NIS America has been heavy on rereleasing its back-catalogue of games through its Prinny Presents collections, but later this year, the Rhapsody series is stealing the spotlight in Rhapsody: Marl Kingdom Chronicles.
In today's trailer, the publisher is shining a light on a PS2 sequel that we never got in the West, and the second game in this duology — Rhapsody III: Memories of Marl Kingdom. Released in Japan in 2000, Rhapsody III acts as both a prequel and a sequel to the first two games in the series.
Taking a chapter-based approach, you'll be able to play through the game with up to 16 different characters both new and returning from Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure and Rhapsody II: Ballad of the Little Princess. The PS2 entry uses a blend of gorgeous sprite work and 3D backgrounds and enemies which has been touched up for this rerelease. It also features a revamped battle system that improves on past titles, utilises a 3D camera, and introduces combination attacks with other characters.
Rhapsody: Marl Kingdom Chronicles comes to Nintendo Switch on 29th August in North America and 1st September in Europe. Will you be rushing to get your hands on two previously unlocalised RPGs? Let us know in the comments.
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Absolutely weird they only include two of the three. But such a thing seems to happen very often with collections.
Not my type of a game. Can be fun for gamers who love RPG.
Wait you can play as Myao?!?
This is getting riddiculously good, I can't wait!!
@Daniel36 Probably because the first one was already re-released in NIS Prinny Collection 3.
And isn't La Pucelle also linked to this?
I am super hyped to play this games! But at the same time i am a little disappointed they didn't include the first game with a re-dub of the new voice actors, that would have made this the ultimate collection.
I like old Disgaea style.
Wait, one game is missing??
@DogDetective Well, having a game in a different collection never stopped anyone... looking at Street Fighter 2
They really should've added it in, make it complete.
@Daniel36 Pretty much any Capcom collection. It's actually hard NOT to own the same game multiple times with how bad they mix and reuse titles.
I hold out hope for Prinny Presents Vol 4 to bring Disgaea 2 & 3 to Switch
Then, we would only be missing D2 😀
@Daggot Well, I am a fan of redundancy, I'd rather they complete a collection if it means duplicate games in multie collections than they scatter them all over the place.
But yeah, Capcom does take the cake sometimes.
Been really looking forward to this and hope the switch version doesn't run into any issues since the previous NIS collections did end up having problems like crashing (though iirc the majority got a patch)
@Princess_Lilly
Yeah im super exited for these, i remember the first game was one of the first games i imported for psone (never originally came to europe) and found it super charming.
also hell yes playable Myao! (and Etoile!)
@Mgalens I played the DS version, which is superior as I was informed. I really loved the graphics and the characters, and between this and Atelier Marie, we are in for a great year in gaming
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