Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization. Eve...
Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization. Every decision you make in travel, conversation and combat has a meaningful effect on the outcome as your story unfolds. Not everyone will survive, but they will be remembered.
An epic Viking saga brought to life in 2D glory – beautifully hand drawn combat sequences and animations, accompanied by an evocative score from Grammy-nominated composer Austin Wintory, will immerse you into a fantasy realm inspired by Norse mythology.
Over 25 playable characters from 2 different races, human and varl, the horned giants – embark on your epic journey with a variety of characters from 7 different classes, each with unique abilities and upgrade options to fit your play style.
Strategic combat with consequences - victory or defeat and even the permanent loss of a character depends on which characters you choose to take into battle and what decisions you make afterwards.
The journey is as important as battle – your role in building and managing your caravan as you travel the vast frozen landscape is critical to not only your own survival but the survival of an entire civilization.
Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility
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Please be advised that Windows 10 operating system will receive frequent hardware driver and software updates following its release; this may affect game compatibility
Actually, I've played the 3 first chapters of the game. But I will not go further. This for three reasons.
-The game is more a wash/rinse/repeat sort in the tactical phases. Even if the placement and the use of the appropriate characters is taken into account, I found these phases very repetitive and similar along the game, with few tactical choices.
-The french traduction is awful, to the point that the story becomes completely incomprehensible.
-In terms of storypath, the story seems a little throw at you, with one obvious path.
A disappointment because I buy this game after reading a bunch of good critics.
I had Banner Saga siting in my library for few years, but only found time for it now. It's a great game - pleasant animation, good if not really innovative combat system, majestic music. The only minus i can find is that the game is a bit short - managed to finish it on normal for about 10 hours without skiping any battles.
It's been about half a year since I played this, and I'm finally about to start the second game in the trilogy. However, I haven't been able to stop thinking about Banner Saga 1 in all that time.
This game is probably the best use of a Viking/Nordic setting that I have ever experienced. It's made crystal-clear that this is a world that's slowly but inevitably dying. The elder races are dying off, the weather is eternally winter, people struggle merely to eke out a basic existence. Even if our protagonists manage to escape their current threat and reach their end goal, will they truly be safe, or are they just living on borrowed time and postponing the inevitable? Is there anywhere in the world that's truly safe?
The game starts off bleak and never lets up that tension throughout its runtime. I loved the game for this. It made the roleplay decisions you're face with all the more agonizing and meaningful; you can't save everybody, so what do you prioritize?
The art style and the music also really help sell this feeling of forlorn desolation: the music in particular relies mostly on (I'm assuming) traditional Scandinavian folk instruments, which adds to the melancholy atmosphere.
In terms of gameplay, the game experiments with some innovative and unique mechanics, for better or worse. Overall, I thought the gameplay was fine, although the random placement of enemies at the start of battles can wildly affect the difficulty of combats. I also found the "race against time" element of the game (where you have to manage your supply of rations) to be stressful - although I suppose that was the point. As you can carry over your savefile between games in the trilogy, I probably was more cautious and conservative in my playthrough than I would've been had this been a standalone game.
If you're looking for a RPG with deep gameplay and an impactful storyline, you can't go wrong with Banner Saga. Looking forward to playing BS2!
I'll start with what this game is and what it isn't, because it's wonderful but might not be for everybody. Your characters travel along a mostly linear route (though every now and then you can make a decision such as which way to go in a fork). Though there's a map, Banner Saga is not at all open world or remotely exploration-based. The combat is fun, but not the centerpiece of the game. The game is about becoming emotionally invested in the characters and the way in which your decisions impact them.
Pros:
I can't remember the last time I was this emotionally invested in a game. Seriously.
Fun combat.
Decisions that I actually cared about, based on genuinely difficult dilemmas. Lots of moral grey areas.
Characters that made me want to keep them alive and maintain our relationships.
Permanent consequences/permadeath (normally I don't like this, but it worked here).
Artwork
Music
Cons:
Length of game. The credits completely took me by surprise - sure, the preceding scene was dramatic as hell, but it was presented more like the transition to another section/chapter of the game. That said, it says something good that I can't wait to continue the story when the sequel comes out.
Voice acting was solid when it existed, but most of the dialogue was silent. I imagine they didn't have the money to do that much voice acting in the first game, but I hope there's more in the second.
That's about it! Not an easy game (emotionally or intellectually), but well worth the effort you'll likely put into it.
This game combines a deep, interesting story with a great combat system that is very challenging. Also, the art style and music is really good and improves the game's atmosphere a lot. During the story the player has to make a lot of decisions that influence the outcome of the game, which also gives it a good replay value. I recommend this game to anyone who likes games that focus on a strong narrative or just enjoys challenging round-based strategy titles.
