Disgaea Infinite LP - Time traveling and mind control dood!

Hi everyone, this is my fist LP and I hope I don't fail miserably at it!
I would be glad if you could tell me if you think I use too much screenshots, if there are some that doesn’t show, if I’m boring, unfunny, etc...
I’ll warn you beforehand, updates may be slow since it’s the first time I try to do something like this.

I'm going to play Disgaea Infinite.


Here’s what Wikipedia has to say about this game:

If you are not familiar with the Disgaea universe, I think this game won’t make so much sense as to someone who is. I’ll try to give as much explanation as possible but I promise nothing because I’m really familiar with all this. This game is also full of spoilers for the original Disgaea game since it takes place after it. You have been warned ;)

It’s been a while since I last played this (I played when it came out in North America, got all the endings and didn’t touch it since) so I pretty much completely forgot everything that happens.

It might be screenshot and/or text heavy because, as part of the Disgaea series, EVERY TINY SILLY DETAIL might be plot important and play some part later in the game. I also have this tendency where I want to show everything so I'm prone to take more screenshots than really necessary.

So, what are we waiting for? Let's start this!



Let me introduce our charming protagonist: Prinny! Lovely little penguin-ish character that he is.



So now we know that because our random stranger did very bad choices (i.e. he was a criminal/sinner/something along those lines) in his life he is now reincarnated in a Prinny. Prinnies have to pay back their crimes by earning enough money through work. Oh! And Prinnies like to say “dood”. A lot.

So our protagonist is being a slave working in Lord Laharl’s Castle.

Prinny: 20 hour shifts, 365 days a year, and the wage sucks. The Netherwold standard, dood.

In the Netherworld THIS is standard work conditions. But what is a little slavery over paying for your redemption, huh?



So while our Prinny is on cleaning duty and pick up trash on the floor, he bumps into something.


Oupsie oups... Seems our protag will get in a bit of trouble.
Etna is pretty pissed off by that fact she was just called a billboard.

Yup, he’s definitely in trouble!
Prinny tries to excuse himself and implore Etna to refrain from killing him... and to not lower his already poor salary.

Etna: Too demandind, Prinny!
Prinny: That was just two things, dood! Well, then, don’t lower my salary...

Money over his own life? Seems legit! Etna thinks this is interesting too and got an idea

(Look at her face, I have a really bad feeling about this...)

(Hahaha, I knew it! Keep in mind he needs Hell (HL, the Netherworld currency) to pay back his crimes and finally rest in peace so that’s horrible XD)
When Prinny exclaim that this is, indeed, a horrible thing to do, Etna change her mind because she’s in a good mood. Prinny doesn’t have much time to rejoice though:

This isn’t going to end well...



R.I.P. Prinny, ‘twas fun knowing you, even for such a short time.
Etna leaves and after some time passes, Prinny regain consciousness. Well it wouldn’t be much of a game if our protagonist died in the prologue, would it?

Seems like Etna REALLY WAS in a good mood and just gave him a near dead experience without killing him.

(I'll have to separate my progress until now because I have too much screenshots, so expect 5 or 6 more posts in a few minutes.)

Oh-ho! I don't own a PSP, but I quite like the Disgaea series, so I'm thrilled to see this, dood!

Enter another character:


(That’s not really a nice thing to say, Prinny. You just woke up from being almost dead so I’ll forgive you this time)
Flonne thinks that was really rude too and dear Prinny just keeps on aggravating his case by saying he just observed a fact and not saying it to pisses her off.
Because Flonne is... Flonne, she says it would be wrong to let Prinny die and decides to keep this conversation a secret from Etna.

(Ok, some explanations are needed here. This VN takes place after the original Disgaea game where Flonne went from being an angel to a fallen angel. So, Flonne should be wearing her fallen angel costume instead of this one.)
Flonne explain that she can wear her angel costume since she passed “the first stage of the Angel Exam” and have now a permit.

Seems like anybody who wants to become an angel can do so by passing exams, completing field work, doing training course and graduating.
Prinny ask Flonne if she is planning to return to Celestia (where the angels live) soon then. She didn’t even think about that and wonder if she will be able to get mail-order packages from the Netherworld even in Celestia. She goes on about how she’s now addicted to those items and is supposed to receive some rare mail-order DVD today.



