Review TheBeautifulEric 3/5 · Jan 17, 2026 Completed
Rhapsody III: Memories of Marl Kingdom
I like this game more than R2, but not as much as R1.
I think it did a good job of using the stronger hardware of the PS2. 3D environments were a nice touch and felt like a step-up from the prior 2 games. I will say the first 2 chapters were pretty chill, but then the other chapters went …
I like this game more than R2, but not as much as R1.
I think it did a good job of using the stronger hardware of the PS2. 3D environments were a nice touch and felt like a step-up from the prior 2 games. I will say the first 2 chapters were pretty chill, but then the other chapters went wild with how tedious their dungeon designs were. The game would've really benefited from having a map.
The episodic nature worked out in this game's favor, they were able to tell multiple self-contained story's without making me think "I wish we could ramp up to the actual story." I will say only about 2 out of the 6 story's felt like they mattered.
Having 16 person party's was awesome, it feels good to outnumber enemies for once.
I think the game would've benefited from a fast forward feature, it felt pretty slow at times.
I do wish this game had more musical numbers, it feels like the series mostly drops that motif after the first game.
Sad there isn't a Rhapsody 4, but I don't know what else they could do with the story and characters.