For months I used a screenshot from the first The Banner Saga as my desktop wallpaper, and I still sometimes write to Austin Wintory's magnificent score. But for all that fondness for its art and style, I winced a little at the thought of returning to developer Stoic's bleak, beautiful Nordic fantasy world for The Banner Saga 2. Aside from its incredible Eyvind Earle-inspired, hand-drawn aesthetic, the world itself is about as uplifting as a bankruptcy notice in a funeral home. Happily, it only took me a few moments to realize how much I would have regretted missing this strong sequel.
The Banner Saga 2 still boasts a warehouse's worth of doom 'n' gloom amid its many turn-based tactical battles and apocalyptic themes, but its characters and settings imbue it with a liveliness the original never really had. The stakes are higher now, yet there's also a greater sense of what's being lost as the world breaks and the sun squats motionless above.
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