Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention
Disgaea 3 is a sequel to Disgaea, a hardcore, turn-based strategy RPG. The game follows the exploits of Mao, the most honored student at Evil Academy, a school where the tardiest, laziest, and rudest demons…
Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Nippon Ichi Software, released 17 December 2011 on PlayStation Vita. The main story takes about 35 hrs to finish.
What Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention is
Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Nippon Ichi Software and released in 2011. It is available on PlayStation Vita only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The story takes place in the Evil Academy where Lord Mao, the Academy's Top Honor Student (because he has never been to class), has decided that he needs to gain "the Power of the Hero" to get revenge on the Overlord, who also happens to be his father, from thousands of hours of research into comics, anime and video games. Along the way he meets Raspberyl who introduces herself as an old friend of Mao and the Academy's Number 1 Delinquent (as she does all her homework, has perfect attendance and volunteers in her spare time). Soon after, the pair meets Almaz who has come to protect the Princess from the Overlord. Mao, seeing Almaz's title as "Hero", kidnaps him while Beryl tries to rescue…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Disgaea series
Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention is the 14th of 27 entries we hold in the Disgaea series. The next entry was Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness in 2013. Its critic score of 88 is 10 points above the series average of 78. The highest-rated entry is Disgaea: Hour of Darkness at 90.
How it was received
Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 89% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 20 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 35 hrs.
What it launched against
Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention launched on 17 December 2011, within three weeks of Mario Kart 7, Trine 2, Age of Empires III: Complete Collection and Star Wars: The Old Republic. It reviewed better than all of them.
Released around the same time: Mario Kart 7, Trine 2, Age of Empires III: Complete Collection, Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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