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[kjorteo]

The problem with building a party in Disgaea is that you have room for 10 people but there aren't 10 unique classes in the game that are all good enough to be worth using, and it being Disgaea makes the lines between all of them blurry enough that trying to build a party of unique specialists meaningless and impossible anyway. I could say I want an offensive mage and a healer, or since both are good with INT and spells and stuff and can freely reincarnate into each other and take the spells they've learned with them, I could just make two identical attack-and-heal-and-do-everything spellcasters. Or just get 10 Majins since it really doesn't matter at that point anymore anyway.

Not counting Majins, I've come up with about eight classes I want, six of which I can actually make right now (let's not talk about the unlock requirements for Angels and EDF Soldiers right now.) That leaves 2-4 slots of "uh...."

Four identical spellcasters, maybe? :(

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[davidn]

It's seriously called "Afternoon of Darkness"? It sounds a bit like a tamed and not-as-frightening version of something called "Night of Darkness". "Disgaea: Unusually Gloomy Late Morning". "Disgaea: Teatime of Terror".

I can't say much more helpful, apart from that after getting used to parties of three or four... ten's quite a lot.

[kjorteo]

The first version of the game was Disgaea: Hour of Darkness for PS2. Then they gave it an enhanced remake for the PSP with more stuff added, including an "Etna Mode" which, while I haven't played it yet, I gather is something like an entirely separate four-or-so-chapter story mode based on the idea of "what if, instead of awakening the main character from his slumber to get things started like she normally does in the opening cutscene, Etna accidentally kills him and thus has to go do everything herself?" They renamed this one to Afternoon of Darkness.

What I'm playing is basically a port of Afternoon of Darkness for DS instead of PSP, which removed most of the voice acting (only on certain extremely important scenes and between-chapter narration instead of with literally every single line, because DS carts are tiny compared to CDs and UMDs) and added one or two more minor things here and there in return, like a few more secret characters and such.

They continued the subtitle-altering trend for Disgaea 2; the PS2 version is subtitled "Cursed Memories," PSP is "Dark Hero Days." Disgaea 3 is subtitled "Absence of Justice" on the PS3, and has yet to receive a port anywhere else.