Banner Saga 3 is the epic conclusion to a sweeping viking saga six years in the making. This strategic RPG, acclaimed for its strong story and compelling characters has won over 20 awards and been nominated for 4 BAFTA awards. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2019 Vinyl release of The Banner Saga 3 on Discogs. Label: Iam8bit - 8BIT-8092. Format: Vinyl LP Vinyl LP Teal / Black MarbleAll Media Album. Country: US. Genre: Stage & Screen. Style: Score, Soundtrack, Video Game Music. For THE BANNER SAGA, I have again partnered with iam8bit to bring this 2-disc vinyl to life. Stoic Studio's Art Director Arnie Jorgensen has done a custom cover that is absolutely gorgeous, and the with the specially re-mastered music the entire thing makes me so happy.
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The Banner Saga 3 The Banner Saga 3 is the highly anticipated final game of an award winning trilogy. Released on July 26th, 2018, it's a role-playing game merged with turn-based strategy, wrapped into an adventure mini-series about Vikings. Many modern games play it safe – you are the chosen one who always saves the day. Our game is different, you can’t take anything for granted in Banner Saga. Picture the classic tactical strategy games of your childhood but refined for the modern age. It's not about grinding to get past the next fight. Every encounter, every decision you make has heavy and sometimes far-reaching consequences. It throws you into the end of the world and asks,'how do you deal with this'? Overall, Banner Saga 3 is aimed at people who appreciate art, story and strategy. Apart from the main campaign (story-mode), Banner Saga 3 offers the following turn-based-combat oriented modes (click on banners for detailed articles):
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The Banner Saga 2 The award-winning epic role-playing game continues with The Banner Saga 2 where The Banner Saga left off, in a world with left in grim darkness as the Dredge slowly overtake it. Cities and towns continue to crumble into chaos. Heroes still remain, as new ones grow more prominent, and again as before choose wisely as decisions have consequences and wise choices must be made when conversing with possible allies during intricately crafted dialogues. Turn-based strategy brings tactical challenge in hand-animated battle sequences. Continue your Saga – Make sure you complete the first game so you can import your saved game to Banner Saga 2 and keep your Characters, Items, Levels, Choices, and more carry forward straight in to Banner Saga 2.
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The Banner Saga The Banner Saga is an epic role-playing game inspired by Viking legend. Hand-painted landscapes portray a world eerily suspended in perpetual twilight. Cities and towns begin to crumble into chaos. Heroes abandon their hearths and homes to traverse the snowy countryside, gaining allies along the way to help battle a strange, new threat. Decisions have consequences; wise choices must be made when conversing with possible allies during intricately crafted dialogues. Turn-based strategy brings tactical challenge in hand-animated battle sequences. With visuals evocative of the golden age of animation, The Banner Saga brings skillfully crafted art, story and strategy to gamers waiting to re-experience classic adventures and tactics.
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The Banner Saga: Factions The Banner Saga: Factions is the premiere multiplayer role-playing strategy game on PC and Mac. It brings the feeling of beloved tactical games to a high-definition era with gorgeous hand-animated artwork and a degree of depth unprecedented in the realm of free games. Fight, learn, and lead your clan of vikings to glory!
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- Review by Leo Mayr - October 1, 2018
The Banner Saga has reached its third and final installment. While seeing such a unique story and narrative play out over three entire games, having the same composer score all three is a special thing indeed.
Right from the start, the score feels a lot bigger than the previous two. It’s louder, more intense, and there’s a lingering sense of finality and dread, of impending doom throughout that really sets this one apart from its predecessors.
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Wintory’s main theme carries over once again, nicely tying not only this game but the trilogy as a whole together. Instrumentation wise, the score follows the previous two, with the action relying heavily on brass and percussion and strings or vocals only really coming in for the more peaceful sections of the game. As per usual, the score features an abundance of soloists and vocalists, each bringing something new and unique to the table. There are rarely two pieces that sound alike, and Wintory keeps coming up with ways to change up the formula while sticking close to what makes The Banner Saga sound like, well, The Banner Saga.
While the series isn’t known for happiness and fun, the third entry manages to still be quite a bit darker than the previous ones with a general sense of dread lingering over the whole game with hardly any relief found throughout. Even the already intense action music has been turned up quite a bit, resulting in a few stunningly intense moments that make the first game in particular feel almost tame in comparison.
But what really makes the score stand out is Wintory’s fusion of intense, breathtaking action with calmer, more ambient music. One moment, the brass is escalating into mayhem, and the next you’re admiring the scenery to music quite reminiscent of Wintory’s previous work on more ambient games. Overall, the score contains a few instances reminiscent of bits and pieces from all over Wintory’s career, and given he has worked on the series for the last six years, it is quite fascinating to see him grow as a composer over the course of three scores.
The Banner Saga 3 is a stunning, intense final chapter to this wonderful trilogy. Austin Wintory once again manages to improve on every aspect of the previous scores while also adding entirely new ideas to the mix. The many soloists and vocalists, as well as a wonderful orchestral backbone make this a remarkable and unique experience, well worth revisiting time and time again.
- 4.5/5