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Now, I'm not a fan of JRPG's, and I was expecting to get bored of this after a while, but oh my god this is such a decent game for the price.

First and formost, this isn't an exploration epic like final fantasy, it's mainly story and battle focused, and what it does, it delivers brilliantly.

The story focuses on the son of a demon overlord who runs a school for demons which getting good marks at school means ditching class and being an a*****e. You play as the son who wants to kick his dad a** because he stepped on his 'slaystation portable' with 4 million hours of gameplay. The banter in the game is genuinely funny and the plot is equally mad.

The battles are very tactical based rather than just picking attacks. Enemys are based on a grid of squares similar to advance wars but there are terrain differences with different heights affecting how you can attack (for example, you can't run up a mountain with a sword to attack, but you can use fire to attack those above and below. There are different types of weapons for each characters own strengts such as bows, guns, spears, fists, magic staffs and swords, each with their own specials and ranges. The attacks in this game are insane, ranging from slicing the enemy with swords in a hellicopter fashion. To throwing the moon at them.

There are other moves in battle such as throwing your teammates across the map over gaps and enemies, fusing with a monster in your party to form new weapons, combo attacks, assist moves, and terrain which can effect the stats and effects of the charcter on them. Using special blocks to give yourself an advantage or the enemy a pain in the arse creates more ingenious ways to play the game, destorying them causes a chain reaction which damages anyone on them, effectively wiping out loads of enemies across the map in one move.

When you defeat enemies, they can be added to your party in classrooms. Making different school clubs and meetings unlocks different aids for your party.

Other things include the random generated item worlds to level up your weapons and equipment, leveling up to an insane level 9999 for anything (characters, equipment, attacks) and a story which so far is extremly long lasting (I'm 10 hours in and only on chapter 3, (and that's not because I'm crap xD) I picked mine up for 18 pounds which is a brilliant price for such an addictive, funny, long lasting game.

i never played one so far.....

I played 2 before 1, and I managed to get most of it so I wouldn't worry.
You'll love it as soon as you clap eyes on the Prinnies.

And it only took them 13 months to release it in Europe after it's was first released in Japan. Also it only slight poorly ported.

Yes, ad in particular I want the trophy patch that's supposed to be hitting the US.
Bit of advice for prinnies that I used on Disgaea 2; use them as bombs and not units. You probably know that if you pick them up and throw them, they'll explode. This damage is proportional to their HP, so use up their item slots with HP-boosting items and they can do ridiculous amounts of damage at the cost of their life. Dood.

Well, as for the trophies, that's what the fine folk on GameFAQ's seem to think.

I can find absouletly no fault in the porting, although I checked and you were right about the 13 months for Europe, (7 for the US) although with the amount of dialog and speach (with no translation errors... Anywhere) that's the reason most games don't get released here soon

Hd.

I would have thought by now the fact we get screwed with release dates is just a normal thing by now.