![]() Look, the crappy graphics aren’t actually a big issue. Weak textures and lighting never manage to do the occasionally nice art design justice, while stiff animations and horrid faces don’t support the otherwise good voice acting. ![]() ![]() Built on the Unreal 4 engine with a meagre Kickstarter budget the developers have created something that often looks like The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. There’s actually a rather good game to be found, but you do have to wade through a lot of rubbish to get to it and I’m not convinced that the effort is entirely worth it. Since I never played the first three games, though, I’m tackling this one from the perspective of someone who spotted it on the Steam store and thought, “That looks interesting.” It’s a little strange to see the franchise suddenly resurrected, perhaps a direct result of the nostalgia craze that still seems to be going on, but here it is with a remastered version of the first game arriving earlier this year and now a fully-fledged sequel funded by Kickstarter backers. It’s been some 33-years since the very first Bard’s Tale arrived on the scene, and two sequels followed before the series seemingly died in 1991, the very same year I was born. Over the coming hours, I defeated evil sorcerers, saved the world, solved a bunch of puzzles and even herded some fairies around the place. The man selling it claims I’m not worthy to taste his legendary broth, and even the loading screen gently informs me that I’ll never be worthy, that I should accept it and just move on. I say apparently because I’ve never seen this soup. In the village of Skara Brae, where the game opens, there’s a merchant who apparently sells soup.
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