Banner Saga 3

While banner saga 1 was amazing, 2 was good, the gameplay simply cannot hold for another entry. The combat does not evolve, and the locked choices limit the little variation the combat offers. It would be better as a visual novel or a turn based darkest dungeon battle than a tactics game. I will complete it, but I will just cheat my way through the combat

The gameplay, story and so on is worth more than 3 stars. I've enjoyed the saga very much, but I have to admit, that playing the 3rd game is frustrating due to continuosly "load screen"-crashes. Today i've played around 3 hours, and I had to force close the game 4 times because of the "load screen" crash. Thankfully the save system is comprehensive, and i've never lost any significant progress. But it is one hell of an immersion breaker, and also a pain in the behind. I find it quite bad that a game from 2018 is still allowed to be in a state with such a bug.

You will be very disappointment with the final of the story, but the game is good.

...not one bit. I decided to play the whole series from start to finish and every part flawlessly connected to the previous one, each time with some slight improvements and new interesting features. The combat got some additional elements, the story has plenty of twists and turns and making the "right" decision was harder than ever. Though the game is a little shorter than the other two parts, I can't complain about the length as it still took me a little less than 15 hrs to finish it and I also avoided a couple of fights. There are only a few things that weren't that great without having any impact on my overall experience though: The game never saved my language settings. I played it in English but on every launch it would always start in German by default. Another issue I have is with how the game treats the death of some heroes. Throughout the story you can get quite attached to your companions but should they die, it usually happens in an unspectacular fashion without ever getting mentioned again in any way, like they are just some random fighter you lost in a battle. The game was running smoothly. I only experienced one crash and that's something I can totally live with. All in all, a satisfying ending to a great series.

Damn I dig the story and the suspense and imminent doom is very nicely told. Been sitting on the edge of my seat more than once. But also I have finished this game in 20h and was idling a lot of it. and each time I did play the game crashed about once every hour. Not that bad because there's always an autosave to resume never hat to do a battle twice, but it's just bad workmanship to release a game that crashes constantly :/ bittersweet I guess. -> wait for a big sale!