This sets the stage for the game and also provides a lot of flavor. We are, naturally, an Adventurer, and it isn’t long before we’re going to be persecuted for our trouble. The Temple of the Swordfather is persecuting Adventurers for allying with old races like the elves and dwarves. In terms of overall dirtiness, it’s a lot like The Witcher, but more Braveheart, so the unwashed peasants all have thick Scottish accents and the music is a lovely mix of the sad and Celtic.įrom the beginning, things are bad. Three times they’ve been driven back by ragtag unproven heroes.Īs a sidebar, at some point, someone has to go “Maybe we should put together some professionals to deal with this recurring issue,” right?Įvil is rising again and that brings us to the dirty streets of a very Scottish-feeling city called Skara Brae. Three times, they’ve talked an evil human into doing their bidding. You can guess who the apes are, right? The elves and dwarves fought against them and drove them back, but gods can’t be killed, so they spend all their time plotting and influencing and whispering, trying desperately to get back in. There were gods that clawed through a rift in the world and turned apes into intelligent apes to be their worshippers. There’s a nicely-animated cutscene bringing us back–or introducing us, if you didn’t happen to be around in 1985–to the world.
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And, more importantly, the game is actually out. The Bard’s Tale IV manages this tricky feat with the acrobatics and derring-do of your average (if always overpowered) bard.
And then there’s the matter of actually delivering the game versus spending a near-decade selling spaceships and spinning your wheels, not that I’m naming names.
Get too modern and you upset all the fans that backed you in the first place. Get too nostalgic and you have a game that’s nearly incomprehensible to gamers that think Halo is old school–especially for the Bard’s Tale series, which began back in the 80s. Kickstarter-backed nostalgia-fests have to walk a hard line.
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