12/24/2023 0 Comments Playing the bards tale on phoneAbove that is the summoning key that allows you to summon or dismiss your pet. Just above the thumbstick is the mentioned equipment button, that allows you to change your current weapon. Fortunately you can change the position to relative in the option menu. As a result, I often found myself hitting the equipment button instead, but once you nail it, it tracks your finger across the screen until you lift it. The default thumbstick position is static and easy to miss. On the left lower side of the screen you will find the thumbstick that controls the bard’s movement. The Bard’s Tale offers touchscreen controls and they generally work well. But that beauty comes at a price, The Bard’s Tale will eat up nearly 3.5 gigabytes of your data storage. If you own a Tegra 3 device, you can download the HD graphic files which simply look beautiful. This is certainly a welcomed feature considering the range of Android devices available on the market and in my opinion, more developers should include this in their games. The game offers adjustable level of details in the option menu, allowing even older devices to run the game smoothly. This can be confusing at times, luckily it can be rotated easily by placing your fingers on the opposite side of the screen and rotating clockwise or counter-clockwise. The camera however has a bad habit of rotating itself occasionally when the gameplay is interrupted by a cutscene or when your character enters a building. Textures look nice, colors are pretty and the engine runs smoothly. The game takes the 3D isometric approach, similar to many other hack & slash RPG’s. There is a solid quest log at your disposal including pointers on the minimap, so tracking a quest is not something you should worry about. Some of these side-quests lead you to a nearby dungeon which you can explore in order to get experience and money. Apart from the main storyline, you can pick up quests at the towns you visit. There are number of towns and areas you can explore. There are number of creatures you will learn to summon, some offensive and some supporting, needless to say you will have to pay attention to their health as well. The summoning pet system plays a huge role here as well. As dull as it sounds, there are battles where you will have to move around and prioritize your targets in order to survive. You have three things to worry about, moving, bashing and blocking. One quest leads to another and eventually you find yourself recruited by a cult to rescue the princess Caleigh. She gives him a quest to exterminate all the rats in her cellar, without mentioning one tiny little detail… And that’s where it all starts. The rat runs inside and our hero boldly enters to rescue Mary in exchange for some food. In order to get some food he uses his musical powers to summon a rat in front of “The Drunken Rat” public house, owned by the widow Mary MacRary. Our beloved protagonist, the nameless bard, a selfish rogue whose sole purpose is to get more coins by (almost) any means necessary, arrives at the city of Houton, completely broke and hungry. I am mentioning this because as of recently, you get all those games included in the package when you purchase The Bard’s Tale from the play store. This game however is neither a remake nor a sequel to the original trilogy. Older gamers may recall the existence of even older Bard’s Tale game from 1985 and its sequels which were released as The Bard’s Tale Trilogy in 1990 for PC DOS, developed by Interplay and published by Electronic Arts. The Bard’s Tale debuted in the late 2004 for the PS2, then it was released for Xbox and Windows in 2005, got re-released for Steam by the end of 2009, iPhone fans got their port in 2011 and finally in 2012 we get to play it on the Android platform. So let’s see if it’s worth your time and money. It offers roughly 30 hours of gameplay and a big world to explore. But wait, its not about the space occupied, The Bard’s Tale is a full blown action (semi) role-playing game. How big? Three point five gigabytes big if you decide to download the HD version. Sometimes I like playing quick repetitive small games while riding the train to work, but now, now we are talking big.
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