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For the first time in a very, very long time, I used a code wheel to solve a puzzle. While most of the puzzles are simplistic, there are still plenty that can challenge you.
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It’s an artificial limitation on a system that’s already gated by cooldowns, and adds a ton of frustration, especially when your full party encounters a group of enemies who have five or six points of opportunity to your one. Yes, there are ways to increase your party’s starting opportunity, but that won’t happen for a very long time. Sure, there are abilities that are free actions, like a rogue’s stealth or a practitioner’s magic missile, but you only have three actions across a party of six. You’ll probably play through most of the game with only the ability to take three actions by default. You start the game with the ability to take three actions by default. That being said, you’re further limited by one huge problem: opportunity. Likewise if an enemy can hit you, they will. There is no hit or miss feature here if you can target an enemy, your ability will always hit. Many have cooldowns associated with them, anywhere from 1-3 turns, so combat itself becomes strategic usage of abilities to maintain pressure on opponents. That’s 24 active abilities across the party. You can have up to six characters in a party. Each of your characters can equip up to four abilities. As you gain more party members throughout the story, various other abilities are unlocked, such as the ability to find secret treasure stashes, or the ability to knock down flimsy walls, but it feels a tad too dumbed down.
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Most puzzles I encountered are simple block pushing ones, or an easy switch style puzzle that can normally be solved with trial and error. In fact, this is one of my complaints - it’s too simple. All of these keys can be rebound, thankfully, to suit your needs.Īdventuring wise, things are also very straight-forward.
Your various menus can be accessed via hotkeys (M for map, I for inventory, et al). In your inventory screen, right click can also be used to inspect, split, or discard items.
It works for a first person adventure RPG like this. WASD to move, right mouse button to move the camera about, and left click to interact with everything. The controls of The Bard’s Tale IV are simple enough. The lack of races makes sense, due to the story, but while there are hidden classes in the game, unlocked far, far in the future, some popular classes being omitted is a step in the wrong direction to me. This is vastly fewer than the previous Bard’s Tale titles. From there, you’ll select from one of four classes: bard, fighter, rogue, or practitioner. You’ll also have the option to create an elf, dwarf, or trow (a sort of goblin-esque race). Three of them are different types of humans, each with different abilities to set them apart. You’ll have the option of six different races to create from. Yes, I said character - only the main character is created at this point.
Once there, you can finally create your character. Right away you meet up with Rabbie, head of the Adventurer’s Guild of Skara Brae, and he leads you through the city to the hall itself. You start as Melody, a bard who bears witness to a public execution of suspected heretics, of which adventurers like herself are suspect of being. So how does a sequel that came out decades after the last official game fair? Can it live up to the lofty expectations set upon it?įirst of all, you don’t get to create a party right away like the previous three Bard’s Tale games. It was known for its difficulty, unique puzzles, and party management systems.
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If you’re not in the know, The Bard’s Tale series has been around since the early/mid 1980s, and has a very dedicated fan base. InXile has finally gone along to release the game in its entirety, and I was provided a copy of the game for review purposes. I recently previewed The Bard’s Tale IV wherein I found it charming with a few issues that needed to be ironed out.
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