Disgaea D2 Gets Fem Laharl – “Who Needs Etna Anyway!”
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jan 18, 2013 00:50 JST
- Tags: Atlus, Disgaea, Gender Swap, Image Gallery, Nippon Ichi, PS3, RPG
Disgaea D2 has unveiled both gender-swapped Fem-Laharl and his newly proclaimed imouto, along with plenty of new shots of the game and cast – Laharlette in particular already gaining some admirers, hopefully having got over his gynophobia by now.
Aside from a female Laharl, fresh details of the game have gradually been mounting up – including Laharl’s self-proclaimed imouto and even some of the excruciatingly slow graphical progress the franchise is known for:
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You know, all that rambling about Disgaea's outdated graphics is totally nonsense...why change a useful (better overview) and winning combination?
As long as it's in HD and has the original dub included, i'll go for it.
Regarding "Laharlette":
Male/Female main character? Switch as you see fit?
One way to draw female gamers into it :D
Better wait for Eng TxT Jap Dub~
"As long as it's in HD and has the original dub included, i'll go for it."
But it's not in HD. Did you view the screenshots full size? All the in-game sprites are blurry upscaled SD graphics, surrounded by low-detail 3D environments that look like they'd be at home on the Nintendo DS. About the only thing in HD is the interface, which looks out of place alongside the rest of the game's graphics. No one's saying to change from a top-down view or get rid of the sprite graphics, but just to update those to a better resolution.
Played Disgaea 4? Smooth sprites and environments.
This one - D2 - is but a mere preview, at most.
And these screenshots do not really compare to live graphics :D
Btw, in D4 you have the option to turn HD sprites on/off
I agree, the graphics to me seem to be exactly what they should be. If anything I cannot help but wish more games used 2D Sprites.
The only improvement I can suggest would be if the 3D backgrounds were Cell Shaded and there were more anime cutscenes.
Well, I do think they should play around with the sprites and the whole 2D aspect more... And I'm thinking the female Laharl is part of the plot, it is disgaea after all, not a stranger when it comes to absurdities...
You're surely not suggesting using 3D sprites right? That would look unspeakably horrible.
I've never heard anyone complain about FF:Tactics having "bad graphics". In fact outside of Sankaku, I've never heard anyone say ill of Disgaea's graphics either. Seems to stem purely from Artefact, and other than the resolution boost which D3 got (at a fair and sensible time, considering the jump to a new console) I have no idea what Artefact could possibly be implying needs improvement.
It better be part of the plot... Laharl wasn't a girl... What the fuck kinda choice would that be, it would destroy the setting they've built already if he suddenly could be a girl and nobody gave a shit in game. I wouldn't be able to take it seriously and it'd weaken the plot and characters massively to have to work with a gender neutral protagonist when they spent the entire first game working with a male protagonist.
WHO CARES FOR PLOT IN A STRATEGY GAME!?
WANT PLOT? GO READ A BOOK!
You...you take the Disgaea plot SERIOUSLY? What? Who cares. I'd prefer it to be a choice, as it's clearly meant to be purely aesthetic, and hell. I'll be honest.
I enjoy Laharlette more than Laharl, just on design alone, and I've been a sort of on/off again fan of Disagaea, stopping at 3 because I [personally speaking], disliked Mao too much to care.
You take Disgaea seriously?
You're damn right I take the plot seriously. The fact that there are idiots that exist that would so easily throw away that which made the game good proves that... well it proves that idiots exist. So much for that.
Go for Dall of Duty or something where plot doesn't matter. Don't choose characters based on aesthetics alone, you people are the reason shit's acceptable in the first place.
Ahem the Male/Female switch is probably to appeal to the men who felt butthurt that Laharl was a boy... Oh my dreams have finally come true *hugs Laharl*
What if Laharl was actually a pre-puberty girl the entire time?
What a tweest!
That would explain Laharl's extreme fright of the horse wiener.
I'll change to JP voice and text ASAP but the gender-choice Laharl/ette is a good addition.
NIS America needs to get off their collective asses and start translation NOW and not 1 year later.
Agree on those translation, but some one fill me in on the whole Fem Laharl situation I thought Etna was the best.
pic 34: GATE OF BABYLON!
I need etna ;_;
Did you miss her pic up there? She is there too... The more the merrier.
Uh fuck you. I need Etna.
Why do they bother even showing the scenes of Flonne swaying the Dark Assembly? Everyone knows demons can't win against THE POWER OF LOVE!
Game looks nice.
I'm 3/4 of the way through Heisig and I hardly knew any of those bastard kanji :(
Wait, are the Nekomata and Succubi wearing bodysuits? What the fuck?
Nekomatas got that color palette in D4 and the succubi have had that look change since D3.
DAT Etna
I always loved the magic knights. They have impressive assets.
... no midboss? he was the best character.
I love Rita Repulsa as Laharl too much to change to Japanese voices.
i saw this pist so i had to log in and post somthing cuz i love disgaea so much.
btw i would hit any male/female character of takehito harada, of especially that acher and plenair
Asagi where?
Oh my god, she looks soooo gaaaay
So Laharl was a topless loli all along. Hmm....
Am I the only person who finds Flonne deliciously sexy in that red one-piece getup?
Funny, i always thought if laharl have an older sister it would look just like that. Oh well, *fap fap fap*
Needs more Prinnys, dood.
The only thing i'm troubled with in N1 games is the general lack of attack/skill/arts improvement/unlock of the characters past the first couple of hundred levels. Fill the game with a buttload of variety in that department and all is good.
Some classy fujin and raijin we have here
From the thumbnail I thought that was Yoko.
The funny irony Laharl finally gets an adult body so people will no longer say he looks like a kid but unfortunately for him it's female.
Yoko and Medaka did a fusion dance.
Dat Fusion!
.... i wonder how laharl will cope with having his biggest weakness/disgust (boobs) on "him"
Disgaea, Laharl gender-blender edition
I <3 the Disgaea series! :3
Now calling Laharl "Harlie" makes much more sense.
MY WALLET! IT HURTS!
Voiced by Mizuhashi Kaori again, she who also voiced Miyako, Tomoe Mami and Ogiue. Guess Fem-Laharl will sound a lot like a meaner version of Miyako.
Dat Strategy game!
Sad to see this only in sony's consoles.
Anyone bitching about graphics in a SRPG is completely, comically, missing the point.
Or they just have standards. You telling me you wouldn't care if this game looked like tactics ogre? Graphics matter so shut up about that. It doesn't make you sound cool.
Tactics ogre story was slow as hell to start up. And it was the serious type too. 8 bit style chara wouldn't really matter much if the story and the interactive gameplay was badass. Overall graphics are one of the lowest parts in the totem pole. Check.
Tactics ogre story was slow as hell. And it was the serious type. 8 bit graphics don't really matter much if the story quality and the interactive gameplay is badass. Overall graphics are one of the lowest points on the totem pole. Check.