Disgaea 4 is the very first SRPG or even JRPG that really enthralled me. Many people recommend the first game as a starting off point but my stubborn ass jumped straight into 4. After a few hours of scavenging wikis to get to grips with everything, the game just sank its teeth into me and had me hooked for days on end. Weither it was clearing the main story, messing around with the dozen of generic / unique units and seeing what would fit into my party the best , or minmaxing in post game areas or the item world, there is always something worthwhile to do to get stronger. As a first experience , the feeling of learning all of the little tricks to get a leg up like diagonal throws , finding perfect grind spots and tactics or learning duping, it was really magical. That said I couldn't stomach the ridiculous ammount of rng and just plain bullshit to even reach land of carnage and beat baal. Even with an anticlimactic way to end things, D4 made me a genuine fan of everything about the series and is kickstarting my journey to see which entry in the series I'll like the most.

(I totally forgot to mention the story, it was fine, nothing skip worthy mostly thanks to valvatorez and fenrich working off of each other in really cute ways, I even shed a tear at the end with one of the secret epilogues. That said it's really nothing ground breaking and as much as I like my corn, fuka and desco especially became one note joke machines I legit couldn't stand for the two side stories that focused on them.)

Overall, good shit , made a drooling idiot like me care a lot about minmaxing and stats growth , etna is a baddie too.