If you like Strategic roleplaying games Disgaea 3 is among the best.
I wrote a mini review of it at another forum, ill repost it here for anyone interested....
Disgaea 3, is not a traditional RPG. Its a strategic role playing game (SRPG) similar to Valkyria chronicles, but with much more deept, and longterm value. Its proberly the best longterm value game on PS3 there are 100's of hours of gameplay in it.
The actualy game play is like this more or less..
Instead of walking through diferent landscapes, like in traditional RPG's. You start at some kind of base, where you can buy things for your charecters, like armor, weapons, consumables, you can also learn new skills and make new charecters here. You can have upto 64 diferent charecters, wich you can level upto level 9999. You can even reincarnate your charecters back to level 1, but then they will start with higher base stats. You can also level up your items in the item world. There is so much to do, that it can seem a litle overwelming at the start. Once you are done equping your charecters you select to go into battle mode.
Battle mode is played in small maps. The combat is turnbased, you move your charecters ( upto 10 in each map ) give them orders and execute them, then it is the enemy turn. The battles have some sort of puzzle game element too them also, as there are some coloured blocks and panels, wich adds all kinds of effect to the charecters that stand on them. f.x a green panel can give the charecter + 50 def. or a red may give the charecter a negative effect. There are many diferent effects and coloured blocks, and a big part of the game is to figure out how to best solve the map. Its a little dificult to describe, but it works out really good.
Once you beat the map, you return to the main base area, where you can spend earned money, and mana to upgrade your charecters, or maybe make new ones if you unlocked a new class. ( there are a lot of diferent clasess in the game ) and all that kinda things, and then once you are ready, you goto the next battle map.
You can complete the main story in about 30-40 hours, but after the main story there is till a lot to do. Someone could argue the game first really begins after completing it. If you wanna make a really strong group of charecters, and get some of the best euqipment aviable there are still a lot to do. You could play the game for several 100 of hours and still have stuff to do if you really wanna make a perfect team.
Also there is lots of DLC stuff coming, Japan has a new classroom making you able to have upto 128 charecters, and a whole lot of diferent charecters and stuff as DLC, wich will hopefully make its way to EU someday also.
The graphics are not very good. They do their job, and looks ok, but they are more like PS2 graphics. anyway once you start getting sucked into the actualy gameplay you soon forget about the graphics.
All in all its a must have for fans of SRPG genre. Mind you its not a game you sit down and play for 10 minutes, and understand it all. However its pretty easy to get into because of the tutorials, but the game has a lot of deepts. So if you are the kinda person who prefers some fast paced action, this is not a game for you. However if you like to build up your charecters and find better euqipment and that sorta things, this is proberly the best game in the genre.