I tried sneaking my way down to level 4, and was routinely getting toasted by the first group of monsters I ran across. Starting with a brand-new party, I had no trouble until I got to level 3 of the Dark Domain. CombatĪs you'd expect, combat is very easy in the cities, wilderness, and the beginning of the Dark Domain. (Ask barkeepers in any city and you can find out his location.) Bards created in BT2 will only know the BT2 songs, but can learn the BT1 songs from the Scarlet Bard. Note that your BT1 bard will still know the BT1 songs when imported, and can learn the BT2 songs if they can find someone called the Scarlet Bard. This is basically to make the game more challenging, because a party that has beaten Mangar would be pretty bored in the first few BT2 dungeons. If you import your characters from Bard's Tale I, you have a choice to keep all their experience and items, or restart them at level 1, with no items. Importing characters from Bard's Tale I (Remastered) Your reward for navigating it is a set of clues about your quest and Lagoth Zanta, as well as another unique special item. It's a little 8x8 map with no monsters, though it does have a tricky teleport maze in it. This is a brand-new dungeon called Saradon's Workshop. There's also a new locked-off area in Philippi, which can't be opened with the Masterkey. Saradon's Workshop, the small new dungeon with some important back-story and clues. There is also one new building containing some clues and a unique special item, which I won't spoil for you. Instead, there are mountains, dense forests, and lakes at the edges, which prevent you from traveling off the edges of the map. The wilderness no longer uses "wraparound magic" like the dungeons. There are also roads to guide you around. In general, you can see farther than you could in the classic game, so it's easier to find the cities and other places like Fanskar's Castle. The wilderness map is now called the "Realm of Caith" and has hills you can climb, flowers, and butterflies flitting around. However, there are a few notable changes to the maps. If, like me, you mapped everything out on graph paper years ago, your old maps will still be useful. Like its predecessor, Bard's Tale II Remastered uses generally the same maps as the original Apple II and DOS versions. It's a nice addition in the originals there was no graphic for the entrance at all, and you found the Stone by just stumbling upon an apparently empty square on the map.
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There's a glowing crack in the stone that changes color as you watch. The entrance to the Destiny Stone is now a big, gnarly rock in the middle of a square in Colosse. They're loud enough that you can hear them even with a bard song playing.
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You hear scraping and groaning sounds, making it feel like you're really in a decrepit old tomb full of terrifying undead. The Grey Crypt now has some suitably creepy sound effects. But there are a few notable enhancements specific to BT2. I've discussed most of the upgrades in my Bard's Tale 1 review.
Like the remastered Bard's Tale 1, this game uses the upgraded graphics and sound engine, which was a pleasure to play. So, what's new in Bard's Tale II Remastered? Graphics and Sound The upgraded entrance to the Destiny Stone.
Read that post for more background information. All of the gameplay improvements from the first game are available in BT2 as well, such as the inventory management, 3D game engine, mouselook, and combining the list of spells from all three games in the original trilogy. Remastered BT2 runs on the same game engine as the remastered BT1, which I cover in my previous post.
This is a review of the game from a long-time Bard's Tale fan, with some comparisons to the game play of the original version. I've given it a playthrough and found it quite well done, with a lot of new features and gameplay enhancements. The Remastered Bard's Tale II was released recently by InXile Entertainment.
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