![]() You learn magical songs, for example, to open thorned blockades or knock down walls and discover paths previously off limits. But caught right, The Bard's Tale 4 can be stunning. This is particularly annoying in The Bard's Tale 4, because saves happen at little pillars and not freely from a menu, meaning you have to redo progress each load.īut what other games do you know that come with a printable Code Wheel for solving puzzles? What other games do you know with a bard hero class powered by booze? What other games do you know with a live-action, evolving story recap when you select 'Continue'? What the Bard's Tale 4 sacrifices in polish it makes up for with personality. Character models are dated and cutscenes are slideshows with filters on, and a variety of bugs ( a huge second patch for the game has just been released) forced me to reload upwards of 15 times. This has its roots in crowdfunding, and is not a big budget game with a huge team. The other important thing to know or remember about The Bard's Tale 4 is where it comes from. Availability: Out now on PC (Windows), with PS4 and Xbox One versions confirmed.In this way The Bard's Tale 4, one giant collection of puzzles, can be enormously satisfying, but force the issue and you will bang heads with it. The answer doesn't really matter it's the process you undergo to get it and the satisfaction you feel when you do that counts. You could cheat - The Bard's Tale 4 includes a walkthrough out of the box - but you would rob yourself of the point of the puzzle in the first place. Trying to power through it is like trying to solve a great pile of crosswords in one sitting: your brain would turn to mush. I'm sorry this review arrives late, but The Bard's Tale 4: Barrows Deep is stubborn. The Bard's Tale 4 is an ideal place to puzzle in. You don't even need to go to a town shop to offload items - it's done automatically for you the instant you get a better piece of equipment.An eccentric and charismatic B-movie of a game. The Bard's Tale introduces a great new concept in where instead of an inventory system, the Bard automatically outfits himself with the best armour and weapons at his disposal. Trouble is neither of these methods are very handy in a tight scrape. You can only heal via summoning a specific character (the Crone) or by using a certain spell that can heal your entire party. Fights (once again often early in the game) usually devolve to you running around summoning characters who have died, while you do your best not to get pole axed by your enemies.Īdd to this the baffling decision by the programmers to not include a way to quickly heal yourself and it becomes a recipe for agitation. The problem is that summoning these friends takes a few seconds at the least, during which time you are unable to do anything except run around and play the appropriate tune. So top marks for story, but how does it play? Unfortunately combat, which is what you'll be spending most of your time doing, can be a frustrating experience at times. ![]() The Bard's Tale is also one of the few games we know off that takes time off for a song or two, usually Monty Python-esque ditties about getting drunk or dying horribly after being attacked by ogres. At one stage the Bard even jokingly asks a group of guards why they always place the control levers for a gate they're protecting in front of said gate instead of safely behind it. Breaking barrels, a typical RPG method to uncover hidden items, is rewarded by the game world's resident barrel maker, who sees profit in replacing barrels lost to your senseless bashing. ![]() For example, the main story revolves around the Bard having to save a princess from an evil wizard - a hackneyed RPG plot that even the characters within the game disparage for its unoriginality. ![]() The cynicism continues right through into the game world itself by taking numerous potshots at longstanding RPG conventions.
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