Koei doing Disgaea 2

By Tom Bramwell Published 29 June, 2006

For Europe. This autumn.

Koei's announced, not entirely surprisingly, that it will continue its mission to bring Nippon Ichi's brilliant Japanese games to Europe with Disgaea 2.

The PS2 exclusive turn-based strategy RPG is due out this autumn, the publisher said.

Which is good news because we don't like trees and certainly have no interest in watching their leaves turn brown when we might be indoors reacquainting ourselves with Nippon Ichi's peculiar cast of characters.

Along with all the usual turn-based frippery there'll be the ability to stack characters on top of each other to combine powers and unleash special combos and attacks.

You'll also find the game rewards you for your naughtiness. "Think you're badder than you really are and you might just get summoned to court and suffer the shame of being found innocent," Koei advises.

And, as you can see from the screenshots we've got, the game uses a brand new 3D environment with animated sprites and anime cut-scenes too.

We'll bring you more on Disgaea 2 closer to its release.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (23) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • myiagros #1 6 years ago

    good news!!!

  • Blerk #2 6 years ago

    I love you, Koei! And I want to have your babies.

  • Teeth #3 6 years ago

    Instabuy

  • aabyssx #4 6 years ago

    Make Disgaea 1 for PSP or DS!

    I missed it on PS2 and now it's out of stock everywhere. And plan to move to handheld anyway. :)

  • itamae #5 6 years ago

    I will support Koei by waiting for the European version. Unless they do a THQ all of a sudden and release a rushed port with jerky animation and huge borders.

  • Blerk #6 6 years ago

    They all but confirmed Disgaea 3 this week, too! \o/

    /dances
    /dances
    /dances
    /falls over

  • Hunam85 #7 6 years ago

    Gah, i still havent finished la pucelle let alone disgaia, phantom brave and dont even have makai kingdom! damn you koei/n1!

  • Cappy #8 6 years ago

    A PAL version without a 6-18 month delay after the US version?

    I'll believe it when I see it.

  • regmund #9 6 years ago

    could be interested in this-although i haven't a clue whats going on when i play disgaea its still enjoyable but not as funny as people make out. Maybe i just haven't played enough of it yet..

  • mingster #10 6 years ago

    INSTABUY +1

  • Kami #11 6 years ago

    ... that is the noise of the money already falling from my pocket...

  • Aysir #12 6 years ago

    "I will support Koei by waiting for the European version. Unless they do a THQ all of a sudden and release a rushed port with jerky animation and huge borders."
    No borders, but Koei have been guilty of using a rather crappy enlarging technique with Dynasty Warriors that makes the PAL games look blurry. Strange since before DW4 they always did flawless conversions. They also took out the Japanese VO's from Disgaea 1 and put it onto a CD (Not that you'd want the Japanese VO's in this case, the English VO's are awesome)

  • PinkSpider #13 6 years ago

    Cant wait, never got on with any of the other Nippon Ichi games though. They just didnt charm me as much as Disgaea.

    (I still own them all mind).

  • aine #14 6 years ago

    I've known this for a while.. you can learn a lot from looking at amazon's upcoming games list.

  • Scimarad #15 6 years ago

    I think it's a bit of a shame they are using the original Disgaea battle system - It's going to feel like a bit of a step back after Makai Kingdom IMHO.

  • Cosmopolitan #16 6 years ago

    "I missed it on PS2 and now it's out of stock everywhere. And plan to move to handheld anyway. :)"

    My copy has been offered in the Swapsies threads for ages ;-)

    /shameless plug

  • PinkSpider #17 6 years ago

    I personally am glad they are using the original system, I just couldnt get on with the Makai Kingdom/ Phantom Brave system. I liked the basicness of the grids and that.

    /bad explaining but gladness.

  • NegativeZero #18 6 years ago

    I, too, much prefer the Disgaea grid system. Makai Kingdom & Phantom Brave's gridless setup removes a lot of the strategy involved in placing your characters. You can't hold strategic locations and deny enemy characters from passing, making it a heck of a lot harder to keep your physically weaker characters (Archers, Mages etc) from getting slaughtered.

    I'll be preordering this on the weekend if I can. Every Koei game released in Australia has been in such small quantities that they're snapped up almost instantly. I learned my lesson after being forced to import La Pucelle.

  • Blerk #19 6 years ago

    I'm quite happy to go back to the grids for a change, although I do like the Phantom/Makai method too, dood. I'm looking forward to more 'crazy character stacking' too! \o/

  • Blerk #20 6 years ago

    By the way, the original game isn't out of stock everywhere.

  • Scimarad #21 6 years ago

    It's not really the lack of grid I'll miss but the vehicles...and the character creation method...and a few other things.
    Edited by 1 at 30/06/06 @ 19:50

  • aabyssx #22 6 years ago

    > By the way, the original game isn't out of stock everywhere.


    At present we are only able to accept orders from the United Kingdom


    / sighs

    Living in Eastern Europe as a video gamer is pretty hard... :(

  • kissthestick #23 6 years ago

    haha cant wait