![]() While I’m not a huge fan of the text-based delivery of game dialogue, backed only with a slightly animated character, I soon forgot about all of that and sat for hours reading this epic. Quite honestly, I found myself enthralled from start to finish. Rook leaves with hundreds of refugees in tow and becomes the impromptu leader of the caravan, ultimately responsible for their safety and security.Īs the game progresses, the two stories become more intertwined and what follows is a tale so full of twists and turns that to go much further would spoil the whole thing for you. ![]() Meanwhile in the east, Rook and his daughter Alette are caught up in the invasion and flee their homes in search of safety. Ubin and his group begin to head north to the Varl capital to bring news of this invasion and secure the borders for war. The Dredge, a race of armoured warriors created by a jealous god, return in the north and sweep south killing anything in their path. Heading north to the Varl capital, Ubin is joined the future Varl king and the prince of men as part of diplomatic mission when all hell breaks loose. Rushing to his aid, you are introduced to the combat system as you rescue the governor and set his house in order. Reaching the city, things take a turn for the worse as the governor is caught up in an attempted coup. The game begins as Ubin, the king’s tax collector and one of the oldest remaining Varl, travels to the town of Strand with his caravan of warriors. The player finds themselves travelling across a fictional land gathering human and Varl allies – a race of giants – in order to survive. Described as the first part of a trilogy, the game is a beautifully hand-drawn turn-based strategy with a pinch of RPG that follows a wide cast of characters as they are caught up in what they suspect is the third Great War. This is the world you will be thrown in to in Stoic Studios debut game The Banner Saga. People are going to die and there is nothing you can do. You’ve been travelling for days without rest, six days from the next town with only four days of supplies. It’s snowing it’s always snowing, and you lead a caravan of two hundred refugees away from an unstoppable army of armoured giants. The sun is fixed in the sky and, for what you think might have been days, the world has sat in perpetual twilight. Windows PC, Mac OS X, Linux, iOS, PlayStation 3 (PSN), Xbox 360 (XBLA)
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