History YMMV / DisgaeaHourOfDarkness

%%* BestLevelEver: Chapter 6 (Blair Forest) anyone?

* GameBreaker:
** Flonne as said under MagikarpPower on the main page. With enough apprentices, the girl can basically solo a greater part of the game once she gets going.
** In the PC port of the game, instead of having to go through specific unlock conditions, you end up getting Pleinair from the start. With great stats and being tailor-made for guns, which in this game can be considered {{Game Breaker}}s in themselves, Pleinair can easily carry the entire team for most of the game.

** In Japanese, Mid Boss' self-proclaimed titled is "Beauty Danshaku", which can be translated as "Baron of Beauty". In English, he instead calls himself the "Dark Adonis". Considering that he's essentially comparing himself to Adonis, the Greek ''God'' of Beauty, it's a very fitting change.

** In the original Japanese text, after a bit of discussion, Laharl agrees with the rest of the cast and changes Gordon's title to "Defender of the Netherworld"[[labelnote:Japanese title]]"Makai Yuusha" or "Netherworld Hero"[[/labelnote]], upsetting Gordon for not being consulted on the change. In English, Laharl takes the name change a step further and gives Gordon the title "Slayer of the Netherworld", which upsets Gordon because of how unfitting it sounds.

* BrokenBase: Creator/AmandaWinnLee vs. Creator/MichelleRuff as Etna. Those who prefer Amanada Winn-Lee felt she better portrayed Etna's bored yet sly personality from the first game and feel that Michelle Ruff doesn't capture that personality as well. Michelle coming in when {{Flanderization}} started hitting Etna is also a factor (even though that's not really her fault). Those who prefer Michelle Ruff felt that Amanda Winn-Lee's voice was too deep for what is ([[Really700YearsOld visually]]) a young teenager and feel that she does a good job of capturing Etna's personality without sounding too bored.

* BrokenBase: Creator/AmandaWinnLee vs. Creator/MichelleRuff as Etna. Those who prefer Amanada Winn-Lee felt she better portrayed Etna's bored yet sly personality from the first game and feel that Michelle Ruff doesn't capture that personality as well. Michelle coming in when {{Flanderization}} started hitting Etna is also a factor (even though that's not really her fault). Those who prefer Michelle Ruff felt that Amanda Winn-Lee's voice was too deep for what a ([[Really700YearsOld visually]]) a young teenager and feel that she does a good job of capturing Etna's personality without sounding too bored.

* HilariousInHindsight: Fighting against the Prism Rangers is that much more ironic when you consider that Laharl's English voice actor is [[PowerRangers Rita Repulsa]].

** Majins. They have 110% aptitude in all stats, 120% at higher tiers, S-rank with all weapons, and their first tier form has stat growth rivaling the highest tiers of other classes. They take a ''long'' time to unlock, requiring five specific jobs at Level 200 and all in your party at the same time, and the cost to transmute a character into one is huge. But once you get them, the game is ridiculously easy.

* CrazyAwesome: It all began here. One of the most glorious examples is Laharl's ultimate skill, [[ColonyDrop Meteor Impact]]. He summons a giant meteor to fire at enemies, then ''backflips onto it and rides it into them with his trademark EvilLaugh''.

* MagnificentBastard: Seraph Lamington. Leans further towards being a GuileHero, of course.

* AwesomeArt: Though criticized at the time for lacking polygonal models in reviews, the extremely detailed sprites and character animations have barely aged the game.

** In the original Japanese text, after a bit of discussion, Laharl agrees with the rest of the cast and changes Gordon's title to "Defender of the Netherworld"[[labelnote:Japanese title]]"Makai Yuusha" or "Netherworld Hero"[[/note]], upsetting Gordon for not being consulted on the change. In English, Laharl takes the name change a step further and gives Gordon the title "Slayer of the Netherworld", which upsets Gordon because of how unfitting it sounds.

** In the original Japanese text, after a bit of discussion, Laharl agrees with the rest of the cast and changes Gordon's title to "Defender of the Netherworld", upsetting Gordon for not being consulted on the change. In English, Laharl takes the name change a step further and gives Gordon the title "Slayer of the Netherworld", which upsets Gordon because of how unfitting it sounds.

* {{Woolseyism}}: In the Japanese text, King Krichevskoy apparently died from choking on a Dark Manju [[note]]Dumpling of the Damned in the anime[[/note]]. In the US version, the food was changed to Black Pretzels, causing a HilariousInHindsight from when George W. Bush briefly lost consciousness after choking on a pretzel.

** The item world in combination with the dark senate is just all kinds of broken. Senators will remember if you bribed them previously and have a higher chance of passing the bill next time. When used with something like more expensive stuff, you can get end-game equipment extremely early on. Combine this with the item world where you can farm money from geo chains and level up equipment, you can end up with an army of characters that can one-shot every main story enemy as early as you get access to the item world!

