Well, I’m not sure if I’ll permanently abandon the original, but I’ve at least started a game of Disgaea 2. It still feels pretty much the same in these early stages apart from the new home base, battle maps, UI changes, and the story.

And the story is just nuts so far, with some family who’s been turned into demons except for one kid (you) that remained human, and their three-eyed mother who spent 15 years researching a method to summon the demon overlord that did it to them, except it requires a life sacrifice that the all-too-cheerful mother is only too happy to do to her newer born-as-demon kids, except it screws up and summons the overlord’s daughter instead, and now she’s bound by contract to join my party and take my main character to the overlord, and she tried hitting on him but he said he doesn’t like girls, and now she’s secretly plotting to betray me, except now she’s getting targeted by some other overlord out to defeat her father and I just accidentally murdered some washed up TV star who was doing a travel show and… *whew*

Ah well, so far I’ve done the first chapter, gotten my main character (Adell) up to level 5, passed a ‘more expensive items’ bill in the Dark Assembly, and created a few more characters (a thief, a female fighter, and two more mages to round out the element types).