The Banner Saga

[h1] 7.5/10 [/h1] Beautiful art! Good strategy mechanics and interesting story, the only issues would be the saves, big check point gaps, characters dying in dialogues which I'm not really a big fan of. It's not a long game short but sweet.

The story of the game is clearly inspired by game of thrones and witcher. As we progress through the story it gets darker and bleaker There are two types of gameplay loop here. One is some kind of an adventure game, where you need to choose an action to various scenarios as you travel. You need to make a choice that you think will help your army/caravan more. The thing is most of the choices that you need to make here are not really consequential in the overall direction of the story, but the consequential ones also exist. The thing is its hard to differentiate the major ones or not and that's the beauty of the game. The second gameplay loop is grid based type of strategy game. This game breaks the mold of the turn based convention and remove the most RNG component (critical strikes is the only one with RNG component). Still the game is not easy, you can easily die if you make one wrong move, your skills here are limited in use, so use it wisely, positioning and proper party is name of the game. You cannot also grind and level up your party members. This game only features limited number of battles for you to engage and gain experiences. Both gameplay loops give you one of the most unique and fun experiences in a turn based tactical game. I haven't felt the dread in every battle since XCOM 2. The game is short and can be finished in one or two sitting. Replayability is high since there are many characters and paths to take in the game. Highly recommended. Definitely one of the most underrated turn based strategy game out there.

I feel like this game shouldn't actually be a game. The actual gameplay parts are pretty subpar and can actually be frustrating at worst or boring at best. If this was just a choose-you-own adventure movie it would be great. Interesting story and lore, amazing artwork, good voice acting, good dialogue, meaningful (yet harsh) decisions. You could even remove the choices aspect and it'd still be a great film. That is where the talent lies in this game and they have done that part very very well. But the actual gameplay parts as others have already pointed out are just poorly delivered - combat with the illusion of depth, waiting for no reason, confusing switches between characters, pretty empty ''resource'' management - it all just ends up feeling tedious and empty. It's the kind of thing I pick up one time and play a couple of sessions but pretty quickly lose the desire to keep playing because the gamplay can't be avoided. I was between thumbs up and thumbs down with the review but I've decided AS A GAME I can't recommend it. Not to say you won't have some fun if you buy it.

Having remarkable atmosphere with great visual, audio and lore, game is full of game-design flaws. It wastes your time, doesn't let you save normally, battle system is clanky and tedious specifically on hard level, randomised events have unpredictable outcomes, same currency to get level ups, supplies and items which is just crazy unbalanced unless you go to the guide and check outcomes of the events. I guess I would still like the game if I stopped on the first (easy) playthrough. But I went for 100% achievements and that's were I started to hate the most of it.

Конченная игровая механика которая активно наказывает тебя если ты имеешь численное преимущество, даже если ты добыл это преимущество в бою. Оно заключается в том что ты и враги можете двигать только одним юнитом по очереди, причем в определенном порядке. И поэтому когда у врага остается 2 юнита, а вас 6 - начинается просто цирк, когда враги каждый ход могут совершенно безнаказанно бить по лицу твоих юнитов, а ты совершенно ничего не можешь с этим сделать потому что вынужден сидеть и ждать очереди нужного юнита. И 90% потерь юнитов связаны именно с этой конченной механикой. Из плюсов - довольно приятная рисовка, и даже сюжет интересный, и даже вариативный. Возможно я его на досуге в интернете посмотрю. Но терпеть эти убогие игровые механики ради него я не буду.

I come back to this series around late fall/ early winter every year and play through all 3 games. One of my favourite stories

A grid-based tactical combat system that doesn't rely on RNG and percentages. The strategies here are way more satisfying to master than similar games where every turn is just a glorified gamble.

After Heroes of Might and Magic, nothing was as good in the genre of turn-based games as this game (except Divinity: Original Sin) I really liked the characters, the plot and the gameplay. Interesting system of survival and interesting imba-person (if you find who is it). A very worthy and noteworthy representative of turn-based games. Do not pass by!

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