Yup, pudding.
So this pudding is super rare because instead of the usual one that are mass produced (10,000 each day), this one is a limited edition and there’s only 100 like this produced a day.

And that’s a pretty legit concern considering how Laharl can be egoistic and childish.

Flonne: Shh! The existence of the pudding is secret! You better not tell anyone about this.

Annnnnnd, there she goes threatening poor Prinny that if he tells anyone, she will report their previous conversation to Etna.
Like the good Prinny that values his life he is, he promise to keep quiet about this.

Prinny : No wonder she only has a permit...
(Well, what did you expect? She WAS a fallen angel not too long ago!)
Flonne leaves the room.


(Uh-oh...)

(I’m really disappointed there Prinny, seems like you do not value your life that much after all!)

Off screen voice (you can pretty much guess who it is, right?): Really now... This is a secret, why?


(STOP DIGGING YOUR OWN GRAVE! Stop blabbering! What about you promise to Flonne?)

SEE? Worst possible person to ears about the pudding, and you just told him!
Naturraly, Prinny is pissing in his pants at this fact, asking him if he was there the whole time.
And here’s his answer:


(I wish you could just ear his laugh. THAT LAUGH.)
So, Prinny tells the truth : He don’t know.
Laharl decides that he just have to find it then. Prinny is still flipping his shit about all this, begging him to refrain from searching for it. Do I really have to precise that Laharl doesn’t listen at all and command the entire Prinny Squad to follow him to elaborate a searching plan?




(I’m with you on this one, other Prinnies)

Well, if you say it like that... And with a threat of having their salary cut, the Prinnies agree to cooperate and leave the room.


Those are pretty legitimate worries.
But enough of the worries about pudding! Prinny sees that Laharl’s room is as messy as usual so he decides to clean a bit since he is on cleaning duty anyway.

(Don’t ask me, I’m asking myself the same exact thing)

Always important to keep in mind. If you anger Etna, she will probably kill you.

Laharl, on the other hand, will destroy a world to punish you.

After a bit of cleaning, Prinny find this:

OH! A pocket watch. Such a shame it doesn’t work anymore. Prinny decides to keep it and tries to fix it. Weird noises come out of it and NOW IT TALKS!




(Nooo! Don’t let the buzzing hypnotize you!)

