Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is a story-driven action adventure that puts you in the role of Antea and Red, ghost hunters. Their job is to banish ghosts that linger too long on this Earth, and prevent them from causing harm to the living.

Unfortunately, things are complicated by the fact that Antea is one of those ghosts. She died in a recent ghost hunt and became one of the creatures they both hate so much.

The game follows in the footsteps of other games by the same developer, DON’T NOD, and forces you to make a number of morally ambiguous decisions through the course of the story.

Choices Change the Game

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is one of those games where important decisions you make along the way will change the course of the entire story. Everything you do has an impact on the world around you, and some may suffer because of your choices.

If you’ve ever played DON’T NOD’s 2018 offering, Vampyr, you’ll have a clear idea of what sort of game this might be. In Vampyr, you must feed on people to survive—but your past life was as a doctor, a career that makes you take a vow to heal. Vampyr is full of choices like the ones you’ll see in Banishers.

Both Antea and Red have sworn to hunt all ghosts and punish them for their behavior against the living. Now that one of you is a ghost, you must decide how far you’re willing to go with that vow. This is just one example of many choices you will have to make, and sometimes there are no easy or good choices available.

Play as both Antea and Red

Antea offers some spiritual powers to go with her more ordinary skill set, while Red has a wide variety of weapons. Magic will also be useable in this game to help send spectors and other frightening monsters packing. Together, you will have to search for a way to help bring Antea back from an early grave. While we don’t know much about who will be able to use what power, weapons can be glimpsed on Red’s back, and there appears to be magic coming from one of his hands.

Antea on the other hand appears to use her fists in combat, and clearly has some ethereal combat at hr command.

Beautiful Graphics

All we know about this game so far came from the trailer and information released by DON’T NOD at the 2022 Game Awards. While we have very few combat details, one thing is clear is how beautiful the graphics are. In the trailer, the backdrops and characters are so crisp and detailed, it’s not immediately obvious they are CG. It takes several seconds into the game play trailer for the characters to be noticeably CG.

With so many games offering mid-range graphics, its very exciting to see such beautiful CG showing up in a new trailer.

Pros:

• Beautiful graphics
• Morally ambiguous choices

Cons:

• Unknown