![]() ![]() The caravan driving is the story portion of the game. Run out of food and morale will drop, and eventually so will bodies. The number of days of supply is important to note, as they tick away as your caravan rolls onward. They don’t really fight for you, but you have to take care of them nonetheless. You also have clansmen, which are basically women and children. You are better off if you have more human fighters and more varl to guard things and to fight. The caravan is rated in terms of its strengths. Turning the white snow red happens pretty often in the turn-based battles. ![]() Instead, the caravans are moving to where they need to be, either to escape certain death or to try and do something to save the world, or at least a town or two along the way. There is a huge map with a detailed history, but you don’t get to choose your destination. Most of the game is played watching your caravan (you manage different ones in different chapters) slowly move across the frozen northlands. There are other problems as well that you will discover as you travel, like a world-eating snake with a bad attitude and a crushing darkness that seems to destroy everything it touches.īut at first, all you have to worry about is getting your caravan through to the next town. And the ancient enemies of both humans and varl, the stone-golem-like dredge, have reappeared in huge numbers after everyone thought they were extinct. The sun has stopped moving across the sky (thankfully it got stuck in a risen position, otherwise it would be forever night). ![]() The gods, who once walked among and protected humanity, are dead. The world where they reside is bleak even at the beginning of the game. In The Banner Saga you take control of parties of humans and varl (who are giants with horns) as they try to survive in a world that is coming to an end. It would be easy enough to describe The Banner Saga as an Oregon Trail like game set in a Skyrim-like world, but that would be a bit of an oversimplification. How many great games have been ruined by story flaws, and how many have given up all together and just went with action over substance? You won’t have that problem here. It’s a very rare thing to find a game that really gets its story portion correct these days, but The Banner Saga qualifies. ![]()
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