I beat Disgaea. It took 40 hours. It could've taken less time, if I'd bothered to figure out transmigration and stuff, but you can tell just from looking at the word that it's complitcated. It could've also taken longer, but I was clever enough to learn that mages ruin everything. If the enemy's weak to ice, you drop a glacier on them.
Speaking of which, some of the attacks later in the game are really long. Too long. I counted how long "Omega Star" took, form start to finish, and it was 10 seconds. That might not sound like a lot, but when you're doing this several times in one fight, it gets bothersome.
And what is this 10 seconds occupied with? The "Omega" spells, the 4th level, over normal, Mega and Giga, involve summoning demons. Omega Ice summons an angel who fires a laser from space that causes a massive stalagmite of ice to rise from the ground and rocket away. Omega Wing involves some lion demon thing to appear and there's some wind and leaves, I dunno. Omega Fire causes a giant devil thing to appear and fart or something. Omega Star, possibly the craziest of them all, involves the victim and caster being teleported to a featureless and barren square, only to have the camera zoom out, and it's in the hands of some titanic stone giant, and lighting fires from the tips of his fingers, across the square. I mean, it's exciting to unlock a new attack, just to see how ridiculous it's going to be.
Ending was a little disappointing. I was expecting Shakespeare, instead I got anime.
Speaking of the plot, the main character isn't even the main character of most of the episodes. Flonne, an angel, is the star of the beginning. She comes in and just sits on the plot. We're later introduced to Captain Gordon, a pretty amusing joke character, who then becomes the entire focus of the plot. Laharl is hardly even relevent to the plot until the last episode, and even then, it's mostly Flonne.
And you get these unique characters who join your party, Hoggmeiser, this cool Ganon-looking mother****er, and Maderas, a guy who... I dunno. He's cool, I guess. His hair is weird.
But they immediately stop mattering once they join your party. That is no exaggeration, once they join you, they have no dialog. And that seems weird to me, that they'd draw portraits and employ voice actors for characters who only speak in one scene. But it's unfortunate, because Hoggmeiser is way cooler than any of the other characters, if only because he looks like Ganon.
But it's to my understanding that there are multiple endings and tons of content after you beat the game. I recognized some stuff that I overlooked, and the level-cap is 9999, and I'm only 70, so there's certainly room to grow.
Yeah, Disgaea finds that limitations in most JRPGs trivial, and allows you to have massive ****ing numbers.
On to a new topic, I tried Castlevania: Order of Ecclasia, and it taught me two things about my DS;
-Diagonals are pain in the ass
-My shoulder buttons are unresponsive
My buttons aren't completely unresponsive, they just only work sometimes. I got as far as the crab battle, but there's no way I'm beating this thing if my input isn't read properly. So... I dunno. I think I need to do something.
And I keep referring to MP as "SP". This is because Persona calls it "SP", and I played a whole hell of a lot of Persona, so now I can't unlearn it.
I got a little further into Persona 4. I decided to play it cool, and I got past Shadow Kanji, which was very gay and manly.
I read in an article that some Japanese guy said that the average American gamer would assume that Kanji is gay while it's not entirely set in stone. I'm left wondering if this guy doesn't know what he's talking about, or if some things were changed in translation, because Kanji is quite clearly a homosexual.
Okay, so I'm willing to accept that Shadow Kanji's falmboyent homosexuality was a represtentation of Kanji's discomfort around women, and that his Shadow was making fun of him (If you don't know what I just said, then this is not for you). But later on he becomes aroused after two men are pushed into cold water, and it's to my understanding that he more or less SAYS that he's gay towards the end of the game. I dunno, felt like saying.
Anyway, I went up a few floors in Rise's dungeon, with it's strangely enjoyable music, and I got a High Pixie with Invigorate 1, so I left to go to the Castle where I can fight a bunch of weak enemies while my SP gradually recovers and I acquire more money to pay Fox to not be a jerk. I know it's a little much, but... I dunno. I'm doing it. I saved after one fight, if I get sick of it after a few fights, I'll just leave and move on. I don't want to waste days, though I've heard that P4 is a whole lot more forgiving with time than P3. I think I can understand that, because P3 wastes a lot of your time.
I also was thinking to myself about graphics and the next console generation, where I pretty much decided that last generation's consoles had perfectly functional graphics and anyone who complains about textures has their priorities mixed up.
I dunno, I guess that's all. I feel like I have more to say, but I don't know what, so I think I might just need to sleep or something.