Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure
Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure, released in Japan as The Puppet Princess of Marl Kingdom is a tactical role-playing game for the PlayStation from Atlus USA and Nippon Ichi Software, the creators of Disgaea, and…
Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure is an adventure developed by Nippon Ichi Software, released 17 December 1998 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation.
What Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure is
Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure is an adventure game developed by Nippon Ichi Software and released in 1998. It was published by Atlus USA. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game centers around the adventures of Cornet, a girl who can talk to puppets and has a magical horn that grants wishes, and Kururu, a puppet that has the heart and soul of a human. The majority of the game is about Cornet and Kururu trying to save Prince Ferdinand (whom Cornet is in love with) after he has been turned to stone by the self-proclaimed "most beautiful witch in the world." The witch, Marjoly, also has a crush on the prince and had meant to put him to sleep, but messed up the spell and accidentally turned him to stone.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are comedy and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 22 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 24% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1998 averaged 70, so it scored 5 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core2 Quad Q9300 2.5 GHz, 2 GB RAM and Radeon HD 5450. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure launched on 17 December 1998, within three weeks of Suikoden II, Crazy Taxi (1999), Mario Party and Thief: The Dark Project. All of them reviewed better. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Suikoden II, Crazy Taxi (1999), Mario Party, Thief: The Dark Project.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel. See all 2 videos →
Screenshots
All media
Dlc
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