Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness (ディスガイア D2 (ディメンション2), Disugaia D2 (Daimenshon 2)) is the fifth installment in the Disgaea series, released as part of Nippon Ichi Software's 20th anniversary. It was released on March 20th in Japan and on October 8th, 2013 in North America.
The game's events take place after those in Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, and is currently the only main game in the series to be a direct sequel instead of featuring a completely new cast of characters.
Plot[]
Laharl has been crowned Overlord and has taken his father's place on the throne, however the demons of his Netherworld do not respect him or his authority. As he struggles to establish order he'll have to deal with the rise of an opposing faction called the Krichevskoy Group, the sudden blooming of Celestia's Yuie flowers in the Netherworld, and the appearance of an angel girl called Sicily who claims to be his sister.
Characters[]
Main Characters of Disgaea D2
- Main article: List of Disgaea D2 Characters
Gameplay[]
As one of the main games in the series, Disgaea D2 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 previous one, like Combos and Team Attacks to increase your attack power through teamwork, or the Dark Assembly and Item World to improve your army and equipment, among others.
New major features:
- Book: A new weapon specialized in magical attacks.
- Cheat Shop: A facility that lets you manipulate various parameters to your convenience, like raising enemy levels or improving resource gain.
- Demon Dojo: A training facility where characters can be assigned to various training plans that improve their growth.
- Likeability: An affinity system where characters have affection gauges that grow as they fight together, granting them bonuses.
- Monster Mounting: A replacement to Magichange, in which a Humanoid can hop on top of a Monster and fight as a single, stronger unit.
- Rasetsu Mode: A difficulty modifier that drastically strengthens enemies but also enables many improvements to character growth.
DLC[]
Like Disgaea 3 and Disgaea 4, there is DLC included in the game. Pre-ordering the game gave players a code allowing them to download "Legacy Costumes" for Laharl, Etna and Flonne allowing the player to use their sprites from Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten.
List of DLC:
- Fuka and Desco: Two main characters from Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten. These two are downloaded together. When the game was first released both characters were free. After the 24th day of April both cost the same as the other DLC characters.
- Adell: The main male protagonist from Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories.
- Rozalin: The main female protagonist from Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories.
- Liliel: one of the angel characters from the PS3 title The Guided Fate Paradox.
- Mao: The main protagonist from Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice.
- Raspberyl: The main female character from Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice.
- Salvatore: A recruitable character from Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice.
- Overlord Zetta: The main protagonist of Makai Kingdom.
- Pram the Oracle: One of the main characters of Makai Kingdom.
- Alexander: Zetta's rival from Makai Kingdom.
- Ash: The main hero of Phantom Brave.
- Marona: The main heroine of Phantom Brave.
- Metallia: The main character of The Witch and The Hundred Knight.
- Priere: The main character of La Pucelle: Tactics.
- Overlord Priere: The Overlord form of the main character of La Pucelle: Tactics.
- Eclair: A character from La Pucelle: Tactics
- Nisa: A character from Hyperdimension Neptunia
- Gig: One of the main characters of Soul Nomad and the World Eaters
- Plume: The main character from Battle Princess of Arcadias
Opening Movie[]
Gallery[]
Boxart[]
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Artwork[]
Tera Spells[]
Screenshot[]
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References[]
- Siliconera's article on the game, showing the pre-release image
- Siliconera's article covering the game's limited edition and other details
- An article from "The Magic Box", showing various scans from an article about Disgaea: D2
- An article from Siliconera, stating many new exciting features.
- Siliconera's article about Sicily as well as some screenshots
- A Siliconera Article featuring additional screenshots and story details
- A Siliconera article about the new Book weapon and other character customization news
- A Siliconera article about various character and plot details
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