[review]Rhapsody : A Musical Adventure (DS)

Title : Rhapsody : A Musical Adventure

Publisher : NIS America

Developer : Nippon Ichi Software

Genre : RPG

Platform : Nintendo DS

ERSB : Everyone

Released :  

[JPN] 07 August 08

[ENG] 23 September 08

Official Site :  Rhapsody

Story :

It's a story about a girl named Cornet who lives in Orange Village. Her parent died when she was a very young age. She has a special ability to speak with the puppets ( while the others can't ) and has a special puppet called Kururu who always stay besides her. 

Cornet always dreaming about meeting a prince and fall in love with him. One day, Cornet's grandfather asked her to get a red inotium in the forest ; Wonder Woods. When Cornet was searching for the red inotium, she encountered a witch and get attacked by. Then someone came to save Cornet, it's the prince that she always dreamed about ! Prince Ferdinand.

After met the prince, Cornet determined to join the contest to become Prince's bride. With full of passion and effort, Cornet managed to become one of the candidate. Moreover, Prince Ferdinand remembered Cornet. But then the havoc happened. The Witches came to the castle and want to revenge for the last time, unfortunately the leader fell in love with the prince and cast a spell to the prince so he become a stone. The Witches took the prince away and this is where Cornet's adventure began.

Review :

In this game, there're quite a lots of comedic scenario that make me laugh. For 2D graphic game, the visual is nice and some of the puppets are cute. The music and sound also nice, there are scenes about the characters sing a song, but i always ended up skipping the scenes because it's too long for me. Actually you don't need stylus this game because it doesn't has anything to do with the stylus. The gameplay is quite nice, but i was a bit lost after i got each stones, since they give lack of information for the next things to do, so i had to walk around the town, asked the people one by one to get information, for me the most confusing  task is the earthstone. It took me a long time to get information about it, but then i couldn't find the further information so i opened walkthrough. And this game is an easy game. It doesn't give much challenge because it's easy to level up and the enemies are weak. 

My Score  :

Story : 4/5

Graphic :4/5

Music & Sound :4/5

Control : 4/5

Gameplay :4/5
Overall : 4

Challenge : Easy

Completion Time : less than 15 hours

Walkthrough :

IGN | Gamefaqs

Tips :

-. Check every sides of houses to get items.

-. There are some puppets inside the temples, ruins, etc , defeat them and they will join you.

-. Don't waste money to buy healing items because the it can be obtained from the houses, battle or inside the dungeon.

-. Reach level 35 at least to fight the final boss. ( including your puppets )

---

Extra :

-. Horn Contest : you can play horn contest in every town to get inotium ( the currency ). if  you keep hitting the good bar, you'll get more inotium. ( i got 110 inotium the most, i rarely play this because mostly i get inotium from the monsters )

-. Prince Ferdinand Fanclub : if you go to Mothergreen and enter the house displayed below ( pink color ), you can join the Fanclub and get news about the prince. ( Actually you have to join.. )

-. Burg's Restaurant ( Wonderwoods ) : When you go inside the house, there are 3 paths that you can choose to go to the main room. The first path is the top one, it's the easiest path since the enemy are weak. If your level below 10 - 15, it's better to chose the top path. The other path's enemy are quite tough if you just playing the game. ( I always chose the top path since it doesn't waste my time )