I kicked off today’s Disgaea 2 session by opening the Dark World, just for kicks, though I won’t actually work on it until later on.

Chapter 11 was a bit odd in that a bunch of the battles had no story development at all; you were just dumped straight into them and returned immediately to the village afterwards, making them feel a bit like padding. It also ended with another forced loss, but I at least managed to steal a couple of really good items (Testament and an Orion Belt) in the process. Here was also where I could see one of the possible endings to the game by actually beating Laharl, which I could do with my level 9999 neko, but doing so ends the game rather unsatisfyingly of course…

Chapter 12 was a bit annoying in that the maps were made up of crystalline slabs and it was difficult to tell what was connected to what, but it wasn’t too notable otherwise, aside from a revelation at the end about Adell’s parents that I should have seen coming a mile away.

And finally, chapter 13 was a fairly straightforward series of tougher battles, though they were still fairly easy with my powerlevelled crew. It ended with a fight against ‘Zenon’ and another revelation about Rozalin that I didn’t expect, but makes sense in hindsight. And so ended the main Disgaea 2 story.

There’s still more to do, of course — the Disgaea series is infamous for having almost *too much* to do. The post-ending save starts you over at the beginning again and I have to reopen all of the battle areas, but I get to keep all of my characters’ stats and items. I still have to do the Cave of Ordeals, Dark World, get legendary high-rank items, kill the Item Gods in their item world, create a Majin now that I’ve unlocked its class, reincarnate and unlock the best tiers of all of the classes, see the alternate endings, unlock some more special Dark Assembly bills, find the pirates in an item world, do the Land of Carnage, work on felonies…

I have no idea how much of that I’ll actually do though, as other games await to be played, and I’ll probably put this one aside for now. Time to do something a bit different.

But in parting…