NIS wastes little time, announces Disgaea DS for North America

Before the ink even had time to dry on the game's announcement for Japan, NIS America this afternoon confirmed plans to bring the Nintendo DS version of its popular turn-based strategy series Disgaea to North America this summer. While lacking a colorful title beyond the presumably tentative Disgaea DS, the game is nonetheless described as simply "a new edition" of Disgaea: Hour of Darkness.

NIS America promises "several key improvements" over 2003's PlayStation 2 original. However, the announcement also confirms our grumblings from earlier this week regarding the game being just another pass at the first game rather than a wholly new tactical strategy adventure, much like last year's Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness for the PSP. Even so, given that the DS is practically tailor made for games of this type, Disgaea in any form feels like a natural fit for Nintendo's portable. We just hope the battery can hold out while we grind to level 9999.

http://www.joystiq.com/2008/03/07/ni...north-america/

I just finished with the whole super-grind, 185k total levels, 210 bonus transmigration thing on my first character recently on Afternoon of Darkness. I'm interested to see how they change it for the DS.

I'd love to see them start working on a portable remake of Disgaea 2.

So it means it will be released before the japanese version?