The Bard's Tale Review
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All told, The Bard's Tale had the right intentions. We fully appreciate where they were coming from, and admire a lot about what the game was trying to do. But while dumbing down the RPG premise for the casual console gamer might work for some people, it ultimately fell down for us by making the main action portion of the game really quite tiresome. Sure, the interface is great, the story and humour work pretty well, and it's well up to scratch technically, but if you turn out a game with boring battles then you've essentially soiled your own breeches. It'd be nice to imagine a sequel that rights all the wrongs of inXile's debut offering, but given the air of disinterest around this solid but unspectacular console RPG, we're dubious whether they'll be given the chance for atonement.
