Disgaea 4: A Promise Revisited
Complex strategy game has captivating play, edgy content.
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Disgaea 4: A Promise Revisited
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A Lot or a Little?
The parents' guide to what's in this game.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that Disgaea 4: A Promise Revealed is a strategy role-playing game in which players team up with a group of allies to take on an evil force in the underworld. Players engage in turn-based combat where battles play out like a board game. The focus is more on the required strategy elements than the violence itself, although there are combat animations that include slow-motion flourishes and other effects (screaming sounds, for example). Parents also need to know that there's sexually suggestive material (female characters with exposed cleavage, references to "perverts" and "sexual harassment") and coarse language ("s--t," "ass"). In addition, there's one story sequence in which characters discuss an unknown substance that "makes you feel like you can fly." During this scene, one character says, "Just say no, kids ... Bad drugs!"
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What’s It About?
In DISGAEA 4: A PROMISE REVISITED, players begin the game in Hell. Literally. The story starts off in the bowels of the underworld (referred to in the game as Hades), where Valvatorez, the central character, plugs away at his menial 9-to-5 job. That is, until he learns of a government plot for the mass extinction of a group of Hades dwellers known as Prinnies. Thus begins a long and winding adventure for Valvatorez and several allies who join him along the way. As players progress, they discover that there's an even more enormous plot of destruction underway, and time is running out before the entire planet -- and beyond -- will face certain doom.
Is It Any Good?
Disgaea 4: A Promise Revisited won't be for everyone. It has a bizarre, twisting storyline that seems almost purposefully intended to confuse anyone who tries to follow along. It also has a very complex turn-based battle system, and it's not uncommon to spend half an hour or more on some of the more difficult battles, making it appealing only to players who are willing to invest a significant amount of time and focus.
That said, for those who fit that description, Disgaea 4 delivers wholeheartedly. This title is a gem among a dying genre, and anyone who wants to truly get lost in a captivating tale will appreciate all the effort put into every aspect of this game.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about whether or not the impact of violent content in Disgaea 4: A Promise Revisited is lessened by the detached nature of the battles. Do you think this game focuses more on the violence or the complex strategy involved during combat?
When the odds are stacked against you -- in this game and in life -- how do you react? Do you fight back against these odds (either literally or figuratively), or do you run away?
Game Details
- Platform: PlayStation Vita
- Subjects: Language & Reading: following directions, reading, reading comprehension
- Skills: Emotional Development: empathy, moving beyond obstacles, persevering
- Pricing structure: Paid
- Available online?: Not available online
- Publisher: NIS America
- Release date: August 12, 2014
- Genre: Role-Playing
- Topics: Magic and Fantasy, Princesses, Fairies, Mermaids, and More, Adventures, Brothers and Sisters, Monsters, Ghosts, and Vampires, Pirates
- ESRB rating: T for Animated Blood, Drug Reference, Fantasy Violence, Language, Suggestive Themes
- Last updated: August 25, 2016
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