The gameplay is split between making these choices, battles, and managing your party.
You may choose to welcome in new travelers to bolster your army, or give up supplies to help the less fortunate, but remember you’re struggling to survive as well so even the littlest choice can affect things drastically. Choices are just as hard as they have ever been, so make sure you make every one with complete conviction or it could impact your story greatly. I won’t be discussing story points in depth here (for obvious reasons), but like its predecessors, The Banner Saga 3 follows the stories of two different parties: Rook, Oddleif and friends (or Alette depending on your choices) are in the last human city of Aberrang, doing their best to defend it from the Dredge, whilst Juno, Iver, and their party are travelling through a mysterious evil known as The Darkness. I’d suggest going right back to the start an investing time into the trilogy as it’ll make the final impact mean so much more. If you’ve played the previous two games, you can carry your save files over so that your choices will impact the finale, but new players can also jump in. I didn’t know who would survive or who would perish, but I knew I would do my hardest to keep them all alive.Ī darkness has descended on the world, and not only is it a key element of the final story, it impacts gameplay in a welcome addition to proceedings. They have felt like a family – one that I have cared for for many years, and knowing their time is almost up gave me an uneasy feeling in the pit of my stomach. I have been through so much with these characters – with Rook, Hakon, Iver, Oddleif, and the rest of my ragtag group of survivors. As I played through the third and final installment I felt a fear seldom known when playing video games – the fear of finality. It has been a long time since the original Banner Saga came out, but even now I can remember the first time I saw a Varl, and fighting a horde of the Dredge before I truly understood the threat they posed on the land still feels fresh.
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