Disgaea, The Game Series that Kills Brain Cells

Okay, so assuming that there are people who actually might read my blog and assuming they play video games...Here's my next post: A lovely tale of love, comedy, and bitter hatred! No seriously. This is what I feel when I play any of the games from the Disgaea series. For those of you who aren't aware of Disgaea

                                                                        vvvvvv this is it

Well, it's at least a picture of the second game, but if you're a gamer, you should recognize the art and some of the characters. They happen to be the biggest thing that NIS America prides itself on.

The reason why this post is about Disgaea is because I'm currently playing one of the many spin-offs that came out for the PSP: Prinny 2. 

What the hell is a Prinny?

Good question! They showed up in the original Disgaea and after that, it was just fate waiting to happen. Not only do these exploding penguins (yes, they're exploding penguins) show up a million times within a single sitting of playing the game and not only has NIS made the pathetic creature their mascot (kinda) but now they have their own game! Two of them, in fact, and just like the many Disgaea games before it, I ended up violently hating the game by the time I finished it...but for some reason, for the first time while playing the game series, it made me want to play it...over and over again. I had no idea such masochistic behavior was even possible, but it was like... stabbing myself in the foot. At first I cried out in utter pain and distress, but after the the torment faded, I realized "hey, this isn't so bad"...so I stab myself in the foot again....and then again...and then again until finally the whole foot just fell off. Okay, that might have been a disturbing metaphor. Let me replace "foot" with "brain" and it'll make much more sense because clearly, after playing the game, a person loses a large portion of their brain cells due to the idiocy...or lack of oxygen to the brain that the game creates.

After I finally finished the first game for the fifth or sixth time and was content on how much time I spent obsessing over it, I was finally able to convince myself to put the damn thing away and considered it one of my "have played til the end and have no intention of ever really playing it again." Well, apparently fate wasn't happy with me for doing that.

Literally two weeks after I put away the first Prinny game, I discovered the horror which called itself: Prinny 2: Dawn of Operation Panties, Dood! 

It happened while I was innocently strolling through the Mall of America with a handful of my friends. As we rounded a corner, we broke off into two groups; one group ventured over to some clothing store while the rest of us were magnetically drawn to the Gamestop that was across the aisle. 

Now imagine this

*Poor innocent girl, strolling through Gamestop. She stops to scour over the PSP games. "Oh look! It's the new Blazblue game! I need to buy that yet!" Keeps lookings....

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She gets to the "P" section of the games.

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"......omg"

                                                 

Needless to say... I then spent some of my vacation money on a game that I knew would continue to take its toll on my poor body. Seriously...I already lost one foot because of this damn game, no doubt I'll be confined to a wheel chair once I'm finished with the second. 

And as expected...the second game is just like the first, amazingly difficult and frustrating, but enjoyable at the same time. There's no way that contradictory statement should be allowed to exist. That's why I'm now questioning my sanity.

So I should probably explain what the game's about, to give you guys an idea of what's going on. Now I coooould explain the first game to you, but I'm kinda short on time so I'll just jump to the second game (the two stories don't really have anything to do with one another anyway).

Sooo you got this demon named Etna:

 she's a relentless and narcissistic tyrant who's in charge of the Prinny's. After the rumored "OverLord's death" she basically just claims the title for herself and rules with the poor Prinny's with an iron fist. Well, one fateful night she freaks out and demands to know who stole her panties...really, I'm serious. Apparently they're a huge deal and rumors start circulating that if a person wears them over their head, the world will explode. I have yet to figure out if that's really why they were stolen, but who knows, it's rare that anything makes sense in this game.

So it's up the the Prinny's: 

 to find and retrieve the almighty panties and return them from whence they came. Little to these exploding bastards know, though, what they get themselves into. As it turns out the Phantom Thief (couldn't find a good picture of him, but he looks like a warthog) took them. Why you may ask? Because he steals rare things! Rare things that have nothing to do with anything. And...no I don't know why these panties are "rare" and why this man-pig-man-thing decided to steal them but he did nonetheless and we have to get them back! 

The game play is different from what we're used to seeing in the Disgaea games. The Prinny games are 2D side-scrollers (like the Sega's Sonic, or Mario), which is really cool, buuuut it makes the game difficult at times because it makes dodging enemies nigh impossible.  Here's some pictures for you to see!

Oh yeah, did I mention that you start the game off with 1000 lives and that throughout your first playthrough, you'll probably use all of them up? :) Yeah...This is where the "frustration" comes from!
But why do I love this game?! Well, mostly because of the ridiculous jokes behind it. I mean, c'mon, how can you read the plot of the game and NOT be humored by it. The game's also extremely crude and there's a lot of undertoned sexual jokes. I tend to forget how raunchy the game can get sometimes, then I'll read a bio of the shark monster which reads (be aware it's kinda taken out of context cuz I don't member word for word what it said but it was something like this): The most hansom shark under the sea. Hey baby, ya got some shark in you...Do you want some?
 omg...lolz
*sigh* but yes, for those of you who have a PSP, it's a game I highly recommend. Even if you haven't played the original Disgaea games, this one's worth playing. It'll probably piss you off sometimes...more like ALL THE TIME, but it's running a race. It's painful doing it, but when you cross the finish line, the feeling you get it magical! It'll make you see unicorns and rainbows in your dreams! Or maybe that was just me X3X buuut that's all the time I have for today! Have a good day! XD
Off topic - I want to end on a very happy note:
 ahahahahahaha...HAHAHAHAHAH...hehehehe...*sigh*