Next games coming up ?

Although I am still trying to complete Shadows over Riva and will do my utmost to really go to end with it, I am thinking about two other games to try. I am not sure I will really play them for real but I am seriously considering in giving them a try. My two targets are either the classic Bard's Tale 3 - Thieves of fate or the Amiga version of Crystal Dragon.

Bard's Tale is a real CRPG Classic and was the first game that led me into roleplaying games on the computer with the Commodore 64. At that time I was no power user but managed to get to Mangars Tower but never completed the game. Altough I have tried Dragon Wars which is the true successor to Bards Tale III, I think BT 3 might be more linear in nature. I have also read there is automap in this third game and that is very helpful.

Bard's Tale III

Crystal Dragon was released in 1994 to the Amiga platform and had excellent music. I am still listening to it and will give you a taste of it below. I only tried the demo version of CU Amiga but liked it a lot. Unfortunately I was unable to buy the game in Sweden at that time. I have read it is a very, very difficult game but I am still hooked by the music and the good graphics and so it does appeal to me.

I found out that the game is now released for free so that part is no problem. I have had some problems to get it to start in WinUAE. Perhaps I have the harddrive version and if so I have to figure out how to solve that part. It was 15 years ago I left my beloved Amiga 1200.

Any suggestions as what of those two games I should play and why ?