Posted on: December 24, 2017

GalliumNaN

Spiele: Rezensionen: 18

Good core, poor game

There is a unique and well-designed combat system at the heart of this game, but it is not enough to carry a game of even this short length. The game is mostly small-scale, turn-based skirmishes between two groups of units, and in between are choose-your-own-adventure-style management choices. The choices do not have a major effect on the direction of the game, and some appear to do no more than change the conversation and carry no lasting effects. This could have been an X-COM-style game that alternates between combat and base management (with the base being a moving caravan in this case), but the game in between combat is barely there, and X-Com (2012) was a bit repetitive as it is. I would recommend this game only to enthusiasts of the turn-based-tactics genre who may want to try the unique combat system for a bit and then shelve their copy forever.

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Posted on: June 13, 2019

Redbeard1084

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Spiele: 978 Rezensionen: 64

HUGELY DISAPPOINTING

I want the day I spent playiing this back. A very poorly thought management system takes the wind out of a pretty deep and mostly enjoyable combat system. At first I was amused by the "X has happened, what do you want to do?" thing. Then it just kept happening, and happening, and it didn't seem to matter what choices I made, I quickly found myself losing my most valuable characters to BS offscreen hazards like a wagon going off a cliff. It's like Oregon Trail with Orcs...with Shining Force battles sprinkled about. Eventually I found myself in an unwinnable situation that I did not feel was my fault. But instead of feeling frustrated, or motivated to try again...I just felt tired and dejected, like I just wasted a day of my life for what? I uninstalled it. I'll never play it again. No plans to try the sequels after this experience.

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Posted on: April 27, 2019

Tmenite

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Spiele: 101 Rezensionen: 2

For Egil's Sake

The best parts of this game art by far its aesthetic presentation and the solid soundtrack playing in the background. With the good parts out of the way, let's address the average/infuriating sections: (Av) Combat is explained in a pretty rudimentary manner, half the fighters feel awful to use in combat (let alone getting low-levels mid-late in the game with little chance to level them effectively), and combat consists less of carefully planning who'll go where and do what, and more "who do I need to throw the entire party at first so I can kill it the fastest and slog onto the next?" So if you don't get it on your first few tries you'll basically just be better off restarting the campaign early as opposed to resting, due to... (Nf) ...Resources dwindling like truffles to swine - worse yet, resting (resources expend per-day) is the only way to keep your core fighters in tip-top shape, and defeat in battle provides plenty of "#-days'-rest-required" casualties unless you plan on knocking things down to Easy. (Av) Dialogue is serviceable, what with 1/3 of the characters being murderers and another 1/3 being naive - about half of the event-interaction choices allow you to spend incredibly valuable amounts of time amounting to absolutely zero payoff (at least give me a penny for wasting my time, don't leave me a pauper). (Nf) The game has a penchant for murdering characters off-screen or through text-events; "Egil" was near-invincible on the battlefield, yet has no less than FOUR "chances" to randomly die in events without so much as an "excuse you" for his troubles (somehow he always loses his skull or throat, too, despite his skill and MASSIVE shield...). I've given up on a story that wants to top the amount and stupidity of deaths in the Game Of Thrones and Friday 13th franchises combined. Okay game in total, but I'll wait to see if the sequels are less ludicrous in design.

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Posted on: July 27, 2014

CertusRaven

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Spiele: 502 Rezensionen: 7

Gorgeous game, but I'm pissed

I love the world, the characters, the choices you have to make and their consequences, the artwork, the soundtrack and the first part of the story. Why only the first part of the story, you may ask?. Because The Banner Saga ist, as it seems, only the first game of a trilogy and that's not mentioned once here. I nearly feel robbed, because I normaly don't buy unfinished stories - I even wait with Game of Thrones until it's done, so I don't have to wait a year or two for the next book/episode. Shame on you, stoic studio and/or gog.com, for not making that clear.

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Posted on: August 3, 2014

Odiosum

Spiele: 308 Rezensionen: 4

Just completed it

OMG This is coooool game :D but not for me really. So first things first. YOU CAN'T SAVE I will never accept that, never! There is not a single reason that should prevent me from saving the game when I want during non-combat sections! Good thing is the game saves when you quit so you don't have to reach any "specific" checkpoint or lose progress and yes I completed the game but won't play it again until the save system will be changed. What's good about the game? Basically everything because it's refreshing and well made. Combat is interesting and challenging. The turn based system is easy to learn and allows for interesting tactics. Character progression is simple. The plot is interesting and choices you make sometimes can be tough. Game isn't too long which is actually good thing because it could get boring and look like dragging the game. So if you want combat + dialogues with great music and good looking drawings I recommend you this game. It's a game which had an idea and implemented it well there won't be any fireworks and you will either like it or not here's no middle ground

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