A Bastard's Tale

Whoever made level 3 deserves to have their balls cut off with a plastic spoon.

A Bastard's Tale teaches you a valuable lesson about anger. The game has a weird control scheme (and control feel), but it works exactly as intended, and you have only yourself to blame for very thing that goes wrong. Each time you fail, you're learning the enemies patterns, timing, strategies against them, and what each animation means. Every situation in this game has an answer, and I think thats beautiful. It might seem like I'm exaggerating, or meming, but Im being completely honest when I say that this changed the way I see gaming when it comes to anger. When I died right at the end of a stage, I didn't want to rage, just to improve. And learning this lesson has improved my experience with other games, especially fighting games. Play this game, and play it for your own sake.

You can easily beat this in about an hour. But its levels are pretty. The combat is also fairly fun. Two main complaints. It can be kind of hard to tell a left swing from a right swing, and the ranged enemies are VERY boring to fight. But I think that's somewhat by design. If you enjoy a little challenge to kill some time, I'd throw a few dollars this games way.