The caravan sections take place against stunning backdrops and in dramatic locations.
#The banner saga length full#
Each character is lovingly crafted and full of minute detail that you’ll likely miss the first four or five times you’ve seen them. I will say, though, that it’s refreshing to play something that is obviously thematically quite adult yet looks like the best work from the old school of Disney animation. Much has already been made of The Banner Saga‘s art direction, so I won’t bore you too much with it here. You play as the invisible hand of fate in this semi-RPG, semi-turn-based-combat-’em-up, and it’s your job to guide what’s left of the surviving humans and varl to the great city of Arberrang where, hopefully, you can finally find safety… for a while at least. The Banner Saga really is an epic: telling the story of a rag-tag caravan of men and their giant varl allies fleeing before the onslaught of the terrifying dredge: a proto-robot menace from ages past who threaten to destroy everything before them. I have to admit, being told the entire first game’s story in such a short space of time didn’t fill me with confidence for The Banner Saga 2 but, within just another couple of minutes, all of my fears were allayed. If you, like me, didn’t play the original game don’t worry: Stoic have included a bite-sized summary of the plot that’ll have you caught up in just under two minutes. For those of you who don’t know – or can’t guess from the “2” in the title – The Banner Saga 2 is the sequel to the critically acclaimed first game by Stoic Studio and follows on directly from it.
#The banner saga length Ps4#
We’ve already reviewed The Banner Saga 2 for PC (and The Banner Saga, too, for that matter) but I’m coming at this from two different angles: one, I’m playing the PS4 version and two, I’m totally new to the series. Epic is the story of the last remnants of a once-powerful race, fleeing for their lives across a broken and treacherous country, pursued by a ruthless and deathless force from time before time.
What they actually mean is that they’re big or deep or… cool.
They make grand statements about how their setting is “epic”, how their story is “epic” or how their combat mechanics are “epic”.
“Epic” is a word that tends to get thrown about with an ever increasing disregard for what it really means.Įtymologically (bear with me), it derives from the Greek word epos, which means “song” or “story”. It’s synonymous with the great oral traditions of the middle-ages, of the heroic prose and poetry coming out of Scandinavia where trolls and dwarves and giants wage aeons-long wars and the history of races is decided in titanic clashes between heroes, or in tricksy deals sealed by moonlight.Ī lot of games lay claim to epicness.
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