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Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice (PS3)

Story: Disgaea 3 takes place at Netherworld school Evil Acadamy. Its a school for demons. Those that go to class are do work are the bad delinquents while those that do whatever they want are honor students. The main character, Mao, for example is the number 1 freshmen honor student because he has never gone to school, sits in his room and plays video games or watches animes all day, and he's never even washed his hands. Mao wants to defeat his father, the Overlord, because his father acidentally broke his Slaystation 3 game system with over 4 million hours of play time.(damn he's an accomplished gamer) He's a self-proclaimed genius, boasting a 1.8 million EQ,(Evil Quotient, meant to be a demon's IQ) and he generelly thinks he's better then everybody. He's been researching stories on who beats Overlords(his research being games, animes and comic books) and his research shows that it's the Hero that always defeats the Overlord. Thus the greatest honor student sets out to commit one of the greatest acts of delinquency ever; become a hero. Along the way he'll meet up with Almaz, a human that wants to be a hero, Rasberyl, the greatest delinquent at Evil Acadamy, Chef Champloo, the Home Ec. teacher, and Saphire, the princess of the world Almaz comes from. Mao will have to learn what a hero truly is in his quest and face many difficulties like the class leader elections(all out war) or the PTA(Perfectly Trained Assassins) in order to finally achieve his goal and become defeat his dad the greatest Overlord that ever lived. 9/10

Gameplay: Disgaea 3 has the most indepth gameplay of all. With new abilities and skills as well as new map effects such as the Absolute panel or the Enemy Turbo panel, it's need for strategy is significantly higher. The game isn't as 'open' as the other two and players new to SRPG's are not advised. But otherwise it keeps the same ideals as the other two; level characters up to insane levels, customize your equipment and specials and take advantage of stages to win. The game also introduces the 'Classroom' mechanic. This lets you arrange your characters for better combo potential or to share powers and abilities. There's also 'clubs' to take advantage of arrangements such as offering better exp. gain for being positioned in a certain way, or to give a special ability when a character is surrounded by specific others. The strategy is deeper then ever before and will push the brain to its limits at times, but if you can handle it then you'll be rewarded with a very fun experience. 9/10

Sound: Perfect. Everything sounds exactly how you'd want or expect. The music always fits the mood. And if your willing to work for it, you can unlock the ability to change the ingame music. But you gotta have patience and a lot of ingame cash. But that's just an extra for the truely dedicated fans. 10/10

Graphics: Much of the same. There's a slight increase from 2 to 3 but its hardly noticable. Don't get me wrong the graphics are great. Its just they could've been so much better if more work was put into taking advantage of the PS3's graphics processor. Great, but should've been better. 6/10

Replayability: 3 has the best replay value of all. It has more secrets to find, more things to level, and more things to collect. Plus it has downloadable content through the PSN(costs money) giving even more to do. One downloadable feature is an online ranking survival challenge which has you going through endless stages to last as long as you can. Those that reach a certain point even get a couple special gifts like new items or characters. There's enough to keep even the hardcore fans stuck playing for years on end. 10/10

Final Score: 44/50