The second game in the Bard's Tale series, and the first computer game that I ever played. The game boasts a rich storyline, colorful characters and many hours of gameplay. Players that have played through Bard's Tale 1 can import their characters directly into Destiny Knight, with experience, gold, and most equipment (except for items that are not supported) intact. This gives you an advantage in the game, but I find it more fun to start over from scratch. There is a starter dungeon that helps to build up the characters.
The second game in the Bard's Tale series, and the first computer game that I ever played. The game boasts a rich storyline, colorful characters and many hours of gameplay. Players that have played through Bard's Tale 1 can import their characters directly into Destiny Knight, with experience, gold, and most equipment (except for items that are not supported) intact. This gives you an advantage in the game, but I find it more fun to start over from scratch. There is a starter dungeon that helps to build up the characters. By the time the starter dungeon is completed, the characters are at an appropriate level where they have a chance to survive.
There are five classes of magic users, each with seven levels of
spells. The more spells that you know, the more options that you have in combat. There are powerful spells that you learn when you gain experience that you can use to destroy your foes. There are puzzles that the player must figure out, but this makes the game more enjoyable. The combat system is text based, like most of the games of that era, in a Dungeons and Dragons type system. The game has a large wilderness to explore, six cities, and eight dungeons with a total of 25 dungeon levels. In order to succeed, you should get some graph paper and map every square that you visit. I think that it makes it more enjoyable and it makes it easy to refer back in case you forgot something.
Lagoth Zanta, the evil archmage, has stolen the Destiny Wand and broken it into seven pieces and placed each segment into a Snare of Death, located in each dungeon of the game. Each snare is a timed puzzle which must be solved within the allotted time, or all of the characters die. When this happens the characters can be resurrected and you must try it again. Once all of the segments are found, they are reforged to repair the Destiny Wand, and you do battle with Lagoth Zanta. When you defeat him, the game is completed.
The graphics are decent for a game of its time, from the late 1980s. The pictures of the monsters are animated, but combat is all textual. Even so, I have listed this game as my top favorite due to the storyline and countless hours of enjoyment that I get from it. All in all, I would highly recommend this game to someone that wants a rich adventure game and hours of enjoyment. I believe that this is the best game of the Bard's Tale series.
