The player controls Arsia, a young girl, wandering around Napple town and levels themed around the four seasons. To restore peace, Arsia and her pet creatures will have to collect six "petals".

Although the game is primarily a platform game, there are so many people to talk to and a complete story accompanying the action, so that it can be considered as an adventure game as well. Adventure parts mainly develops in Napple tale, with a 3rd person view, while the platformer levels, the four seasons, gets a 2-D side-scrolling camera. In side-scrolling levels, Arsia usually has to complete the level and fight against a boss. Several levels requires certain items or people to talk to, meaning that you'll end revisiting some levels several times to go on with your quest.

The game setting is very european influenced, with classical cartoon looking characters (somewhat reminding of Alice in Wonder Land) and colored houses. Pierrot the clown, talking trees, and a cow barman are all in the game.

Napple Tale also offers micro management with pets, items, and a complex process to create new creatures or items by combining several of them in various ways (similar to Power Stone 2' store or all games of the Atelier series). The player can also be carried out collecting all cards and be sure that he seen everything in the game.

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