Ending Discussion (**SPOILERS**)

[MrRovin]

A little late to the party I know, but I just got done with the ending to my playthrough of the entire trilogy and I can't help but feel it was a little underwhelming? Iver managed to convince Eyvind to sacrifice Juno, but upon returning to the world, Arberrang was destroyed and everyone was gone (I'm assuming that was because I ran out of days before I reached the White Tower?) I see a cutscene of Rook reuniting with Alette and his wife in the afterlife, and then a brief discussion between Iver and Eyvind pondering their future in the new desolate world.

Was this just a bad ending? I felt like it just tapers off without much of a resolution, despite the entire trilogy building up to this moment, I dunno. What did you guys think?

[Troll]

This is not the worst ending, but yeah.
The end feels a bit abrupt.

[Aleonymous]

Yup, a lot of players found the endings required a bit more resolution, as you put it... That particular ending you got was surely one of the bad ones, but all finales have that same "format"; don't expect horns and whistles in the good ones!

[Chickenbowser]

I can't really blame the devs. They worked their asses off with the budget they had but I was kind of disapointed with each of the endings.

In the theoretical best ending You convince Eyvind to sacrifice Juno and the darkness never breaches a single wall of Aberang, which implies hundreds of thousands of humans, thousands of horseborn, and hundreds of varl survive to see the new world. The problem is, the world is now totally desolate. Zefr gives kind of a hand waving explanation that "life will return" but it seems there's a serious pressing issue of how the people currently alive are going to feed themselves when food was all ready in short supply An epilogue or follow up or some sort would have been nice but really I'm just happy we got a conclusion to this great series.

[Troll]

Technically the world is not dead. We don't know far the darkness spread but there is most likely untouched lands to the south since the Darkness spread from north.

Maybe that could be a basis for a new series in the sagaverse. As much as pre-Banner Saga events like the Human / Varl, Varl / Dredge could be.

Though yeah, a bit more "what is to come" narration would be nice to have.

[Lipe]

I got the same ending.

It feels empty, I'm so sad.

Played the entire trilogy and in the final moments they all die (in Arberrang)

The game is great, but this ending make me really sad.

I can say that this is by far the saddest ending game experience I ever had.

[m.]

A very minimalistic, abrupt ending. I kind of expected an epilogue (as the lead writer is formerly a Bioware creative), but I'm not too upset about it. It's not something that reminds me of how poorly I felt with Mass Effect 3. Banner Saga oddly has more payoff within the users imagination.

That said, I felt the third part was rather... weak overall.

[Le Ver Coquin]

The afterlife scene only triggers if both Rook and Alette are dead. One of them dies at the end of The Banner Saga 1 and the other one dies in this game if the city falls or if you open the city gates to the dredge without bringing the dredge baby from TBS1 with you.

During chapter 21, Iver's team is on a timer. Whenever that timer expires, you go back to playing Rook or Alette's team in Arberrang, where the choices you make will buy Iver's team some more time to reach its destination. Every time you return to Arberrang, more of the city will be consumed by the darkness. If the timer runs out 6 times, the city falls and everyone in it is considered dead.

[Necro]

In my ending I couldn't convince Eyvind. So I killed him and Alfrun completed the spell. She managed to restore everything, but the entire group died, as she could not safely contain all the power. As for Arberrang, there were few surviving humans, dredges, centaurs and vars. Alette asks if they are all that's left and Zefr says there are probably a few survivers around the world.

It was not a bad conclusion for the Saga in my opinion, but I think they should have elaborated a little more on what happened to the world after it was saved, showing how the people managed to rebuild it (or not).

[LaMatt]

i would be okay with arberrang destruction if the game didn't cheat me, i arrived in arberrang and got twenty something days, it would be easy to manage that time, but abruptly the game aleatory
made extremily bad things starting to happens and i lost this twenty something days cowardly, like a man with a leg stuck in a hole, and you lost 7 days at once. After that i needed to manage some charity time the game gives you, and i couldnt. I think it was a little unbalanced.

[Spetsnaz]

To me the ending was really underwhelming. I hoped on more but the last part of the game felt really rushed. I was hoping on more and then boom the end and you don't know how far the darkness went and all. Just see a bunch of people being ♥♥♥♥♥♥ in the near future because there is no food around them...