The Bard's Tale hacks and guffaws its way onto Android

There aren't many genuinely funny games out there, so when a particularly witty example rolls up on Android, we're all ears - even if it is a port of a port.

The chucklesome game in question is The Bard's Tale, which hit iPhone late last year. It was, in fact, a port of a console game from 2004, but it remains a brilliantly fresh experience.

It's a send-up of all those po-faced RPGs we've all become a little tired of playing. You play the titular adventurer, who isn't your typical swashbuckling hero. No, he's a world-weary, womanising, opportunistic cad. He's also voiced by Mr Princess Bride himself, Cary Elwes.

The game itself is a little more traditional, involving quests and loot and a fairly typical fantasy world, but it's all done with an arched eyebrow and a distinct lack of reverence.

The Bard's Tale is a massive game in every sense - the file weighs in at a meaty 3.5GB once you've downloaded everything.

It looks pretty nice, too, with rich 3D graphics and nice textures. Add in some 14 hours of speech and you have a full-on console experience in the palm of your hands.

If you really want to get that console 'feel' when playing the game, you might be happy to learn that The Bard's Tale has been optimised for the Xperia Play.

The Play might not be the most powerful phone on the market, but it does possess those physical controls (the lack of which was a point of criticism in our iPhone review). Playing The Bard's Tale on Xperia Play might just prove to be the ultimate way to experience it on smartphone, then.