Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance - PlayStation 4

First and foremost, you have to at least find anime tolerable to enjoy this game. It revels in anime tropes and art style, which will obviously be a positive or negative depending on your taste. The latest Disgaea is a long, fun strategy romp with a side order of grinding, but that is the status quo for series fans. More fully featured than previous entries, and retaining the sheer amount of options for party composition, Disgaea 5 advances the formula without losing what makes it special. Be aware that there is a season pass to acquire what would have been post-game bonus characters in previous iterations. Being able to download these characters and use them from the offset can severely affect the balance of the early game, allowing you to storm through the early game only to be caught off-guard later when those characters are no longer overpowered. Great fun overall, and you get a lot of play time for your dollar.

As far as Strategy RPGs go, Disgaea is unique in it's limitless potential. Character levels up to 9999, tons of different weapon types and character classes with which to build your roster, and (if you want) literally hundreds of hours of gameplay. You can level up your weapons and equipment to ridiculous levels. The storyline is pretty good so far (I'm only on chapter 4 out of 16), and there's lots of DLC already. The DLC isn't critical to the gameplay or storyline, it just adds a few side chapters, and some playable characters from previous installments of the game. If you're a fan of Disgaea and want the latest and greatest in the series, pick this up. You won't be disappointed. Even if you're not a fan of Disgaea, but maybe a fan of Strategy RPGs, Anime, quirky humor, or just games in general, this is definitely a good purchase.

If you like old school Strategy Role Playing Games (SRPG's - like final fantasy tactics), then you will probably love Disgaea 5. I have played every Disgaea in the series and this one ranks in the top 2 for me. If you have never played a Disgaea before I would highly recommend this one. This is a great place for beginners of the series to start! This game is very repetitive in some aspects and you will do a lot of 'grinding' for level ups, items, etc. So don't bother if you don't like that sort of thing. This is my favorite series by NIS and I highly recommend it.

This is an overall great Disgaea game. Certain things about leveling gear and items have been streamlined, but you'll still end up having to grind a lot if you want to take down those late game bosses. The story is okay this time around. I'm not fond of the English voice acting. Expect to put in many many hours once again. If you're not already a Disgaea fan, read more reviews, but this is a great place to start even though it's the fifth main game.

Disgaea 5 is a srpg where you move characters on a grid to attck enemies and can plan everything ahead. The game has a really deep system where you can reset levels of characters infinite amounts of time to increase their stats and every item can be leveled up. You can create characters aside from the main characters and the story is good. If your looking for a game that has infinite replayability than this is fr you.

This game can last as long as you want it to because of the massive amount of ways to level up your characters and ways to constantly upgrade your gear. This game is a turn based strategy role playing game there are plenty of classes, characters and levels that will keep you playing for a while if you enjoy these kinds of games.

I have been playing the Disgaea series since the beginning and can safely say that outside of the original this is the best one yet! The new cast of characters and new features really injected a bit of new life into an otherwise old formula. Just finished the story mode and entered the post-game, which, as most Disgaea fan will tell you, is where the real game begins.

Disgaea keeps getting better and better while retaining the core gameplay i love. I have played through all Disgaea games. I haven't sunk my usual 70+ hours into this but so far i would rank it 2nd in terms of characters / story to D2, which is my favorite of the series. Be careful buying the Launch Day edition on bestbuy though as bestbuy sent me just the regular edition without the extras.