Disgaea 4
| Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten | |
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| Developer(s) | Nippon Ichi Software |
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| Director(s) | Masahiro Yamamoto |
| Producer(s) | Sohei Niikawa |
| Designer(s) | Masahiro Yamamoto |
| Artist(s) | Takehito Harada |
| Writer(s) | Sohei Niikawa Yamazi Machina |
| Composer(s) | Tenpei Sato |
| Series | Disgaea |
| Engine | PhyreEngine |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita |
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PlayStation 3 PlayStation Vita |
| Genre(s) | Tactical role-playing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 82.53% |
| Metacritic | 80/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| 1UP.com | B- |
| AllGame |   |
| Famitsu | 33/40 |
| GamePro | 4/5 |
| GamesRadar | 8.0/10 |
| GameTrailers | 7.5/10 |
| GameZone | 9/10 |
| IGN | 8.5/10 |
| ZTGameDomain | 9.7/10 |
| PlayStation LifeStyle.net | 9/10 |
| RPGamer | 4.5/5 |
Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten (魔界戦記ディスガイア4 Makai Senki Disugaia Fō?) is a 2011 tactical role-playing video game for the PlayStation 3 and the fourth in the Disgaea series by Nippon Ichi Software. The game tells the story of Valvatorez, a former tyrant leading a party to rebel against the president of the Netherworld. Originally released in February 2011 in Japan, the game was released in September that year in the U.S., with a European and Australian release in November. A western release of the Vita rendition of Disgaea 4, subtitled A Promise Revisited, was released in North America and Europe in August 2014.
Combat is carried out in a turn-based strategy fashion. Allies can be deployed into combat, each with their own special skills and "Evilities", additional abilities that are applied to every character. Enemies and allies may be picked up and thrown, just like previous Disgaea games. However, Disgaea 4 adds a new feature to its grabbing system, allowing any friendly character on the field to pick up another adjacent friendly character, and continuously pick up allies, in a tower fashion. When in the tower formation, the movement range of the stacked characters increase. The bottom character of the tower can also throw the tower ahead of him/her to further increase movement distance. Special abilities may be activated while in tower formation, such as specific team attacks and the ability to obtain items normally unreachable due to a wall.
Friendly monsters can be Magichanged by unique characters to become weapons. A new function has also been added called "Demon Fuse". With Demon Fuse, the player can join two monsters to form a giant version of the combined monsters, as well as increasing statistics. Demon Fused monsters can be Magichanged as well, and the result is a giant weapon, to correspond with the size of the Demon Fused monster.
Valvatorez owns a hub location known as "Hades". Here, equipment can be purchased or sold, specific functions can be carried out, the player can travel to other locations to advance the story, and such. Unlike previous Disgaea hub towns, Hades comes with the ability to be rearranged to the player's liking, as well as changing the appearance.
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