Disgaea: Hour of Darkness (2003)
- Developer
- Nippon Ichi Software
- Publisher
- Nippon Ichi Software, Atlus USA, Koei
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Tactical
- Rating
- 4.2 of 5, 33 player ratings
- Where to get it
- Website
How it feels
A goofy anime tactics game that hides staggering mechanical depth beneath its slapstick humor, rewarding patient grinders with absurdly satisfying number escalation.
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About
Disgaea: Hour of Darkness is a tactical role-playing video game and the first game in the Disgaea series. Battle gameplay takes place on a map divided into a square grid. The player controls a squad of humanoid units and monsters, which each occupy a single square of the grid and do combat with a group of enemies. Depending on the character and attack selected, the player will be able to deal damage to a specific enemy unit or a designated region of the map. Combat ends when all enemy units or all of the player's units are destroyed.
What players say
An off-kilter tactical RPG packed with campy, irreverent humor and absurdly deep grinding systems that can stretch into hundreds of hours for dedicated players. It earned strong cult-classic status as an addictive, system-rich SRPG, though its endgame grind feels tedious to some.
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