(Too late.)

~~~
Time passes and Laharl is back to wake up unconscious Prinny. And he isn’t happy.

Back to pudding!
So Prinny freaks out, saying he is on it, he trips on some weapons still lying on the floor and manage to go flying through the window. (I didn't take a screenshot of it, but those little animations are really funny!)
He is now semi unconscious outside the castle.


And so we are treated to another beautifully evil laugh, thanks to Laharl. (We can fear for the worst.)

(Poor Prinny. Here, let me hug you.)



(Humm... Ok? What the hell is going on there?

(Pfff! Poor sweetie, this is not how assassination works. For it to be an assassination and not just an attempt, you have to actually die.)

Back into the castle:


(Silly music in the background makes this line even funnier.)

(I have to agree with you on this Etna. And look at how happy Flonne is.)

(I think you should revise that vocabulary of yours, Laharl. You don’t make much sense to me right now.)

See? Even Flonne thinks the same!
So Laharl ask them if they noticed the explosion.

And he goes on saying it was an attack aimed at him.


(First mention of Jennifer and Thursday, we will meet them later. I’m leaving this here since it may be important for later.)
So Etna tease Laharl that he is too sensitive and nobody would bother trying to assassinate him since it’s too much trouble.
All eyes are on her now. She asks why everyone is looking at her.


(Pfff... now I can’t help but remember how Flonne was all “nin, nin” while sneaking in the castle at the beginning of Disgaea, haha)

Flonne: I’ve been studying for my promotion exam, so I don’t have time for that anyway!

(Nice comeback Etna.)
Laharl: I understand why you would think Etna is suspicious... but I know one thing. Etna is not the assassin!
(I understand too why she can be suspicious, she DID try to wake him up at the beginning of Disgaea by using a shit load of dangerous weapons on him.)

So that’s his explanation of why Etna isn’t the culprit. She wasn’t there to mock him while killing him.

Since Flonne is clumsy and all that, this is the explanation why she isn’t the culprit either.



Cue silly background music!

Laharl thinks that perhaps someone requested the Prinnies to assassinate him so it MUST be them.

(Let’s see what the database has to say about those punishments)





(Pffff... Hahaha! Punishment 108 is so ridiculous!)
Back to our accusation session:
Laharl ask the Prinny responsible to step forward but no one moves.

And then, what kind of punishment will it be? Etna comment on how it would be a waste of energy to kill them all.

(Not enough? Will he torture them instead?)



(Ok, given the Prinnies situation, that count as torture. Laharl’s such a tyrant.)
And it gets better worse: If the Prinnies try to run away, he will capture them and gives them negative salary. (you know, the worst of his 108 punishments.)

(That’s a pretty sadistic choice complimented by an evil laugh, he isn’t an overlord for nothing)
Our protag-Prinny comes back in, in time to ears this.



Prinny wonders if he died and Tick Tock sends him back in time.

So Tick Tock explains that she heard his wish and took his soul back to the oldest restore point he has saved, namely when he found her in Laharl’s bedroom.

(I missed a screen so have a look at the back log)

Now this is where the playthrough begins!
We are now back in time when Laharl’s back in his room, asking for a report as to where the pudding may be hidden. Prinny don’t waste time and, guided by Tick Tock tutorial, he now posses Laharl.




So even if Prinny posses someone, he is only “attached” to this person body. For now at least.
Past-Prinny wakes up and the scene goes the same as last time, he flips his shit and flew right off the window. Laharl comment on how he can’t count on the Prinnies to find the pudding, so he is going to search for himself.

(Priorities, Prinny has them)

Laharl goes back in the Throne room, thinking about interrogating Etna directly.
(That seems like such a good idea. Go tell your vassal you want to steal her things. I’m sure she’ll love it.)


Enter new characters that likes to introduce themselves for no apparent reason when it's not necessary:


We are now introduced to Gordon and Thursday. With Jennifer, that we still haven’t seen yet, they are former heroes from Earth but are now reduced to be Laharl’s vassals due to events that happened in the original game.

(Maybe that’s what will cause the explosion? Or it’s just Tick Tock after-effects? At least, we know something’s weird in his room, in addition to all those dangerous weapons)


So it seems it’s just Tick Tock fault, as I mentioned earlier. Laharl can’t ears her so he comes to his own conclusion:

Gordon doesn’t buy that explanation and decides to go investigate the scene with Thursday.

Laharl: Hey! If you’re going into my bedroom, clean up that Prinny’s mess in there while you’re at it!

(So, I could posses either Gordon or Thursday, but I’ll stick to Laharl for now, because I totally forgot I could switch almost anytime before they left...)

(Last update for tonight)


Laharl continues his quest to find pudding
(OMG! is he related to Oko San? He is obsessed by pudding and has weird logic, even though pretty much every character in Disgaea has questionable logic. He is also prone to throw tantrum. Maybe he is Alternate Universe Oko San soul mate? Cannot unseen.)
So he goes in the Hall, searching for Etna, when he meets his arch nemesis boobies Jennifer.


