'Banishers' made me kinda angry [Review]
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- Опубліковано 15 тра 2024
- Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is out now! bit.ly/BanishersDD
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0:00 Banishers is a video game
1:56 what REALLY works (the positives)
7:28 what... didn't (the negatives)
12:57 conclusion - Ігри
Roses are red
But some are white
When I reach for the gate
"It's locked alright."
🌚🌚🌚
Nice
Ah, the old Witcher 1 paradox. Where the story is so fantastic but the gameplay is…not.
I’m in.
A very good decision.
even witcher 3 was like that
this aint it bruh
@@user-tm9ho3bm4v?? the story is fantastic, it's a great game and the combat isn't that bad.
@@BigBADSTUFF69 lmao
I love how every NPC matters in this game. Any other game, you enter a village and there'll be tons of same faced NPC who just "Top of the morning to ya!" at your direction.
But in Banishers, you'll know the name of every single one and will care for them.
Very nicely done.
First 30 seconds and all it appears that you're a schizophrenic Arthur Morgan who's a Witcher. What a summary, game actually sounds interesting but shame the issues spoil it a bit
if you are into really unique, well written and well presented stories and don't mind "basic combat" then you are going to love this game. For me my experience with Banishers was like hellblade, where the story and the characters are tremendous but the combat is basic but serviceable so i didn't mind it at all.
@@insomnia3454 sold me on the game
@@Cool_Adam hope you have lots of fun playing it! :D
An amazing story and I agree about the gameplay. The gameplay was still fun, only the enemies didnt have any variety. @insomnia3454
Loving this game overall but completely agree with the pointless collectibles. Making them loot instead of lore was the biggest mistake the devs made. I'm 15 hours in and still using all my starter equipment because as long as you are leveling it up, it's just as good as anything you can find or buy.
Best story i've played in 2024 so far. Strongly recommended! A minor suggestion: Go after the question marks on the map whenever they're on your way to a main quest location. But for the rest of the questionmarks go to them after unlocking all abilities. This will save a lot of time..
This game definitely was a breath of fresh air for me. I wish more games would be like this. I do hope it gets a sequel, and that the combat gets fucking better
Doubt there'd be a sequel
@@ren9143what do you base that on? It just came out, there are no published numbers yet
@@charlie398steam statistics
the combat is much improved from Vampyr, I don't think it is that bad honestly. The dodge is responsive and I don't find myself constantly circle dodging like elden ring
The previous game of this developer Vampyr is one of my best story games of all times. So many great side quests and characters moments. And what you do actually matters to the communities.
Also to become stronger you need to eat people since you are a vampire. But it changes you aka the protagonist. Some of the people you meet definitely deserve that. It also affects how love interest sees you. While the game never gets all that hard to test your resolve to be good it's still an interesting concept.
But the combat is boring and ok though.
You said you love Vampyr so I love you.
I thought it was a disappointment since SPOILER!!! You cant get the happy ending if you eat a single person. Then why is the dynamic even there ya know?😊
@@charlie398 Ah so it's a dishonored type game.
For whoever plays a game, when you're presented a choice, go to Fort Jerico first, Harrows second, you'll avoid very huge and awful quest bug ('cause you meet one npc way too late) that may lock out you of an area, for now it haven't been fixed yet and the story would be more coherent and received abilities would make more sense. I don't know why they made this choice in the first place, when the correct order is clearly Jerico-->Harrows. I made this mistake on my first assention playthrough.
And I agree map is a thing from the Void, it's very inaccurate at times, it doesn't show shortcuts or doesn't show that they're one-way, when arrows show both, non-existant cave paths. Considering Red is very slow, they should have put fast travel to more icons, not only bonefires. And it'd be great not to run back each time too, even with shortcuts it's a long run back.
And the ivy, damn ivy.
Do you mean the parting shot case?
@@dipannath9319 yes, Flora quest, if she's alive instead of Theodore due to events in main Jerico quest (Penington alive or not). If (Penington dead) she's dead there's no bug in this quest. Penington alive, she lives but on a cliff she may bug out and not talk to you.
Thanks for the review. I didn't plan to play it but now i will look out for it and give it a shot in the future
Just finished Remember Me, also loved Vampyr and ofc Life is Strange. Big props to DONTNOD in an industry all about sequels and remakes they doing a great job
Vampyr and the first Life is strange is alright. The rest tho...
