how does this game compare to banner saga 1 and 2?

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in terms of length and quality?

[Inardesco]

Slightly shorter than BS2 for me (10 hours for BS2 with 9hours for this one first playthrough).

Battle system is improved through a reinforcement mechanic allowing you to swap characters around pre-wave.

Story wise the game wraps up nicely all the different choices you've made throughout 1 and 2, though some folks are displeased with the ending.

I liked it, gonna let it simmer for a while before I return and play again with Alette this time.

[Fathom]

Not as interesting as TBS1 nor as fun and interesting as tbs2. Also it has a lot less animations and slides.

[Pirate]

No, it has more slides and animations. Thats factually correct, you can't argue out of that one. Numbers don't lie.

[speedweed]

Originally posted by pirate8188:

No, it has more slides and animations. Thats factually correct, you can't argue out of that one. Numbers don't lie.

That's... That's not how it works. You have to actually give numbers to make that arguement.

[CatMeowMeow]

Originally posted by Hideo Kojima:

Originally posted by pirate8188:

No, it has more slides and animations. Thats factually correct, you can't argue out of that one. Numbers don't lie.

That's... That's not how it works. You have to actually give numbers to make that arguement.

The Banner Saga has these slides:
-Starving Dredge
-Meeting in Einahoft
-Eyvind takes on Bellower
-Bellower Grabs Alette/Rook
-The Funeral

The Banner Saga 2 has these slides:
-The Chasm
-The White tower
-You killed her!
-We will have your Vengence for your deceit!

The Banner Saga 3 has these slides:
-Audience with the king
-Opening gate for the dredge
-Hole at Ridgehorn
-Falling into Inner earth
-The Serpent at the white tower
-Darkness has gone



The Banner Saga has these movie:
-Great hall opens
-My grandfather built this from a Fishing village

Banner Saga 2 has these movies:
-Son of a Yox!
-Zefr opens the cart
-Eyeless
-Eyvind Run!
-Canary bows to you.
-Nikels raise from the dead.
-Eyvind destroys Manaharr/Bolverk's resurrection/Juno touch the Darkness

Banner Saga 3 has these movies:
-Ravens into the darkness
-Transition from Rook/Alette in Arberrang to Zefr in Manaharr (Yeah that's an animation)
-Damn you Juno!
-Transistion from Zefr in Manaharr to Iver in Strand
-Great hall opens again
-Ruin attacks the wall
-Tentacle drags a fighter into the darkness
-Juno's Revelation
-Eyvind takes the deal (Epilogue 1)
-Iver agreed to Afrun (Epilogue 2)
-Juno in the sun (Epilogue 3)



Yeah even these are not complete, The Banner Saga 3 has the most Animation and Slides

[jukusan]

TBS1 has the tightest combat of any turn based game i have played. You can either play on hard and git gud or swallow your pride and lower the difficulty to easy if you want to take on multiaple waves without mastering the combat mechanics

TBS2 has the better variety of caravan/leadership choises and setpiece battles. But unfortunatly TBS2 introduced more RNG effects and threw the hero balance out of the window in favor of moments where a few hardened heroes can take on an entire army like badasses.

TBS3 is somewhere inbetwen the previous games on both ends. Fights are nolonger balanced on a knifes edge and the outcome of events/story depends more on the decisions you made in the previous games.
Its good, deffinetly on level with the previous games.

[Mai]

Combat in the first and second game has same "rules"
1 you should cripple all units before u start killing them. a 1/1 unit is a wasted turn for enemy
2 take less units for to the fight - best choice (for me) : 1 archer.

The 3rd game wanted to changed this fighting style with waves mechanic and forced ally fights but most fights are still won with 1 or 2 units (even on hard mode)

[Giopeppe]

The "Wave" mechanic is a great addition, but it's rendered pretty useless by the fact tha heroes power scale up very quickly, so i found most of the fight quite easy compared to Saga2 and particularly to Saga1.

[[__h.stickeye_]]

BS1 - 9/10
BS2 - 8/10
BS3 - 3/10

Dramatic drop in quality and story sucks.