Ash of Gods: Redemption vs The Banner Saga

[MyIndieWishlist]

Which one is better

The Banner Saga
The Banner Saga 2
Ash of Gods

[Medvezhak]

First Banner Saga is the best.

[Giopeppe]

Originally posted by 2mightyme:

Originally posted by Medvezhak:

First Banner Saga is the best.

Really? Though its sequel improved everything

Preferred the writings of the first one, but the improved battles (varity of enemies, talent system, different victory conditions) of the second one.

[K. Constantine]

Ash of Gods is more interesting (at least for me), has better music and has better choice-and-consequence gameplay. Banner Saga is overall more polished though. If I'd have to rate them it would be:
Ash of Gods = Banner Saga > Banner Saga 2

[anaphylactic god]

cant say anything about BS2 but man, i hated fighting in fist BS so much.

[Medvezhak]

Originally posted by 2mightyme:

Originally posted by Medvezhak:

First Banner Saga is the best.

Really? Though its sequel improved everything

BS 1 on highest difficulty was at least challanging. In BS 2 Allete kills everything single handed. Was a breeze for me.

[UIfix]

Ash of gods = Banner Saga 1 >> Banner Saga 2

Ash of gods has the longest campaign and a complete story. Banner saga 1 has better writing, animations but only one episode of story.

BS 2 has the shortest story and the combat is a random number game. I hope BS 3 could be better.

[K. Constantine]

Originally posted by UIfix:

Ash of gods = Banner Saga 1 >> Banner Saga 2

Ash of gods has the longest campaign and a complete story. Banner saga 1 has better writing, animations but only one episode of story.

BS 2 has the shortest story and the combat is a random number game. I hope BS 3 could be better.

The writing in Ash of Gods is actually quite good, it's just translated poorly and has some errors. Seems like whoever they hired for the translation did a half-assed job.

[Dorok]

Quite good looks a bit exaggerated:
- I can hardly imagine how translation could screw up some emotion building, some character attachment building. Eventually it's possible, but then in what parts?
- Also some dialog trunk quite too long are really a translation error?
- Another problem is how too often dialog tend be confusing about what character is speaking, I suspect it's more a design problem and some details, than a writing problem.

BS1 does quite better and relatively often for:
- Building emotions
- Making some characters attaching

But AoGR does well on the whole story, in my opinion:
- There's a fairly good sense of mystery and progression
- If no character is really attaching, some are a bit intriguing.
- Eventually it's difficult to follow the lore, but also it avoids inflict to players ton of lore half tedious, so overall there's a good merge of story and lore.
- There's an overall complexity of story that is pleasant.
- The background/lore looks more interesting than for BS.