Disgaea D2 has received some of its first gameplay screens and a preview trailer – which, whilst likely to delight fans all the same, do cast some doubt on it “taking Disgaea to the next dimension.”
The video – presumably the graphics are intended to look 20 years old in celebration of their 20th anniversary:
By way of a labour-saving omake, until the 14th Nippon Ichi is offering a chance to submit suitably weird or inane candidate names for the random name generator.
More conventional omake are already starting to show up as well:
The sprite work barely puts them past PS2 level stuff! And that Geometry? The same!
Really, I love Japan and their games with a deep passion. They really need to learn from the west, ONLY IN TECHNOLOGY. Japan needs to make amazing Japanese games. But adopt and learn from western engineers and programmers when it comes to technology!!
WTF? The sprites aren’t even full resolution! Are they every going to spend a dime on this series to re-do the last-generation graphics?
“presumably the graphics are intended to look 20 years old in celebration of their 20th anniversary”
Now that’s some hyperbole if I ever heard it. Keep in mind that 20 years ago, the most powerful consoles we had were probably the Sega-CD and Turbo Grafx-CD (Mega-CD and PC Engine CD-ROM^2 in Japan), and I couldn’t see them pulling off 2D sprites of that caliber. Hell, even if they said 15 years, I don’t see Princess Crown (the predecessor to Odin Sphere and other Vanilla Ware titles) even coming close to such quality.
Flonne’s wearing a one-piece?
f♥♥k YES.
I like how they couldn’t possibly make Etna’s skirt any shorter, so they gave her hotpants instead.