 Hello, hello, hello, hello. Whoa, I screwed up my intro. What I meant is to say, hey guys, I'm back with some banner saga. Exciting, right? I haven't played this game for months. I kind of got angry at the software I was using at the time, Xplit, and then I stopped doing YouTube. Last time I had this whole recording thing going. I recorded for 40, 40 minutes and it did not work out. Bloody software issues forced me to, um... Well, let's just say I got really angry and I absolutely stopped playing the banner saga. But now I'm back. Yes, I am. And once energetic Mender approaches, looking both worn and troubled, I'm not sure I tanked you for the time to recover. I've never woven the spell that strong before. Are you sure you're ready to move on? You look? I know. I got my reflection earlier. It's a more mature look. The Mender grins and a hint of his former youth shines true. I like his beard. His beard is very majestic now. Not everyone would have stopped for so long, especially with the ground rumbling like it has. Let's see, what shall we pick? We're all people in need of help here. We'll get there no matter how long it takes. You're floating bridge called... No guilt-tripping, please. We'll get there no matter how long it takes. I'm glad you feel that way. But crumbling mountains and chasms might be a sign to move faster than slower. Oh, I thought since you could get us over chasms you'd just knock falling mountains out of the way. He smiles again. Have you given any more thought to my offer? I think some Mending could really benefit you. You consider his offer. Sure, it might really help someday. I'm pretty sure this will get me into trouble with some of the village people, probably the villagers, for one. I think so too, and you already know more than you think. I doubt it will take me long to teach you the basics, but you'll have to practice as we go. I'm placing some patterns on your bow. Trace them with your thumb at all times. Practice. Memorize them. Understanding will occur later. Great! This is getting me all excited. We have a nice number of supplies. A scarf runs up to you. There's a woman tied to a tree up ahead. Got four guards watching her. The strange news draws a good deal of attention from the caravan. The bound woman is frantic and spitting on the fall guard when you arrive and ask, what's going on here? This is a witch, one guard says, plaguing our clan, making everyone really sick, but we caught her and brought her way out here. The other's not. She used to be tied here for five days without food or water, then cut loose. Been three days so far. But she'll down her own after that long with nothing to eat or drink. You say, that's not a noose, the guard responds, but if you want to set her free, we'd be bigger fools than to the getch in your way. How do you know she's a witch? Everyone looks at the woman who's grinning tootless grin. She scratches at the tree bark and calls out the dead gods one by one. If that's not enough, the guard says, she was seen squeezing mistletoe berries into water to lose. Think I heard that makes you sick. The other guards bob their heads in agreement. You consider what to do. I don't like it, but this, ah, let's ask Urza. Urza smiles and saunters towards the tied woman. She says a few quiet words to the prisoner and looks her over before returning. My suggestion, she says, burn her and the tree to the ground. Well, let's leave her then. I trust in his ears more than in some rabid looking old woman tied to a tree. We don't like it either, but thanks for leaving us to it. As the caravan rolls by, the woman screams curses and hexes, leaving most feeling sorry for her or scared. Let me guess, morale will decline of course. Again, no matter, it's normal. That's good. Easy boy. The clansman shouts as a yoke's cart nearly topples to one side. The tampered sparse of the east way road has steadily turned into a cracked shamble. Looking ahead, it only gets worse. Various chasms gape like open mouths. You glance back to Eyvind, who looks at you and shakes his head. The entire caravan comes to a halt. Well, that doesn't look too good. Ah, either. We'll be eating our belts before finding a way across this broken road, especially with this many. And there's no telling how far we'd have to backtrack to head north. Then we'll head south across the orm's riverbed. We can head towards Grunda and on west. Trip appears around Haken's elbow before coming fully into view. Heading south is questionable. There's people. Why do you say that? Maybe I spent a lifetime there. Plenty of things to eat under logs. But there's also people in the bogs. His eyes go white. The skulls should hear my rhyme. But what's wrong with heading south? Different ways of living. Old ways. Stick