Now, spell power regenerates between combat rounds! Save points are liberally scattered throughout the world, although if you find that a little too forgiving, you can consume them for experience points. Back in my day, you see, we had to foot-slog to Roscoe's energy emporium every time we ran out of spell points, and BUY more! Or, failing that, stand around in the sunlight for a long, long time. But much of the brutal, unashamedly unforgiving menace of the original trilogy has been babied down for the avocado toast-munching gamers of today. This new Bard's Tale? Well, I suppose it was inevitable, really.
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The choice is to either make a wholly modern RPG washed in a bucket-load of fan service such as characters and locations familiar to those few grognards who remember the original, or to go full old-school, and hew closely to the basic format of the source material: endless grinds, a focus on combat and exploration over quests and story, and the freedom to get yourself in way over your head and die horribly (or perhaps get incredibly lucky and take off with an armload of powerful magic items).
To be honest, this is always going to be a heavy lift because pretty much every aspect of the formula that the Bard's Tale used in the old school has been improved upon in the modern world. So it is with a grim inevitability that we fast-forward to the modern day, and an attempt to tap into the nostalgia from its heyday.
Two sequels followed in largely the same mould, introducing wilderness adventures that were essentially the same as the dungeon exploration only with the walls painted to look like trees. Admittedly, characterisation was thin on the ground, and your party of adventurers were little more than lists of statistics used as tools in combat. The Bard's Tale I was ahead of its time, presenting an epic RPG quest with magic items, various enemies and dungeons, puzzles and traps, while other games were little more than simplistic 2D platformers.
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The Bard's Tale is a series with a long tail.
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