I'm a massive WRPGfags and I've never played a Jarpig before. If this one a good start?
>>4004139No, Disgaea is a very niche series. It's ostensibly a turn-based tactics game but you can grind everything, over and over, e.g. you can take any piece of equipment and enter it as a randomized dungeon, completing which will raise the item's stats, you can do this repeatedly, with all equipment, your units can go to level 9999, then reset back to 0 while keeping some of the stats, then you grind them to 9999 again. This kind of extreme grinding (and a long post-game to accomodate it) is the entire appeal. Here's an old popular video about Disgaea 5 (which is generally agreed upon to be the best in the series) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSW9t4UGMw4Are you looking for a tactics game specifically? Tactics Ogre (Reborn) would be my first recommendation. Much more serious story (rather than an onslaught of anime humor like in Disgaea) and minimal grinding, the remaster literally has level caps, you can't outgrind the challenge.
>>4004139>I'm a massive WRPGfagsI'm going to be perfectly honest. No Japanese srpg is going to appeal to your niche. I like Japanese and western srpgs and really wish Japanese would borrow more from western srpgs but Japanese(korean and chinese too) srpg are far more simpler and brain dead than western spreadsheets despite how some of them have crazy mechanics. If you still want to go in with that mindset then the Disgaea series is a bit more over the top compared to any normal srpg. The series is all about overpowering your units and seeing big numbers on screen, pushing your stats into the billions. The story mode is 1/3 of the games, post game is when it really revs up as they usually have a ton of post game content.None of the mechanics are ever explain in game so most of it is you reading up online on how to get stronger and each game just stacks newer mechanics. So much that if you play the later games first, you're looking at reading up on novels of mechanics so its sometimes better to just start with the first game.
>>4004139You are doing the equivalent of diving into the Mariana Trench! Here's the plan.....Start with>Sword of Mana>Secret of Mana >Seiken Desetsu 3 or Trails of Mana>Legend of Mana >Visions of Mana this one got chinafied, but the gameplay is the sameThese titles are action based and can ease you into other genresSrpg Wise you need to do this slowly or else you will lose interest like I said in the other thread....>Arc the Lad CollectionPLAY WITH A GUIDE. It's from that era they were trying to sell them. You will miss out on secret quests, one time itemsOne is a prologue to two, it starts off a little slow; but it picks up.>FFTAIt's much easier than Tactics, but it will get you into it>FFTWatch HCBailly's let's play, he really breaks everything down and makes it much more accessible>NIS seriesplay in order>rhapsody>la pucelleplay the psp version or PC>disgaeapc or psp>phantom bravepc or wii>Makai kingdompsp>disgaea 2\pc or psp>prinny can I be the hero?>soul nomad>disgaea 3Vita version or PC>prinny can I be the hero? 2>Zettai hero project>disgaea 4>disgaea D2>disgaea 5Quality of life makes it hard to return to other games after the fact. Also story.
>>4004139If you're just playing it because you think Etna and/or Flonne are hot, it's worth it. The game is simple but decently fun.If you're looking for a standard jarpig, Disgaea isn't it. Everything about it is deliberately parody-tier.
