Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure - How To Catch The Strongest Monsters

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For the most part, you'll be filling your active party in Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure with puppets. That doesn't make every monster in the game worthless, though. In fact, there are several that are well worth catching, or as the game presents it, recruiting, into Cornet's arsenal.

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By proxy, this means most monsters are kind of a waste of space. Feel free to sell them to the Monster Collector for a tidy profit. But by following our guide for the strongest monsters in Rhapsody, you'll know precisely which ones to hold on to, training them to become more powerful than any rocket launcher Etoile could ever buy.

The number one drawback to using monsters over puppets is that puppets can be revived by visiting Cornet's grandfather back at home; monsters, on the other hand, are gone forever when they die. This is enough to put some players off from using them entirely, and hey, that's totally fair. But since most of Rhapsody's fights aren't too tough, our advice is to experiment, because some monsters truly are strong enough to earn a slot.

But we do need to navigate carefully around this most dubious of aspects. The best way to do so is to seek out monsters with a high amount of health, or 'HP'. Simply put, the more health a monster has, the more hits it can take before being slain.

Beyond that, it's all about utility. In general, we don't really recommend scooping up monsters that inflict status debuffs; at least nine times out of ten, you'll be better off just whacking something rather than prolonging the fight. On the other hand, monsters with great offensive magic spells can be welcome adds.

As for physical prowess, high attack stats are great, and