When comparing Celestian Tales: Old North vs Armello, the Slant community recommends Armello for most people. In the question“What are the best PC RPGs?” Armello is ranked 63rd while Celestian Tales: Old North is ranked 75th. The most important reason people chose Armello is:
Tilt-shifted visuals look like a real board game. Beautiful particle effects and environments. Artwork is great and has a Redwall feel to it.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Good design
The art design is well done, which colorful portraits and backgrounds and even well done player characters.
Pro Difficulty is balanced well
Once the payers party is complete they level at the same rate making for an even balance that evolves evenly the longer one plays.
Pro Beautiful graphics
Tilt-shifted visuals look like a real board game. Beautiful particle effects and environments. Artwork is great and has a Redwall feel to it.
Pro Original Mechanics
Equipment, spells, and traps are all played by expending cards, which can also be spent on favorable dice rolls in combat. The King, at the center of the board, simultaneously loses health and becomes stronger with corruption each turn. The win conditions depend on either killing the king, curing the king with spirit stones, becoming more corrupt than the king, or having the most prestige from quests and combat when he dies.
Cons
Con Feels unfinished
During the game there are places on the map that are shown but that the player never gets to visit, which gives a feeling of parts of the game being unfinished.
Con Games can be too short
The King has a limited amount of health and loses 1 HP every two turns, putting a hard limit on game length and limiting the amount you can achieve in a single game.