Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance (魔界戦記ディスガイア5 Makai Senki Disugaia Faivu, literally: Netherworld Battle Chronicle Disgaea Five) is the sixth main title of the Disgaea series, and its first installment on the PlayStation 4. The game was released in Japan on March 26, 2015, with the American release on October 6, 2015.
In 2017, an enhanced port called Disgaea 5 Complete was released for the Nintendo Switch.
Plot[]
With the help of his massive army of soldiers known as The Lost, the Demon Emperor Void Dark has devastated or conquered most Netherworlds in the galaxy. When the wandering demon Killia saves Princess Overlord Seraphina during a fight against The Lost, she forcefully recruits him into her rebel force that's fighting against Void's conquest. As they travel to various Netherworlds in order to liberate them, they'll be joined by many Overlords with their own personal vendettas against Void and his army.
Characters[]
Main Characters of Disgaea 5
- Main article: List of Disgaea 5 Characters
Gameplay[]
As one of the main games in the series, Disgaea 5 is a traditional grid-based tactical RPG. The game advances by completing a series of individual stages where the objective is to defeat all enemies present. Up to 10 characters can be deployed at once on a stage, and the player has at their disposal not only the important characters unlocked throughout the story but also generic characters that can be freely recruited through the character creation system.
This game keeps most major gameplay features from the series, like Combos, Team Attacks and Magichange to increase your attack power through teamwork, or the Dark Assembly, Skill Shop and Item World to improve your army and equipment, among others.
New major features:
- Revenge Mode: Characters get a gauge that fills as they are attacked, granting a temporary power bonus once it's full.
- Overload: Powerful abilities exclusive to demons with Overlord-level power. They can only be used once per battle, during Revenge Mode.
- Combo Skill: Unique skills that require specific characters to be close-by to be performed.
- Curry Shop: A facility where the player can buy temporary stat boosts that apply to the whole team.
- Squads: A character grouping mechanic where characters are assigned to one of many Squads that grant different bonuses.
- Innocent Farm: A facility that takes care of Innocents, making them level up or even spawn new ones as the player does battles.
- Nether Research Squad: A facility where idling characters can be sent to explore Netherworlds to search for enemies and treasure.
- Evility rework: Characters have several Evility slots and each Evility has a slot cost, letting characters equip a multitude of Evilities of varying strength.
- Item World rework: It now features infinite floors, and the method of gaining item levels as well as their effect has been adjusted.
- Chara World: A board game-like minigame where the character gains a power up for reaching the end of the board.
Reception[]
Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance received "generally favorable" reviews on Metacritic getting a metascore of 80/100 based on 43 critics reviews.[1]
Trivia[]
- This game's story is heavily implied to have chronologically happened way before the others.
- Disgaea RPG refers the heroes from Disgaea 5 as "the original Overlords" - further reinforced by the fact that Kilia had been awoken from a thousand year slumber.
- Disgaea 5 is the first in the series to not feature characters from other Disgaea games in either the main or post game aside from Asagi, and only features them as DLC.
- Disgaea 5 has the most main story episodes out of any Disgaea, featuring 16 episodes.
Opening Movie[]
References[]
- ↑ Metascore for Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance, Metacritic, Retrieved March 18, 2020
Official Sites[]
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