The Bard's Tale

The Bard’s Tale was a pretty sweet story that I am really sorry to say I had not heard of until I found it on my own.

Of the poetry-type stories I have seen on this site, this is the best. The poetry did not feel forced and was all in plain language, as if it was actually being sung for entertainment. I read through the whole story without forced rhyme schemes and overly metaphorical language interrupting my enjoyment of the story, as so often happens.

The way The Bard’s Tale was framed was quite unique, and I adored it. On the first page, the reader is shown a traveler inside of a tavern. Then the bard begins playing, and the story literally becomes a bard’s tale, under the direction of the reader. The song sung reflects the history of the country the story takes place in, as is revealed in the endings. In each ending, the song is ended, and the story comes back around to the inn. The reactions of those who listened are not only entertaining, but they often were a reaction I could see happening in real life.
My favorite ending was The Spider.

The writing of the prose was very good. The first page drew me in right away in a way that most stories don’t, and I felt excited to read the next page. There is no re-branching either. The branches are pretty short, but there are a few of them—all worth reading.
There was an instance of pronoun confusion it seems in the minotaur scene. The bard briefly switched to second person. Other than that, there were no mechanical errors that really stuck out to me.

The pictures were nice. Pictures are not important nor necessary, but these helped add to an already interesting setting.
Additionally, this story is one that could be pretty safely recommended to children of any age that should be even allowed onto the Internet. So here’s something to recommend all the chillins.

Even if you don’t like poetry, you faggot reading reviews before story-games should check out this underrated story.

Definitely remember playing this one before and enjoying it. Always meant to go back again to it which I have.

Still as good as I remember. Just about everything about this one hits all the right notes as far as the writing goes. The description is very good and the story that unfolds is even better. Rhyming everything was just another example of putting forth that extra effort.

The story also makes great use of pictures to compliment the already great writing. Glad the author still remembered to put the writing first though along with providing enough branching and endings to make it a good CYOA.

It is no wonder that this story beat the chicken soup out of all the others in the ballad contest. Great job all the way around.

The writing in this was pretty remarkable, and the pictures were a added bonus that certainly enhanced the reading experience.

Oh, and it had rhymes :) The effort and detail that was placed into this ballad was very impressive. I really found myself being drawn in by the imagery and writing.

Bravo on creating a very amazing ballad, pugpup! ^_^

This was amazing! I loved the unieque storytelling and how it played out. Genuis.

it was good but i felt like the end was mid

Loved it so much! Amazing Rhymes, a lot of effort, and entertaining!

noice

good story multiple branching paths and fantastical one or two branching paths can be horror like. but still amazing

Wow, I never really enjoyed poetry as much as this!

i think it could have used more romance