* DemonicSpiders: In the main story, EDF soldiers because their high levels, but they're put to shame by the Celestial Hosts that comprise all the enemies in the final episode. Outside of Majins, mentioned bellow, they are easily the best class in the game, excelling at physical combat and magic.

** Aramis, the owner of the GagPenis Zombie, became rather popular despite appearing in only ''one'' episode. This may have lead to his later appearances in ''VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice'' and VideoGame/PrinnyCanIReallyBeTheHero

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: If you want to get a chuckle out of Laharl's fear of well-endowed women at all, don't ever, ''ever'' read about the novels. [[spoiler: 100 years of physical and emotional abuse is not exactly laughing material.]]

** In the PC port of the game, instead of having to go through specific unlock conditions, you end up getting Pleinair from the start. With great stats and being tailor made for guns, which in this game can be considered {{Game Breaker}}s in themselves, Pleinair can easily carry the entire team for most of the game.
** The item world in combination with the dark senate is just all kinds of broken. Senators will remember if you bribed them previously and have a higher chain of passing the bill next time. When used with something like more expensive stuff, you can get end game equipment extremely early on. Combine this with the item world where you can farm money from geo chains and level up equipment, you can end up with an army of characters that can one-shot every main story enemy as early as you get access to the item world!

* HilariousInHindsight: Fighting against the Prism Rangers is that much more ironic when you consider that Laharl's English voice actor is [[PowerRangers Rita Repulsa]]

* NarmCharm: Exclusive to Etna Mode in the remake, Justice Flonne's SoBadItsGood Sentai cosplay is just a helmet, but she's so enthusiastic in her persona that you can't help but find it adorable and more than a little awesome. Helps she's your rival in that mode, and eventually gets a bit challenging near the end.
* NightmareFuel: The angel enemies emotionless attitude makes them surprisingly creepy despite their appearance.

* PlayerPunch: [[spoiler: Flonne sacrificing herself to protect Laharl and her friends for her sins as a fallen angel. She's not even regretful about it. Regardless if you've gotten any of the good endings after, the scene itself is still powerful.]]

* ReWatchBonus: Start the game over after [[spoiler: learning that Mid-Boss was working with Lamington, re-watching the scenes where Lamington is speaking with his unseen collaborator, one can tell that can see {{Foreshadowing}} to it being Mid-Boss.]]

** Despite being a beloved class due to its cute design, its hard to justify using the Archer class. They have rather pathetic stats and their highest ranked weapon is the bow, which is unfortunately the game's ScrappyWeapon, with no other weapon reaching beyond rank D. The only reason to have an Archer is to unlock the much better Celestial Host class.

* {{Woolseyism}}: In the Japanese text, King Krichevskoy apparently died from choking on a Dark Manju [[note]] Dumpling of the Damned in the anime[[/note]]. In the US version, the food was changed to Black Pretzels, causing a HilariousInHindsight from when George W. Bush briefly lost consciousness after choking on a pretzel.

* GameBreaker: Majins. They have 110% aptitude in all stats, 120% at higher tiers, S-rank with all weapons, and their first tier form has stat growth rivaling the highest tiers of other classes. They take a ''long'' time to unlock, requiring five specific jobs at Level 200 and all in your party at the same time, and the cost to transmute a character into one is huge. But once you get them, the game is ridiculously easy.

* ScrappyWeapon: Bow weapons. Their damage being based on ATK and HIT meant most players found getting a good bow user was too much of a pain. Not helped that guns had much greater range than them and more powerful special attacks. The only real reason you'll ever use a Bow is to unlock the Archer class (in turn to unlock the Celestial Host) and so your Clerics have an offensive weapon, otherwise they're useless.

* TierInducedScrappy: Thieves, on account of sucking hard in pretty much every way. Even the highest rank of Thief, the Space Pirate, has only a C-rank with Guns, 60% and 70% aptitude with all stats except Speed and Hit, and has lower base stats than even first-tier jobs in other classes. However, Thieves are the only class that can throw with a range of 6, they're the only ones that can steal reliably, and are needed to unlock the Majin, so you pretty much ''have'' to use them if you want to get the most out of post-main quest gameplay.

* BestLevelEver: Chapter 6 (Blair Forest) anyone?

* [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Crowning Music of Awesome]]: The Entire Soundtrack.

* MemeticMutation: '''Captain Gordon, Defender of'''--Oh, screw it. If you don't get it by ''now''...

* AwesomeArt: Though criticized at the time or lacking polygonal models in reviews, the extremely detailed sprites and character animations have barely aged the game.

* {{Woolseyism}}:
** In the Japanese text, King Krichevskoy apparently died from choking on a Dark Manju [[note]] Dumpling of the Damned in the anime[[/note]]. In the US version, the food was changed to Black Pretzels, causing a HilariousInHindsight from when George W. Bush briefly lost consciousness after choking on a pretzel.

* OneTrueThreesome: Laharl/Etna/Flonne, one of the most iconic instances in an RPG. They play off of each other so well that fans find it an obvious solution.