Vampyr has to be boring AF, and I played for quite a long time, but couldnt finish it
@@Oznerol1234 got it on epicgames for free . didnt even get through an hour and deleted it
guess it wasnt for me
Also it was waaaaay to easy.... Except the sister and last boss fight because fuck those boss fights
Fuck those boss fights in particular
I liked Vampr and Twin Mirror, Life Is Strange 2 put me off the Devs, this game seems closer to the latter with its uhhh motivations.
Well, I'm sold. The gaming space is almost bursting at the seams with games with good gameplay, but good story that's worth your time always seems harder to come by, so an excellent story with placeholder combat sounds great to me. It'd be much worse if they stretched too far and made the game frustrating and unbalanced, actually.
I agree with your remarks about the scarce conversation about the game though, after I saw a trailer for it a year ago and put it in the top 10 of my wishlist, I'd heard basically nothing about it, and didn't realize it had already released. Marketing new IP is hard even for the big companies. I hate that people (both gaming communities and media that absolutely should have given this more notice) whine about sequels and then sleep on anything new that isn't memed.
What games are you thinking of? Souls-likes? Because I can't think of many recent games with a focus on gameplay. Mostly the focus is on micro transactions and live service.
@@jesperburns There are a lot of good games that came out tho. Hollow knight, blasphemous, stray, american arkadia, dave the diver, pacific drive, baldur's gate, killer frequency, pizza tower...sure, souls likes but also action games that are pleasant to play.
@@insenkiv4619 Though some of those platformers definitely have "good gameplay", that's not really what I was thinking of.
Games whose gameplay I liked were Shadow of Mordor, BioShock, Fable, Dishonored.
Heck, even Dragon Age.
Games that are also big on immersion (like Hollow Knight admittedly).
And modern God of War seems fun.
The fact that these guys made Vampyr, which although it did have some issues also had some brilliant ideas and gameplay mechanics, and were then able to make this game just goes to show how important it is to support the smaller developers. Imagine what they will achieve next with our support!
Had this one for review, basically stated the same as you did. I think it would be better if Dont Nod chose Jedi Fallen Order/Survivor type of world and if it would saved couple of bucks for them, used them to make the combat better. My personal gripe was with rewriting historical accuracies, but that' s modern wordl problem and I did not expect Dont Nod to be accurate in a way Rockstar was so.. as I said, that was my personal gripe. Overall enjoyed the game. Hope Red's VA will get more jobs, he is great.
i really liked vampyr. it seems to me like banishers is very similar to it, for better and for worse. the game had its flaws but was a fun experience overall with a cool setting and story. will definitely pick up this game eventually.
This is the comparison that I was looking for. Yeah because this has a lot of that vibe. And like you, I really enjoyed it. It’s a very solid AA game
@@editorrbr2107yep it's like Vampyr but everything is better. The combat in Vampyr was very jank, this is improved in this game.
I played vampyre so I knew what I was getting. And honestly banisher's combat is a huge HUGE improvement over that game.
I hope this game sells well, we need more of these type of games!
Hey I just watched the beginning of your kingdom come vid I stoped it so I can play the game for my self love your videos from the beginning I subbed
His Kingdom Come Deliverance video is top tier
Ok, I'm interested, been aching for a good story for the past couple of months.
Great review and points, will check out the game soon!
Great review. For me though, I’ve always been a gameplay first kind of guy. If the story is amazing, I could watch a UA-cam movie playthrough on it. What makes a game a game is the gameplay. Subscribed
i'm play this game for a week now and i absolutely love it. I agree with you about the open world makeing you return to the places beeing annoying, and the game beeing easy even in very hard, but i really enjoy the combat. Hopefully this game gets the recognition it needs
Great review. I've put quite a bit of time in this game and still havne't finished it, but mainly because I don't want it to end. I've been doing every side quest I can get my hands on and trying to explore every corner. The combat isn't bad for me, yet it's nothing to write home about. Only thing that I really don't like though is the skill tree. You will have multiple branches yet you can only activate half of them at a time? Then it's confusing which ones link to which since they are all connected one way or another. Minor gripe though. The basic gameplay borrows a lot of mechanics from other games, but it has so many unique ideas I forgive that. It's really a brilliant title and I just can't get enough of it.
I’m about 10 hours into banishers and am loving it so far !! But my main issue with the game too is the combat , I’m just finding it abit dry and I almost feel like I’m just button mashing at times so I’ll admit I did put the difficulty down to easy just so I can finish the combat quickly and get back to the story 😂 i also agree about the lip syncing 😂😂 the last couple hours I’ve started to realise that more haha, but again I’m absolutely loving it and the story telling is shining star of this game !!
Thankyou for a spoiler free review!! And Thankyou for the tips about the ? On the map, I was already dreading going back to do them when I saw how far away each fast travel point is from each other but now I’ll just leave them in the past haha
I’m hoping this game does go too far under everyone’s radar it is definitely worth playing !!
