Banner Saga 2 - Better than the Original

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Gameinformer lists four reasons why The Banner Saga 2 is better than the original game:

The Banner Saga 2

Four Reasons The Sequel Is Better Than The Original

Stoic’s original Banner Saga set up a planned trilogy of strategy titles that explore the state of a Norse fantasy world after all its gods have died. The company’s sophomore release continues this tragic tale while improving on the compelling strategy framework of the first game. After getting six hours of hands-on time with the near-finished product, we’re more eager than ever to see how this journey comes to a close. Here are four ways Stoic has improved its epic Norse strategy series.

1. Story is still king [...]
2. A second caravan [...]
3. Enter the horseborn [...]
4. Combat has evolved [...]

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[Morbus]

This is looking great. I just finished the first one for the first time and it's an awesome game, simple, but very very well done, and the choices and the branching storyline seem pretty awesome (I'll need to play it again to know for sure).

 

[Lynchden]

Praise the sun!

 

[borcanu]

story was trash.
pretty hard to mess it up worse

 

[screeg]

I was going to give the sequel a pass, but it sounds very promising. If the combat is good, who cares about the story?

 

[you]

I would pre-order but not on gog; while I have lots of steam games I prefer to keep 'series' on the same platform and the first one I have is on gog. My guess is they will wait 6 months or a year to offer it on gog; so maybe if I still have an interest and there is a 50% sale (to justfiy the long wait) I'll buy it. Then again if they reverse and offer it at release on gog I'll happily pay full price; really liked the first one.

 

[ChaosTheory]

The first one was 'okay', but I didn't understand the hype it got. Yes, it was different, and the music was decent for an indie, but the story and combat was only moderately engaging to me.

I'll play the second, but only at discount.