Choices you make here matter, and therein lies the strength of The Banner Saga. A path you traveled in the first game can now come back to haunt you, which is of course extremely rare in videogames where sequels are mostly just standalone titles loosely connected to the previous one.
THE BANNER SAGA 2 PS4 REVIEW FULL
A tale of loss and despair, The Banner Saga is emotionally impactful and full of tough choices you have to make – and that you’ll face the consequences for. The biggest part of that, at least for me, is the narrative that spans this trilogy – along with the characters that carry it.
It would be like starting The Lord of the Rings with The Return of the King. I wouldn’t recommend the latter option though – things make more sense and are more impactful if you bring previous experience to the table. This could be because you regret a choice you made earlier, or simply because you’re jumping in with part 3. As with Banner Saga 2, this is optional, and you can craft a different “what happened before” path before you start playing as well. This is nowhere more clear than in the fact that your existing saved games still carry over to Banner Saga 3, as long as you continue playing on the same platform. Or rather parts, as all three Banner Saga titles feel like an organic whole rather than straight up sequels.
On the plus side, embarking on my The Banner Saga journey a little later did have a nice bonus – I didn’t have to wait as long in between sequels. It wasn’t to be, as that version was eventually canceled when Stoic wasn’t able to get it running as well as they wanted to on the handheld. Celebrated and critically acclaimed since the first title, does the third part keep the momentum going? You can find out on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PS4 and PC/Mac – we played the PS4 and PC versions.įor me personally, it wasn’t until much later that I started playing The Banner Saga, as I was holding out for the Playstation Vita version. Out now as a multiplatform release, The Banner Saga 3 concludes a trilogy of games by Stoic.
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