Thursday, August 28, 2008

Play Log 1 [Chapter 1, Chapter 2]


As much as I have been anticipating the English release of Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice... I don't have much time to play. I started graduate school this week and as expected, it is rather intensive. On the plus side, I've graduated from regular student to... research student! Huzzah! I'm going to be inputing numbers!

Right. Disgaea.

This plucky player is currently at the end of Chapter 2. Slowly yet steadily, she moves forward in an attempt to replay in English! I've set the game to English voice acting so I can listen to the voice work, but I dreadfully miss Hirata Hiromi as Mao. I can always switch back to her on my second play through, and believe me, I'm playing through the game again afterwards. I don't know if I want to try for the worst ending again or not... it still makes me sad to watch.

Anyway, Spoilers beyond this point.

Mao is so emotional. I already knew this, but seeing it and hearing it in English just so... weird! Haha. Almaz is definitively more cynical than I remember, and Raspberyl is so cute! I'm glad I can understand her better now. Her way of talking in Japanese just threw me off.... anyway! So, Chapter 1 details Mao coming to the conclusion that Heroes are necessary in order to defeating Overlords and through the insistent pushing of Geoffrey, he goes off to ... find a hero to capture and experiment.

So enters Almaz. Poor guy. You have to wonder what horrible things Mao does to him in his sleep.

So uh!
I got my first ending!
I went ahead and died to Raspberyl in Chapter 2 to see her ending. She runs off with Almaz, leaving Mao a broken demon! Really, how did Geoffrey let this happen? Did Mao just become a horrible shut in after Raspberyl totally showed him up?

An interesting thing to note is that Demons seem to really age at a steady, amplified rate to Humans. I figure that Mao and Raspberyl are 1578, so that means they're edging towards the age of "16" in human years, but it seems that the average life span (normally) for them is roughly the same for humans. (... Just, you know. Proportionally speaking.) Raspberyl passes away in her sleep at 10,100 something years old, which translates to being about 101? Surrounded by her children and grandchildren... she was certainly busy in her life. *laughs*

Uh. Currently I'm leveling Mao normally. Blade rush + ice magic, but I really want to switch him to a mage once class world starts up. I'm probably going to spend hours playing there than the actual story. Noooo. -A-

My highest leveled character si my healer. That. How does that work? She's using a bow right now, I don't know if I'll ever get to change her to being an uber mage but..! I'll do my best! GO BEATRIX.

I promised myself that this would be the first game I would get to 9999 on a character. I'm shooting to get Mao, Almaz, Beatrix, and Marionette to 9999. Can I do it?! .. Probably not, but I can try.

Yosh.

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What's with the image in this post?
It's a prototype "Nendoroid" figure of Raspberyl! I hope they become available for purchase. They're just so cute! ♥

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Geoffrey really bugs me. Maybe it's because he is designed to not call many attencion (his eyes and mouth are covered by his glasses and beard) but I think he has something to hide.
By the way do demons die instantly at 10,100 years old :O ?

angelica maria said...

They don't, it's like saying everyone dies at 101 years old. It's just that I think demons age at 100/1 the rate of humans. :O