The Bard's Tale reviews

I played this on PS4 and it’s a mobile port.  Very buggy, and the controls are not fluid whatsoever.  

An old, classic Adventurere. However, with much more humor and regular vocals (It`s baaaddd luck to bee youu). Very nice are the dialogues between the protagonist (player) and the narrator, who are not always of the same opinion. The game also plays very well with the classics of "Chosen One" and the clichés around adventure games. The only drawback, the game occasionally crashes. Since you can save only in certain places, that can be quite annoying. Here's a patch that would be the fix! Therefore only 4 stars. Price-performance ratio is definitely correct! Recommendation!

The predecessor reviews describe a bug that can easily be bypassed. The game hung in dialogue with the old man after the basement scene. Here actually two masks should be faded in the black area above the dialogue scene, one for a bland answer and one for a nice answer. The click areas exist here. If you click above somewhere in the middle of the black area, it continues. Too bad that there is this bug in the Mac version. In general I do not think the Mac version is that good. on the other hand, the iPad version convinced me, especially with regard to the operation. Who remembers all the keyboard shortcuts? The game is in itself, though not the latest gameplay, but very entertaining and refreshingly self-deprecating. There are actually four stars for this. Operation and the bug in the beginning are annoying, therefore a star deduction.

Bought the game and played it a few hours before writing this review. The game is extremely funny, I play it primarily for the sarcastic hilarious dialogues. The dialogues between narrator and the character made me laugh out loud multiple times. The action is nice too, it reminds me of Nox. Melee weapons, bows, charms, treasures, it's all in there. The graphics are nice too, not everything is super pretty but the movements and details are actually better than I'd expected. Some issues/bugs are to be fixed though, mainly the bug that prevents you from chosing the conversation options due to the black bars that cover these. The options are above the 'movie-scene', discovered them by randomly clicking over the screen. Nevertheless, if you know they're their, you can click them anyway and the problem is solved. Needs some fixing though. Haven't liked a game this much since a while, 5 star rating is well deserved. UPDATE The update should fix the bugs regarding the disappearing buttons thus I installed it. Now all my save games are lost quite a bummer. No way to turn on iCloud sync for saves.