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The meat of why this particular game remains immortal in my memory is that it genuinely challenged the player in ways that modern RPG’s dare not do today. Luckily you have a Bard with you to sing your glories, if you survive.
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You are the leader of this ragtag group of freedom fighters. And who was left to resist? Only a handful of unproven young Warriors, junior Magic Users, a couple of Bards barely old enough to drink, and some out of work Rogues. The future of Skara Brae hung in the balance. Then, one night the town militiamen all disappeared. Mangar froze the surrounding lands with a spell of Eternal Winter, totally isolating Skara Brae from any possible help. Evil creatures oozed into Skara Brae and joined his shadow domain. Long ago, when magic still prevailed, the evil wizard Mangar the Dark threatened a small but harmonious country town called Skara Brae. Here’s what the box cover said, (per Wikipedia): You must gather a party of six heroes and solve the mysteries of the town’s ancient catacombs and towers in order to reach Mangar and defeat him. Instead, the premise of The Bard’s Tale is very simple: The evil wizard Mangar has trapped the innocent town of Skara Brae in a spell of eternal winter. The plot is rather simple and comes nowhere near the complexity of modern games like Final Fantasy or Dragon Age. While I admit that a large part of that is nostalgia, there’s actually some objective reasoning to my argument.įirst, let me explain the story.
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I’ve played a lot of Role Playing Games (RPG’s) over the years, but my all-time favorite remains to be The Bard’s Tale, the very first RPG I ever really played.