Disgaea 7 is the worst Disgaea game narrative wise, even worse than D2.

[kandnm115709]

Which is an achievement, given D2 barely has any story at all.

Not only the story is super basic and unashamedly trope-y, each characters were literally one dimensional with a single quirk as a personality. The worst ones are Higan and the robot kid I can't even be bothered to remember his name.

The dumbest thing about this game's setting is that it can't even adhere to it's own lore about how being evil is a virtue in the Netherworld. I know it happened in every Disgaea game but the "power of friendship" trope were written to be taken seriously in this game. It's just so stupid.

I can forgive Disgaea 5's anime cheesiness with Killia being a broody and edgy MC trying to save Lieze from another just as dark and edgy antagonist in Void Dark but Fuji is a cookie cutter MC with no personality other than "I'm allergic to kindness because I'm a demon", "I like to fight because I'm a demon", "I love money because I'm a demon" and "I'm actually a nice guy inside even though I'm a demon". The bit about how Fuji vomits blood every time someone shows empathy around him got old fast.

[Astasia]

It's pretty good, I'd definitely put it up there as one of the best stories in the series. I'm not certain it's better than D1, but I don't know how much of that is rose colored glasses. I'm not really convinced you've played through the entire story, as you don't own the game here and it sounds like you have completely missed the mark on some of what you said. It feels more like you watched a little of the game streamed and are trying to convince yourself not to buy it. Good luck with that.

[Mechanicalfanboy]

D1 is still the best narratively imo because it played to the expectations of an average (s)rpg player. I don't think it's easy to recreate that magic without falling into other tropes (I'd even argue the "issue" we have with newer Disgaea titles narratively is that they're trying to do it to anime storylines instead to mixed at best effect.)

That said, I do think D7 went back to it's roots with the stories in between episodes. Silly and yet referential to other works if you know them.

On a whole I personally enjoyed the story and I don't think it's any worse than say D5 or 6.

[The Phoenix]

Originally posted by Astasia:

It's pretty good, I'd definitely put it up there as one of the best stories in the series. I'm not certain it's better than D1, but I don't know how much of that is rose colored glasses. I'm not really convinced you've played through the entire story, as you don't own the game here and it sounds like you have completely missed the mark on some of what you said. It feels more like you watched a little of the game streamed and are trying to convince yourself not to buy it. Good luck with that.

yeah, I don't know why it triggers him that much while I have a great time with the cast. Maybe JP's VA would be favorably better with my experience but I don't know. I can feel there are depths beneath Fuji and Pirilika (even though I'm not done with the story yet lol).

[SivartStoneheart]

Disgaea changes its lore and power scaling every time. But Disgaea goal is humor and gameplay so I over look it most of the time. Disgaea 6 was a ♥♥♥♥ show for lore, power scaling, humor and gameplay

Robot kid was wrong all the time and annoying but the prototype had a reason to be there in the story. Robot kid was no Thursday; even had different mechanics(made him worse).

Higan, ya...

[matthew]

After finishing the story, it wasn't bad, mechanics are good, but I still feel 5 is the better game all around. Even if 5 had a weakish story. Never played 6, skipped because of bad reviews.

Loved D1, but will never play again, too backward now, and with the enhancements of 5 and 7 not present. a major slog. But D1 did have a great story. 4 was ok as well. but in general, I still say 5 is better then 7, mechanics wise. Apart from the pirates. I had great fun playing 5.

[Veylox]

Disagreed, it's one of the best by far narratively, from writing to character-design. It's bad, obviously, but still better than most of the series. D7 is the only game I genuinely found funny, especially in the earlier chapters, Pirilika was a strong character and carries the game in terms of personality, she reminds me of Flonne a lot, C4 was strong until she became annoying, the whole One Piece parody was fun with good twists, and Fuji is much less quirky than I anticipated, much less annoying than edgelord Killia for example. Though it does dip at some point and some of the already unfunny stuff overstays its welcome. I thought the blood-spitting thing would stay a quirk on the side and seeing it become an actual plot point was... not impressive.

[Casual Amateur]

I find it to amusing to think it bad for Disgaea 7. Even though story mainly focused on gathering all weapon things and take out bad guy.

When compare to Disgaea 6. Their story is way to simple. Most of the time you be dealing with God Of Destruction any way. Also the person user trying to save also turn into a God Of Destruction. Later you find out that main character is a reincarnation of God Of Destruction.

[Deathraven13]

Yeah D6 had a better story than D7, but let's be real they don't care about the story they want to take 100$-130$ from people.

[Cryswar]

I really didn't care for Fuji either, just a bunch of dumb memes and gimmicks, but I thought the overall cast was one of the strongest of any Disgaea game. Everyone has a reason to be there, everyone contributes, and I thought they were all pretty likeable, with good development over time.

If anything, Pirilika is the main character and Fuji is just the token annoying character of the game, most of series has at least one.