The tale is over
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 11:34 pm
The first one anyway. For I finished Tales of the Unknown today.
I played this game as a kid back in '86 or so, but even though I loved the game I never finished it. Much later I tried again twice, but I never played to the end. Then recently I got the iPad version (which is really the Apple II/gs version), and this time I kept going until I finally beat Mangar, which I did earlier today. Finally!
There was something about not having completed this game that kept bugging me, as if my soul were trapped somewhere in those mazes.
Now I'm free.
Yesterday I had a bit of a crisis, I fought Mangar but was beaten badly. Felt like I was too weak, way too weak. I was tired and weary having spent many hours fighting and searching, but when I found Mangar I thought I would win. I lost and morale took a dive. (Especially depressing was the level draining -- I didn't know this could be healed! I saw myself trying and trying, leveling my characters and then failing and having them level-drained back to the starting point. An endless sinister loop.)
Today I did some leveling and worked out a plan. And won. Didn't begin well, the very first thing that happened was one of my fighters becoming stoned (not in the good way).
One annoying thing though, when Kylearan came to congratulate me I accidentally clicked away the first screen (of three) before reading it, but I guess that makes sense from an in-world perspective, the group was tired and didn't listen very carefully.
But anyway, that was that. Guess I'll take on Bard's Tale II eventually.
I played this game as a kid back in '86 or so, but even though I loved the game I never finished it. Much later I tried again twice, but I never played to the end. Then recently I got the iPad version (which is really the Apple II/gs version), and this time I kept going until I finally beat Mangar, which I did earlier today. Finally!
There was something about not having completed this game that kept bugging me, as if my soul were trapped somewhere in those mazes.
Now I'm free.
Yesterday I had a bit of a crisis, I fought Mangar but was beaten badly. Felt like I was too weak, way too weak. I was tired and weary having spent many hours fighting and searching, but when I found Mangar I thought I would win. I lost and morale took a dive. (Especially depressing was the level draining -- I didn't know this could be healed! I saw myself trying and trying, leveling my characters and then failing and having them level-drained back to the starting point. An endless sinister loop.)
Today I did some leveling and worked out a plan. And won. Didn't begin well, the very first thing that happened was one of my fighters becoming stoned (not in the good way).
One annoying thing though, when Kylearan came to congratulate me I accidentally clicked away the first screen (of three) before reading it, but I guess that makes sense from an in-world perspective, the group was tired and didn't listen very carefully.
But anyway, that was that. Guess I'll take on Bard's Tale II eventually.
