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Unlike most episodic games which, granted, are usually from the point and click adventure genre and often 2-3 hours long at most, this time around you’re looking at spending at least 8-10 hours with The Banner Saga 3 for doing a normal difficulty run. There is an interesting gameplay mechanic that allows you to fight or flee before the next wave, and it’s an idea I liked very much when I was feeling overwhelmed, but you should know that if you complete more waves your rewards will be better, so do keep that in mind! You will earn great rewards that can enhance your characters, but the downside is you must look after your team if they are fatigued or injured, so you’ll need to see if the risk is worth the reward in case things go wrong. Some sections of the game can be a bit like an endless mode where you will need to defeat wave after wave of enemies in one go. Combat is just as challenging as the previous two episodes, and depending on the difficulty you choose, your team may need to rest to recover, which is not needed in the easiest difficulty. Your main stats are armor, which tells you how much damage you can take, and Strength, telling how much damage you can deal. You can also attack environmental objects such as straw-like fencing to tear it down to give you access to enemies. You can move your characters anywhere within the grid, and choose between skills and melee attacks to your opponents. The combat system is the same as the one from previous episodes: its turn-based and on a grid, with a party of up to six members of your choosing.
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Now that all three episodes are out, this is the best opportunity to play this episode as you can play all three episodes back to back while exploring all dialogue options. You will have multiple choice dialogue options which offers some replayability for the game to see how different dialogue choices change things and how they affect the ending of the game. The gameplay of this episode is mostly the same as it was for previous episodes, and every choice made still affects the outcome of the game. This review presents what they both had to say.Īfter selecting Alette or Rook, the game kicks off from Chapter 16, which continues where The Banner Saga 2 left off. The game was played by ThaRaven403 and Tracey. This is a double review for The Banner Saga 3. This final The Banner Saga episode isn’t less grim nor challenging than the previous ones, and it follows the journey of Rook or Alette, the two characters that can be selected. Players of previous episodes can import their save games, but new players won’t be left out since they can dive straight in by watching the recap sequences which will tell them what they missed in The Banner Saga 1 and 2.