Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance

I had a bad day, so on my way back home I decided to stop at a video game store in order to cheer myself up. I bought Disgaea 5 Complete for the Nintendo Switch. I had heard of the Disgaea series and wanted to try it out.

This game has given me a terrible time, for one big reason. I'm talking about the progression.

This is a tactical RPG where the enemies get way too strong way too quickly. I had searched for ways to level my characters up and get stronger but that requires an insane amount of grinding in the same places over and over. I had to slave away hours upon hours just to barely keep up. Days wasted, opportunities for other activities missed. I could have watched some great movies or played some great video games instead of barely progressing in a game that isn't even that remarkable otherwise. The story and characters are generic, the music isn't anything to write home about, the actual combat has this incredibly annoying throwing mechanic that only slows the game down.

It gives you so many characters and weapons classes, but it's nearly impossible to level them all up according to the game's wishes. I stopped playing when the game presented me with a level where most enemies in the stage were strong against Fists. Most of my strongest characters used fists, and I couldn't possibly begin to start levelling up even more characters just to try and balance my team.

I had no trouble with Fire Emblem Awakening. Even if that game has its definite flaws, you knew what to do and how to progress. It has a reasonable difficulty curve and no need to grind for hours. That game came out before this one.

This isn't even the only game from Nippon Ichi Software that has this issue. Hyperdimension Neptunia Rebirth 1 also had this problem.

Other people online have been saying that this game is not so hard. Huh?! Am I missing something? Do I just suck or something? Or do other people just grind until the game is easy?

Maybe I do just suck and am stupid, and that's why despite hating the 30+ hours I spent on this game I will advise you to try it out for yourself. You might be one of the many people who enjoyed this game. Try and buy a physical copy though, because you can't sell a digital game. Always good to have insurance.