to the mud. And cragsmen are less bothersome. I think he's talking about the bogus, the rough, backward people of Swar's book. Trigvifran's a diver. Well, it's like that can find you swollen, filled with poison. He puffs out his cheeks and stares at Ivor. This is why Varl tend to keep to themselves. Each human is crazy in their own way. Trigvifran's over with laughter until he suddenly stops, sniffs the air and marches away. Strange, but it's a fair warning. We are crossing over into lands most of us have never seen. Just because we left those dredges behind doesn't mean we won't have more wars ahead of us if we had more supplies. I say we should stop for a few days and train some of these clansmen to fight. You consider your options. Let's just camp. We need to keep the few remaining clansmen moving. Let's just camp, yeah. Calls for camp spread down the line. Let's see then. We want to train clansmen into fighters, do we? Very well. Oh, the prince wishes us to speak. Let's see. The prince is acting even more standoffish than usual. You'll either have called him staring ahead and twisting the ring on his finger over and over, as a quietly stands nearby. Glad to be heading home. Ludin turns to the two of you and offers a polite smile. Even after the chasm, would it surprise you if I said no? Oh, let's see. Is there anything you actually like? It doesn't matter. That's where we're going. That's where we're going. I thought you hated. I thought you hated being so far from Aberang. Life on the trail hasn't won me over. But it's not all bad. It's even possible that I've learned a few things about leading people while out here. You, Ivar and Urza are stunned to hear the prince talk this way. I've grown up in comfort and trained with scholars and fighters. I've never known anything else. Hmm, saying stuff like that won't make you any friends in this caravan. But that's just it. Among these clansmen, I've seen the differences. I think I understand them a bit more. That's a great prince, Ludin. I'm glad you think so. But I doubt my father will. Urza will agree. My father's not what you call open-minded. The king's a hard man. Has to be. But his son is his weakness. Ludin glares at her, but the archer only smirks. Oh, the prince is the king's weakness. Don't listen to her. Watch your words, prince. Oh, sorry, wrong voice. Watch your words, prince. What? I wasn't telling you what to do. An awkward icy moment passes between the prince and his bodyguard. Maynolf was fearful of sending Ludin away, so he sent his two advisors to watch him. You're one of King Maynolf's advisors? Urza gives you a rye smile. Regardless of who he sent to protect me, I had no say in the matter. Kings usually have to make tough decisions and stick with them. Maybe someday you'll see why. I know. I just don't think he'll care for my ideas and treating with pears commoners. What would you like to be called? We're all people, prince. Even you. You have a charming way of humbling me. Urza rolls her eyes. Oh, is he flirting with me? He is, isn't he? Just keep an open mind about your father the way you'd like him to have toward your ideas. That's something I've never considered before. I'll think in it. As Prince Ludin and Urza walk away, you feel either watching you. What? When did he become so full of sage advice? His eyes started listening to you. God, don't start making that mistake. The two of you share a smile before you're moving. You move on. Oh. Let's go to training now. Just wanting to swing at each other? Or are you here to actually learn something that could save your life and the butthole fit? Train clownsmen and fighters. The trainer looks past you at some boys and girls eager to learn. Teaching fighting to the young's when muses, they won't go back to hunting and foraging for food, you know? Sure you want to go through with this? Yes. Let's see a hundred new fighters. Fifty should be enough to give us an age. I don't want a hundred because there I will have only two clownsmen and that is not the best. Eyes then says and leave most of the others with their families where they belong. He starts calling a few forward and turns to you. Got food for the day of training? Sure. Start training. Considerate dance then whistles through his missing teeth. All right, morale even got improved. We got a few fighters. Can we train a bit? I just want to spar. What can you show me? Plenty try to keep up. So you know enough to not trip over your own weapon but that's hardly impressive. So I'm going to learn to use a bow. Let's begin. Good. I love beginnings not as much as I love endings. Let's see what's the point here? Damage to enemies at once with tread the needle. All right, that shouldn't be too difficult I imagine. The needle is fairly