Just a reminder to NOT buy JA2 on Steam!
Disgaea (and the other Nippon Ichi games like La Pucelle and Phantom Brave) are PS2 games. They are really fun but sort of open in their difficulty in that you can stumble into level 80 enemies pretty quick. Or get a character up to level 9999 and have them do billions of points of damage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHnYIqdZL6k&feature=relatedThey also have versions of the games on PSP but they tend to run like garbage.
Actually the SS engine was decent, because of the destructable terrain. JA2 is really missing that part.
Oh no complaints about the SS engine here. Just the storyline/tech level.
Nothing like stealthing in, identifying the building the bad guys are holed up in, planting mines on every single window and door, then shooting out a trapped window to start the chain reaction.
Then again, JA2 runs decently on my crappy laptop, unlike SS, so it's great for killing time in airports and such.
I just wish SS had the ability to scale walls! But yeah, rigging exits to blow, using spotters to have your sniper shoot enemies thru three walls, and just the general ability to own and control a situation made that game great.
Also, crawling out of the ceiling and killing the last member in a patrol and dragging him back upstairs before his allies turn around.
All games need destructable terrain.