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Platform: Playstation 2 Genre: Strategy/Role-Playing Publisher: Atlus Developer: Nippon Ichi Software ETA: Fall 2003
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Disgaea:
Hour of Darkness
I’ll
admit it, I like it when games let you play as the bad guy.
There’s only so my times I can get on my self-righteous high
horse and save the world from yet another supreme evil while exploring
my own inner demons. Being
the one out to destroy everything in their path to achieve their
ultimate goal, using the naïve, destroying the stubborn, and crushing
any who would dare resist me and in my quest for whatever it is I’m
questing for allows for tapping into my guilty pleasures.
It must really be true that it’s good to be bad sometimes. |
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Such
is the case with Disgaea: Hour of Darkness.
Here the game takes place in the Netherworld where demons reside
and the place is dripping with evil.
The realm’s king has recently passed away, and scheming demons
have plotted to seize power. Players
will take control of Prince Laharl, the rightful heir to the throne, as
they try and take back the Netherworld from those who have come to
power.
In the grand scheme of things strategy RPGs are far and few between in the console market. They get released fairly regularly in Japan, but when it comes to |
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Western
releases there just aren’t that many titles in the genre that hit
store shelves. Disgaea
doesn’t seem the title that will open wide the flood gates, allowing
for a tidal wave of strategy gaming on the consoles, but any further
releases in the genre are certainly welcome.
Hopefully Disgaea will also prove to be fun, not just a genral
anomaly on the PS2.
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- Mr. Nash (March 30, 2003) |
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