easy ability. Let's just smack this scoundrel here around. Good job. And now I only need to position myself here and take the shot. You might as well do nothing. I don't need you. All right. So tread the needle is one of my skills and I think this will do nicely. Excellent. Good job. I let I mean me. She's obviously me. Isn't she? I mean we both have this. Positivity towards life and rather roguishly charming behavior I would say. She's just the best. Now I have some more renown. Does he have anything else to teach me? Plenty. Try to keep up. You can handle yourself. But what about your other fighters? Ever used to vow in an archer to trap somebody? Sure, I have not done that but I would like to. What's not to like about it? Okay. So we've got Ivor and OddLave who is one of the most badass characters in this game. The Val are naturally badass but what really counts for something with me is the humans especially the women. I love badass women. It's just such a fantastic thing. And I also that's not to say I don't like vows who smack people around one handed with axes. That's a classic. But of course I prefer the humans. Let's put a trap here shall we? Oh my mistake. My mistake. I should have done something different. I have to use battering ram in order to get an enemy into a trap. Okay that changes things but I will do it nonetheless. Right so what I'm going to do now is move first I'll move come on here and then I will use Rain of Arrows here. My next course of action is to push this guy with my battering ram ability into this here Rain of Arrows. There all done. Good strategy. Apologies for the beginning I kind of forgot what I had to do. Or rather I simply did not feed. Great 16 renown that's a lot actually. Is there anymore? Never seen a Mendo with as much power as this Ivent but after watching him a while I bet I can show you how to really benefit from that lightning phase. I'm ready I'm ready I'm ready let's go. We begin again. So what needs to be done now? Arc lightning and Chain of Three or more enemies. Right so this should be simple enough. I put him here and actually it's not quite as simple because if I recall it hits the agony which means that I will need some strategy involved first. I need to get one of the warriors here and then these two. Yes this might just work. Let's see how these folks move now. Still not ready they're not properly set up yet. Closer we are getting closer. Let's just push the valve out of the way because his nasty and big key can hit. Actually I think I can just hit this one. Let's see will this work? One two three four. Nice very nice oh actually five. Excellent that was very good. And another training mission successfully taken. I do enjoy these especially how much renown they give you. Renown as I have shown in previous videos and in my review my rubbish review of the first banner saga is how you level up your characters. So now I can finally promote a let but maybe I shouldn't. That said I should probably promote someone who is not as highly leveled up but who needs it all the same. Yes Mogr is a good guy a strong guy in fact. I think we'll give him another point this this and show why not. I'm not going to promote him anymore. Now I think I can promote Oddly because she's my favorite. Good good job. What do I do now? Do I give you oh yes yes please. And also I can as well give her the ability to exploit which is in itself a fantastic ability. Great very very great. I am not taking any more of the stars because I don't think I need them right now. Uh oh I think I had some more renown I could use. I don't I shouldn't use all of it though because yeah I'm going to upgrade a let just for the sake of her being an absolute badass. Let's see what have I leveled up here. Bonus crit chance yeah I'll take another point in that. Whoa that's actually very useful. I think I'll take point of defy. Yes that's the one. Sorry about that. Silly of me very very silly of me. Right confirm not cancel and I'll leave those few points of renown. For now actually do I have any more I don't think I do. Really oh yeah I don't have anything more so I think it's time to go onward. Don't we we don't need the rest yeah let's just move on. Good job everyone I think that was a nice training regiment on the 31st day of our glorious journey. Now let's see what happens. A metal clanking is heard in the distance and grows louder. You see a yoke's car surrounded by four vile and an older woman hitting a ladle against a pan. All sorts of things for sale she says but her eyes go wide when she looks at you. It's you special deals when it comes to you. How do you know me? Word travels fast. Think you can slay a thunder and keep it secret? She clicks her tongue and shakes her head. Maddie knows