#nis

[homriette]

Doodle of Eureka from labyrinth of galleria : the moon society

I have been obsessed with the Labyrinth series ever since I tried Refrain , please give more

[nis-art]

Official Disgaea 1-7 key character art.

[sminairo]

It's been a while since I drew anything from Disgaea/NIS, so I've drawn something while thinking about the intro of Prinny: can I really be the hero?

Honestly, I'd like to make an illustration based on every stage, but realistically I don't think I will lmao.

[angelofdykeness]

this may be a hot take but disgaea 3 is truly the perfect disgaea story to me. it is, for both better and worse, the most patently disgaea disgaea game and while there's a lot of criticisms worth making, god it's just so brilliant and so fun. 4 just barely edges it out as my favorite for different reasons but it also has its own issues.

but 3 was so funny out the gate for making the basis of mao's character "im gonna become a Hero so i can beat up my overlord dad for breaking my fucking psp" because mao and everyone else in the game are casually, entirely aware that they literally live in a video game and as a rule the hero MUST always defeat the overlord. it's a wacky premise that ends up twisting itself around HARD by the end into something incredibly interesting and challenging.

and that's kind of what disgaea was always about, for the first four or so games. it loved poking fun at video game tropes and mechanics and went anywhere from violently beating at the fourth wall to just completely ignoring its existence. and it built stories around the expectations that come from those sorts of tropes.

from 5 onwards i feel like that was sort of lost. everything feels very self contained within the confines of its own fictional universe now. which isn't necessarily a bad thing but in practice, having that meta humor taken away it really just feels like a shonen action series with wacky quirky humor and there's just so many other things that do that better.

[frankiedfkun]

Male Disgaea 1 Warrior

[lonestardust]

Nights In Stereo - The Killiing Moon (Echo & The Bunnymen Cover), Perfor...

IT'S ALMOST HERE LET'S GOOOO

[gods-blade]

The Tower of Skulls was built by the Ottomans with the skulls of Orthodox Serb insurgents after such an uprising–a warning to anyone of what awaits those who resisted their tyranny. Despite this, the Christians continued to call upon Christ and refused to convert or accept defeat and after four centuries of captivity, they won their freedom.

[blackberry-mochi]

Been playin' Phantom Brave for the first time. It's got some very strange gameplay...

[colorclear-kr]

【ソウルクレイドル】16th Anniversary【 Soul Nomad 】

[whimsisadie]

me every time i go outside tbh

[the-labrys]

Disgaea/nis characters based on how/if they cursed

[nis-art]

Official Disgaea 7 Artwork

[danatheelf]

Welcome to my NISA Nightmare.

This is beyond a bloody joke, now, and I am livid.

For almost six whole weeks now, I have been given the runaround by NIS America Europe's Customer Support, for an issue entirely their fault. And it's not the first time.

I love the games NISA publish. I preorder the vast majority of the Collector's Edition packages they put out, in spite of my precarious financial situation. Because I love these games and I want to have those nice sets to celebrate the art and music and game with a nice, generally sensible set of extra stuff that isn't just cheap tat to fill a box and charge a fortune for.

I have maintained "Diamond Prinny" loyalty status for years, which doesn't really mean much more than "buys their stuff a lot and gets offered small discounts when new ones go up" but you'd think if they recognise a group of their biggest customers, they would at least try to offer solid Customer Support for that group.

Here's the backstory: On September 8 2022, I placed a preorder with NISAE for four Collector's Editions. If you're unfamiliar with preorders, how this is supposed to work is that you pay money now, and they put a copy aside to make sure that you get them when they come out; I try to order as many things as I can at once, because shipping to Australia is expensive, and it helps to spread the load. When placing the order, one of the games I was ordering had an option for an Australian cover sheet - the only difference being the little rating symbol on the cover - so I picked that because... hey, why not?

At some point in production, they changed their mind, and decided they wouldn't bother printing that Australian cover sheet. No big deal, you might assume - just swap it for the UK English cover; no big deal.

Ah, sweet summer child, I see you have never had to deal with NISAE's order system backend.

Any other web store on the internet can make simple changes to an order relatively easily - but NISAE is special. They can't even change a tiny little dropdown menu option for which printed cover sheet should be included with the game.

To make any small change to your order, the entire thing must be cancelled. You must wait for a refund to clear. Then you must place the order again yourself with the changes in place.

Remember that thing about how preorders work? Yeah. It doesn't work if they just cancel your order without warning, and tell you to make the order again when something in your order is now out of stock.

For weeks now, I've been assured that they're securing a copy of the game that was out of stock, because I guess when your order is cancelled, they immediately incinerate the copies that should have been set aside for you.

