prinnies out in May, 2010.
In Disgaea Infinite, you follow a prinny who works for Laharl. This isn’t any ordinary prinny though, he is a prinny with a mission! Laharl was nearly assassinated by someone in his castle, and has tasked this particular prinny with finding out who wanted him dead. You have two special abilities to help accomplish this task, the ability to possess other, familiar Disgaea characters so you can know their inner-most secrets and the ability to turn back time…
Villains Rule: 11 games that let players be bad
Ah, villainy. A sacred and necessary vocation. After all, if there’s no antagonist, what’s the protagonist supposed to do all day, stay at home growing crops, raising animals and making friends with the neighbors? Inconceivable! Even when that situation arises, some ill-intentioned individual pops up and turns some earth goddess to stone.
While players typically rejoice after vanquishing a particularly evil and challenging nemesis, it isn’t uncommon to have a soft spot in your heart for the baddie. After all, he’s just doing his job. Maintaining balance and such. Plus, he represents a way of life people don’t get to experience.
Perhaps this is why gamers enjoy games where the villain is the star. For a brief moment, players get to see how the other side lives by vicariously living through an evil-doer who can be bumbling, sympathetic, humorous or down-right nasty.
So today, Gamertell’s going through, in no particular order, 10 games where players get to ditch their consciences and let loose, if only for a little while…
Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories goes portable, heads to the PSP
NIS is known not only for its quality strategic RPGs, but also for porting its successful games whenever possible. Sometimes, that isn’t a bad thing, but it has reached a point where we’ve all seen enough of Disgaea: Hour of Darkness.
Apparently, NIS agrees. Not only is the company porting Phantom Brave to the Wii, but the company is now bringing Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories to the PSP. Siliconera broke the news today, announced that the Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories Portable will be on the PSP in Japan on March 26, 2009. The game is going to be getting new content, though it hasn’t really been revealed yet. New characters and scenarios will definitely be included.
There hasn’t been any announcement from NIS America as to whether or not the PSP version of Disgaea 2 will be released overseas, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was…