Lol the best actual storyline continuity segway of "The Snipers outside taking aim at me through the window" in a video
The story is always the thing I think is most important about again. But I was never a real combat oriented-person. This mit be a wonderful game for me.
I have to agree with you 100%. The Hauntings and side hauntings are the best parts of the game. A lot of memorable characters. It Really reminded me of the Witcher 3.
And then the combat was really bad and repetitive I sometimes just want to run and not engage. You nailed the backtracking. Lost so many hours because I made the wrong turn or go back to places where I can't progress since I don't have the powers. The game has a lot of potentials though. I did enjoy my time.
Focus has become like the A24 of vidso games and I really love that. This definitely gave me the "Plague Tale" feeling I had when that first game came out. Really hoping for more of this.
I was hoping you would cover this game! The parallels to the Witcher and new God of War are obvious, as are the apparent shortcomings 🧐. It looks like it is basically Evil West in terms of quality, but Colonials instead of Cowboys.
Man I have completely missed this title, because of all the great releases of the last few months, despite this being right up my alley. Thanks for remembering, this game exists. Gotta put it on my wishlist and buy it eventually, when I find time for it. (Might be a bit bleak, considering I also have Lies of P still on my list & dragons dogma 2, as well as new elden ring DLC are on the horizon...)
I love this game, currently trying not to play because I don't want it to end.
I think the best move for fhi is to make banishers two actually be a sequel to a plaque tale requim 😉
They really need to patch in a fast travel from anywhere ability. SO much time is wasted going from camp to location then back to camp again. I really liked the rest of the games atmosphere and story though
loved it,i was only sad about the ending i got and the combat and map are a bit not up to the task but overall a solid 8/10 for me and a great storyline.I feel with a big enough budget and some better tech and mechanics it has the potential to become an established franchise as good as the witcher
I love Vampyr, Banishers is a step up. Can't remember when it was last time I enjoyed a good story as I this game.
Having just finished this game myself on stream I can't help but agree with all the positives and negatives in this review. Also by the end Antea's attitude towards Red really got me annoyed by the end of the game, which was admittedly, somewhat glossed over by some of the conversations right towards the end of the game. Anyway great review, really good points, and nicely done!
The thumbnail guy looks like Duke Leto Atreides.
Thanks for the review you’ve convinced me to buy the game 👍
Got the game on sale. Solid 7/10 that was held back by world design and combat frustrations, mostly. Other than it felt so counter-intuitive to not focus the main quest and *actively* use Antea's abilities *despite swearing* to ascend her *twice*. Pressing main quest is fine but not until I've had a chance to play with the world for like 2/3rds of the game.
My advice for the combat is turning the bar UI off. It’s way more engaging. The same for navigation. It makes the game more engaging. So far I’m honestly loving this game but I’m the target audience for it since I do love heavy narrative decision making games.
Just finished this after around 60 hours. Loved it!
I enjoy it still. I would indeed skip out on quite a lot of the question marks tho.
Seen a couple of hours of this game at my fave streamer Gab Smolders' channel, loved it.
So nice to see you branch out a little bit from the Witcher content and make occasional videos about other good games! Hope you'll benefit from that, this channel deserves appreciation.
I don't know the story yet as I was fortunate enough to avoid spoilers as for now, but I REALLY hope that the story will be good, and Antea will get good character development bc this studio already did me dirty in Vampyr when the most promising storyline included the coolest female character and ended in this character becoming evil for no good reason whatsoever and dying pathetically TWICE and was never at least somewhat impactful. :')
Great review
ngl that BGONE thing is kinda clever
Verry early squad
Alright. Bought it on PS5 per your recommendation! ❤
I liked the idea but thought it seemed alot like God Of War and I was done with those about 10 hrs into Ragnorak
it almost does have a God of War flavor but with way less annoying traversals haha. The combat also isn't as hard as God of War
Great story with poor combat and filler exploration is a description that reminds me a lot of Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice, and if this game's story is half as good as that one's, then I'm sold.
Thats unfair...this game's combat isn't that bad!!
@@pooyanmokam9785 I’m not the one saying it, I haven’t played it. That’s literally one of the 2 negative points mentioned in this video.
@@pooyanmokam9785 yeah it is not bad, but worse
Banishers reminds me a bit of A Plague Tale in terms of great story and style from an AA studio, but with such a short play time and junky open world "extras" I'm not convinced it's worth the price point ($50-60 depending on platform). I really want to play it, but I think I'll have to wait until it's on sale.
you gotta play Plague Tale, it’s worth it I promise! (plus it’s definitely not full price anymore)
metroidvania map?
