Disgaea Mayhem

I honestly thought the demo was just a tiny preview and that the full game would open up later. Nope. The demo basically is the game. Every stage feels the same. The maps are boring, the enemies barely put up a fight, and the Item World... what the hell happened? It used to be one of the coolest parts of Disgaea, and now it's just a flat arena where you mindlessly beat up wave after wave of enemies. That's it. That's the "content." Before someone says "well it's a musou game," I KNOW. I like Dynasty Warriors. I like mowing down thousands of enemies. This just isn't a good musou game. It's just endless button mashing with almost nothing interesting happening. No strategy, no variety, no reason to care. After an hour I felt like I'd already seen everything the game had to offer. It honestly feels like one of those free-to-play mobile games that constantly wants your attention without actually giving you anything fun to do... except this one costs real money. As a Disgaea fan, this is just depressing. Disgaea 5 was the last game I actually loved. 6 wasn't great, but I could at least have some fun with it. 7 was alright even if it didn't hit the same highs. But this? This finally killed whatever hype I had left for this series. I wouldn't recommend this on sale. I wouldn't recommend it in a bundle. I wouldn't recommend it if it was the free game of the month. Save your money and just replay Disgaea 5 instead. You'll have a better time. This doesn't feel like a passion project. It feels like someone looked at Disgaea and thought, "What if we removed everything people actually liked and replaced it with endless, brain-dead button mashing?" Mission accomplished, I guess.

Honestly, this is very disappointing. I get that this isnt going to be the 500 hours game the Main games are, but I expected something more than 20 hours. Seriously. And the gameplay is very bland, The most basic of Muso style games give more varied combat styles than this game. Its a cool proof of concept, and maybe in a second game they could make it beefier, but for this one. Im gonna have to refund.

Skip this version of the game. Go and install or buy Disgaea 3, 4 or 5 and you'll have a better time. You play as N.A. in a hack-and-slash version of Disgaea and its not as fun as it looks and its disappointing. Is it a try at a change - yes. Does it work - not so much on execution. First the World feels overly large and empty. Design looks like a worse render of a Zelda: Breath of Wild game. It doesn't look like a Disgaea game! All the parts and creatures are there but its soul is not. Game play is mild at best, its a hack-and-slash so not overly complicated, you go into an area, defeat all the enemies, and leave. Very similar to other Disgaea games but you had a little more nuance with character placement, attack range and match up since you were on a grid. Here you become a weed wacker to swaths of uninteresting characters models in a bland 3D environment. At least at minimum they could've given you mote to look at or have cooler more interesting environments to cut grass in.

It's mindless, it's short and by the gods the price tags are absurd. The negative criticism you'll see is, sadly, correct, and I believe that price tag is what compounds it the most. I feel like in a different time this would have cost a humble $30 at most. Despite that, I am enjoying my time with the game. It still feels like Disgaea to me, and I'm glad for that. Big numbers, funny moments, great designs, grinding. The mindless combat can be pretty fun if you're into that sort of thing, especially with fists. In this regard, I give it a thumbs up. But make no mistake, the negatives will outweigh the positives if you're a normal person. I'll always love Disgaea, so it kinda hurts realizing that, while I am having a fun time, it could/should be so much more. I'll hang on to H(C)ope that, one day, this project and idea is explored again with hindsight at their side.

its not worth the price but it is fun to play if it was around 30$ then i would be ok but not 60$

ゲームとしての面白さはそこそこ、ディスガイアシリーズが好きで無双系なアクションも好きなら十分楽しめる。武器種によってがらりと操作や戦法が変わる為操作キャラが固定とはいえ使い分ける楽しみは有り、仲間モンスターの収集、育成やアイテム単位での強化等コツコツ地盤を整えながらプレイする分には長く楽しめそう。 が、それを差し引いても目ん玉飛び出そうな価格設定だけが本当にネック。本編だけでもまぁ高い上にDLCが無いと仲間に出来ないモンスター(しかも可愛い娘ばっかり)がおり、そちらに興味が有る場合は相当な出費を強いられる。 またステージの代わり映えも殆ど無く、ほぼ全てのステージが敵を一定数倒す→次のエリアに進む→一定数倒すを何回か繰り返した後ステージボスを倒すだけ。エリアを守れとかNPCを守れとかそういう突発イベントのようなものが一切無い為アクション性以外も欲しい人にとっては若干単調。ストーリー(というかシリーズお馴染みの漫才ノリ)も人を選びそう。 元々先んじてコンシューマで発売しているゲームなので細かい不具合修正はともかくコンテンツ追加は望み薄だろうが、ボリュームやクオリティに対して総じて価格が釣り合っていない印象が強い…とはいえ、ゲームのアクション部分は個人的に満足しているので高評価。[strike]モン娘は皆ちゃんと可愛いし[/strike] 興味有るけどこの値段ではちょっと…な人はセールを待っても良いかもしれない。

While technically playable, it has massive graphical issues on Steam deck making the game nauseating and effectively unplayable. The playable badge is very deceiving with this as I was unable to play for 5 minutes before having to quit. If this is fixed in the future I may rebuy, but for now will have to refund.

Disclosure: Disgaea is my favorite game series, and this is not an objective review. TLDR: This game plays like a main line Disgaea game, except replace the typical JSRPG combat with hack and slash, skill spam combat. Plot: Disgaea does Food Wars. Has typical Disgaea humor for better or worse, depending on your tastes, obviously I like this. Progression: All the typical Disgaea staples are here - Item World, Cheat Shop, Shop Level, Reincarnation, Chara World, Item levels, Mystery Gates, Innocent Farm, and Carnage Dimension. They function pretty much like they always have. Combat: Kill it before it kills you! I keep seeing this game compared to the 'Warriors' franchise. The last 'Warriors' game I played was Hyrule Warriors, and I have not played that series exhaustively; however, I do not feel this is a fair comparison and I don't think this game is even trying to be a 'Warriors' game. Please allow me to explain. In the 'Warriors' games that I have played. You use combos to kill enemies to build up your musou bar, which unleashes devastating attacks. You run around the map securing forts to control the territory. This is not how Disgaea Mayhem combat works. In Disgaea Mayhem you run around the map slaughtering hoards of enemies while spamming your skills. You only use combos when your skills are on cooldown, because normal attacks do a fraction of the damage of your skills (which is typical for Disgaea, combo maker shenanigans aside). There are no forts to secure, no territory to control. You kill enough enemies that the boss spawns and then beat the boss. Glitches: The oversized enemies sometimes have silly collision with the terrain, I found this very funny and did not take away from my enjoyment. My monster pet once seemed to disappear, using magichange brought him back, when the transformation ended. I had no other issues with performance. Conclusion: I feel like if you go into this game expecting a more or less a Disgaea game, you will probably enjoy it. If you go into this game expecting a 'Warriors' game, I do not think you will like it very much.

This ♥♥♥♥ is buggy as hell.