Nowgamer: Disgaea 4 PS3 Review

Few franchises do as good a job of sending up gaming conventions as Disgaea. Since Laharl derided the series’ first major antagonist and renamed him Mid-Boss, the grid-based Netherworld has been packed with sly jabs at common tropes, unexpected outbursts of creative vulgarity, frequent disregard for the fourth wall and even referential pops at Disgaea’s own trappings as a strategy game.