Now that a remake of Disgaea 1 will be released, I think it's fair to say that it would be a good place to start once it's out.

Playing through the story doesnt take that long its more the post game that is very time consuming

Started with 2, and I have to say that it's easily the best starting point, because it has the most streamlined experience of the early games and general structure of the games. Also the story is the best hands down.

From someone that loves disgaea: Start from anywhere and dont give up just because its looks slow, believe me any grind on disgaea its worth it!

If you wonder where to start, you got to go further back, back BEFORE Disgaea... La Pucelle: Tactics!

Coming from a Veteran: litterally anywhere. Just... don't use the dlc. They spoil alot of stuff.

Etna is best girl

I've never played the disgaea series before. I did played a demo of the 5th one on the switch, and now I want to play every single one! Thank you for this video, this really help me out.

Fan Prinny here ?

Disgaea 4 for the Super Hero and Prism Rangers character classes. Hands down the Super Hero and Prism Rangers character classes make Disgaea 4 worth playing.

"A game of chess gone mad..."

This reminded me I have Disgaea 4 for PS3 sitting on my shelf and I should definitely play it.

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I grew up with disgaea Ds and it was amazing.

If you think you might want to play all of them, I highly recommend just playing them in order of release.

The original is still my favorite. I liked the characters and story best (2nd place probably Disgaea 4). Also, I really liked that you could clear a level (esp item world) by clearing the geo panels. That was fun and rewarding for me, and allowed me to go way past my level into item world and get some kick-ass items. In later Disgaeas they greatly nerf the damage from geo panels - it will still do significant damage to the enemies, but it's unlikely to kill them. I also liked being able to throw an enemy onto a geo symbol to start the chain. As for not being able to complete item world levels, I found that to be pretty rare, and that's what Mr. Gency Exits are for.

the first one is literally the only answer to this question. Laharl, Flonne, Etna are core characters to know. That and the games get more and more stuff added in over time and will be far too overwhelming for a newer player. After the 1st one, then you could pretty easily go to any other one.

I come back to this video every now and again even though ive been pretty familiar with this series for a decent number of years now, this is just such a nice video to keep in mind when friends ask me about starting the series

disgaea 2 also has the dark world. a unique way of training and getting good items. it also introduced the land of carnage, which was featured in some of the other disgaea games

This is a great idea for a series, thank you! About time someone did this sort of thing.