Actual Disgaea review TBD on the PS2 entry.
Fun game, but a disappointing idea of what a "Refine"'d or Complete edition should be. Assets are reused and classes are swapped with modern variants, voice audio seems to remain crunchy, and since this is blatantly built upon the PC edition, there are not many QoL changes that aren't just what you'd expect for a game coming from later on in the 2000s compared to the earlier side. Additional action voices, making postgame units NOT just be Monster classes and some other balancing nitpicks would really make this game great for everyone to indulge in, but alas, NIS chose to do the mechanical minimum, perhaps out of laziness or perhaps out of preservation. There certainly could've been much more added to be on par with the other Complete ports, but as it stands, D1C is just Disgaea PC with an "HD" texture pack, really. Cool to replay, but I'm not sure if there's anything explicitly worth playing this over the PC version in terms of QoL since I haven't touched the latter. Disgaea on the go is very nice for item world runs, but the postgame is probably the shortest in the series as I've killed max Prinny Baal in record time. Apparently Mobile has a cheat shop that isn't in the console version for whatever reason. Get it if it ever goes on sale.
Etna Mode, while super short, is very fun. Some of the English VA can be corny as hell but her newer VA is always a treat.
Fun game, but a disappointing idea of what a "Refine"'d or Complete edition should be. Assets are reused and classes are swapped with modern variants, voice audio seems to remain crunchy, and since this is blatantly built upon the PC edition, there are not many QoL changes that aren't just what you'd expect for a game coming from later on in the 2000s compared to the earlier side. Additional action voices, making postgame units NOT just be Monster classes and some other balancing nitpicks would really make this game great for everyone to indulge in, but alas, NIS chose to do the mechanical minimum, perhaps out of laziness or perhaps out of preservation. There certainly could've been much more added to be on par with the other Complete ports, but as it stands, D1C is just Disgaea PC with an "HD" texture pack, really. Cool to replay, but I'm not sure if there's anything explicitly worth playing this over the PC version in terms of QoL since I haven't touched the latter. Disgaea on the go is very nice for item world runs, but the postgame is probably the shortest in the series as I've killed max Prinny Baal in record time. Apparently Mobile has a cheat shop that isn't in the console version for whatever reason. Get it if it ever goes on sale.
Etna Mode, while super short, is very fun. Some of the English VA can be corny as hell but her newer VA is always a treat.