![]() Homard is actually a descendant of Cornett from the Marl Kingdom games. He tries to be all impressive, breaking out his twin swords to impress the ladies, but it’s a bit hard to take him too seriously when he has an adorable, purring army of felines backing him up. His crewmembers are cute little pirate cats named the Chocolat gang. Homard commands an airship known as the Escargot. However, La Pucelle does have quite a colorful cast: Characters So while there are some references (the Rosenqueen shop, for example), you won’t be running into the same characters. While the setting is still the same French-inspired world, it also takes place a century or two after its predecessors. The first true strategy RPG created by Nippon Ichi, La Pucelle is a pseudo-sequel to Marl’s Kingdom. It wasn’t about teaching you how tragic life is – although there is a fair share of drama – but was instead about making you laugh.īut it was more than just La Pucelle‘s story and setting that set it apart – while many SRPGs were known for their extreme depth and next-to-impossible difficulty, La Pucelle featured in-depth character and gameplay systems that were completely different from the norm. For the first time, the SRPG genre finally stopped taking itself so seriously. Its heroine was a young woman named Prier who would rather slack off than to continue her studies. Nearly all games featured epic plots set in medieval times involving the horrible atrocities of war – La Pucelle instead featured colorful anime graphics, in a world filled with smiling mushrooms and talking pirate cats. An offshoot of the Marl Kingdom series, La Pucelle took the basic concept of strategy RPG stalwarts like Tactics Ogre and turned it on its head. Two more games appeared in the Marl Kingdom series in Japan, before Nippon Ichi published its first true SRPG, La Pucelle. ![]() Atlus took a chance and localized the title for America under the name Rhapsody, but it flopped horribly. Other than the quirky Cooking Fighter Hao, Nippon Ichi first gained a modicum of popularity with Marl Kingdom: Adventures of the Puppet Princess, an amusing (if somewhat easy) RPG featuring Disney-like musical numbers and impossibly sugary character designs. They became known for creating tile puzzle games and other irrelevant publications for the PlayStation (one of which was published in America by XS Games until the title Jigsaw Madness). Nippon Ichi’s start in 1994 was hardly glorious. ![]()
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