The Banner Saga (video game, myth and folklore, tactical RPG, turn-based tactics, medieval fantasy, viking) reviews & ratings

A brilliant, well-crafted game all round. The story is emotionally challenging and told well, and the game is fun enough to play through more than once, though the first playthrough is where The Banner Saga really shines.

4.0 stars / Great

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ColdVein 2018-05-09T05:44:57Z

2018-05-09T05:44:57Z

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Threntall 2016-12-16 19:07:23.49227+00 en

I went into The Banner Saga looking for something similar to XCOM, but unfortunatly the game is nowhere near as good. The main flaw is really that it feels too much like a budget controlled project. The beginning of the game fills you in with so much needless lore for such a relatively small game, and it doesnt really last enough time for you to really invest and experiment with the big rooster of characters it gives you.

That said, its core gameplay mechanics are very solid, and its really rewarding to finally get through a particularly hard fight. You get reknown after battles, and these is used to level up your characters as well as buy items and food for your caravan, so its difficult to manage the very limited resources at your disposal.

You are also given a lot of text adventure-like moral choices, but the way they turnout in your favor or not is mostly random. Some of these can even kill off a main character, and they can be frustrating in that sense.

The last boss battle is extremely hard on normal, and feels that not enough testing was done on it. Just a huge difficult spike there, and noone likes to turn down the difficulty.

All in all a really solid foundation that i feel was improved with its sequel.

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I went into The Banner Saga looking for something similar to XCOM, but unfortunatly the game is nowhere near as good. The main flaw is really that it feels too much like a budget controlled project. The beginning of the game fills you in with so much needless lore for such a relatively small game, and it doesnt really last enough time for you to really invest and experiment with the big rooster of characters it gives you.

That said, its core gameplay mechanics are very solid, and its really rewarding to finally get through a particularly hard fight. You get reknown after battles, and these is used to level up your characters as well as buy items and food for your caravan, so its difficult to manage the very limited resources at your disposal.

You are also given a lot of text adventure-like moral choices, but the way they turnout in your favor or not is mostly random. Some of these can even kill off a main character, and they can be frustrating in that sense.

The last boss battle is extremely hard on normal, and feels that not enough testing was done on it. Just a huge difficult spike there, and noone likes to turn down the difficulty.

All in all a really solid foundation that i feel was improved with its sequel.

Threntall 2016-12-16T19:07:29Z

2016-12-16T19:07:29Z

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