Oh, and music.Īs you progress through the story line, you’ll be presented with many hilarious NPC concerts where various drunken bar patrons break-out in a tale of the origins of beer, or a troupe of goblins laments your sad and gloomy future-to-come. No, the Bard’s Tale is all about simplicity and entertainment value, swapping the typical “loot management system” of most modern RPGs with quality story and quirky dialogue. There isn’t even a character model in your inventory with slots to equip helmets, chest pieces, boots, gauntlets, rings, or swords. New items you find will replace the outdated models automatically, so won’t spend much time comparing item stats and swapping things around. This is a typical action-RPG in that you’ll be running quests and upgrading your items, but the focus really isn’t so much about the loot as it is about the story and characters. As you make your way through the bleak, grassy landscape, you’ll be guided by an omnipresent and constantly heckling narrator who makes it a point to call-out your failings and presented with various quests that net you experience, loot, and advance you through the story… which is pretty hilarious, I must say.ĭuring your travels, you’ll encounter buxom lassies with rat troubles, overweight screaming mums that run-about in circles, a blacksmith who yammers-on like a gun aficionado at a swap meet, a trio of singing goblins, and much-much more.
Every interaction is narrated by (mostly) believable English, Scottish, and Irish accents, and the writing is top-notch. While the back-story isn’t immediately obvious in Bard’s Tale, the quality of the voice acting certainly is – a lot of work has gone into this title. A Voice To Be RememberedĪfter allocating a number of starting points to various abilities – the RPG standards like Strength, Dexterity, Charisma, Vitality, etc. What’s a bard, you ask? A lonesome traveler, singer of stories, dexterous and nimble, charmer of ladies, and adept at the magical arts of charm and summoning! Not enough for you? Here, try Wikipedia. Your story begins as a scruffy English-speaking bard with the lust of a teenage boy and a lute slung over his shoulder.
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