The Bard's Tale Shiranareta Monogatari: Pony Canyon Classic Famicom Title
The Bard's Tale The Untold Story is a classic Western first-person dungeon RPG ported by Pony Canyon exclusively for the Famicom. Players assemble a six-character party of warriors, mages and rogues, exploring a cursed city and multi-level grid dungeons filled with monsters, traps and riddles.
Town districts offer gear shopping, healing and tavern recruitment. Underground labyrinths demand careful mapping. Random encounters trigger turn-based monster combat. Victories grant experience for levelling and gold to purchase equipment and potions.
Lethal magical traps and instant-death creature abilities create constant risk during deep dungeon expeditions. Multiple quest threads support varied playthrough paths.
Pony Canyon’s minimalist first-person dungeon visuals and sombre bardic fantasy background music reinforce grim cursed-city exploration tension.
Strategically, successful curse lifting requires maintaining a balanced party of tanks, healers and spellcasters. Parties lacking reliable healing face catastrophic wipeouts far from town healing services.
For contemporary Famicom retro Western dungeon crawler collectors, The Bard's Tale is a rare domestic Japanese port of the landmark computer RPG series.