I'm a long time fan of the Disgaea series and started out with Hour of Darkness on PS2. I mention this not to show that I'm old but to provide context for my point of view. I honestly don't know where to begin here. The game feels... cheap in every aspect. Even when it's playing itself it feels like a chore to play, rather than the joy the other games were. Let's start with the characters. I fell in love with Laharl and his ragtag crew. I was intrigued by the plight of Adell. I never really did sympathize with Mao but he had his whole made scientist thing going on and the game really sold it. Valvatorez... ehh... a sardine-loving vampire sounds a bit fishy to me -pun intended- but I at least liked his character model... you might notice a pattern here. With Zed, it just took a nose dive. I don't care about him, his story or his plight and I don't find him or his allies the least bit interesting. I'm also scratching my head as to why my favorite -and for melee, go-to- monster was removed. There are no Nekomatas. Why? The quality of the stories has been going downhill (in my opinion) with every iteration but the issue here isn't with the story, its the characters who inhabit it. Once again, I really don't care, so I don't care what happens to them. But with every new iteration they just follow in their own image of Laharl's footsteps. The details may change, but it's the same bloody story I've played through five times before when I actually cared about the characters. That wouldn't be such problem if the game wasn't such a chore to play and the available mechanics hadn't been lobotomized. While the stories may have been rehashed and re-wallpapered, Disgaea was amazing for how it continually increased the complexity of what you could do and how you could power up your characters. It started up with the item world... basically random dungeons in your items that you could beat to power the item up. Since then there have been board games, dungeons in characters as well, pirates, reverse pirates, Disgaea 5 felt positively PACKED with stuff to do. Not so with 6. It's got the item world and exploration (where you can send some of your followers off to 'explore' and collect stuff) and that's more or less it. I'm simplifying a bit but what I'm trying to get across is how barren it feels in comparison with previous games that were progressively more complex and interesting. But what about when you are exploring those item world dungeons? Why, just press start and the characters will do all the work themselves. If you press the '-' button, you'll only have to check back at the -also amazingly barren, in all senses of the word- innocent town. This time, there will only EVER be three characters: a shop, a healer and a guide to send you to the next level or home. NOTHING else. It's almost criminal in comparison to previous iterations. It's a disgrace. Using the 'auto battle' feature spares you the tedium of bothering with the tactics of setting up your characters and their actions and I often found that they used their least efficient attacks. Characters that could have one-shotted enemies with their basic attack would instead constantly use skills that would only shave away a sliver of health instead. But that's okay because they were almost never in any danger. Even as ineffective as they were, they were often like invincible tanks, soaking up damage that they couldn't dish out in return (without manual control) with ease. So... just don't use the auto function? Well, that helps... but even then the game feels like a pale copy of it's predecessors. There was once a time when it would have been a major accomplishment and would have taken hours upon hours upon hours of dedicated work to get a character to level 9999 to reincarnate them. It's a major accomplishment. Sure you can set things up where it's easy... but that takes a lot of work collecting the right equipment and innocents before you can make the attempt. Last night, I leveled the better part of a dozen characters to 9999, reincarnated them and... in some cases, reincarnated them at 9999 TWICE. It felt like I accomplished nothing. I could go on, but frankly I'm so disgusted I don't want to bother. The thought that I'd ever consider a Disgaea game less than an 8 is appalling... but here it is. If you've never played a Disgaea game before and don't know what you're messing, maybe add a point. And then track yourself down a copy of Hour or Afternoon of Darkness and see how Disgaea was done RIGHT. The graphics are nothing special, the gameplay is worse than disappointing, the characters are imminently forgettable. It's like a classic remade for the fabled 'modern audience.' It falls short in every conceivable way. That's not to say it doesn't have some good ideas. But there's so much bad I literally ran out of space even if I'd wanted to continue. Seriously. I've only got seven characters left here.

**TL;DR:** Could graphic/performance be better? Yes. Is it different that other Disgaea games? Yes. Will it enrage core fans? For sure! Is it fun game when you get used to totally different approach than usual? Yes, yes and one more time Yes!!! I bounced from this game 2 or 3 times but when I finally gave it a real chance, I was surprised how great it is! I get it why this game is rated so low. It has its problems: e.g. on Switch Performance could be better, and I am not really a fan of this new 3D approach but other than that I had really good time. Story like every Disgaea: not a masterpiece but captivating enough. Little bit of humor, plot-twist or two, serious topic in the background. Main characters are hit-and-miss, some of them I liked and for other I couldn't care less but main duo: Zed and Cerberus are right now my favorite protagonists in the entire series. And now Elephant in the room: simplification and auto-battle. Game is simplified: lost some of features and mechanics, focus on equipment is reduced (thus Item World as well), all deployed characters share exp, levels generally can be passed by game itself i auto-battle, and everything is inflated: stats, levels, hp. etc. But on the other hand it works great with whole concept, where main protagonist already reincarnated thousands of times and is already a though guy. Idea is that he need to fight strongest god of destruction ever thus getting a better equipment or even reaching level 9999 is not enough. And you need to reincarnate more and more to surpass these limitations making this game more a "Disgaea Manager 2021" rather than core Turn Based RPG experience. You plan which of your team members to use , you plan which evilities to buy, which will help them to get more stats and karma points, you reach crazy levels on auto-battle and then reincarnate which will re-start your character to level 1 but will allow to reach new peaks. This mechanic is nothing new in Disgaea but never was a intended as main mechanic for main story. And it is in Disgaea 6 where even at the end of every chapter we read: "The Wheels of reincarnation never stop, and thus, a new story begins". It is different than other Disgaea games, and I hope whole series will not head in that direction but having a little gem like Disgaea 6 is welcomed breath of fresh air. Note: It is great on Switch, where you can play for a few minutes (or hours) and then leave it aside with auto-battle on. A little like Disgaea Tamagochi. But I can imagine that on other consoles or PC this mechanic might not work that great.

You should start giving more language support like spanish on your games...