"Is anyone in these damned woods innocent?", protagonist Red mac Raith laments in Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden. During a main story quest, I'm tasked with deciding the fate of two individuals who are both accused of wrongdoing. In Red's defense, I've asked myself the same question. After completing several haunting cases that ultimately conclude with you meting out judgments against either the dead or the living, Banishers continually asks you to make murky choices and decide what justice really means to you. Is anyone ever really innocent? Do you even have the right to determine who is if you're doing so for your own gain? And can you ever really know right from wrong when no one is above suspicion?
While its world feels a little overstuffed and the combat can feel a little repetitive, it's Red and Antea's relationship and the overarching question Banishers explores that hold my attention the most.
