Disgaea 4

This is a fun game and encourages a sort of fun grind. However, it requires a network connection and often hangs on checking for updates… both of which make play on airplanes and such difficult.

I paid over $30 for a single player game that only starts if I’m connected to internet.

You CANNOT play without a constant internet connection.

Please make a disgaea 2 phone app and a disgaea 5 app please 🙏🏼 adel and rozalin are held so dear to heart and killua eating ramen is what I need (more like disgaea 1 app, it’s plays much better and offline)

Before I start, I must state that, I adore Disgaea 4, I’ve played it on PS3, PSVita, and Switch, I know it’s a fun game and a good grind. It’s aged beautifully over time and stands as one of the best games in the series. So I was happy to hear that such an experience is on iOS. However, I cannot Recommend this iteration of the game, simply because of issues with the cloud system and data storage. Every time you boot up the game, it checks for update data, this forces you to be WiFi connected in order to launch the game without crashing, this alone isn’t a complete deal breaker, but it is aggravating that Disgaea 1 complete never had this issue whilst 4 does. The far worse issue is the cloud system and questionable data storage. I’ve seen the game reset my progress several times now without warning, resetting itself to absolute zero, and forcing me to pick a new nickname every time, with no way to get back the old ones. For a game with such a lengthy, deep grind, the possibility of it resetting itself and losing all of your data is an absolute dealbreaker. There is of course the cloud save, in which you can create a copy of a save file in the cloud to grab and download any time, which is fine and good, but this feels like a bandage on a gaping wound, we should not have to manually back up save files just to account for incompetence on the developers end, that function is clearly designed for transferring save data between devices, not as a single solution to a faulty storage problem. This isn’t even addressing the other faults in this port like a janky (but manageable) control scheme, the constant crashing in the item world, or the aforementioned inability to boot the game outside of WiFi, those are all manageable, but to have a game that advertises itself as such a masterful rpg, with such an intense grind, commit the cardinal sin of randomly, frequently, deleting everything you’ve worked for? I cannot recommend an experience like that to anyone. If you want a grind and a taste of Disgaea, consider playing Disgaea 1 Complete on iOS, or trying any of the series on any other system. For the sake of your own effort and time, skip this one.

Great game, but it has a bug that makes it need an internet connection to play. This makes it completely unplayable at the times when I’m most likely to play it: flights and train rides. This requirement is stupid and unnecessary (Disgaea 1 doesn’t have any such requirement) and it should be fixed.

I had the version on PSVita several years ago and their wasn’t many issues. Now that’s out the way I enjoyed D4 in its entirety one of my all time favorite games beside D5. On the Iphone complete 5/5 stars very playable with little errors or issues. On the IPad though a solid 3 and 3/4 out of 5 their are so many issues from slow down to how the controller layout works. But it still is a solid game to play. If anything 1 update that will fix all that is only needed. I’ll revisit this once a update is made. BTW put D2 and DD2 on Apple I guarantee it’ll be successful.

I have been enjoying using this app and playing Disgaea 4 on my phone / tablet, but wish that the downloading update list check was removed from the beginning of the game. It makes sense that the app would need to update once to play the game, but it doesn’t make sense that the app should need an active internet connection in order to be launched each time. The game plays fine once you have gone past this check, but as there are no online elements in the app itself, it would be good if this could be removed so that the game could still be played without an active internet connection.

The game lags in weapons and in Charro world. If between floors 14-18 of a weapon, expect a crash if an enemy does magi-change or demonstrates a new skill.

I love the mobile adaptations of Disgaea however my only complaint is it randomly crashes more then often when playing which is super frustrating. Once that gets fixed it will definitely be 5 stars.