Okay... you know what makes all games great? CATGIRLS! But you can't get them in every game. So the deprived perverts must wander aimlessly over the web, looking at random pictures on photobucket until they rot. BUT NOT ANYMORE! Here is an RPG that is not only fun, IT HAS CATGIRLS! Disgaea is everything you didn't expect out of a cliched video game. Think Chibi Vampire meets Devil May Cry meets Ogre Battle 64.

Plot: You control Adell, who seeks to free his world from a terrible curse, that is turning the populace into demons (Save for Adell himself for some reason). In attempt to thwart the curse, Adell's old lady attempts to summon Overlord Zenon and have Adell beat the crap out of him. But instead of getting Zenon, they get Overlord Zenon's snotty and stuck up daughter (With an impressive rack) Rozalin. And then everything goes from there to hell quite literally, as you amass an army of demons and go through a bizarre and slightly erotic storyline to save your family! Expect more plot twists than in a Metal Gear Solid game!

Gameplay: Disgaea has a turn based fighting system on a grid shaped map. Each character is given a certain movement range, a few options, and the ability to attack. You start off with a puny squad that is killing penguins, but the entire point about Disgaea is to waste more and more time until you're fighters are strong enough to kill gods. Disgaea is guaranteed to waste a massive chunk of your life, with you needing +100 hours just to unlock everything!

Initially you start off with Adell (A gung-ho kung-fu fighter), Rozalin (A gunslinger), a red mage, a warrior, and a cleric. But over the course of the game, you can recruit more characters to join you on your senseless escapades, as well as the ability to create your own demons. And the selection of demons you can create is HUGE!! It ranges from warriors to mages to several forms of demons (Some funny, some horrifying, some nose-bleed enducing). You can tailor the game to almost any strategy you use, and with several side-quests in the Item World and the Dark Court system, by the time you put down your controller, you'll look like a hermit.

Graphics: Okay... so here is the real let-down. The sprites are very sophisticated compared to the first Disgaea game, but they still have room for improvement because for the most part, all you will see are sprites or stills for conversations. And nature has still been unkind to poor Lord Etna. Anyway, at least the sprites are well made. The variety of terrains is impressive, but nothing to really blow your socks off with. This game focuses more on humor and unorthodox fighting. But there are a couple of anime cutscenes for you to unlock.

Music: This is where the game can really begin to shine or grow dim and die. Some music scores are cinematic and excellent, others are just there for the hell of it. Like Castlevania games, some loops are long because the game is time consuming. However, a few songs can easily be separated for various reasons. The intro song, Tsumi no Bara (Sinful Rose) appeared in a D.D.R. game. The voice acting pretty nice, except a new voice actor can't save Flonne from being one of the single biggest pains in the a** you can imagine

Overall: Okay, so the action isn't for you mindless hack-and-slash only gamers. There is a definite air of strategy to it, this review didn't even scratch the surface of what you can do. Between using attacks that are strong enough to destroy worlds and the girls who can give you a subdural hematoma because you tried to dive into your TV to get at them, you have a lot to this game. It is a great RPG and strategy game. It has plenty of silliness, scariness, and sexiness to balance out the good and bad. One of the "Must play before you die" games.

My rating: 7/10

Extra: The company that makes Disgaea is infamous for making easter eggs of other RPGs into this game. You will also have a trailer for the anime "Makai Senki Disgaea!" Except good luck finding the anime...