Perhaps most importantly, Sword does an impressive job of integrating the best parts of the two previous episodes, showing how vulnerable the main characters are while still giving you inspiring moments of power. While you’re never in a position to feel secure, the Forresters’ predicament also never seems entirely hopeless, and those moments together create a powerful drive to see their story through to completion. Times may be tough, but Sword shows how getting back up when you’re knocked down is itself a small but important victory. You just have to keep doing it, and if the brilliance of this episode is an indication of what the season holds, you’re have more than enough reason to do so.
How is Episode 2: The Lost Lords?
The Lost Lords is decidedly more optimistic than Iron from Ice, if that word and Game of Thrones even make sense together. Things are still hardly roses and sunshine for the Forrester clan, but their meteoric descent into ruin plateaus a bit here. The episode opens on a battle you’re actually expected to win, and rumors of a particular death have been greatly exaggerated. That’s good, because two more hours with no hint of victory in sight would have made the game much easier to put down. Why keep going when defeat is basically certain?
Lost Lords is a welcome reprieve in that sense, letting the Forresters (and therefore you) step out of damage control mode to go on the offensive and start executing on critical battle plans. Though things will absolutely, definitely, 100% go wrong in future episodes, this one feels a lot more productive, balancing out the previous chapter and giving you a reason to keep playing.
Episode 2 also beefs up the cast with two new player characters, one of whom is an ocean away from where the other protagonists are making their stand. There’s a lot of variety in Lost Lords’ settings as a result, with intrigue and action from the icy north to dangerous desert cities. That means more distinct gameplay variety as well. The Forresters all deal with fairly similar situations in Iron From Ice (sequences starring Mira in King’s Landing and Ethan in the Forrester manor of Ironrath both focus on talking your way out of bad situations, for instance), but each locale in Lost Lords has its own set of politics and means of confronting them.
While scenes starring Mira still focus on deciding who to trust and when to make a move, second-born son Asher spends most of his time fighting tense quick-time battles (which you can lose if you’re not quick enough on the draw), and the folks clustered at Ironrath try to keep their neighboring rivals at bay while bolstering their resources and keeping the family together. However, even as you make decent forward progress, there’s a sense that none of those things will be easy, and the anticipation for Episode 3 only gets stronger.
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