The gaming experience, if not the fun I had mapping it.
Bard's Tale II just wasn't as fun the 2nd time around. Maybe it's because I saw the weaknesses--where you just have to rush through the final 3 dungeons and can't stay to fight, where the "death snare" puzzles get more and more repetitive(though the no-magic zones in the entire Grey Crypt and the no-light mazes in the final one are cool) or because leveling up is not as fun as it used to be even if I crank up the emulator. The last battle was very silly and I worried I would have to level up more, but my dead archmages cast the big kill-everything spell, which only took 8 times actually to kill everything.
The animated graphics and clunky fonts are a bit painful too but still BT2 is well thought out and executed and the monster names are fun. I am glad I didn't understand its inconsistencies and weaknesses until later. My forgetfulness got compunded a bit by having re-re-played Dragon Wars, which is very similar but a few years later and very slick. Oh well.
Still, I found myself booting Bard's Tale III soon after. I put it on ice when I couldn't find the binaries of the dungeon maps. Maybe I'll take it up later. I'm still worried the copy might be bad, but hey, there's always the Commodore. I'll just make sure to sector edit my characters.
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