Back to Disgaea 2 for a bit, and I finished chapter 3 and made it halfway through 4 today. There was one fairly tough fight against some blob-like creatures that I had to retry, since I didn’t expect their rather nasty area attack.

I also had to get a subpoena and commit a felony, one of the other new features of Disgaea 2, before I could finish off chapter 3. All this really means is that when you fulfill some condition (this starting one was for Tink merely existing), you get sent a subpoena item. Enter the subpoena’s item world, get to the dungeon level the Dark Court is on, and whoever enters it (including lifted stacks of party members) has their felony count increased by one. Besides being necessary to advance at this point, each felony reduces shop prices, increases your influence in the Dark Assembly, and adds 1% to the exp you gain, so they’ll be important for powerlevelling later on.

I also ran into Etna from the original Disgaea, but the battle against her was one you’re basically forced to fail since she’s level 1000 and you’re probably…8. Oh well. Chapter 4 started after that, and Adell’s siblings got kidnapped.

I also noticed that I could unlock a new class, Sinners. Their stats didn’t look very impressive at first, especially since they don’t start out with any special attacks, but then I noticed that they get *four* counterattacks per turn. The highest of any of my other characters is 2, I think.

I ended the night with Adell at level 11 now. I’m not sure if I should carry on or do a bit of grinding, yet. The trend so far is that about half my party (i.e., the weaker members) gets wiped out during the battle, and then the stronger ones left over go on to clean up and get the rest of the xp. It’s hard to get the weaker ones leveled up in the regular battles.