of you sure enough. Worry out here selling things. Maddie sells things to those traveling. She says is what she does used to be as generous as a delay. Maddie was but that don't buy more supplies. Let me see what you've got of course but make up your mind. Maddie will be gone as quick as she arrived and don't get any ideas of sneaking off with things. These four vile have the keenest eyes, the sharpest blades and the shortest tempers. You feel the vow watching you every move. Let's see. One renon gets me nothing much. Does that cost 18 renon? Too bad can't buy that. Those are all good items but I can't buy them. Let's see. She will per kill against this here thing. And I would say that I am not going to buy an item. Should I take some supplies? Maybe for another two days? Three days worth? Yeah. Just to be on the safe side you know. And on we go. Oh, reins. The reins of custody anyone? That's what came to mind. I don't know why. Once you cross the Orma Riverbed the wind ceases to cut through the humid air. The darkening sky lets loose its rain and soon fat drops of water turn the dirt part to sucky mud slowing the caravan. Cloaks uphold overhead and children and animals wrangle near the carts. Oh god it's going to be decision time very soon and I'm going to pick the wrong decision I'm sure of it. Clansman forage. Oh that's good I think. Hopefully. I was hoping to avoid visiting this part of the kingdom for at least a few more years, Prince Ludin says. At least others have had the sense to abandon this cesspool. As arrogant as he sounds, he's right. There are very few signs of life around you, yet you still feel like you're being washed. The lowing of the usually quiet vox indicates the beast's difficulty pulling the carts. You're up to your knees in it when a scout comes to you. Found some stone markers that led us to a few parts of solid ground over there. He points while shouting over the yawks and even in bumpy but easier than this. Stone markers? Yeah the man says. Don't look natural. Don't look like much of anything else either. Just some stones marking a path for this place at all I can figure. You would ask Trigvee but he's nowhere around probably out gathering mushrooms. No. Could be more trouble in his word. Will push on. The man looks surprised but throws it off. The rain continues and the caravan struggles to keep moving. I don't trust in marked stony, uneven terrain. It sounds like a graveyard. Someone's son is missing. Ivor says. Motioning to a crowd shouting a boy's name. A man with bleary eyes looks at you and says he's my only son. He treats his white goat like his best friend. You must have wandered off and he's out there looking for it. The man looks across the rainy bog. I've got to find my boy. Wait here. Ivor and I will find him. I will remember to send someone else to you with bad news from now on. Ivor says as the two of you slop through the mud. After a while you see the boy in the distance. He's pulling on a rope leash around the goat's neck. The goat is up to his shoulders in mud. Come on boy. What's wrong? You hear the child ask the goat. You are sinking. Come on. You have to try. You cannot move any faster to help and soon only a goat's head is visible. The boy shouts again. You're my friend. You stupid goat. You're going to die. Tears roll down the boy's face as he sings up to his neck in the mud. You're ahead of Ivor but already weighs deep in a few yards away. Ivor is up to his knees. Ivor, can you reach them? Just before the goat and boy vanish beneath the surface, Ivor leaps towards the two, creating a huge wave of mud that splashes you. When you clear your face enough to see again, Ivor is there with the goat under his arm and the boy clings to the giant's neck. The child thinks Ivor many times on the way back to the caravan, calling him a luck vow. Ivor spits mud and curses. I'm actually very happy that this went well for once. I fully expected that the boy would drown in the mud, which would be horrible for morale. The clownsmen then vow, follow you through the worst rain and mud you've experienced. An unfortunate break in slowing through the muck comes from woman shouting, get away from there. Who are you? A couple of cragsmen, locals in rough-spun clothing that almost blends into the bog, jump back from a supply cart and brandish weapons. They're all of bears. And now the cragsmen come from around you. Bears! They've got bears! I ain't saying that's a problem, but that's a problem. Right, so I think we are going to need a few fateful vow. Can I promote you, my dear boy? Yeah, I cannot. Good thing that we will do battle now then. Ah, so many people to promote, so little renown. Let's see, let's see. Could we use another vow? Do you think? Or rather, let's, yes. Let's