Hello friends. I’m a big lover of Disgaea, yet I had never heard of Trinity Universe before this post, and judging by the comments it would appear many of you hadn’t either. I was able to land a pretty decent deal on a brand new copy of the game a few days ago and am now on chapter 3.
However, I am now discovering that one of the things I like about Disgaea is kind of working against me with this game.
One thing I like about Disgaea is how relatively niche the series is. It results in the community being tightly knit, and I’ve discovered fellow fans of the series to typically be huge fans.
This has not been nearly as beneficial an attribute during my playthrough of Trinity Universe. Because this game is not clicking with me. I appear to have some fundamental misunderstanding of the game and its mechanics, but I cannot find another soul discussing this anywhere. I don’t know where to go for help.
I don’t know if anyone here will be able to help, being that this game is a crossover and not a mainline Disgaea entry, but I’ll post my questions below. Please let me know if you can think of anywhere else to go with them as well.
- There doesn’t appear to be any indicator for which of the dungeons progresses the story and which is just associated to a randomly passing by object.
- Using R1 to pass a combo is talked about during the tutorial multiple times, but in practice appears to only be beneficial because it gives a slight (temporary?) buff to the next party member, but this means the 1st party member will never be able to receive the buff, and the 4th will never be able to give it, which seems strange. It also stores AP for the next turn, but I fail to see the referenced combo pass talked about in the tutorial, which appears to be the main purpose of this feature.
- The powerful attacks associated with R3… can hardly ever be used? I struggled through a mini boss named the Guardian Spirit that took an hour to beat despite me being far higher a level than the dungeon recommended. Because I did very very little damage to it. The R3 attack did an okay amount of damage, but each use required an insane amount of time to power up, so I only used it 3 or 4 times within that hour. I know its filled up faster by longer combos, so I tried primarily using the square attack to have higher combos, and spent multiple turns saving AP for longer combos on the next turn, but it still took so long to charge up. This means this could never be used against any enemies other than boss fights because regular enemies do not take that long to fight. Does this have something to do with my misunderstanding of the combo pass in question 2?
- No shops have weapons? I check every vending machine and consistently stop by the main shop, but they rarely have weapons and when they do they’re weaker than the default equipped weapons. I know later in the game rune-like attributes can be applied to weapons to make them better, but in the mean time Etna and Prinny do very little damage, and I’m assuming I should be getting better equipment.
These are my main questions with the game. Despite Disgaea being relatively niche, Steam guides or the old fashioned printed game guides were able to help me through them, but this isn’t the case with Trinity Universe. Makes me wish this would be brought to modern platforms to get more people talking about it.