Oh, hi! Hi old thread. Yes, I was considering bringing this up again. Mainly due to an important note: since we now have Cladun X2 on Steam, this could mean MORE NIS/NISA games on Steam! HOLY SNAP. I realize that Cladun isn't developed directly by NIS, so I don't know if there are any legal barriers to getting, say, a Disgaea game on Steam. But if there weren't, and Steam let me play Disgaea 3 or 4, I would spend all of my monies on it ASAP.
Interesting notes about the Cladun X2 Steam port:
-You CANNOT import anything from the PSP games (which means no downloading the cool stuff from the X2 wiki).
-You can, however, edit the characters much easily now! There's direct bitmap important and export for every frame of every animation. Get your sprite editing program and go nuts!
-I think the core gameplay is otherwise relatively unchanged, though. I recommend everyone in here try the demo. It's small file size, and it's a very niche game, but if you enjoy the hack-and-slashing and character management stuff, I can tell you that after the first three dungeon sets you unlock Roguelike Mode (not actually called that, but it's two varieties of random dungeons [which are very much varied each time you play] with fun gimmicks and awesome loot). That, at least, would appeal to some on here.