That battles themselves follow the same formula as before as you’d expect, and when attacking you’ll have to chip away at the enemies’ armour stat before having any hope of decimating them – especially on the higher difficulties. This enforces a balance where you either risk your clan going hungry, or trade those supplies for being underpowered later on. Successful victories/decisons will yield Renown which can be spent on supplies (for boosting morale), items or upgrading your characters stats when available. The game features the same, side-scrolling caravan escapes you may be familiar with alongside the narrative and decision making scenes, and when needed shifts into the tactical side. Initially your story begins with just one caravan of clansmen, which, as the story evolves, sees alternating chapters with differing objectives as your entourage separates. That means a huge dose of turn-based battling, intermixed with some great story-telling, and many hours of decision making. Despite suffering a huge loss on the other side, the deadly Dredge are still in pursuit of you (for good reason, which I won’t spoil) and what follows is essentially more of the same as the first game, as you’d expect. It would appear that the world is still in great peril, and your adventure tasks you with seeking solace in the human capital of Arberang. However you begin, it’ll pick up on chapter 8 in the aftermath of your clans’ “victory” at Boersgarde. My recommendation is that anyone looking at this should definitely play the first game, which I rather enjoyed – if only for the continuation of the story. Your adventure across this trilogy of titles continues and you can begin by importing your save file from the first title, or if you prefer (or a newcomer to the series) you can bypass that altogether and just choose one of the two characters who could have died. Not only is that hulking Varl, Iver, missing one of his limbs, following his encounter with the Dredge leader, Bellower, it also means that whoever you chose to perish in the climatic battle is also not present here. ![]() ![]() There’s a spoiler in The Banner Saga 2’s game tile which shows that certain outcomes in the first adventure can carry over.
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