Good evening you're listening to Throo Zahaden. I'm your host, Rob Zakeney.

Joining me today, we have freelance writer Fraser Brown.

Hello!

And today, Fraser and I are going to be talking about Stoic Studios' Banner Saga 2,

the follow-up to, I think, you know, one of my favorite games from the last year or so

for all my reservations about it as a strategy game.

Fraser, I think you had a few more issues with the original Banner Saga, but, you know, let's

dive into Banner Saga 2 here. You know, first, continuing from Banner Saga 1, you know,

where did you land with that game and how does Banner

Saga 2 go about addressing or not addressing some of these reservations that we had about

the game?

I loved it.

I thought it was fantastic.

I thought it was exactly what a sequel needs to do, which is it built on the foundations of the first

game and improved a lot of the issues that I had with it as well. There were certain mechanics

that I think, while not ruining the game by any means, definitely made it a little bit frustrating,

certainly in the caravan part of the game where you're not fighting the tactical

battles but actually managing your group of survivors. There's like a renowned mechanic

and a food mechanic that started off quite interestingly but kind of devolved into a bit

of a mess by the end of the game and actually just ended up being kind of annoying in getting in the way of things.

That isn't the case in Banner Saga 2.

And a lot of the changes are really quite small, but they have this massive impact.

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