(Prinny, you’re such a perv. Must I precise that this is already the 100th screenshots?)

Laharl’s weakness REALLY is curvy bodies. He can’t stand them at all.


(Swimming in a pool of blood? Eating/drinking brain goo? YUCK! Jennifer, I didn't know you were so gross.)
Since Laharl didn’t answer her why he is searching for Etna she came to that conclusion. She can’t really be farther from the truth that that.


(Jennifer attacks with Sex-Ed Talk. It’s supper effective!)
Laharl cuts her short, saying he only wants to know where Etna is. Unfortunately Jennifer doesn’t know.

To be continued~~

So guys, because I tend to forget to posses different people before the characters leave the room, I’ll stop there for now.

I leave you the choice of how this LP will be going:
1- I'll let you vote on who to switch to in every event. If you vote for that, let me know if you want me to go back to when I could have possessed Gordon or Thursday, or even Past-Prinny before he flew out the window. This way of playing will most probably lead to non-ending if we are not lucky enough.
2- I'll list all the endings and letting you vote blindly on which to go for, based on its name.

So, how do you want me to LP this?

Option 1, because avoiding ending spoilers... even if it is only just the name.

Also, obligated to change my avatar because of this thread due to AOKFUJAOPHJDFSAOITHFASOPTHWDPTHIWSTHJSDA;JH

Flonne <3

Option one sounds like a good plan to me!

It's been ages since I've played the first one. Good times.

I changed my avatar too. (I had such a hard time choosing one, I like them all!) Also, it's more fitting that the other I had before.

Ooh, I wanna feel included! I'm changing my avatar, too!

... I feel like I missed something, though.

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Oh, right, voting!

Let's go with the option that ends with use failing horribly endlessly in a hopefully hilarious manner! That's the Broken Forum way!

Voting for option 1. The prinny protagonist is now the vessal/avatar of Broken Forums, BE VERY AFRAID

Yay Disgaea!
... I have this game though, so I won't be voting.
If only I wasn't part of Zafehouse I'd switch to an actual Flonne avatar right now..
Though I guess it's gonna be a while until it's my turn again,so I could very well switch..

Option 1!

Though I'm sort of amused at myself for, having read so far, finding myself going "Oh, so THAT'S what was up with Laharl and Etna in Disgaea 2!" rather than, y'know, being excited about the new plot here.

Yes, those who played Disgaea 2 can see where all this silliness about pudding is going.

Let's see the vote results:
5 for option 1
0 for option 2

Now what I need to know is: Who are we possessing next?
A - Go back to a previous save to possess Past-Prinny
B - Go back to a previous save to possess Gordon
C - Go back to a previous save to possess Thursday
D - Possess Jennifer
E - Stay with Laharl

I'll let the vote open until 11:00AM EST time (or until 5:00PM if I get called to work)

D. Then attempt to mentally nudge towards a shower.

D! Because I always felt Jennifer kinda got short shrift in the original game.

Are you kidding? A short shrift would be a huge wardrobe upgrade for her.

;)

D seems to be winning and I sure do like following the crowd. Also Jennifer has a cool spaceship and punches things. Take out some grammar and add a catpelt and she is my favorite Chrono Trigger character.

D~! Be the badass human female

The results are :
4 votes for Jennifer
0 for all the other options

Let's go with her, I'm sure Prinny will like it too!
Expect an update later this afternoon, for now I'll go get something to eat.


Edit: Stuff happened, I didn't have time to play the game at all today.
I had to look at something my mother-in-law wrote to correct it (more like do the fucking text all over again, while screaming things that could translate to "What the hell does she means by THAT?! What is logic, there's no such thing as logic in this! Where is the punctuation? What did the French language did to you for you to hate it this much!? AURGH!") before tomorrow because she'll need this when she'll see her lawyer. I'm not even done yet but I really needed a break before breaking things. Hubby approves of the break too, for he wants me to stay sane and stop shouting.
Ahhh~~ It makes me feel better to write about it. Sorry for the rant though.
I'll play a little tonight to vent some stress and try to update before the week-end.

We’re now switching to Jennifer, and just in time before the scene change.
Jennifer is wondering where Thursday may be when Etna comes in.

(Still thinking Laharl has a “pure motive” for searching Etna, poor you, you’ll be very disappointed if you find the real reason why.)


At least Etna stay true to her awesome sarcastic self.
But then Jennifer asks if she wishes it were true.
Etna: Of course, I am his vassal, after all.
(Oh Etna, even if Laharl is a brat you still care about him. In a somewhat babysitting way, but that’s cute anyway.)

Then Jennifer asks her is she have seen Thursday.

(There’s a database entry for Stupid Laugh?)

(Well, it was nice to know... I think?)


That’s pretty much my cue to posses another character before a scene change.

(Well that was a pretty small update. I think they’ll often be this small since I let you vote for every scene.)

Who do we possess next?
A - Go with Etna
B - Stay with Jennifer

