How to describe Disgaea Infinite? You time travel, you possess people and change their words and actions from time to time. That doesn’t really cover the strangeness of this title.
Let’s start at the beginning. You’re a Prinny working in the castle of Lord Laharl in the Netherworld. It’s a fairly thankless job and if you screw up you’re dead dood. Something happens and Lord Laharl is blown up in an assassination (only he doesn’t die cuz like he’s a lord of the netherworld dood and is probably already dead and stuff). You find a mysterious pocket watch (that sounds strangely like Ed from Cowboy Bebop when it speaks to you telepathically...I told you it was mysterious). Of course the Prinnies are prime suspects and if found guilty will have their pay cut and perhaps even turned negative
so you’re paying just to be allowed to work which means you’ll never save enough to free yourself from the Netherworld. So as a Prinny it’s your job to find the culprit and stop the assassination (or attempted assassination, we’re not exactly clear on that at present).
Yeah, so like I said dood, it’s a strange game.
The whole thing plays out before you in a sort of standard theatrical play as you jump from body to body trying to find out what’s happening and alter your fate, if you’re clever and lucky. There are tons of fruitcake NPCs to meet including a fallen angel, a defender of Earth (#37) an all-purpose, invincible robot and the number one honor roll student in the netherworld (with a 1.8million EQ we’re told).
I don’t know what else to say about the game really so I’ll tell you what I think, I guess dood. First off, they spared no expense in the voice-over department because everyone one of the characters is quite chatty and has their own unique voice. That means you’ve got a lot of listening (and reading) to do. There’s very little in the way of any kind of action but still, it’s strangely entertaining, for the first few hours. It’s almost like watching the same episode of a soap opera over and over again but having the ability to slightly alter the outcome of some scenes so that what happens is exactly what you need to happen, or in this case, not happen (the assassination of Lord Laharl). But many will probably lose interest before managing to solve it.