Enjoy Don't Nod's work, but after Vampyr was really hoping this studio would continue with games that felt really unique. While Banishers may be good, it just looks kinda generic (setting, character design, art design, etc.) -- especially with so much DNA shared with the brilliant Witcher 3. From Focus, I think I'd rather wait for Greedfall 2.
It's absolutely unique and not generic. The voice acting and storytelling and even elements of the gameplay are very unique. They used a lot of the systems from Vampyr and improved every part of them. It's a great game even, the combat isn't anything special but it's not that bad either.
The Witcher fan in me is very intrigued by the quality of the storytelling that this game seems to have on offer
1 minute in and your description sounds like Vampyr 2.0
RDR2? I hear it's a bit of an older game. Hopefully the graphics and epic story hold up... being an indy game and all. I know a guy (probably not me) who's played through it like 7 times that says it's one of their top 2 favorite games of all time along side another pretty indy game you may have heard of... TW3
I didn't know this game existed until this week lol
Oh no, im having fun with this game this video is about to ruin my day lol thanks for making it tho
Oh never mind lol
They really REALLY need to allow fast travel to shelters from anywhere in this game. Having to go back to a shelter in order to teleport to another one completely killed traversing in my opinion.
This game definitely deserves more attention!
I live this game, its a 9.5 out of ten for me. I hope it gets a sequel, so amazing
That guy really does look like Arthur Morgan. Moves like him too.
Gameplay ages with time, but a good story? That's invaluable.
I really liked Vampyr, and I think these devs are excellent at AA RPGs. I don't hold them to the standard of the big teams that have a million resources. Just wait until it is 20 bucks and enjoy their work.
Why does this game remind me of the God of War 2018, but somehow clunkier.
Clicked for your name
Oh my god, I absolutely can not wait for red dead content from you!
Not even sure why I clicked on the video..I already own the game.But I'm glad I did. Good watch
In 3 seconds you turn me from not knowing this game to never forgetting this game.
BGONE
Personally I'm really enjoying it so far.
You say the combat is not good, so I have to ask how you felt about Witcher 3 combat. A lot of people say it sucked, but I always thought it was perfectly fine.
Those long winding paths are to hide loading. I think I'd rather have loading screens.
throughout the entire game i thought of only two things:
Why dont they just make a telltale game ?
When is the "gameplay" over
Awesome story but the rest is tedious at best
I wonder if they updated the game, but my map shows you if there is a blocked path that you cannot yet access, it says if you have the "manifestation" or not when you hover over it on the map page.
Wait till it's only 10bucks
Nah definitely worth that 100
This game is a hidden gem. Too bad it’s come out in such a busy pack release schedule
is this just vampyr with a new coat of paint?
That is what it seems like to me
Personally I'm just kind of tired of this gameplay style, I think. It makes me think of God of War more than anything and that game did everything this formula aspires to to a satisfactory degree, to the point I'm just not curious anymore. Didn't get Ragnarok for that reason as well.
This is the sort of game that I definitely will check out at some point down the line when it's on sale and I'm bored, but it's just not a priority for me.
Doesn't help that it's Don't Nod developing it either, I just don't trust them to deliver a compelling narrative anymore.
I came to the same conclusion that the backtracking was annoying and decided to stick to the quests.
Game was much more enjoyable after that. Solid 7.5 from me as an overall package. Very good story, though.
Ehhh...I've never been in love with anything Don't Nod has come out with. Life is Strange was an art game that was all art and no game, Vampyr was a good idea badly executed, and Jusant just isn't my personal jam.
I don't think this game's going to change my mind, but (and funny because I've said this about Life is Strange as well!) I'm glad the kind of people who do enjoy Don't Nod's stuff have more stuff to enjoy! Any time the big tent of gaming is expanded or reinforced, it's good for all of us.
for anyone tired of slow walking while constantly backtracking - use a trainer which allows to change movement speed (i use fling). you don't have to cheat on anything else, but it will GREATLY reduce the time you spend just walking. if not for the trainer, i'd drop the game at the second settlement. it won't change the speed of the climbing-crouching-squeezing animations though, but it'll still be much more enjoyable, in my opinion.
