Trillion is what I would consider to be "double-niche", as it is a mish-mash of (mainly) two genres: SRPG and Raising Simulator. About 80% of this game is navigating menus and reading the VN-style cutscenes as you train and raise Affection with the Overlord of your choosing (at least for the first 3, the rest after that are in a set order). The other 20% is mystery-dungeon-like gameplay where you navigate on a grid through the Valley of Swords for training or to fight Trillion; anytime YOU move, the enemies will make a move of some sort as well, each move you make being a "turn."
For your very first run, I'd STRONGLY encourage you to forego any sort of guides and just do it blindly and take your best whack at Trillion that you can, because while there are various ways to go about defeating him, there's a pretty easy way to do it that will suck all the fun out of trying all sort of different playstyles. I had originally played this on the PSVita and, after my first run or so, could no longer play it due to it crashing all the time. I picked it up again on Steam and I'm pretty glad I did. In addition to the bugs from the Vita version being next-to-non-existent, I thoroughly enjoyed the story and getting the 10 different endings. There's plenty of everything to go around here: comedic relief bits, fanservice, and heart-wrenching despair as you watch the Overlord, that you trained and who fell in love with you, get eaten like yesterday's leftover potato casserole. If you have the fortitude and willpower for grinding, there's a nice bit to be appreciated by 100%-ing this. That being said, if you just picked this up for cheap on a Steam sale, I'd say just play two or three runs, making your final run the True Ending run for good measure so you get the closure you, and anyone else playing this, would deserve.
An interesting fact about this game is that while it was developed by Compile Heart, quite a few Disgaea staffers were on board with the project, such as the director of Disgaea 4, Masahiro Yamamoto, and the composer for Phantom Brave and Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, Tenpei Sato. Sato's signature style is very present here, as just like in Disgaea, you'll find yourself humming the tracks that play in the menus, when fighting Trillion, etc. even long after you've been done playing the game.
I very rarely 100% games. I've only ever 100%'d three games in my life, but this one was worth it to me. Getting to see each Overlord's ending, and watch them die again and again and again and again all for the climax in the true final chapter was all-too satisfying.
(I hope you'll allow it, but I simply copy-pasted the review I had already written for this game on Steam)
For your very first run, I'd STRONGLY encourage you to forego any sort of guides and just do it blindly and take your best whack at Trillion that you can, because while there are various ways to go about defeating him, there's a pretty easy way to do it that will suck all the fun out of trying all sort of different playstyles. I had originally played this on the PSVita and, after my first run or so, could no longer play it due to it crashing all the time. I picked it up again on Steam and I'm pretty glad I did. In addition to the bugs from the Vita version being next-to-non-existent, I thoroughly enjoyed the story and getting the 10 different endings. There's plenty of everything to go around here: comedic relief bits, fanservice, and heart-wrenching despair as you watch the Overlord, that you trained and who fell in love with you, get eaten like yesterday's leftover potato casserole. If you have the fortitude and willpower for grinding, there's a nice bit to be appreciated by 100%-ing this. That being said, if you just picked this up for cheap on a Steam sale, I'd say just play two or three runs, making your final run the True Ending run for good measure so you get the closure you, and anyone else playing this, would deserve.
An interesting fact about this game is that while it was developed by Compile Heart, quite a few Disgaea staffers were on board with the project, such as the director of Disgaea 4, Masahiro Yamamoto, and the composer for Phantom Brave and Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, Tenpei Sato. Sato's signature style is very present here, as just like in Disgaea, you'll find yourself humming the tracks that play in the menus, when fighting Trillion, etc. even long after you've been done playing the game.
I very rarely 100% games. I've only ever 100%'d three games in my life, but this one was worth it to me. Getting to see each Overlord's ending, and watch them die again and again and again and again all for the climax in the true final chapter was all-too satisfying.
(I hope you'll allow it, but I simply copy-pasted the review I had already written for this game on Steam)