It seems that the city of Skara Brae is under a curse of perpetual winter. Its people are locked behind the city gates, held in the frozen grip of a creature known as Mangar, the Archmage. Their only hope is the Adventurer's Guild, an ancient organization of heroes.
To save the people of Skara Brae, a small group of adventurers prepares for a dangerous descent into the catacombs of the city. Their mission: to search for the keys to Mangar's tower and the powers to defeat him. The game begins in the Adventurer's Guild, where you create a band of six heroes by choosing from the six different professions available wizard, rogue, warrior, and so on.
Once the party is assembled, you exit the Guild Hall and travel up the street toGarth's Equipment Shop, where you outfit your characters with the best weapons and armor you can afford.
But you're not ready to take on Mangar just yet. When you begin the game, your characters are relatively weak. To gain combat experience, you have to fight monsters - lots of monsters. The computer version of The Bard's Tale was also one of the first RPGs that forced you to battle against whole herds of evil creatures.
The Nintendo version is much the same. You can't walk ten steps anywhere in Skara Brae without being attacked. In fact, winning The Bard's Tale doesn't depend as much on finding the right items as it does on fighting your way to them. The key is to manage your characters' powers well enough to survive. This is both the game's strongest and most annoying feature. While there are hundreds of monsters and lots of interesting weapons, there's no way to keep the battles from getting boring.
Eventually, you'll probably wish you could just find what you need without having to stop and fight every two minutes. In many of the computer RPGs which have followed The Bard's Tale, game designers have tried to keep the constant fighting from becoming so tedious. Some games require less fighting; others make the combat more integral to the game's storyline; and some just make the battles more interesting to watch.
The same strategic challenge is there, but so is the monotony. The Bard's Tale isn't as large a game as Dragon Warrior, but it's still got the goods, and it'll probably take you quite awhile to finish.
In fact, it's surprising how well the NES game compares to the computer version. True, FCI has made a few changes: Skara Brae is a little smaller, there are fewer classes of characters, and a new on-screen display more or less eliminates the need to draw your own maps. But otherwise, everything is much the same. If you've never played this sort of game before, The Bard's Tale makes a good introduction. If you're already an RPG veteran, you should find enough here to hold your interest.
You'd expect a great role playing game to have plenty of monsters and creatures for you to conquer. You'd expect the band of six hardy adventurers you create to have magical powers and weapons to wield in battle. But only The Bard's Tale brings you the unexpected - the awesome weapon of magical music! Though each of your team has unique skills, the Bard's songs have devastating effects on your fearsome foes.
Dragons, spiders, trolls, and orcs face the music each time they encounter your freedom fighters. Six character classes are available when the player is prompted to create a party of six adventurers in the beginning of the game: Bard, Hunter, Monk, Paladin, Rogue, Warrior, Magician, and Conjurer. The last two can be promoted when specific conditions are met during gameplay.
The bard class plays a special role, possessing magical songs that improves the party's performance in combat and are required to solve some of the game's puzzles. From Mobygames. Original Entry. Uploaded by Sketch the Cow on September 3, Internet Archive's 25th Anniversary Logo. Search icon An illustration of a magnifying glass. User icon An illustration of a person's head and chest. Sign up Log in. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book.
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