The Banner Saga

One of the most beauitful, heart-rending games I've ever played. Fun, too, lol

What a beautiful experience! The art and music of this game are incredible! They bring this world to life in such a convincing way. The story is bleak, yet beautiful, and really sets up such a captivating tale. I look forward to playing the second and third iterations. The game play is pretty simple, yet fun enough to have a really good time throughout the entire experience and the more storyline/choice driven aspects make for a nice touch that brings it all to life. This unique and beautiful experience is absolutely worth a play through. I'd play through it again in a heartbeat! ---{Graphics}--- ☐ You Forget What Reality is! ☐ Beautiful! ☑️ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Paint.exe ---{Gameplay}--- ☐ You'll be Addicted! ☐ Incredibly Fun ☑️ Fun ☐ Meh... ☐ Starring at Walls is Better ---{Audio}--- ☑️ EARgasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ EARrape ---{Audience}--- (NOT MARKETED AUDIENCE) ☐ Kids ☑️ Teens ☑️ Adults ☐ Lizards ---{PC Requirements}--- ☐ Check if you can run Paint.exe ☐ Potato ☑️ Budget Gaming PC ☐ Decent Gaming PC ☐ Incredible Gaming PC ☐ Quantum Computer ---{Difficulty}--- ☐ 1 Brain Cell ☐ Easy ☑️ Easy to Learn / Hard to Master ☐ Average ☐ Significant Brain Power Required ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{Grind}--- ☑️ Nothing to Grind ☐ Only if you need to 100% complete it. ☐ Only if you Care About Leaderboards/ Ranks ☐ Isn't Necessary to Progress ☐ Average Grind Level ☐ You'll Need a Second Life for Grinding ---{Story}--- ☐ Non-Existent ☐ Text or Audio Floating Around Aimlessly ☐ A Kindergartner's Creative Writing Assignment ☐ Average ☐ Really Good ☑️ It'll Change your Life ---{Game Time}--- ☐ Long Enough for a Cup of Coffee ☑️ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To Infinity and Beyond! ---{Price}--- ☑️ Its Worth A lot More! ☐ Worth the Price ☐ It's free! ☐ If you Have Some Spare Money.... ☐ It's a Complete Money Sink ☐ You Could Also Just Burn your Money ---{Bugs}--- ☑️ Non-existent ☐ Few Bugs ☐ Can Get Annoying ☐ Bethesda ☐ Cyberpunk 2077 at Release

Это... хорошая игра. Которая учит нас никому не доверять.

The pace is a little slow, but the story is pretty good and there is enough strategy in the combat and repercussions to the decision making to keep you engaged. These days the game can be had on sale for nearly nothing and for those deep discounts, it is 9/10. At full price it is still recommended but so easy to find on sale.

Игра разделена на две ключевые части. Тактическую, где ты ведёшь отряд в пошаговых боях на шахматной доске, и интерактивную, где ты управляешь ресурсами каравана и принимаешь судьбоносные (кто сдохнет) диалоговые решения, влияющие на сюжет. Саундтрек от Austin Wintory, тут как бы плюс. И отдаю должное визуальному стилю и графику. Очень красиво всё нарисовано и особенно злодеи. Геймплей мне не сильно понравился и уже заябывал. Очень медленные и однообразные. Вообщем-то всё как всегда в этих "тактических" играх. Не могу поставить отрицательный обзор, всё таки плюсы перевешивают минусы, но стараюсь отходить от подобного жанра и пошаговых игр в целом.

The Banner Saga is a completely original blend of visual novel, tactics game, and RPG. The interplay between the narrative choices you make and the tactical battles is very interesting. Just as you feel you get into a rhythm, you lose one of your party members, either permanently or temporarily, and need to adjust accordingly. The game manages to break away from any min-maxing, as you never know how long characters will be around, and when they leave, they take everything you invested in them. The story itself is well told, and the beautiful graphics and music really paint a vivid picture. It definitely managed to hit me emotionally, which is pretty rare for a video game. I’m looking forward to playing the second game!

When people talk about games with choices that mattered or isometric strategic combat that rocks, this is the game that I think of and compare others too. One of the best sagas and this is the best among the three. May those who come after remember us

Really beautiful game, story and art is nice, the ending really puts everything into question. You may have a strategy with your characters that works, but once you reach the final battle, that combination may be useless, requiring you to start the game from scratch to develop a meta build. The first time I played the game I had to go back and build a better team. Not a great design mechanic, and I don't like how I have to keep that in mind as I play through the game. The game is more about the story and art anyways, so I don't see why you need such a difficult boss in the end. The game is good, but I think the boss at the end can sour the experience. I've beat it twice now, but its stupidly frustrating and pulls you out of the story that has built up to that point. Once you've beat the boss, the emotions at the end are kind of wasted, as you're just glad to get out, speed through the credits and walk away for a bit. It does the overall experience a disservice.