![]() ![]() ![]() League of Geeks went through months of testing play testing the game as a physical board game before they even wrote a single line of code :) I was lucky enough to visit them a couple of months ago and got to see a couple of their original. ![]() However the 2D artwork is gorgeous and the in-game graphics and animations are nice. Hey Guys, Believe it or not Armello STARTED as a board game. That’s not to say that a well crafted physical version wouldn’t look nice it just wouldn’t. I love board games but there are many other board games, both physical and digital, that are better and cheaper than this one. Armello’s strength as a board game can be found in its balance and variety its strength as a videogame however, comes from its use of the medium allowing the genre to grow beyond the practical limitations imposed by physical cards and pieces. In general it is just rather shallow, dull and repetitive. Most of your time is spent waiting for the other players to take their turns, more so even than most other board games thanks to all of the neutral units taking their turns. Quests and encounters consist of a random die roll. Meaningful decisions don't really come up, each player will tend to do their own thing, clicking on the next 'quest' and hoping to randomly have the most prestige when the game ends. ![]() Winning or losing is almost entirely based on luck. However, killing or curing the king hardly ever happens as you have to be incredibly lucky for either to be feasible, so pretty much every time the game will run out of turns and the player who happens to have the highest prestige wins. Armello has some similarities to Talisman, in that a way to win is in the middle of the board, but you need to improve your character's stats and gather useful equipment before you have any chance at it. As a hero from one of the clans of Armello, you'll quest, scheme, hire agents, explore, vanquish monsters, cast spells and face off against other players, with one ultimate end goal in mind. Armello has some similarities to Talisman, in that a way to win is in the middle of the Great artwork but a disappointing board game. Armello is a grand swashbuckling adventure that combines three styles of play The deep tactics of card games with the rich strategy of table top board games, combined with a character role-playing system. Armello is a grand swashbuckling adventure that combines three styles of play The deep tactics of card games with the rich strategy of table top board games, combined with a character role-playing system. Great artwork but a disappointing board game. ![]()
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