The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut Reviews

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No me gusta.

Of course this is fun. A well made RPG that has a different flavor. Exploration in First person with turn based fighting in encounters you can see and avoid sometimes or charge in to get the first attacks. Its different than the old Dungeon Crawlers that started the franchise. It is not like the isometric one either before this sequel. It is its own game, and I have been enjoying it because it has good voice acting and an alright story with some crafting. If you like old school or turn based RPGs you will probably like this hybrid. While it starts out kind of slow, stick with it and as you learn songs it gets more fun as you go. Pay attention to the surroundings, because hidden secrets are everywhere. I think its a great sequel. Just expect something different than the past games. I like the combat animations and the fight comments are funny as you taunt and use your strategy and figure out how to defeat your enemies. REMEMBER to save often. It has a nice save feature that allows you to save anywhere , I am guessing was not original equipment lolz. Worth the money for the fun It made me have.

Fun game with an old school vibe. I never played the classic games so no opinion on how it stands up as a sequel, but I enjoyed this on it's own. The puzzles are fun and not excessively difficult, though they get pretty repetitive after awhile, so I was very grateful for the puzzle skip option. The graphics are pretty dated, which might be deliberate to keep with the old school feel. Either way I stopped noticing after a couple of hours. Took me about 50 hours being pretty thorough, but there's lots of skippable side quests and it'll go even faster if you use the puzzle skip the whole way through. The music is excellent. I don't love turn-based combat but it's pretty fun once you get the hang of it. I did have a couple of crashes during combat, and got momentarily stuck on the landscape more than a few times, but never encountered any gamebreaking issues. Overall a great game.

Bards tale in name but not in play. This is 75 percent puzzle. Even the fights are puzzles. I wouldn't recommend unless thats your thing. Its put together well. The music is good but there are popping sounds. Massive fps drops at times, especially around water

Well, I've played for 83 hours so far, so it's doing something right. Very atmospheric graphics, amazing soundtrack, but it's still turn-based and relies on thinking, not reacting - which is handy if you're old enough to have played through the original games when they first came out and no longer have the reflexes of your youth! :-)