The Bard's Tale

"All told, The Bard's Tale had the right intentions. We fully appreciate where they were coming from, and admire a lot about what the game was trying to do. But while dumbing down the RPG premise for the casual console gamer might work for some people, it ultimately fell down for us by making the main action portion of the game really quite tiresome."

"The Bard's Tale is a decent dungeon crawler that invests some energy into lampooning role-playing games and high fantasy in general."

"The combat is a bit prohibitive and really knocks down the overall score quite a bit, but the story and laughs are well worth some of the tedious bouts of battle. The Bard's Tale is easily the funniest game I've ever played, and I've played all the funny games out there. Sorry Conker, step aside Earthworm Jim, adios Master Chief you cad, the Bard is funnier than all of you."