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Loyal Nippon Ichi fans rejoice: Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice has released for the PlayStation 3 and carries a cozy retail price of $49.99.

The game marks the popular RPG franchise's next-generation debut and releases just before Disgaea DS, an updated port of the PlayStation original, which is scheduled to ship early next month.

Hit the link to visit the game's official site, or drop by Disgaea HQ for more information on other titles in the series.

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NIS America has announced that Disgaea 3 is scheduled for release sometime this summer for the Playstation 3. The company has stated the game "makes a bold new step towards the next generation console with a whole new cast, story and game system."

Those that wish to visit the official site can do so here.

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If you're a fan of the more unique strategy-RPG then you may be interested to know that NIS America's Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness has shipped for the PlayStation Portable and will be in stores on October 30 if not sooner.

That means it's RPG crunch-time for Nippon Ichi lovers.

Hit the jump for information on the game as well as a job tidbit if you're curious about the localization end of the gaming industry (and possess both reading and writing skills in English and Japanese). NIS America is also seeking game testers if you reside in Santa Ana, CA.

I am all about employing the masses - keeps them from rioting.

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In the world of RPGs, games tend to be divided into two distinct camps: the overly dramatic, wherein all the good guys are out to save the world, and the humorous, wherein at least a few of the good guys are out to save the world while you’re lucky if the rest of them can put down their beer and quit cracking jokes long enough to pick up a blade and kill something with it. Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories, sequel to the original Disgaea: Hour of Darkness (2003), remains true to the Nippon Ichi style that fans across the globe love – there’s a ton of adult humor, lots of quirky characters, some amusing plot twists, and all the strategy-RPG gameplay that you’d expect from the company out to rattle the genre within its super-dramatic cage.

 

Though Disgaea 2 does borrow characters from its predecessor, it makes use of a whole new cast, plot, and world. Gamers are quickly introduced to Adell, the sole surviving human on the planet Veldime. Overlord Zenon, also known as “The God of All Overlords” (how very modest), has cursed Veldime by turning all its people into demons/monsters, stealing their conscience and memories of the past – of what it meant to be an ethical human. Not surprisingly, given that this is a Nippon Ichi game, Disgaea 2 opens with the world’s last human waiting for his demon mother to sacrifice the rest of her family in order to summon Zenon so that Adell can defeat him and end the curse. And, of course, the summoning backfires: instead of a lordly demon kicking Adell all over the place, we get the lordly demon’s pampered daughter, Rozalin, who joins with Adell to find her father. From there the cast grows to include a French frog with a split personality, a ninja who can’t stop saying “zam”, Adell’s bratty siblings, and even a strangely powerful beauty queen, all determined to kill Zenon for one reason or another, and all constantly getting in the way of that goal.

Unlike most RPGs, which force the player into globe-trotting and backtracking to attain the final kill, Disgaea 2 makes use of a home-base for its team. Back with Adell’s family, players can go shopping at the weapon, armor, and item general stores; converse with the locals; pick up some free treasure; stop by the hospital for routine healing; and access the teleporter, a cute little weaponless archer who enables the gamer to select the next map (area). Each map usually contains anywhere from four to six stages (battles); the process is quick, eliminates all travel time, and is a great feature if story progression and slaughtering foes are you two favorite RPG aspects. Considering that Disgaea 2 is a very light-hearted game, it especially works well here.

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In the world of RPGs, games tend to be divided into two distinct camps: the overly dramatic, wherein all the good guys are out to save the world, and the humorous, wherein at least a few of the good guys are out to save the world while you’re lucky if the rest of them can put down their beer and quit cracking jokes long enough to pick up a blade and swipe at something with it. Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories, sequel to the original Disgaea: Hour of Darkness (2003), remains true to the Nippon Ichi style that fans across the globe love – there’s a ton of adult humor, lots of quirky characters, some amusing plot twists, and all the strategy-RPG gameplay that you’d expect from the company out to rattle the genre within its super-dramatic cage. Recently we were able to sit down with the North American version and see how both the game and its localization were coming along, and I’m already impressed.

Though Disgaea 2 does borrow characters from its predecessor, it makes use of a whole new cast, plot, and world. Gamers are quickly introduced to Adell, the sole surviving human on the planet Veldime. Overlord Zenon, also known as “The God of All Overlords” (how very modest), has cursed Veldime by turning all its people into demons/monsters, stealing their conscience and memories of the past – of what it meant to be an ethical human. Not surprisingly, given that this is a Nippon Ichi game, Disgaea 2 opens with the world’s last human waiting for his demon mother to sacrifice the rest of her family in order to summon Zenon so that Adell can defeat him and end the curse. And of course, the summoning backfires: instead of a lordly demon kicking Adell all over the place, we get the lordly demon’s pampered daughter, Rozalin, who joins with Adell to find her father. From there the cast grows to include a French frog with a split personality, a ninja who can’t stop saying “zam”, Adell’s bratty siblings, and even a strangely powerful beauty queen, all determined to kill Zenon for one reason or another, and all constantly getting in the way of that goal.

Unlike most RPGs, which force the player into globe-trotting and backtracking to attain the final kill, Disgaea 2 makes use of a home-base for its team. Back with Adell’s family, players can go shopping at the weapon, armor, and item general stores; converse with the locals; pick up some free treasure; stop by the hospital for routine healing; and access the teleporter, a cute little weaponless archer who enables the gamer to select the next map (area). Each map usually contains anywhere from four to six stages (battles); the process is quick, eliminates all travel time, and is a great feature if story progression and slaughtering foes are you two favorite RPG aspects. Considering that Disgaea 2 is a very light-hearted game, it especially works well here.

Disgaea 2’s character design is also fitting, as Nippon Ichi again makes use of the traditional 2D sprites and colorful 3D areas. Battles utilize a block of land organized into panels, with character movement fields in red and a typical attack scheme: move your allies to a bad guy and select the attack option. To differentiate itself from other strategy-RPGs (including the famous Final Fantasy Tactics), Disgaea 2 does freshen the gameplay by offering combos; when an attacking character is adjacent to an ally, the two (or three... or four...) will team up and perform a more devastating attack, but as the sword cuts both ways it’s equally as pertinent that you avoid rushing a large group of foes as they avoid rushing you, unless, of course, you’re trying to kill each other quickly.

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This article was originally published on Gaming Horizon, GameBump's predecessor. Certain formatting, imaged, and embedded content may have been lost in the transition process.The original author is Evan Lahti.

With the Japanese version of Disgaea 2 (Makai Senki Disgaea 2) hitting the PlayStation 2 on February 23, Nippon Ichi Software recently revealed screenshots of the sequel to its cult-hit tactical RPG title. The original Disgaea: Hour of Darkness sold well in North America since its release in 2003, so a stateside migration of the game could be possible. In the meantime, take a look at what might be in store.

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