go with those. I think that could be most useful. Team, do any of you guys have items? You should have an item, I think. What does that do? Bureau's blessing, knockback on strength, attacks of three plus one strength. Don't suppose I have anything to defend. Yeah, that's so good. I can't wait to give it to a let. All right, all right, all right. I think we can move on now. And go for the troats of the cragsmen and their bears, of which I'm still very horrified, by the way. Oh, no bears. What a lovely piece of news. Right, so I think that I could use the vow here and here. My mender is going to stay back. And meanwhile, oh, well, that's dreadful. Not only dreadful, it's in fact absolute awfulness. But no worries, I think I'm just going to kill you here, crazy crag woman. Whoa, you stop me, man. What the hell is wrong with you? Let's see then. Or rather, let's do this. Oh, I love it already. Ivor is really not my best warrior right now. My first play of the banner saga, Ivor was the man. He was the MVP. There was no who could hit quite as well as he could. All right, let's break his shields and then just kill him with What was his name? Gunjulf. Yes, I think that's how you pronounce it. Move, let's move. And let's do the arc lightning spell. I think this did a lot more damage to me than it should have. Okay, that happens, right? Oh, god. I screwed that up in a very major way. Sorry. What will we do now? Probably kill them all. I mean, that's what I usually do in situations like this. Good, that's one way to go about killing them all. This mud, I don't like it. This poor man, look at him. Look at what he did. Absolute monster, an absolute monster of a man. That's what he is. Oh, thank you Nvidia for letting me know that I've got a game ready driver available. That is so nice of you. And also so, so annoying. Slug and burn. What did this do? Trap and error laying down. Calls which do one string damage. Oh, no. Instead, let's concentrate on shields again. This guy is going to die easily. This guy as well. I think I know what's going to happen now. Can you guess? Can you guess? I think you can. No, not this, this, this and this now. See, they all suffer for their lack of strength. And that's what matters to me, that they suffer. Let's see. Oh, I expected that. Damn you. Damn you for killing my darling, darling woman. No matter. It is the end for you folks. I got a nice amount of renown from this. As nice as anything, I suppose. Let's end turn. I have forgotten how to go about doing this bit here. This whole battle thing didn't go quite as well as it should have. Injured in battle. Jesus, so many injured in battle. This has been a bad day. I'm going to need to take a few days of rest now. But what can you do? These people are some of our heroes are injured. I would like to know that as well. Have you more to say? Without all some accent, which I cannot replicate. Even now the petrified flame sword of our allies. Oh, just look at it. Seriously, I just can't think of many 2D games, which can in any way step on the little finger of this, the sheer beauty of the battle saga. Placed upside down in the ground, the petrified roots of a giant tree reached towards the sky. All the vile, including Ivar and Hakan, have separated from the caravan temporarily, giving Baldringer's godstone a white birth. The giant's presence is missed as you continue to feel watched. Alio, what do you know about Baldringer? Not much, but enough, the scout says. These flames symbolize Baldringer's love of fire and war. The first being a mains to the second. When the vile were dominating humans in the first great conflict, it was Baldringer who gave the losing side fire to combat the giants. You hold up your hand to hold the storyteller, listening through the rain for anything that might be following you. Hearing nothing, Alio resumes, holding the gaze of his audience. Humans praise Baldringer for the gift of fire, but the god only desired more war. He points towards the distant shapes of the vile. When the giants and the humans found peace, this godstone fell from grace. It looks to continue keeping the land scorched. Perhaps his shadow can still kill. Grab some fighters and patrol the area. Even a few others slink away from the massive cloudsmen and soon come upon unsuspecting cragsmen waiting to ambush your caravan. There is no time to consider your options. All right, all right, all right, let's upgrade someone who's not injured. I really don't have that many good fighters who are very, very good at what they do, aren't they? Anyway, let's keep this guy's ability to break shields and his defenses up. Can we give him something, anything? No. All right, so we put him first. We're going to take Leo as well. And Hogan, do we need