Exceeds expectations for UI

There’s so many lazy ports to mobile floating around, but the revamped mobile UI in this game is a great example of how to translate a console game into something intuitive. Lots of new tappable icons and context-sensitive controls. The hub world opens up “hot key” icons for shops in chapter 2, so you can really streamline the experience from that point. Only major complaint at the moment is how clunky it is to go from “move character” to “select that character’s action”. Hopefully it’ll get a patch for that, though it’s not game breaking. Autobattle is a treasure for Mobile. Disgaea was already widely known as the game which learned how to make grinding/character raising as interesting and fun as possible. But now they’ve added it in full to the best platform for idle games and tossed a solid autobattle option into it! It’s a match made in grinding heaven... or netherworld as the case may be.

Love It So Far

As a long-term fan of Disgaea games, I’m loving it so far. Very polished. Works great on my iPad Pro. The user interface is fantastic. The fonts are fairly tiny but still crisp and easy to read. I worried about this because there’s a lot of info to display in these games and my eyesight isn’t what it once was. Whew! Surprisingly, it’s actually readable on my phone too. Go figure. It is such a refreshing change from all the freeware crap out there with IAP (pardon my language). Well worth the money for a game that may no doubt amuse me for hundreds of hours. Two thumbs up! Review subject to change as I get further in, but I am very optimistic! Been playing for about an hour. Absolutely no complaints so far. Exceeds my expectations! Beautiful graphics, wonderful music/sound, great voice dialogue, and excellent nearly endless and deep RPG game play!! Yes!!!

Awful Controls and Glitchy Auto Battle

Disgaea is a great game, but unfortunately the mobile implementation does it no favors for reasons that should have been blatantly obvious during development. The touch controls are way too janky, which might be mitigated by auto battle feature, if auto battle worked as advertised. Setting gate priority doesn’t actually target the gate until your char has killed like half the map in the item world. Even with gate priority on and a gate reachable on the very first turn, your character will run past it to fight some random mob and get swarmed first. Even at this price point I would have gotten Disgaea 4 now that it’s out if it weren’t for these issues, but nope, looks like they repeated their mistakes all over I can’t figure out for the life of me why they didn’t include a dpad option for the control scheme, 90% of the free junk in the App Store has it and yet a full console port can’t?

Exceeds all Expectations

What a delight this is. Not only is Disgaea a particularly delightful game of its genre (get it without hesitation if you have interest in these titles and haven’t played it), Disgaea Complete for iOS an exceptional port, including new features and luxuries, and is packed with quality of life improvements which help to bring an otherwise aged game into modern enjoyment. But, what really surprised me, is the interface for this otherwise complicated game (in terms of inputs) has been skillfully and effectively reworked across the board for fast, intuitive, and reliable touch interaction. New interfaces have been created to solve problems that would have otherwise existed in an adaptation. I am thoroughly impressed. This is the sort of premium title which I sincerely wished was more commonplace on the App Store. Designed with love and care for this specific interface, free of all the F2P hurdles which drag games and game design into the mud, and solidly a delight from start to finish. I do hope it is successful at this opening price point because this sort of release has been rather unprecedented in the App Store and it would be nice if that changed. And I’d love to see some other popular titles from this developer. Great job!

Rating the App, not the game

Disgaea is hands down my favorite tactical RPG. Story, characters, game mechanics. I find them all very enjoyable. I’ve bought the game on multiple platforms and would do it again. My problem is the app itself. The most important and biggest problem I have is the game crashing. I’ve installed updates, rebooted, lowered graphic settings, and the game still crashes. Other things that could use some touching up is streamlining movement during combat while using the touch screen and viewing enemy stats. Perhaps for movement there can be a drag function... may help. Maybe a press and hold on an enemy to view its movement range and stat sheet; clicking anything else afterwords would back out of that. UI... I honestly feel that a lot of the item equipping and such can be consolidated down to one tab. No reason to have a separate stat page and a separate equip page. Also, when looking at the mentor pupil page it lists no character name, so I have to select the stat tab just to see who I’m viewing. Shop UI, most things are manageable, but the selling is not. It’s nearly unbearable using the touch screen. It’s nice I can sell everything based off of rarity, but there are some common stuff I’d like to keep. It’d be nice to just have the ability to go down my inventory checking things off I’d like to sell. Everything is tolerable; the game crashing is not. It makes it unplayable. Thus, I’m being prevented from playing a game I truly enjoy.

Thank goodness and warning!

Thank you thank you thank you! I have been hoping for this game to come to smart devices. Bring back fond memories and definitely has always been an amazing grind game. But there are two issues that I came across. 1) With auto save/auto battle on in item world, it can overwrite characters. It seems to take any three characters (even a chance of main ones!) and overwrites them with ones you wouldn’t even consider and cannot delete no matter what. Simple solution I found was just to turn off auto save altogether. But it’s still an issue worth addressing. 2) Trying to use a controller is very confusing. Not certain if there is a way to tweak that in settings or anything. As well as only being limited to basic functions. Would be nice if they perfected this portion for a few reasons: grind games should offer a sense of convenience somewhere, controls for touch screens use nearly every corner (can get painful after a while), and being overly dependent on auto battle can almost defeat the purpose of playing the game. Other than that I am very happy that I got this game and I hope you bring more Disgaea in the future.

Amazing!

I have been dying for this game to come out on iOS for years now. I love Disgaea games and thought they would be a perfect fit for iPhone. I have bought this titles thrice now. didn’t even hesitate even with the 30 dollar price tag and this game is amazing. It’s not just a port they flesh it out and feel like it was made for a handheld phone. My only wish is the ability to mute the game sound so I can listen to my audiobook or my own music while playing. I can sink hours into this game but don’t want to have to stop playing to listen to books. The game currently interfere with audio and stops it even if you put all sound at 0 setting. That small grip is my only complaint otherwise this game from what I have played is a perfect 10.

Early Stages, No Apple TV Support

Both myself and the app development are at early stages of the game. I bought it hoping to play it on the big screen using the Apple TV and a controller while at home, and play on the phone while on the road. Unfortunately, this game does not support the Apple TV yet. I am a HUGE FAN of Disgaea series. Meaning my review will be extremely bias 😅 So far, the game is Amazing. I'm playing on an iPhone Xs Max right now. Controls need a little getting used to, but I seem to have full control of the camera and other features using on screen buttons, which is nice. I wonder if gestures would make it better or worse. I noticed that the app store says it works on iPad. I will give that a go. Playing on a 12.9 inch touch screen would be interesting! I hope an update to support the Apple TV is in the works. Again, my point is to play on the big screen at home, and on the phone while I'm out and about. Screen mirroring works. I will attempt using a DualShock controller with the iPhone and screen mirroring! (Does that work? I never tried the iOS 13 feature of gaming controllers) No doubt, this game gets 5 stars from me.

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