Banner Saga 3 gives a good end to the trilogy but lacks some of the more interesting new features and combat encounters of the second game or the world building and character moments of the past games and rushes through what could have been more interesting or character defining situations. Characters get good endings to their arcs or moments (assuming you kept them alive in all games) but everything tends to be very simple for the finale. New wave combat mode where you can swap in characters is a good feature. Great artwork and music. The combat itself stills has problems, it's been a really strange part of the entire series that, due to the way turn order is handled, you don't want to kill enemies just wound them all to the point where they are mostly harmless. The third game giving you more reason to take talents that do things like give you crit chance or frequently giving items or new heroic titles to assign that might increase things like your crit chance can end up causing problems when you kill things you don't want to kill.

I would say it is the worst of the three but still a fine ending if you have been enjoying the series so far. I'm pretty sure it was easily the shortest entry in the series as well, with me even having to skip a few scenes and a fight because of how quickly I got the second party to the end of their section.

Screenshots: https://twitter.com/Legolas_Katarn/status/1023756174427009024
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Reviewed on May 22, 2021


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