Instead, its focus is on the power fantasy of seemingly infinite potential for character growth. It can be argued that this is what really makes the best games of the genre amazing experiences.ĭisgaea 6 has an engine that, in theory, should be perfectly capable of providing such experiences, but the game wasn’t really designed for that. Some even include permadeath, where fallen characters can be lost forever! They put strategy at the forefront of the gameplay, and do everything they can to emphasize the importance of decision making on the battlefield. Those famous and acclaimed SRPGs–such as Final Fantasy Tactics, Tactics Ogre, Fire Emblem and Xcom–provide the player with the thinnest of margins of error from map to map, making every decision excruciating, but more importantly, meaningful and interesting. It’s all there, just like the best games in the genre!

Spells and abilities have specific attack ranges, there are heals, ailments, and everything else you might expect from a game of such a genre. The issue is instead with the word, “played.” Disgaea 6 is a game that is happy to play itself, with only occasional intervention required from the player to keep it advancing through the story, and so I wonder, how many hours of Disgaea 6 did I actually play up to the point that I finished the story? And I say “play” as in the act moving my units manually around a battlefield, making strategic decisions and otherwise engaging in the combat of a strategy role playing game.ĭisgaea 6 is a strategy role playing game… isn’t it? It certainly looks like one! Battles are played out across a grid with squares of varying heights and characters are moved around it to attack each other with the goal always being to wipe out the enemy forces. And you should believe it! It isn’t broken or malfunctioning. The aliens think a rogue human commander was responsible, while humans suspect it was an alien weapons experiment gone wrong.If you believe the game clock then there were 22 hours played of Disgaea 6: Defiance of Destiny when I saw the true ending. This sparked a disastrous global conflict between humans and the aliens, known as the Pale Wars.The wars tore apart the planet for seven years, until their culmination in 2030 in the apocalyptic 'Arkfall' event, when the Ark fleet in orbit mysteriously exploded.

The humans responded to them with hostility and suspicion.A limited number of Votans were allowed to settle in a colony in, and eventually in three other colonies, but millions of Votans remained in aboard their ships in orbit around the Earth, as negotiations dragged on with Earth governments to establish a full-scale settlement.Tensions rose for ten years, but the Votan and human governments were on the verge of negotiating a peaceful settlement, when in 2023 the Votan ambassador to the was assassinated by a disgruntled human supremacist on live television outside of the in.

Upon their arrival in 2013, they discovered otherwise.

Games like defiance