The Bard’s Tale Review

1Up has published their review of The Bard’s Tale, giving inXile’s action RPG an overall score of 8.2/10. Here’s why:

Still, The Bard’s Tale won me over in a fairly big way. Above all, the writing and voice acting are far superior to most other videogames’. It’s rare for a game to be actually funny, but this one has numerous laugh-out-loud moments, including a quest to find a guy in a village where everyone shares the same name. There are also a few arbitrary musical numbers (reminiscent of the Oompa Loompa songs in Willy Wonka) that stop the game cold while a group of characters mock your progress and sing about what a loser you are.now that’s good stuff! There are certainly more hardcore RPGs out there, but The Bard’s Tale is the kind of lighthearted fare that helps remind us that–once in a while–maybe we shouldn’t take this all so seriously.