Ludin? Should we? Too strength. I think we don't need strength. Odd leaf. Yeah, I think we can remove odd leaf and restructure our characters. That's a good enough order of combat readiness, let's say. And let's see what happens now. All right, that is not great by any stretch of the imagination. These two, can these two handle this one? Uh oh, whoops. I think we will pull you two here and protect Ivan, who I hope will be able to do some major damage. Hopefully it will go through the armor of these folks. Good, I can break a lot of shield. A lot of these guys shield anyway. And now we're all about bloody flailing this guy around. Good, that did a reasonable amount of damage. Let's see where these guys will be going. I think this... Actually, I'm a spearman, correct? Ah, down. I can attack this way, but not that. Sure, let's take her armor and wound her with a let. Or just kill her, because I have all the most awesome items. Fantastic, and that crit strike too. Things are looking up for a let. Is that something that's going to turn into a saying? I don't think so. But hey, I will remain a fan of it. Let's see, my lightning do some damage. Good, very good. Oh, I... Ouch. That is unpleasant to say the least. Let's go here. He has four-wheel power. Tell words, tell him what does that do? Oh, that's useful. But I don't need it right now. What I need is to take some more of this armor off. And that's what I did. Let's move here. And now I think time for a very, very strong stop in the back. Because axmen do that, you know, stabbing people in the back. Let's see, how can I hit these two guys? Right, breaking the shields it is. These two actually have very, very unpleasant big shields. Fortunately, some of them also die. And I managed to get some renown and some wheel power. So this is looking good. Oh, this is very, very useful. Let's see how much damage I can do. Fantastic. I absolutely needed that. You poor man, poor, poor wizard man. What can you do? Can you mend someone? Maybe him? He doesn't do anything to it. I kind of forgot that mending works in a very peculiar way. You need to have wheel power in your reserves to actually get more of it. So what I did right there, giving wheel power to the spell, it actually screwed me over. And badly too. No matter. I'm sure I will find the solution soon enough. A solution to end those cragsman's lives. I mean, let's see, let's see. I think that would be not the most optimal thing to do. And let's do the bloody fail thing. Yeah, I'd say this did a bit more damage than I could have hoped for. You are screwed, mate. Goodbye. Oh no. I win this really not. Whoa, he got the angelic wings again. It's a very interesting thing. I mean, there are some sort of mend the magic, obviously. But I don't really know much about mend the magic. The games, neither the first nor the second, really haven't given too much on that subject. We know that there is a council of menders and that they have... Whoa, ouch. That is hurtful and unnecessary. Okay, so I just probably concentrate a new love and the rest are going to die soon enough. Oi. Again, hurtful. Let's see, you are going down. Hey, that was awesome. That was cool. I got five renown just for killing. That was probably just because I got the achievement. What's the achievement anyway? Defeat three enemies with a poet. Cool. Well, thank you very much. I really, really liked getting the achievement. Let's use this and just end the enemy already. I have had enough of toying with them. Goodbye. Time, time to pillage the enemy. Time to end him. Time to send him to his grave. Oh, the songs that I think of when I play the Bamen Saigon. They're the most wonderful, most musical thing in the world. Fantastic. I love the achievements. Ludin the prince has been injured in battle and Ivan has been even more injured in battle. Hopefully I get enough renown to feel like it was worth getting injured again. Having killed or run off the cragsman, you return to the remaining classman at the ghost stone. Grabbing your belongings, your foot hits something in the mud. You reach down and find a small skull with the yellow ribbon through the eyes. You toss it in a bag without another thought. Oh, awesome. I got an item and renown. And I should probably camp, maybe save the game. Was there a save feature in this game even? No, there was not. When was the last time? Day 34. Oh, so the last time was now in fact. I would say that I have actually played quite enough of the game for now. And so I I think I'm going to be going. I'm going to wrap this up. Yes, that's what I meant. Sorry, someone was writing on messenger to me. Thank you guys for watching. And I hope to see you next time. This has been a lot of fun. I can't wait to finish the chapter. Bye now.