BANNER SAGA a game for computers

finally someone remade shining force II but about vikings

i preordered this game on steam digital platform to play on my windows pc out january sometime next week

i am very excited

this sounds cool

yeah this looks good. i also preordered on the steam platform

bloody hell, this didn't come out yet?

have ppl been playing the free multiplayer?

like the rotoscoped animation. let us know how this is

so that is a n then

out tomorrow i think, just chatting to a mate who's pre-installed it and can hardly contain his excitement. looks pretty damn good

well i downloaded the multiplayer version but i've still not double clicked the little icon so

second-hand reviews from a friend were initially gushingly enthusiastic, now saying he's not as impressed as he thought. i'll probably hold off for a bit, at least until i'm finished with The Walking Dead

so has anyone actually played this yet? is it worth getting before the inevitable sale price later in the year?

i would recommend it but not unreservedly? its well done but not amazing. my big insight rn is that all srpgs should have the same job system as final fantasy tactics

also they spent too much time making the environments visually appealing and not enough time making them tactically interesting

looking at 'factions'. feel like this sits somewhere uncomfortable between feeling like a whole videogame and something i ought to be playing on a tablet. also qua tutorial this sucks. the battles themselves seem like totally my sort of thing, i am just inconvinced it suits a laptop touchscreen at all, i mean i'd rather be using the megadrive pad even

lamp did you finish it? does the campaign-y narrative-y stuff feel interesting?

think i will hold out for ipad

this is a game that does not involve merging powers of two on a sliding-tile puzzle

game is not hard enough imo

Excellent soundtrack tho. Haven't played the game, I'm a fan of the composer.

yeah i sort of wish it was metal!! maybe i should just listen to metal while i play the game. maybe i should just listen to metal

what difference do the difficulty settings make? AI or stats?

this game rules. i'm not deep in so it might get monotonous, but it's remarkably gorgeous and tasteful so far.

this was really exceptional imo. i demand the rest of it already.

i found this really, really unengaging

RedLetterMedia guys didn't like it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdvIO2tmkBs

I thought the whole game was the line of vikings traveling. Turns out the main game is FFT. Because nothing says vikings like turn-based strategy.

something about the pacing of the introduction of the dynamics

in shining force two you are given a new dude for each of the first few battles and this gives you a new ability and changes the total dynamic. meanwhile each has a different map which quietly redefines the possibility of yr party

whereas this sort of throws all of a much more complicated system at you way quickly and then switches you over to a different party and, I don't know. too much cognitive overhead too quickly. maybe it got difficult and engaging after the first couple hours but it seems like i wd be going 'so am I being affected by decisions i just made or by decisions i made when I didn't know how the games system worked yet"

also the writing was annoyingly Almost Good in a way that made me think there is some kind of belle theistic equivalent of the uncanny valley

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