I've been reading a lot of reviews about The Banner Saga, but not one single writer mentioned something that seemed glaringly obvious to me, The Banner Saga is a modern Oregon Trail!
Watching trailers and gameplay videos can easily fool you into thinking that The Banner Saga is a pretty Final Fantasy Tactics game, but it's really an army micromanagement game. True, the battles play out on your basic RTS game board, but the in-betweens are where the meat of the game is. Traveling across the continent with your caravan, you manage the day to day supplies, keep morale up, decide where and how long to camp for, and make extremely difficult decisions with no real way of telling what the consequences will be. This game IS The Oregon Trail, but with deep, engaging side-distractions.
This is Ekkill, easily my favorite character in TBS. He's rather difficult to get, when you meet him he's trying to kill you, and even after forgiving him for that he'll try to kill you again. Choose against your better judgement and you'll get to enjoy probably the funniest character in the game who also happens to be one of the best human fighters.
The Banner Saga has so many nods to games that I love grouped with some new ideas that I have never seen before. If you like medieval fantasy, strategy games, or Dragon Age in any way, then you'll agree with me that The Banner Saga is a masterpiece. It's only 24.99 too, so go buy it.
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