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Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice Official Strategy Guide

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Overall I like the strategy guide. Barring some of the DLC for the game all the information needed to crush the game can be found inside. With that said I don't know if it's the nature of this particular Disgaea game but I feel that the way the information is organized in the book isn't quite as well done as some of the previous books. It seems like I have to do more page turning to compare and find data then I feel like I was doing in the past. I could just be going crazy but there seems to be a lack logical organization to me.

Either way, I still highly recommend the guide. I far prefer it to the FAQs and such you'll find online and that's pretty much the only reason to buy a strat these days aside from collecting.

It is a great guide and it is easy to find what you need. Only downside I have run into is that after a day of using *I do NOT bend books back* the pages started falling out.

When I was much younger, first in the days of single-button joysticks and then the glory of the 8- and 16-bit console generations, being a gamer meant you were faced with a spartan selection of in-depth (for the era) titles and even slimmer pickings for 'official' help. The odd gaming magazine or two might provide you with a few hints and tips, but in those days, the bulk of the information out there revolved around platformers, sports games and racers - endless pages devoted to timing your jumps, just when to tap the button for that power slide or which cheat code unlocked which politician in which b-ball game.

Point being, whether you played a jRPG or a strategy game, you were essentially left in the cold with aught else but your wits. While there's something to be said for scrounging out every secret chamber or hidden item and formulating stat growth charts in your spare time, the advent of the Internet and the readily-available repository of gamer knowledge for the role-playing and tactical genres rendered the (by-then burgeoning) strategy guide market virtually moot. But then the first Disgaea was translated for North American audiences and brought State-side; with the first game of the series, Nippon Ichi had opened the doors to a degree of mathematical immersion capable of keeping the nerdiest among us sacrificing hundreds of hours to play-time.

Online FAQs simply didn't have the presentation or as complete a tabulation of data and strategies for the Disgaea series and NIS' other offerings as DoubleJump's guides. Compact, handy reference tomes literally bursting with techniques and secrets that would otherwise have taken innumerable spans of time for a single player to learn on his or her own, these guides for these games have consistently proven superior to anything available online and are worth their weight in gold. In my own experience, I would not have had as much success exploring every option available in these games without these guides, and the text for Disgaea 3 is as nuanced as I've come to expect given all the previous offerings.

If you've more than a passing interest in the basic story levels, if you're seeking to thoroughly conquer versus merely play, this guide is your Bible - should you choose to explore the other strategy publications by NIS, DoubleJump's respective releases for those titles are highly recommended as well. While most other game guides serve as little other than a decorative means of taking up shelf space, you will get plenty of bang for your buck here.

First of all -- this is a great guide, no spoilers and it includes generally everything you might want to know.


However, as many others have noticed, the page binding is absolutely terrible. I already have pages starting to fall out (I open my books gently, never all the way, pages never bent back). You will likely need to tape/glue the pages back in place when this happens to avoid losing them. If it wasn't for this terrible fault, this would no doubt have a 5* rating.

Though buyer beware -- this guide WILL fall apart with regular non-abusive usage.

I think the guide itself is great. It has all the content and information you could ever need for the game itself. The writing is informative yet has a sense of humor. The pictures are good and the art is great.

However, the physical book itself, after only one use, started falling apart. So far, about 10 pages have become unglued from the binding.

It is nice and detailed. Plus when I received it it was in good condition just what I needed to get all the secrets this game has.

Disgaea continues its tradition of good games with number 3. With a release on the PS3, the difficulty has been kicked up a notch with more graphically intense battles, Thus the need for a guide such as this, As an added bonus, it contains original artwork and custom hints.

this guide is very helpful. it gives great detail into all the things you'd want to know about disgaea 3. my only complaint is that the book is so small. it's thick and full of information but something in a more traditional size would have been better but it's a minor detail