Rhapsody III: Memories of Marl Kingdom Reviews

The best combat in the trilogy. It's also great seeing the evolution of Nippon Ichi game by game, since by Rhapsody 3 much of the formula resembles La Pucelle Tactics. A pretty fun RPG, mostly for established fans.

Hello Friends, Today I will review the game Rhapsody 3: Memories of Marl Kingdom. This is the third game in this series. It has story elements from the first and second games in it from different perspectives. For example, a player may play a similar scenario found in the second game, but from a minion or a evil character that is playable. This game changes the formula again from the second game. In this game, the fighting is done in rows of players. This allows for different combination of characters and monsters to fight enemies. This also can entail using strategy. For example, using ice elemental enemies against fire enemies and light against dark. This allows the player to have 16 character at once on the field to fight enemies. The fighting is done usually with the main character, and the row characters usually do their own moves automatically. The front row character can do combo and can do specials with the row characters also. The music is back in this version, but like the previous game, it is untranslated and only has English subtitles. Also, the leveling in this game may require grinding to fight certain bosses if the player wants to have certain characters in their team to be high enough to beat certain bosses. The other big change is the game is now split into episodes. The character can choose on the menu which episode they will play. Each one is like a separate game the player can play. Beating one episode opens the next one, and so on. Apparently there is a bonus episode after playing all the other episodes, but this bonus one has achievements, so if a player does play it, they my swell beat the bonus episode too. Anyways, here is my pros and cons list: PROS: - The game takes place after beating the first and second game. Without spoiling too much, it is strongly recommended if players want to play the third game, they play the first and second game in the order they are numbered. As many things in the third game take place during events from those other two games. - Much more world building and history of the world. Playing from different perspective in each scenario shows the story from different perspectives, which can be interesting too. This game is lore heavy with history of the Marl Kingdom. - The fighting in this game is more strategy based. Also, there can now be 16 character fighting at the same time, if the player can find enough monsters or characters to hire to fight for them. Players can also recruit monsters and use them in different episodes. - Unlockable episodes and including a bonus episode. Only a few episodes use chapters in them. - Works on windows 11 OS. - Works with controllers. I used a Zen Pro switch controller. CONS: - The songs are not translated into English, just like the second game. There are subtitles at least. - I experienced a bug for the last bonus episode. It messed up some characters not being able to join me in the final scenario. Instead a glitch happened where it showed distorted characters which i could not use. - They changed the game format and this might be not favorable to some as it is different than the previous games. - This game has a lot of grinding of levels in it. This may not be fun for everyone to power level the characters for hours to get them to certain levels. Do I recommend the game? Yea, it is not a too hard a game but it does require some grinding. Although several things were changed from the original game and second game, this game has links to the first and second games. There is much more lore in this game, so knowing what happened in the first and second game is strongly recommended that a player has previous played them to understand the third game. The fighting in the game has changed from the second game. It is more like row fighting where the first character in the row controls the moves of the whole road. The other characters in the row may do automatic fighting moves also. There is room to have 16 characters to fight with in this game, including recruitable characters and monsters. The music is again untranslated into English, but does subtitles on the bottom of the screen. The game uses episodes that are like separate games, and when one is beaten, it opens another one. Each episode has their own main characters, but monsters that were recruited from previous episodes can be used in each episode. So the game fills in a lot of lore from the previous games, and basically concludes the series in this game. So players who tried the first two games may want to play this one last, as it involves a lot of lore from the previous games.