This is the first time I can recall both the positive and negative feedback on a game so closely matching my own reaction. I won't rehash the pros and cons, because you'll see that reviewers are largely in agreement about them and it's just a matter of comfort with the UI. As an avid board gamer, my reaction is that Armello is a fantastic board game trapped in the body of a video game. It doesn't quite have the graphical appeal to make up for the slowish dice-rolling and combat effects. But it doesn't have the IRL capacity to simply view the game board in its entirety. 'Looking up rules,' of course, is a chore (though the tutorial is very clever). + Ready to back a physical-copy Kickstarter. - Finding the virtual version tedious within an hour.
RPGs have always been a favorite genre of mine, but I tend to lose interest because they get to be so tedious. While Blackguards follows the basic model, it removes the endless random encounters between the bits of the actual story. Other plusses: the art is nice, the score is really nice, and the voice acting is generally great. On the downside, replayability is pretty much nil. And it obviously isn't cheap.
