Storyline aside, The Bard's Tale is basically a hack'n'slash dungeon crawl RPG and sequel to the all around well liked game from the mid 80's. The idea of the game is to, more or less, mock the fantasy genre, which is most obvious with the "princess in the tower" storyline. The bard's snide comments to almost everything are a huge bonus the parody stile of the game. Unfortunately, his comments are fun only at the beginning of the game, later on they get boring and repetitive, as does the rest of the game.