Tall about dropping the ball like holy shit. This is the first game in this series that I've hated which, after over a decade of great games, was probably inevitable by this point.

The first thing this game asks you when you load it up is whether you want a good resolution or good frame rate. You only get one because the game can't run with both. Didn't realize I was playing a shitty Telltale game by having two insanely bad choices which both lead me to one grand dissapointing conclusion no matter what I do.

On top that, the amazing animations and 2D sprite work from the previous games is gone and replaced with "mobile game/new pokemon generation/bowling alley TV" level of newly added 3d graphics that also exclude the animations for any ability. Even if the skill is some Omega Flare Hyperbeam shit in name, the animation is equivalent to your braindead level 1 Wartortle you stole from your big brother's SD performing tackle.

Leveling itself is now just an accessory as your characters will level up from 1 to 200 in probably three battles, allowing you to do a mediocre 32k damage by chapter 1-1. There's not even an experience bar anymore since all the leveling is relegated to the post battle screen where you watch the numbers rapidly climb higher and higher in order to compensate for your ever dwindling IQ after seeing the congratulations screen.

The only good thing I can say to distract from the amount of classes being cut in half, special mechanics being removed, and a useless senate, is that the 2d art for the portraits is still wonderful and the dialogue/story is still just as cringingly ridiculous as ever.

You can really tell they rushed this game

-The characters and story are really lame even for Disgaea standards
-They removed like half of the classes from Disgaea 5
-They removed the different genders for the humanoid classes
-The leveling system is bloated
-Auto battle needs to be nerfed
-Xp share needs to be nerfed, the game is almost brain dead
- weak map design

I saw translated Japanese reviews for disgaea 7 and it was more positive so i guess they learn their lesson

I did not beat the main story but with 60+ hours I can safely say this is the worst Disgaea I've played. The story and characters aren't engaging at all which is a shame because the artwork is always good. The designs are fine. On the surface this should be a decent Disgaea experience but it's not.

I have no issues with the 3D models but everything else is executed so poorly. Including the models! Not because they are 3D but because the animations for them are rehashed and they never have any unique ones. If they were going to nuke the game of so much character in place of the new look at least commit to it.

Speaking of 3D models, I'm assuming the change is why the Switch version nearly combusts when playing. I can;t speak for others bit the performance varied every time I loaded the game. A lot of overheating and stuttering just walking around the overworld. In battles it was worse.

Many of the staple Disgaea classes have been removed from this game for whatever reason. And they removed a lot of fun mechanics prior to Disgaea games just to add in a play itself feature. I don't mind the option but with everything else gutted what would be the point of it? The game seems to want to have f2p mobile mechanics but charge retail.

One positive is I like the reincarnation feature, I think this had potential to really be unique to this game but like everything else it feels bare bones and executed poorly.

Insult to injury, when it finally hit steam Nippon Ichi set it for $70. Same game with maybe a few dlc characters/color palletes. Not sure if they fixed anything because I wasn't paying that price.

No clue what Nippon Ichi was thinking with this one but this ain't it. Hope whenever Disgaea 7 releases that they learned from this one.