The Banner Saga operates on turn-based rules played out on a grid system. Whether or not you like the story may be of little issue depending on how you find the gameplay. The story – and your choices – carry through, and can be as significant as determining your starting character and their state of mind in the gloomy landscape of which The Banner Saga exists. Having the two games together, you’d expect strong comparisons to be drawn between them but they are very similar, and if anything The Banner Saga 2 just refines things slightly but the Complete Pack makes sense, as they’re more of a continuation than fully fledged sequel iterated. Simple choices at first turn into more weighty ones later on where you can elect between destroying villages or breaking alliances, ending up fighting with former friends. Sadly, most of this is all text based but will have an effect on the story. Tales of war, refugees and Viking dissension is the backdrop here so anyone expecting a light-hearted jaunt should look elsewhere.īefore you really get into the action, you will start to understand the relationships between characters, factions, the political backdrop and get to make your own choices via dialogue. This isn’t a romanticised vision of Nordic lore.
The artwork is subdued and elegant, harking comparisons back to animated Disney but with a much, much darker tone. That’s the most striking observation as you get stuck into the Complete Pack – a combination of the Banner Saga 1 and 2, with the addition of Survival Mode – a wave based ‘horde’ endeavour stretching 40 battles. In fact, it’s arguably primarily about the story and you (certainly early on) spend as much time reading what’s happening to the characters as positioning them on a battlefield.
The Banner Saga is a turn-based strategy game but is as much about the story as the strategy here.
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