Asked on Ganker but didn't get much in the way of responses. I beat 1 and 2 when they first came out and enjoyed them but never touched 3, I was just too busy when it came out.
No spoilers please, just wondering if playing through the series again to finish it is worth it, or if Banner Saga is best left to my memory.
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>just wondering if playing through the series again to finish it is worth it
it's subjective, for me the ending was shit and underwhelming as hell. Gameplay felt like lots of padding and battles for the sake of battles
So basically like Mass Effect? Which is deeply amusing, considering this is the same studio.
Worse than Mass Effect. You at least get to follow a single character from beginning to end in that trilogy. In this game, the POV character will shift from time to time, and this happens so the game doesn't have to fully show the effects of your choices. Imagine if at the end of Mass Effect 2, you get to choose whether Shepard stay with Cerberus or not, then Mass Effect 3 just make you play as a new character unrelated to Shepard because BioWare doesn't want to account for your choice. The Banner Saga does just this. You can kill the protagonist at the end of the first game, so half of the second game switches to a new character so it doesn't have to alter the story too much to account for whether the original protagonist is alive or not.
I think it's probably worth finishing, but 1 and 2 are definitely better than 3. It's just nice to have a conclusion for all the characters. Up to you. You've experienced the best the game has to offer, but if you enjoyed it, may as well finish it. I think the whole series is great.
I'm playing through 3 for the first time right now, after playing the first two, and really loving the first one, many years ago
I feel like it's gearing up to a dissapointment, but getting a resolution is nice and boy you can REALLY get some resolutions
The gameplay... feels alot like I've forgotten how to play it; that or my characters all feel incredibly weak, to the point where it's less of a close struggle and more like a massive suicide mission everytime I fight. There's a whole mode where you can press on after a fight to get bonus items, but I've never been able to beat those battles.
Will report back when it's finished
Not OP, but does this game actually have meaningful choices? I only played through the first one and it was fairly interesting, but I had this nagging feeling that things would always end up more or less the same no matter what I did, with the difference being whether one or two minor characters are present or not. I mean, I don't see how they could feasibly make 3 games if that wasn't the case, with so many points of divergence and all.
Story beats mostly remain the same, with the biggest choice being between Rook and Aelette in the end of 1st game. Kinda dissapointed that all the buisness with "" Rugga "" leads to the same conclusion basically. The 1st and 2nd games are great (3rd less so), but not because of the meaningfull choices.
You can make a lot of choices of who lives and dies
Yeah it's pretty good
quit halfway through the second game because it got so boring. It's impossible to make a game based on norse mythology boring and somehow they managed it.
This
I liked the first game but I just cannot pull myself through the second one.
this holy shit
the story, the gameplay, all of it
fricking boring
For some reason, the combat completely failed to click with me, and I can't really explain why.
It's just so linear.
Every incident is scripted to appear at a specific place.
Also, I don't know if they changed it in 2 but you can kill off the entire caravan in 1 and nothing changes.
It's all just shadows on a wall.
Got halfway through 2, saw they had no desire to iterate on what was good about 1 and dropped the series.
>It's all just shadows on a wall.
This. The tension was just all gone for me, when I realized that no choice really matters.
You don't belong here, redditor. Frick off.
OP here, thanks for all the feedback Anons.
I'm still gonna give it another spin. Gonna still have Rook die at the end of one again, no parent should outlive their child. and do everything I can to keep everyone alive.
>going for the female protagonist option
lol
You laugh, but I ended up getting the Alette playthru completely on accident, because i'm moronic and didn't pick up on the cue that someone needed to die there.
Nah dude, punished Rook is perfect for the atmosphere of the setting.
definitely carried by the artwork, combat is pretty generic/boring. Only got halfway through the second game like many other anons in this thread.
>Hamburger Hepler doing the writing
No thanks, people who hate vidya yet work making them should never expect monetary compensation for ruining bideogemz.
She didn't have anything to do with Banner Saga I don't think.
Anyway, my take is good aesthetic and art, serviceable writing and story with some good parts, and somewhat disappointing gameplay.
Story wise it take a massive nosedive. They've pretty clearly written themselves into corner when making BS2.
I’ve replayed the series twice since it’s release, pretty easy to get through it all playing on and off over a month. I really enjoy the worldbuilding and the combat is simple but fun, though by the end of the third game I’m getting sick of it. Good to play in the dead of winter with feet of snow outside, kind of comfy
It's not perfect, but it is a good series. Don't rev up some form of crazy expectations and you'll generally have a good time.