Let's continue with Jennifer. While Etna probably has some stuff that'd be interesting to see going on, she's a bit lacking in the stuff we're with Jennifer to see.

<.< >.>

Disgaea! \( ^o^)/
And I vote stick with Jennifer too. She is going to the most epic parody of American superheroes ever, so we're going too to point and laugh.
I love Gordon~

Jennifer! She was such a non-entity in the game, I want to see what she does with actual screen time.

Jennifer won again!



Let’s recap: Etna ordered pudding, Flonne ordered DVDs and now Jennifer ordered some power-up unit. All of this have arrived (or is supposed to) today.
(I DON’T SEE WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG!)

Gordon ask THE question : how is it possible to increase the power of Thursday since he’s supposed to already be an invincible, all-purpose robot?

(PFFFT- Oh god, the way she says “It’ll be INTENSE” is... the word is in all caps but the way she says it is with a kind of sexy voice. XD)


(Enough power to lead mankind? What are we waiting for, let’s go conquer the world!)



(YES, conquer the world with the power of blu-ray discs and eye-candy. Wait, isn’t Jennifer enough of eye candy already?)


(Oh stops being so pessimistic with your very valid concerns, we could RULE THE WORLD!)


(See!No need to worry, Jennifer has a solution for everything!)
So Jennifer explains that, with this, Thursday will be able to keep running four times longer than before.
Gordon is pleased and it’s time to equip Thursday with this shining new power-up unit so he can “conquer this messy room”
(Well there’s a start to everything. Today it’s Laharl’s room, tomorrow it will be the world!)


So they equip it and...



Even though she fell while trying to equip it, she succeeded, but now she is INSIDE Thursday.


Thursday launched itself into the air before falling back on the floor.


(Look it’s afro Jennifer! :) )



WHAT? What have you done to him? He doesn’t sound alike at all! Even Tick Tock narrate that he speaks all sophisticated now.
Jennifer didn’t anticipate this at all and Thursday reassures her that it’s not her fault but the blame falls on the blasted power-up unit.


There’s smoke, Thursday tries to eject the power-up unit but the animation makes it seems like only the fuel pack got out.



The fuel pack falls back on Gordon’s head and Thursday seems like he is about to explode and/or falls to pieces and/or go rampage.


(Have a little shot of Jennifer expression. When we possess someone, it seems we don’t get to see them in the conversations.)

That’s all, for now. I had to load a previous save to come back because without warning, Thursday runs out of the room and there’s a scene change.

Sooo~, who do we possess now?
A - Thursday
B - Gordon
C - Stay with Jennifer

Let's stay with Jennifer until she the story climaxes explosively!

But that's not gonna happen until (next) Thursday!

That fuel pack looks a bit like a pudding cup.

Let's stick with Jennifer and see how that goes.

I'm torn, but I really want to follow that wacky little robot. Thursday it is.

What. no. Gordon has failed to do anything particulary stupid but looking shocked, so we will haunt him and make his life more miserable!

2 votes for Jennifer
2 votes for Thursday
1 vote for Gordon

Should I wait to see if we get more votes to break the tie? Or simply flip a coin an go on?

Let's make the voyeurs miserable and go with Thursday! mwa-ha-ha!

It’s Thursday time to shine!


Whacky little robot flee out of the room... run across another room and that’s.... a whole event, yay?


(To take a screenshot of that reaction, I had to load and try again so.many.times... I stopped counting.)
Thursday then comes in the Shop and bump into ~New Character~ *cough*maofromdisgaea3*cough*



(What were you doing, or going to do, to our sweet and nice Flonne, delivery boy!?)


Flonne interprets Thursday’s dying “BLIP, BEEP” as such and take this opportunity to flee the scene...
(That’s my girl! Leave the maybe pervert with the robot that’s about to explode. Save yourself first, as they say.)

Short update is really short.

Do we :
A - Follow Flonne or
B - Stay with Thursday?

I’ll go take a nap because I feel awful (looks like my body doesn’t approve of my oatmeal from this morning) and should update when I’ll wake up.

Thursday! Let's find out if we explode!

Yup, Thursday. That deliveryboy looks deliciously interesting~
Too bad we've only got a robot to harrass him with... :o

(Yes, run toward the sun Flonne, where no evil can reach you!)


Still not exploding.



Wow! It looks like all they had to do was ask nicely!
(No explosion? Boo! By the way, where’s this delivery boy from earlier?)

Jennifer blames herself for all the ravages Thursday endured, Gordon cheers her up and she decide to fix the robot so she can apologize properly to him.



(Hahaha, there goes the 4th wall. You should know there’s no 4th wall in Disgaea. If there’s one, be sure someone with a bulldozer will appear to run in it!)


Cue explosion sound effect.
(We’re already at this point in the game? Awww, that went by too fast!)


Like he said.


WE FAILED!


(Thanks Tick Tock, but is that a typo I see in your text?)



Back to beginning!
(And that was our 150th screenshot!)

Since this play through was really short, I’ll do another one.

So :
A - Do you want to continue with those really short update where you get to vote on who to possess at every possible event or
B - Do you want to pick an ending (by vote or you let me pick one) and go for it with longer updates?