About a year or so ago, I picked up Disgaea: Hour Of Darkness for PS2, but I’ve yet to finish it. How can I? It’s a game that I boast of being the most economically sensible game, since you could potentially play it forever.

If you’ve heard of Disgaea, then you’ve also probably heard of its reputation for being able to enter and level up from within each and any item that comes into your possession. With infinite items to acquire, infinite potential characters to develop, and a level cap of quad-9, you can see how Disgaea is a grinder’s wet dream realized.

What has saved me from this trap up until now? I had to be at home to play on my PS2. Thanks to my new PSP and the gift of Disgaea: Afternoon Of Darkness, this restriction has been lifted. I may continue on my PS2 version to work my way through Prince Laharl’s story arc at home, saving time to explore Etna’s alternative plot line while abroad.

Yet owning two copies of the same infinitely progressing game is not what makes my situation absurd. I now have cause to pick up a third version, that being the DS port. I’d toyed with the idea of my sister and I both getting the DS version to take advantage of the multiplayer modes (since she only has a DS), but now that I hear that my girlfriend got the DS version for Christmas, I may have to give this more consideration.

By this upcoming year’s end, I’m sure I’ll have accumulated three versions of the same game that each have infinite play potential. This is also not counting the copy of Disgaea 2 that I’ve yet to start! And yet I also yearn to try Disgaea 3 once I finally get a PS3 and plan to grab the Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero spin-off due out next year.

I haven’t been this insane over buying multiple versions of a game since the Lunar series. God, I miss Lunar…

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