Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure was the second PlayStation game I ever played, and my first strategic RPG, so needless to say I was excited by the prospect of a DS port. And NIS America has done an adequate job of retooling the game to fit the system and make it more accessible for RPG newcomers. [...]

Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure for the Nintendo DS has caused some heartbreak among fans not only because promised bonus content was not included, but also because the game itself isn’t working properly for some players. As I began my run-through, I decided to play it safe. I researched problems others were having to see if [...]

Plenty of people e-mailed us about a glitch in Rhapsody DS which wouldn’t reward players the Angel’s Present to unlock additional content after beating the game. NIS told us they were looking into multiple glitches to determine if some or all of the games were suffering from bugs. Unfortunately, not getting the Angel’s Present [...]

If you weren’t already aware Disgaea DS and Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure come out on the Nintendo DS tomorrow in North America. These will be NIS America’s first Nintendo DS games. At the last minute I caught up with Jack Niida, the Marketing Manager over at NIS America, who took a few questions for the [...]

Shortly after I posted NIS America’s plans for their Disgaea games I got an e-mail with a concrete release date for the Nintendo DS version of Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure. A portable Puppet Princess comes out on September 23, the same day as Disgaea DS.
 
The good news is the wait between the Japanese and North [...]

The maxim I got from the chat with Mr. Akenaga is NIS America is focusing on quality over quantity. Just because there is an RPG with sprites, and appears to be something similar to NIS America’s previous games doesn’t mean they are going to license it for North America. This mantra is being applied to [...]

I got a chance to check out the DS build of Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure and two things instantly grabbed my attention. The first was I had to start the game from the title screen with no saved exploration points. The second was the build was all ready in English. Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure [...]