So Banner Saga is a hybrid genre that fails to really check either box successfully. Equally, people hoping for an expansive RPG experience are going to find it lacking.
I think more than anything else, the turn-based combat of Banner Saga suffers from an unavoidable comparison (at least in my head) to XCOM: Enemy Within, and for people looking for anything like that level of strategy, well, you’re going to be disappointed. The result is one of the most peculiar gaming experiences in recent memory, some pieces of which work, many more which don’t, and yet others that just leave me scratching my head.
In the ever-expanding roster of games which attempt to mix genres to create new hybrid playing experiences, The Banner Saga (which I plan to type out and avoid the unfortunate abbreviation BS) is an old-school, Viking-flavored, turn-based strategy game with some RPG bits included. The Ugly: Boy this game involves a lot of traveling. The Bad: That turns out kind of thin on both the RPG and strategy elements. Interesting mix of RPG and turn-based strategy elements.
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