![]() Overall, I think the game is a lot like The Walking Dead, in that it hits you with a bunch of tough choices that personalize your playthrough, and in retrospect you think that maybe the other choice would've worked out better, but in reality I think you're fucked either way on most of the choices. It would've been so easy to make all the varl characters the same kind of tough guy giants, but there is a fair amount of breadth in their personalities. Ubin was also a really interesting character. The varl wanted to laud him as a hero, for what he felt was the most disgraceful thing he had ever done as a warrior. I get why it meant so much to him to not destroy it just for some fleeting tactical advantage that ultimately didn't even save that stronghold.Īlso, man, Iver's past is a real bummer. In light of that, the king wanted something to be left of the varl once they're all dead, and that bridge was one of their greatest accomplishments. So just to start with, that entire situation is deeply sad. I guess the king yelling at you might be the moment where the game reveals that the varl do not procreate, and that all of the varl were handcrafted by a long-dead god, so their entire race is dying out bit by bit because there are no more varl being born. But once I'd done it, and heard the king's explanation, I totally wish I hadn't destroyed it. I decided to destroy the bridge, because the mender's plan sounded alright, and it did seem like a dick move to just leave them to their obvious doom. He doesn't have as many dialogue lines later in the story, but he's there in a few key scenes, and I wonder whether you can really send him home. His offense is so good!Įarly in the game, did anyone try to send Prince Ludin home? I chose the options not to, but there seemed to be multiple opportunities where you could send him off on his merry way, but I wonder if they were all false choices. Which sucks, because I think I had just gotten him to rank 4 when that happened. I think no matter what you choose, he always goes down with the supply cart. Sigbjorn has literally the same portrait, except he is red instead of green. I assume green bodyguard varl dying always happens, because he has almost no dialogue (making him a "redshirt), and I'm pretty sure his character portrait is just the stock.Warcry warrior, or whatever that class is called. I'm kind of curious whether the episodes will all be kind of self-contained, or if you'll actually need to import your decisuons into Chapter 2.Īnyway, my playthrough was pretty similar to the playthroughs you've shared. I think they intend to roll out a whole "season" or whatever, but don't hold your breath on it coming out anywhere near as fast as TellTale episodic games do. I'm always amazed when people read through the entirety of something and never question the dumb sounding name they've As far as I understand the Kickstarter for The Banner Saga, what we played is "Chapter 1". If this game randomly called an enemy Belltower but that enemy is in fact just a big golem and not some kind of clock tower, I would think the writers were idiots. As in "He's an awful monster who yells/bellows at you". Does anyone know if there is a sequel at least His name is Bellower. Also I loved the story which made the ending a bummer for me, so much was left unexplored. Overall I really loved the game, although I wasn't a huge fan of losing characters you've poured a decent amount of development into on a bad multiple choice selection. Don't quite remember the size of my caravan but I was hurting pretty bad towards the end.Towards the end my main lineup usually at least Rook, Alette, Iver, female archer (see previous), the mender, and Oddleif.I trained the women to fight and had the girl who was a natural join me (can't recall her name).I lost a handful of other characters as well though I don't exactly remember how like Sigbjorn and Eirik, never used them all that much.Onef turned on me and he stabbed Oddleif I thought I lost her at that point which would have really sucked because I devoted a ton of reknown towards her.I randomly lost Egil sometime during one of the interactive choices, don't remember when.I lost Yrsa which also bothered me, I wanted to explore her storyline more.I lost the green bodyguard when he fell down the cliff I was pretty pissed at this moment, he was a mainstay in my lineup. ![]() I blew up the bridge after exhausting all other options and holding off the Dredge though several battles.I left the baby dredge with his/her/it's mother.Rescued the frozen girl but don't recall much coming from that, no playable character at least.Rescued the twins but never used them all that much.
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