But they'll have it shortly, so I can make the order then!

I've been dreadfully concerned about the other parts of my order going out of stock while I wait for them to find me a copy of the game I preordered. And naturally... that exact thing happened.

I've been keeping an eye on the stock situation and... now another one is completely sold out.

They haven't even fixed the first screw-up, and now this is added on top. It's cartoonish levels of incompetence. I have a heart condition! I can't deal with this kind of constant stress for weeks and weeks!!

If you know me, you'll know I am a very patient person. But this is really my limit. I'm fed up, and genuinely upset.

This isn't the first time I've had trouble with NISAE before, either.

A while back, I received a copy of a collector's edition set with a soundtrack CD - I love soundtrack CDs and they're a major reason I get these versions! But for some reason, one of the discs was just... missing.

Factory error, I suppose. Not much you can do about that.

So I contacted support, and they promised to just pack a replacement in with the next order that would be shipped out; it wouldn't take long for that, so, sounded to me like a perfectly reasonable solution.

Well, my next order from them came... and the next... and the next... and no CD.

After contacting them again, to see what the deal was... they just decided to send it out by itself, and eat the cost of shipping.

Screwed themselves over in that one, really. I was mildly inconvenienced, but it all worked out without too much hassle.

On another occasion, I had a preorder combined with some older items - the order won't ship until everything is ready to go, but it saves you on shipping, so, hey. That's fine.

Between the time of my order and the time it was ready to ship, they moved to a new warehouse. In the process of doing this... they lost the copy of something I ordered that had been set aside. And they had no more left.

Of course.

There was really nothing that could be done, at that point. "Sorry, we lost the very last copy of the thing you ordered." I was very unhappy about this, but... it was at least understandable. Moving to a new warehouse is a massive undertaking, and losing the last copy of some old stock... well, it sucks, but I get it. Exceptional circumstances; things happen.

So it's with this history of excusing mistakes that I am now faced with the latest one. This time, there is no massive warehouse to move; no unusual situation of sending out a replacement for part of a set that was botched by the factory.

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect better than this.

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect the barest minimum features of an online shop to include "swapping a tiny option in an order" and "actually getting the things you paid a couple hundred pounds to preorder six months ago."

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect better from the official European branch of a very prominent publisher, handling a large number of beloved titles that can't be bought elsewhere.

As it stands, if you have the option to buy NISA games from any retailer other than the NISA Europe Online Store, I advise you to choose that other option. I desperately wish this weren't the case, and would prefer to support the publisher directly... but until they get some web developers to implement a functional backend... I truly recommend choosing literally any other option, if you have it.

Maybe if I'm lucky, people will see this and they'll actually do something.

[nintendocafe]

World's End Club: Deluxe Edition - $39.99 Buy-Now!

[katasdollhouse]

I waited a mind-blowing TWENTY-FOUR (24!!) years for Rhapsody II: Ballad of the Little Princess to be released in North America! I can't believe I had to wait twice as long as the amount of time elapsed in the plot between Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure and Rhapsody II!! I got the Marl Kingdom Chronicles box set, the full contents of which I'll show you another time. I'm loving the second game so far! I put some images and reactions under a cut to hide spoilers. Enjoy the cuteness! 🎺💖

+ Rhapsody II features Kururu and Crea, the daughters of Rhapsody I heroines Cornet and Etoile. Etoile is my favorite character from the original game and I'm finding her daughter especially hilarious already. I cannot believe Etoile named her daughter Createur!! It's not as if Cornet did much better though... Princess Kurusale Cherie Marl Q is quite a name 😂

+ One difference from the first game is that Rhapsody II has a more straightforward RPG battle system rather than a tactical RPG style. Also, summoning puppets to battle on your behalf now costs Inotium, the in-game currency.

+ Puppets from the first game appear in the second game, though sometimes they are at different ages than when Cornet first met them. Ledgem appears as a cute baby, for instance!

+ Unlike the first game, the songs in this second musical adventure appear with English translations but no English vocal tracks, as far as I've seen. The dialogue does feature some great English voice acting though. Crea and Kururu say surprisingly funny things in battle.

+ On the whole, Rhapsody II is living up to my hopes and I'm really excited to keep exploring!

[lonestardust]

THE KILLING MOON ✨

NEW NIGHTS IN STEREO COVER AND MUSIC VIDEO

Ronen Rubinstein and Nights in Stereo via Instagram, Twitter and YouTube :

“The Killing Moon” Original song by Echo & The Bunnymen, 1984. EP Coming Soon ! Full Version on IG & Youtube. #NightsInStereo