I started seriously playing that last night. And what an amzing game it is!
Graphics and stuff are not exactly state of the art, but that's more than made up for by the black and dirty humour, weird story, funny characters, great voice acting (and I'm talking about the German dub here!) and absurd quests.
They chose a German comedian named Oliver Kalkofe to play the witty and naughty main character which was a brillaint choice - he's so good at sounding BLOODY ANNOYED *lol*
But the dub in general is really high quality and I keep noticing familiar voices. Seems the project was kinda important even though it's "only" a game.
What didn't get translated were the songs (Yes, there are songs in the game!). Instead, they left them as they are and sicne the whole game is subtitled by default, it should not be a problem even for those who are not THAT good at understanding the English lingo. There even is one of those little jumping karaoke ball thingies. What a weird game O___O
The spoken audio almost scared me. You probably know that in most games, there is some audible dialogue, but most of the stuff that's spoken is just written on the screen. Well, in The Bard's Tale, every damn sentence is voiced. That includes all of the stuff random villagers yell at you when you bump into them. That really impressed me seeing how the main character alone must have had like, three quarters of an hour of speaking time by now, and I'm only four hours into the game!
Another nice aspect is that the whole thing is done using ingame graphics, even the story parts without player interaction. During gameplay, you see the bard from a Zelda 3-like perspective. But when a video sequence starts, the camera zooms in and turns to the side so that you look the characters in the eye. And despite the old-ish graphics engine, they still look pretty good and the lip-synch even in the German version is just fantastic.
Of course, the fights are in real-time (otherwise, I prolly wouldn't even try it) and the whole weapons/magic/leveling system is not too complicated. It's more hack'n'slay than RPG, which is fine with me.
The battling itself is not half as difficult as it seemed at first. I had real problems with the wolves until I found out that instead of killing them with your sword - which is nearly impossible, especially when they come at you in groups - you're supposed to hit them with arrows from a distance *headdesk*
Anyway. The game is an extremely weird and entertaining RPG parody and the internet just barely keeps me away from it right now ^_~
On a stupid note: I have a grapefruit from Israel :D
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