If you don't care about spoiling yourself on the best way to do things efficiently then they're not THAT bad.
Origin plays like an earlier Ys game, it's also prone to bugs and crashes in all versions. However the game is, you select one of the 3 initial characters and the whole game is based around climbing to the top of one big huge tower and that's the whole game. Origins is also not a NIS title, it's DotEmu.
Zhp is a psp game that is pretty much rougelite superhero disgaea
Their IS a central hub in Disgaea/Phantom Brave, it is just small and mostly serves to have shops, recruitment, skill learning, and whatever other autistic mechanics NIS introduced. Soul Nomad, to my recollection has no hub though and is just a world map with points to go to which are effectively the maps. It is decently colorful and characterized, but it is still small and their isn't much to really see after awhile beyond seeing a handful of random NPCs say usually quirky dialogue.
Makai Kingdom is probably the weakest in the Disgaea-like lineup. It is saved by having very fun plot.
Yes both PSP crossbell arc titles are getting released.
Zetta (the main MC) is also played by Takehito Koyasu (Dio's voice actor) and Sheedle by Shouichi Ikeda (Char Aznable's voice actor) which really increased my interest in the game too. The Switch & PC version is based on the japanese-only PSP release which includes a separate mode where you meet Zetta's cute daughter from the future (who is playable as a guest character in Disgaea 5 too).
I think you're talking about La Pucelle: Tactics, a PS2 game where Jennifer Hale plays Priere who's the main character. I only know about this as Priere is a common reoccurring post game/dlc character in Disgaea. I've never played her actual game though, but it is almost as old as Disgaea 1. This game supposedly had an EN release, but like most NIS games (especially back then) it was probably a very low supply and no one knew about it. I saw Soul Nomad maybe twice in my whole life when I got it used the second time I saw it, and Unlosing Ranger was so niche and unknown that I vividly recall when I asked a person at Gamestop if they had the game they looked at me like I was an insane person.
I tried playing through, but lost interest (I think it was too slow). The Ragnarok remake adds a new scenario around demon Priere rather than have her be only a joke ending.
Yup La Pucelle Ragnarok is the updated version which will be packaged with Rhapsody in vol 3
Oh shit good point, I completely forgot about the ds port, I hope it isnt that version
My first Disgaea game was Disgaea DS, it was fine and ran fine. The biggest thing is their is no voice acting in the cutscenes at all, so certain things lose a good amount of punch (Laharl in particular I think loses a good amount with no voice with how iconic his laugh is), but otherwise it is a fine port. I'm pretty sure no other port of Disgaea 1 works like the DS one.
I hope they keep the goofy vocal tracks, I remember X-Play making fun of those.
La Pucelle: Tactics is out of all their games the one I want to play the most, I bought it on PS2 not too long ago and it wasn't expensive, I don't know if that's because it got a decent print run or if it's just because it's so obscure.
