Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories/YMMV

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  • Crowning Music of Awesome: The incredibly awesome "White Tiger".
  • Ensemble Darkhorse: Axel, one of the biggest ones in the series, thanks to his Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain tendencies and likeable personality.
  • Game Breaker: Dark Hero Days' DLC for Pleinair and Sapphire are free. They're both level 100. You can get them from the beginning. Pleinair joins you without a fight. End boss of the story is level 90. Do the math.
    • You can also recruit Sapphire at the beginning of the game by pounding on her with Pleinair while your normal characters act as bait as she will make a beeline for them due to the huge difference in level.
    • Thanks to how standard status effects work, the Sleep + Poison combo. Thieves can inflict both with a 100% hit rate in any enemy that is not a bonus boss. Since poison takes 20% of the unit's max HP, all it takes to kill any enemy in the game is to make them sleep, then poison, then wait five turns. The Kunoichi class goes beyond by being able to inflict the same statuses from four paneels away in a cross-shaped area, hitting up to five enemies. A team of 10 Kunoichies with no equipment at Lv. 30 can break throught Axel Mode without taking any damage, wich means a lot when the enemies go all the way up to Lv. 250 there.
  • Good Bad Bugs: A possible Overlook bug, You can make the White Dragon party like you by going into a bill as Senator Adell where you're supposed to disapprove by spamming an item at them. They won't take the item, but their Likeness towards you goes up, which will carry on other bills.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: According to their names and descriptions, magic monster weapons are all Tomes Of Eldritch Lore. One of them is named Twilight. Coincidence?
  • Ho Yay: "The Dark Hero I fell in love with is back." Uh, if you say so, Mr. Director guy...
  • HSQ: The worst ending tends to horrify people when they see it.
  • Internet Backlash: The NA DLC release. Not only did it suffer from bugs, but NISA also decided to cut out Gig, Dark Eclair and Miabelle due to technical issues. This did not sit well with most fans.
  • Jerkass Woobie: Axel might not be the nicest guy in the world, but it's hard not feel bad for him when he's struggling just to get by, especially when we see has family to support.
  • Memetic Mutation: "That's my style!" It's such an infectious Catch Phrase that whenever Adell is brought up in conversation, you can expect someone to say it.
  • Moe: Admit it, Yukimaru is the cutest ninja in existence, zam.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Adell killing and eating his siblings in the worst ending.
  • Non Sequitur Scene: When recruiting Pleinair.

Adell: I'm your biggest fan!

  • Replacement Scrappy: At the time his game debuted, many were disappointed that Adell was the Straight Man and more of a classical JRPG hero compared to Laharl. Fans warmed up to him over time as they began to appreciate his Hidden Depths.
    • The Sinner class. Not only did it have an uninspired design and bad aptitudes, but it replaced the Brawler classes from Disgaea: Hour of Darkness as the primary fist-users. The Geo Masters get similar hate for replacing the more popular Scout classes as the Geo Change users.
  • Shocking Swerve: The worst ending is probably the most disturbing thing Nippon Ichi has ever produced, up there with Soul Nomad and The World Eaters Demon Path ending.
  • Sophomore Slump: While no one will argue the gameplay hasn't been improved from the first Disgaea title, general consensus is that the characters and story just aren't as memorable or interesting compared with the Hour of Darkness cast. Some characters like Adel, Rozalin and Axel have their fair share of fans, but that's about it. Thankfully, Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice stepped up its game.
  • Woolseyism:
    • Though many know him as Axel, it was actually a change made by NISA as his original name was Akutare. Some sources, including the credits at the end of the Japanese version of Disgaea 2, romanize it as Octalley.
    • Anything related to "Beauty Queen" Etna. Her title in the Japanese version is "Majin/Demon God/Demon Lord". A considerable amount of dialogue was added to make fun of the change, including the infamous line where she claims to have hacked her title.
    • Prism Rangers: "We are delivering justice... Even when no one asks us to." The second part of this phrase is US-exclusive.
      • Speaking of the Prism Rangers, in the original Japanese version, Prism Orange speaks like a stereotypical Japanophile character in an anime, speaking Japanese with a distinct foreign accent. The American version inverts this by having him speaking Engrish phrases with an Asian accent.
    • "You have friends that care about you... and Etna." In fact, most of the jokes in the game were added in the English version.
    • The Kurtis clones were given a voice and speaking manner that parodies William Shatner.
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