Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness (2013) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness

Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness is a tactical RPG in the Disgaea series. The game is a sequel to 2003's Disgaea: Hour of Darkness for the PlayStation 2, where the respective main characters of that game will…

76 20 March 2013

What Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness is

Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Nippon Ichi Software and released in 2013. It is available on PlayStation 3 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness, known in Japan as Disgaea Dimension 2 , is a 2013 video game in the Disgaea series developed by Nippon Ichi Software. The game is a direct sequel to 2003's Disgaea: Hour of Darkness for the PlayStation 2, where the respective main characters of that game are once again the focus. It was released on March 20, 2013, for the PlayStation 3 in Japan.

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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 D2: A Brighter Darkness is the 15th of 27 entries we hold in the Disgaea series. It arrived a year after Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention. The next entry was Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance in 2015. Its critic score of 76 is almost exactly the series average of 78. The highest-rated entry is Disgaea: Hour of Darkness at 90.

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How it was received

Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness holds a critic score of 76 out of 100. That places it above 51% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 6 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness launched on 20 March 2013, within three weeks of BioShock Infinite, Tomb Raider, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm and Age of Empires II HD. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: BioShock Infinite, Tomb Raider, StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, Age of Empires II HD.

Cheats and codes

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