- February 15, 2019
- Curtel Games
The Ballad Singer
Platforms
About
"The Ballad Singer" is a narrative-driven RPG with a choice-driven narrative and tactical combat system. Explore a fantasy world through the intertwining stories of four distinct characters, making choices that impact their fates. The game features hand-drawn illustrations and a unique card-based combat system, offering a deep and immersive role-playing experience.











- The game features beautiful artwork and well-done voice acting, enhancing the overall experience.
- It offers a unique storytelling approach where player choices significantly impact the narrative, providing high replayability.
- The intricate storylines and character perspectives create an engaging fantasy adventure reminiscent of classic choose-your-own-adventure books.
- The death mechanics are often unfair, with many choices leading to random deaths without clear hints, causing frustration.
- Character development is lacking, making it difficult for players to connect with the protagonists, resulting in a less immersive experience.
- The story can feel predictable and shallow, with many choices feeling inconsequential and leading to repetitive gameplay.
story
66 mentions Positive Neutral NegativeThe game's story is a mixed bag, featuring an intriguing narrative with multiple character perspectives and impactful choices, but it suffers from inconsistencies and predictability. While the artwork and voice acting enhance the experience, many players feel that the story lacks depth and coherence, with some choices feeling inconsequential or leading to abrupt, illogical outcomes. Overall, it offers a unique storytelling experience, but it falls short of delivering a consistently engaging plot.
“A very interesting storytelling game where your choices do matter quite a lot, and an intelligent way of solving problems that sometimes call to the player's knowledge.”
“The story is well written overall, and it has many narrative choices along the way that lead to different paths.”
“Undoubtedly, this is the most important and strong point that this game has, where the main story can be played from the point of view of any of the 4 characters, giving us the option to face them or turn them into our allies at some point in time.”
“The story is overall cheap and too many choices are fake choices (if you go A you continue, if you go B, C, or D you die).”
“Sooner or later a choose your own adventure story like this has to deliver an actual story, and that's where things go wrong in just about every way you can imagine, and some you probably couldn't.”
“But the story lacks consistency and is desperately shallow.”