Ah Disgaea, always going that extra step to make its turn-based strategy gameplay more exciting. Take this zombie, for instance. No one is scared of zombies anymore; they’re everywhere you want to be. If you saw a zombie on the street you’d more likely hug it than run screaming.
This is a “wooden horse”, used for torture in Japan during the 15th century’s Warring States Period. These days it’s used in S&M play. But it apparently won’t be torturing the ladies of popular Japanese role-playing game Disgaea 4.
Is your sense of adventure gushing? NIS America’s downloadable PSP game Cladun: This is an RPG! could be the sweet release you’re looking for.
After a seriously disastrous year, Nippon Ichi Software falls back on a proven breadwinner to help heals its wounds, readying Disgaea 4 for release on the Japanese PlayStation 3 in February.
Japanese game makers Idea Factory, Gust and Nippon Ichi Software have teamed up for a new PS3 role-playing-game called Trinity Universe. Trinity, geddit?
If I could be called a fanboy of anything, Disgaea is that something, to the point where I would proudly pay $US 30 for a game called “Etna Sits On Your Screen And Blinks Every Now And Then”. Luckily for me, Nippon Ichi hasn’t figured this out yet, and still insists on releasing full games with 9,999 levels of adorable strategy RPG goodness. The announcer in this extended Japanese trailer for Disgaea 3 shares my enthusiasm. If I ever learn to speak fluent Japanese I will be terribly disappointed if I don’t sound exactly like him. As it stands I actually plan on importing the game when it comes out late next month, and then bugging the hell out of Ashcraft for translations every couple of minutes.
