Disgaea 4 Complete+

Disgaea 4 Complete+ is a tactical strategy RPG set in Hades, where vampire Valvatorez leads a revolt against a corrupt regime after Prinnies are taken from his care. Build a roster, fight on grid maps with throw-and-lift tactics, and develop characters and equipment through the base, Item World, and additional campaigns.

Valvatorez is a vampire who once ruled as a tyrant and now works as a Prinny instructor in Hades, the Netherworld’s underworld prison. When the Prinnies he has trained are seized before they can be shipped out, he sets out to keep a promise he made to them: to give them sardines. His attendant Fenrich brings information linking the abduction to the government that administers Hades, turning a rescue into a challenge to the regime. The story follows Valvatorez as he gathers allies and an army to confront that corruption. Its political setting is filtered through the series’ comic demon society, where a former tyrant’s rigid sense of obligation can drive a rebellion. The personal promise gives the campaign a clear starting point, while the struggle against Hades’ rulers widens the stakes without losing sight of the Prinnies at the centre of it.

The main campaign advances through dialogue scenes and tactical battles, with Valvatorez’s base in Hades serving as the place to prepare between missions. Story episodes introduce the next conflict; the player then forms a force from story characters and recruited units, enters a battle map, and works toward its objective. Maps are laid out on square grids with height, coloured Geo Panels and Geo Blocks that can change conditions across parts of the field. Units move within their available range and act with weapons, spells or special skills. Moving a unit beside an enemy can also bring nearby allies into a cooperative attack, and concentrating several attacks on one target builds a combo that increases their damage. The battlefield therefore asks for more than choosing a strong attack: unit placement, team formation and the map’s active effects can change which moves are useful. Capturing territory and completing missions also connect the army’s progress to its growing roster and facilities.

Lift and Throw make movement a tactical tool in their own right. Human characters can pick up nearby allies, enemies or objects and throw them across the map, including onto ground a unit could not reach by walking. A throw can reposition a teammate, move an obstacle or send a troublesome enemy away from a protected area. Several units can be lifted into a human tower, which can attack with strength that increases according to the number of characters in it; the tower can also extend reach to objects such as elevated treasure chests. Monsters bring a different interaction: Magichange turns a monster into a weapon that a human character can equip for its own techniques and the monster’s abilities. Two monsters can also combine into one larger monster with expanded capability. Geo Blocks and Geo Panels add a spatial puzzle to these actions: moving or destroying blocks can change panel effects, trigger chains and alter rewards. The result is a battle system where positioning, unit roles and map manipulation work together.

Hades is both the campaign hub and a management space. Its facilities let the player recover from battles, buy weapons and items, and create new allies. Character creation expands the roster beyond the named cast, offering different classes and species that can be shaped for particular roles. The base’s regime-management system ties army growth to territory: victories add lands to the map, and the lands increase the number of characters who can join. The player can build Evil Symbols on conquered territory; each provides a different function or benefit to characters placed in its associated area. Rearranging these symbols and the units around them lets the player organise which allies receive support. The hub also contains a parliament where requests can be put to a vote. Proposals can secure practical changes when passed; if legislators reject a request, the player can try to win votes through preparation or force the issue in battle. Base editing lets the player arrange characters, facilities and objects, making the headquarters part of the game’s customization as well as its preparation loop.

Character development and equipment improvement provide long-running goals alongside the story episodes. Units have abilities tied to their class or species, and changeable Evilities add further ways to define how a character contributes. Character World sends an individual unit into a randomly arranged dungeon within that character; completing its battles can increase attributes such as movement or counterattack capacity, and special objects can provide new skills or improve equipment aptitude. Its rooms have unstable floors and many Geo Blocks; clearing all blocks can reduce the mana cost of the improvement being purchased. Breaking floor sections can also reveal the spheres used for skill acquisition and equipment aptitude. Items have their own parallel route in the Item World. Entering a weapon, armour piece or other item leads to a sequence of randomly structured battle floors; clearing them raises that item's level and statistics. Routes through the floors can lead to different encounters and bonuses. Innocents living inside items add another layer: defeating them makes their stat bonuses stronger, and those specialists can be carried forward as part of the item's development. These systems let the player improve the force in several connected ways: recruit or customise a unit, develop its abilities, then pursue equipment whose statistics and Innocents complement its role. These rewards make the two dungeons distinct training activities rather than generic battle arenas. The base's character creation, character-specific training and item-specific training provide separate points of control over the army, each with its own kind of reward.

The Item World also supplies optional encounters and detours rather than functioning only as a straight sequence of floors. Mystery Gates can lead to rooms containing treasure, item-growth opportunities or difficult enemies, and the chosen route can affect what appears. Pirate crews may invade a floor for a limited number of turns; some bring valuable cargo, while others are dangerous opponents. Captured pirates can be disciplined and recruited, and the reverse-pirate system lets the player take a crew into an item to collect treasure, Innocents or level-up spheres before the ship departs. Outside that equipment-focused dungeon, Complete+ packages the original campaign with additional story campaigns and more than thirty unlockable characters, as well as custom-map creation and other series features. These extras give players reasons to keep building the roster and testing battle setups after the central story moves forward. The optional systems share the same tactical vocabulary as the main missions, but their rewards feed into character and item growth rather than advancing every story beat.

Disgaea 4 Complete+ brings Valvatorez's campaign to PC and Nintendo Switch after the earlier Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten release. The Complete+ package includes extra story campaigns, unlockable characters and custom-map creation alongside the central Hades rebellion. Nippon Ichi Software developed the game, and NIS America published these editions. Its presentation uses expressive character illustrations and animated dialogue scenes alongside small battlefield sprites, carrying the story's theatrical demon society into combat. The same cast appears in the campaign, base management and optional dungeons, linking Valvatorez's political revolt to the practical work of building a stronger force. A player can follow the promise that drives the main story, or spend time improving a favourite unit, finding a more useful Innocent, changing territorial benefits and exploring the Item World. Those are different ways of engaging with the same tactical systems rather than separate games.