As a result, much of the game's back story probably won't mean much to you if you haven't already witnessed these characters' struggles beforehand. It is, after all, a direct continuation of The Banner Saga, and you'll be given the option to import your old save file as soon as you boot it up. Of course, all this will be familiar territory for anyone who played the first entry in The Banner Saga series, but its sequel really starts piling on the pressure right from the off.
Running out of reserves will not only make your fighters weaker, but it will also hasten your larger pool of troops to the grave, leaving you poorly equipped to deal with large-scale encounters against huge armies of life-sucking Dredge. Of course, rest too long and your food supplies will rapidly diminish, especially if you've been feeling generous on the road and picked up hordes of stragglers.
Rich in detail and growing ever more complex as you trudge from one town to the next, the way your journey unfolds is something entirely of your own devising, as each and every choice you make will have dire consequences on the fate of your travelling caravan.Ĭhoose poorly in settling a dispute between your clansmen, for instance, and your army could suffer a fall in morale, which might affect the strength and willpower of your individual fighters come battle time if you don't rest up and keep them in good spirits. With its beautiful, cell-shaded artwork and grand, sweeping vistas, this epic tale of survival slowly unfurls across your screen like one of the titular tapestries billowing in the wind behind your small band of warriors. Still, no matter how much you end up mangling their names in your head, Stoic's tile-based strategy game never fails to impress once it's in front of your face. Even after spending ten hours in the company of these fine, Viking-like folk (or twenty if you count the first game), names like Derdriu, Gudmundr or Yngvar continue to make a fool out of me (though, thankfully, the latter is often shortened to Iver by most of his fellow banner men). If you thought the characters in Game of Thrones were hard to remember, then try memorising the names of the cast of The Banner Saga.
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