I'm not too far yet, and typically the fast-paced type isn't my cup of tea (I prefer slower, more calculated, like Demon's Souls and I love old-style Survival Horror) but this is extremely fun. Also, the Limited Edition box is beautiful.

http://www.siliconera.com/2010/08/18/ominous-voice-blows-the-lid-off-the-3rd-birthdays-story/

New Trailer.

The music sounds like PE1's, I love it.  Honestly, I don't really like how they keep making new "special" groups, though.  First it was MIST,, now, erm, CIT?

My Collector's Edition shipped from Amazon last night and hasn't arrived yet.  Yay for Amazon Student giving me free Two-Day shipping.

I just wish that XSEED had the money for a little more marketing.  I want them to succeed.

Yeah, I can't really support the milking of the P3 "franchise."  This is 4 games in 3-4 years, not to mention P4 was pretty much P3 with a facelift.  It took SE some 10 years before they made the FFVII games.  Lunar is a much better comparison, but someone beat me to it.

I think SE is trying to deny it's an RPG over in the west because saying that is a turn off to some of their potential buyers.  If they try to market it as a shooter, they're trying to go for a more mass appeal.

Wow, talk about a necro bump!  I loved this game, but I ended up rage-quitting after my PS3 version froze not once, but twice, hours into climbing the optional dungeon, one time when I was at floor 16 and another at floor 14.  It had never frozen before that, so I'm not sure what the problem was.

This.  Actually, from what I'm aware of from some of NISA's representatives, NISA is actually doing well compared to the parent company.  Also, remember that announcement where they said NIS was limiting the amount of titles every year?  That didn't pertain to NISA - straight from an employees mouth.
Source: http://www.siliconera.com/2010/07/16/a-message-from-disgaea-producer-souhei-niikawa/ (NickyD is Nick, one of the editors at NISA)

Phantom Brave
Makai Kingdom
Soul Nomad and the World Eaters

. . .none of which are like Disgaea.  Funny, that. In my own experience, NIS is actually more likely to try something new than many of the other SRPG companies.

It's not NIS that does crossovers, it's Idea Factory.  They just let Idea Factory use their character and sometimes have "creative input."  For example, they wrote the Kanata story in Trinity Universe.

Growlanser.

But stay away from Growlanser V.

It's true, but there's a very good reason for it.  The game also warns you (multiple times) that your data will be gone, so you can't just do it "accidentally."  It only deletes all of the data under the one character's name, so if you have a save file with two character names (IE Nier1 and CharacterA) only one would be deleted.  Also, it doesn't delete your DLC or install.

I finished 100%-ing the game and then got Ending D.  It was completely worth it to me and was very satisfying. Ending D was, in my own opinion, the happiest of the bunch.

It's funny.  At this point I'd say the Disgaea spinoffs are better than the Disgaea games themselves. I, too, really liked Disgaea Infinite, it added just enough change to the "traditional" Visual Novel to make it stand out.

I'm sad about NIS simply because I really appreciate what NISA does.  Recently they've been really improving and they are also probably the only way we'd get Atelier titles over here in the west.  Though, I really do love the Prinny: Can I really be the Hero? series.

Yes, that's the next area.  Hell, if you even wanted to, once you finish the port area you could even continue the game and skip Alltrades until later.  But really, I wouldn't recommend that, since Alltrades will let you change your vocation.  It also gives you the first of the job-specific armor quests and advanced quests.

Go to the next town and do the boss there, it's much easier. I accidentally went to the next town before the tower and am really glad I did.  The Nu'un is a much harder boss.

From now on the game isn't exactly linear, and you can skip areas or come back to them later.