Rhapsody II: Ballad of the Little Princess

If you're a fan of JRPGs, do yourself a favor and play this game. If you're a fan of things looking as best as possible, do yourself another favor and play this gorgeous game with the in game CRT filter on.

Very Cute RPG. i hated that the characters lose their equips every time they leave your party, which will happen a lot, but besides that i would recommend the game when you see it in a sale.

เกมน่ารัก เพลงเพราะ เข้าไปฟังเพลงดูตัวละครเต้นก็คุ้มแล้ว เนื้อเรื่องน่ารัก ไม่เบื่อ เกมชอบซ่อนนู้นซ่อนนี้เยอะ ถ้าพลาดบางอย่างแล้วพลาดเลย

90년대 JRPG 특유의 감성과 스토리텔링이 돋보이는 작품입니다. 전작에 등장했던 인형 캐릭터들이 속편에서도 자연스럽게 등장하여 1편 플레이어들에게 반가움을 선사합니다. 개발진이 기존 팬층을 세심하게 배려한 부분이 인상적이었습니다. 각 등장인물의 개성이 뚜렷하게 표현되어 그들의 여정에 깊이 몰입할 수 있었고, 이는 전체적인 게임 경험을 한층 더 풍요롭게 만들어주었습니다. 캐릭터들과 함께하는 모험이 매 순간 즐거움을 선사하여 처음부터 끝까지 흥미롭게 플레이할 수 있었습니다.

This game has a Donkey Kong Arcade minigame except the barrels are cats

An improvement on its already charming predecessor. The hand-drawn backgrounds return, and are much more detailed this time. The battle system has been completely retooled, but still boils down to little more than spamming strong AOEs and healing occasionally, as the grid-based movement has been removed it is at least a little faster than before. The dungeons this time around are mediocre, but in this case that's actually a huge improvement. It's a shame that they couldn't make English versions of the songs to go along with the English dub, but I understand this series is incredibly niche, and there likely just wasn't the budget for it as this was never going to sell a lot of copies.

great addition to the marl series Love it a bunch actually.

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This is a really solid remaster/port of a 1999 Playstation 1 title. Like the first Rhapsody title, the original was fairly low budget and it shows, but it's still enjoyable if easy to play. Art is a mix of 2D sprites, 2D side scrolling areas, and a few 3D areas. The 2D sprites and areas look pretty good, lots of parallax scrolling, and decent detail. The 3D areas are a bit more pixelated, due to the limitations of the Playstation 1. There aren't a huge amount of graphical updates to modern systems. Music's great, and just like with the first game, the characters will break into musical numbers. It's one of the charms of the series, and the songs themselves are pretty catchy. Story is fine, it's aimed toward teen girls, and I'm by no means a teen girl anymore so I'm way outside the demographics. It's still fun to play. Combat is different from the first Rhapsody title, it's a more traditional turn based title than the tactical RPG style of the first. This is not an ATB based turn based system either, you input commands for the whole party and they do their attacks based on their speed (and the enemies do the same). Puppets also work differently from the first game, they're no longer separate units, they're a type of equipment that grows in levels as you do. The puppets give you stats, and have a collection of spells they can cast. Spells also work differently in this title, there is no MP so casting spells costs your MONEY. There are accessories you can get later on to help offset some of this cost, but you're not going to be using spells too often as it can cost you more than you earn. Each character also has some special attacks, these attacks cost HP to use, which then you have to use items or spells to heal up. This is a very different resource management system than is typical. Combat in general is more difficult than Rhapsody 1, but you're still not going to hit any game-overs as long as you have some jRPG experience. There's some humor, but a lot of it is the insulting and derogatory humor directed toward girls in a lot of Japanese media. Level design is better than Rhapsody 1, but it's still fairly plain and uninspired. You'll see a lot of long repeating corridors. Some areas are far too long. Overall, it's a fun adventure, pretty easy (turn it up if you want even a bit of challenge). It's an old game, and while it plays pretty well, there are a few QoL areas that could be improved on. The most frustrating is that every time your party reforms, anyone who is re-added has their equipment and sometimes puppets removed. In some chapters, this can happen 5 or 6 times in short order.

game progression is guessing game. terrible figuring out the next step. first one was leagues ahead.