I played it and GOSH sometimes it felt like it was a walking simulator, the Steban's mine quest, part of the main quest, was awful, that mine was dreadful, annoying! So after got that mine finished, I decided to follow only the main quest 'cuz it really sucked to walk around checking the map every now and then to see if i'm on the right track... or even worst when I needed to use the teleport bonfire (make sure to active them all) and they didn't work 'cuz the quest didn't allow me to use it. The story is really good, but in my opinion, the couple didn't have THE chemistry to make me wanting them to end together they weren't as passionate as the NPCS couples, so I was lucky to have the "2° best ending" at least they didn't kiss, I'd feel weird if they did it lol.
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So is the wife ok with you taking souls of people?
Also the thumbnail is horrfying.
Her dialogue shifts go along with whatever you do. The reason I didn’t talk about Antea much is because her character is extremely… flexible to your choices.
@@NeonKnight Ah, so corruption?
@@r.e.z9428 not exactly corruption, more like her dialogue is written so whatever your choices, Antea is okay with them and your reasoning.
I saw ChristopherOdd's video on this game, covering the intro section. As a massive Witcher fan, I got very excited - and then incredibly disappointed when Antea died. I'm just so sick of the "wife dies to motivate husband's story" trope, and I really liked what I saw of her. I would've loved to actually play with her as my MC.
Finding out she's kind of still in the game made it a bit more interesting, but that initial disappointment is hard to get over.
This video does have me considering it again, because I do really want a new "Witcher style" (for lack of a better term) game to discover for the first time again.
Conclusion? I'm conflicted. I think I'll get it. I'm pretty sure. But I'm still salty about Antea dying like that, like, seriously, of all the tropes in the world, they chose that one...
How were you told about the game in the first place? They never hid the fact she was a ghost- it's how they market the game.
@Dibromatic I found out about the game via the ChristopherOdd video and went in completely blind. But yeah, they're definitely completely open about her being a ghost in the marketing, I would've been pissed if they'd not been. It's just, I watched an hour and a half video featuring Antea and got really, really excited, and as I was completely unaware of the ghost situation, her death came as an absolute shock at the end of the video 😅
after 12 hours in total i just couldnt play anymore the combat is so soft and doesnt feel right, i swear i should go on the story is amazing and dialogue is very good
but i just cant take the combat anymore its soft and lazy in terms of combat 100%
ill probs need to watch the rest of the cutscenes through youtube
a very good game
I'm playing through the game, the dialogues and atmosphere are great but good lord, the map is atrocious. The combat manages to be even worse but that can be solved put lowering the difficulty, the map can not.
Maybe the combat should’ve been like Hellblade
Banishers: Ghosts of Aggressive Mediocrity
the problem with the main hook of the premise is that it's such an extreme black and white narrative choice that it doesn't make me interested into seeing how it will play out
Double AA but priced at AAA 😅
No it isnt, its 50 usd here
I like this game because literally every case is Dontnod bullying you with "Oh so you're a hypocrite yeah? You wanna live with your own dead lover but think you can choose the fate of others? A self-centered selfish hypocrite. I'm gonna bully you for the next 60 hours"
Incredible, 10/10
Defending weak optional content by saying it can be skipped is such a non-argument. It’s the equivalent of defending a bad game by saying you don’t have to play it if you don’t like it.
Only took a minute to make my mind up that Ill never play this game
Well, thought the combat looked lame & don't care about story AT ALL #SkipCutscene...so glad I heard this & confirmed combat is in fact boring & will totally pass on this.
Damn, never been a Red Dead fan so the next few videos likely just won't be for me
I have tried so hard to like red dead redemption, same with GTA V. but I just cannot stand the rockstar interface.
🙂 *Promo sm*
The open world padding and busywork is worse than Hogwarts Legacy???
I just finished this game, its not bad. The side quest are better than the main quest. By the time I was done though I chose to ascend Antea (the ghost Girlfriend) because I did not want to subject Red to another minute of being attached to that ole' windbag. Because you can tell her parts were sourced and written by someone who attends every feminist man hating rally. A lot of man hate, so much so the main character (RED) addressed it. He told her that she had a disdain for husbands. And it was after they witnessed a man literally get spousal abused by his wife. She was not nuanced in her opinion, every man was always bad no matter the circumstances. That part was unbearable. But Red was a passionate man going above the requirements of his job to make sure the people were healing from the losses of loved ones and not judging the living and ensuring the ghost of those who died, pass on knowing that they were heard. I would play a part 2 as long as Antea is not there. And honestly I would wait for a steam summer sale if you want to play it on PC, you are not missing out. There only 3 big boss fights, the main boss of the game you fight twice, once in the start and again at the end, and one you fight in the mines. Every other fight is elite's of the same garden variety enemy types.
So it should have been a Netflix series despite the fact that actions have consequences I do not see the point in a buying a game that has no gameplay.