My favorite Disgaea game. It's like a $60 AFK game, but it doesn't shove microtransactions in your face. They technically exist, but they aren't needed whatsoever. The entire game is built around this concept working, and the actual gameplay comes second to the endless micromanagement. skills, quests, reincarnation, evilities, item world research, this that and the other thing. there is so much busywork... and I for one welcome it. I definitely believe that in ways it betrays the core conceit of Disgaea, which is supposed to be Final Fantasy Tactics on crack, but I was just never #Gamer enough to be able to hack it at these games, while at the same being in love with the stories and aesthetics of the worlds in these games. I've never been able to properly play one of these games through their main story, and that's been a perpetual frustration of mine. D3 is my other fav and i haven't made it past chapter 8. And ykno I don't think the other games are bad for being so complicated -- that's what they're about after all, and they have their demographic -- but I do like this game for being accessible to me personally.