Disgaea 3 Absence of Justice

Product/Game Information

Platform: Playstation 3

ESRB Rating: Teen

Media: Video Game

Product Features

Story and endings evolve as you play the game
Geo Blocks introduce a real 3D battle system to a SRPG
Over 270 customizable characters
Class world adds 40 battle stages per character or 10800 stages
Only SRPG with infinite number of randomly generated battle maps

Product Details

Product Weight: 2.00 pounds

Model: DG-00131-4

Manufacturer: Atlus

Release Date: 2008-08-26

Sales Rank: 775

Customer Reviews

The best of SRPG genre.,
by Catfanatic1979v1, 2009-01-03

This is simply the best SRPG on the market today. If you own a PS3 and love SRPG's (strategy role playing games) then you simply owe it to yourself to buy this product. The downloadable content for the game adds in characters from previous games as well.

Ok game, not as good as 1 and 2 in series,
by Michael Jones, 2008-12-17

I was very excited about this game having been a fan of the first two in series. As much as I would love to give this game 5 stars I can't honestly do so.

First the positives. This game is alot of fun for those strategy buffs who love to level up characters to insane levels. There are so many optional things you can do in this game, whether it be during the actual story mode or post completion of main quest. In fact, most of the "meat" of the game actually occurs after you finish the story line for the first time. Also, I do enjoy the story in this Disgaea, more so than the second in the series.

However, what hurts this game in my opinion is two things. The horrible camera and the graphics. Why release a game on the ps3 if you aren't going to upgrade the graphics. Heck, the enemies look like carbon copies from previous games. Frankly there isn't much difference between all 3 games in series except for the storyline.

Yes, I still enjoy this game, and for those who love strategy games its a game you should check into. However, if you are new to the series, buy the first or second on ps2. They are cheaper and essentially the same thing as the 3rd

awesome,
by Mr. Birdlick, 2008-12-04

This game is really fun, the story is great, its hilarious, and over all brilliant. But seriously, the graphics could have been updated a little...lazy game developers.

Dood.,
by M. Girardin, 2008-10-30

When a game advertises they have a Penguin (Prinny) that explodes when you throw them, you better take it seriously. Disgaea so far has been the best strategy RPG series with more levels, characters, weapons, moves than any other game.
My first SRPG was Final Fantasy Tactics and the sequels dissapointed me to no end, no other game had the fun of that game till Disgaea.

Disgaea 3 offers what the first two give and tons more, you still have the story mode and Item World (a game in itself seriously) "hero" units, demon units, monster units who you can name and pair up. Though now you're in a school of demons, a school of chaos, innuendos, sarcasm, explosions, lazy teachers and students sure to fail and be happy about it.

Now when you create a character their chance of team attack will be based off where they're seated in the class with another character.

There's more "hero" units in this game than the other Disgaea games with their own unique look on the netherworld (Hell) more demon units and monster units to make even bigger teams, more insane attacks, and even more damage. (the game has characters doing over 9 million damage!

Now you can merge special moves instead of just team attacks, buy moves with mana and special buffs to help your character. You can lift your entire team to make them toss fireballs at a enemy, or use "Tower Swing" to fling them around the level while your characters act like a giant whip. Another interesting combat addon is Magichange, where you temporary turn a monster unit into a weapon to give your character boosted stats and new moves only when they're "fused".

Rant rant rant, it's a great game with only one real flaw, the sprites are not in HD and it's on PS3, some of the sprites have been ported from Disgaea 2. But they did make more frames of animation for the classes they did "port" but there's also a lot more classes and characters and some redone all together. And honestly it's not about the graphics in this game, it still looks awesome but might have been more at home on PS2/PSP.

The game is easily over 150 hours, you could spend 250 I'm sure it depends on if you're willing to level your characters up to 9,999Lvl. Which could take a while since you can reincarnate characters to 1Lvl to buff their stats with benefits. To add to the game length you can jump into an item and go through levels inside. That may sound weird but it's what you do, you can go inside of a sword, stick of gum, axe and there's levels inside where when you beat them, the item will get better/stronger.

Seriously you like turn based RPGs this one is amazing.

Fun Strategy JRPG,
by I. Serna, 2008-10-22

Disgaea 3 overall is a fun game to anyone who is into strategy role playing games. The game play is pretty deep with quite a bit of micromanaging your characters which can sometimes be a pain. Also with a level cap of 9999 you can get into some pretty tedious level grinding. The graphics are sprite based which may seem odd on a PS3 but it goes well with Disgaea 3 and it doesn't detract from playing the game, so to those looking for bleeding edge graphics may just want to pass.
The voice acting is very well done, and the english voice actors have really convincing voices that fit with the characters in the game. Any fans of anime and such may notice some of the voices are familiar to them, I recognized a couple unfortunately I can't recall from what show though. You also get the option to switch to original Japanese language for a more authentic feel, but the to me the english voice acting was more entertaining.

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