Disgaea 7: Vows of the Virtueless Bewertungen

Oh my... I really need to write a review for the first time, huh? That's how shocked I am after a direct comparison... If you don't mind getting less than 40% of content you got with D4, all dlc of both games excluded, for a full price game I can recommend this title. Otherwise I'd say all things considered this Disgaea 7 is worth 20 bucks; anything more than that is just cheapskate considering what Disgaea used to offer. Tbh it didn't feel that wrong all along since my last time with Disgaea has been a while since I skipped D6 due to a friend's advice. This game, "a great return to form"? I dunno who wrote that comment or what return to form they mean but that guy must've been either high, drunk, or paid by NIS to advertise the game when writing that "critique". The item world is still but a fraction of a shadow of its former glory and ontop of that you now have the "thrill" of levelling your items for a [u]chance[/u] to get good properties or a rank up, if you're unlucky at gambling you needa put in thrice the amount of time necessary to get good equipment since your item will only reincarnate into garbage or rank down. I dunno why they even wrote a "tutorial" for geo mechanics since that remains utterly unexplored outside the few story maps that use it and the whole mechanic has also been considerably reduced in its content. No Chara World to bring a change of pace into your grinding; instead you still have the juice bar where you can spend hours just boredly klicking through menus to pull a million gachas and sorting out the trash at the hospital to get a somewhat decent amount of stat extracts to boost your chars eventually. HL and shops have become entirely obsolete thanks to the gacha mechanic which throws "high level" equipment after you pretty much at the start of the game. The only reason to gather HL is Pirilika's evility and duping items but good luck finding duplication shops in high rank items that are actually worth duplicating. Instead of Geo puzzles to slow your item world progress in a fun and challenging way, the game now seems to count on generating big, empty maps and sprinkle 3-5 enemies in the farthest corners as well as it happens conspiciously often that the enemies closer together are generated in such a constellation that you can't hit more than 1 or 2 no matter which skill or magic range you use - And I dareclaim all just to force you to spend one or two more turns or input more commands to artificially drag out the play time with zero effort from the devs side. Tower animations and mechanics are still amiss. Team attack animations and mechanics are still amiss. Still no Magichange back. You only have a 4 whopping skills per weapon where D4 offered you 9 skills per weapon - in addition to a LARGE variety of unique and magichange skills which is missing here as well! Maybe I wouldn't cry about this cut, but the few skills you do get are nothing like Disgaea skills; they simply lack any oomph and are partly so lazily animated that I can't help but feel so very unimpressed seeing them executed... The story is a copy in disguise of D5's story with minor differences and it's still uninspired and predictable with the generic "good guys vs. something bad" trope. The main cast is okayish but I liked Killia and co more, considering the storyline is pretty much the same in green just more rushed. The after-episode humor did make me snicker here and there... Grinding feels rewarding enough to keep me going for the time being but all that chance and gambling is mostly annoying and doesn't do anything for me since sometimes I'm not sure what I'm even grinding for. The Jumbification is an addition I don't mind that much since it can spice battles up but at the same it's nothing special; I think it's just there for the sake of adding [i]something[/i] without needing to put in too much effort from the devs side and it makes all the lack of love painfully obvious: The thief's pockets clipping into her belly the way she stands, the Witch's ribbon tie clipping through her sleeves while she swings back for a jumbo punch; the list of such things becoming obvious in jumbo mode goes on forever... I dunno why NIS would implement a feature that just shows how little they care for creating a good game or atmosphere but instead proves they're just dishing out some half-as*ed something for the sake of quick, maximized profit while counting on the name to sell it... As a standalone I think I'd even give it 4/5 stars despite everything since it has been entertaining enough for quite the time - for me at least. But considering this is a Disgaea and considering what I used to get with a Disgaea I can only give it 2/5 stars, and even that feels way too generous. It's only a slight improvement from what I've heard and read about D6 and, like I've written in the beginning, more than half the content you used to get still hasn't returned without any replacement. From now on I'll do something I rarely do and wait for sufficient Let's Plays and reviews to be out because after 2 disappointments in the series I now feel like NIS seems to be out to just milk the franchise without giving it love or put in some effort or offer their customers something worth their money while counting on its bygone glory to sell the name alone...