What Is Armello About?
Armello is a digital board video game, with strategy elements and RPG elements. In Armello, players choose unique heroes to play in a digital board in which these heroes vie for the throne. Heroes must earn Prestige, defeat the king or cure the king in order to be victorious and claim the throne in the game. These outcomes can be achieved in a variety of ways, a reason why Armello is often praised for its replayability, or replay value.
While Armello is praised by thousands of players around the world for its high quality and unique gameplay, there are players who seek more information about what Armello is like and what this video game is about.
What is Armello About?
The video game Armello is about clashing heroes of different clans fighting for power in the land of Armello, which is ruled by an afflicted king, torn apart by the corruption, which is an evil that is spreading on the land. Each hero of Armello has a unique story and their unique motivations for wanting to be king, and these heroes and clans clash in a dispute for power in the battles of the video game.
The land of Armello is afflicted by a king that has slowly succumbed to the corruption, which in Armello is an evil force that is gradually gaining power. Corruption in Armello manifests itself through the presence of banes, which are evil beings capable of terrorizing settlements in the game and also fighting heroes. Banes must be defeated, the settlements must be saved, and the king of Armello must be either cured or slain by the heroes of Armello. In this time of chaos and battles, the heroes also dispute among themselves in order to decide the victorious hero, by using traps, spells and equipment, and sometimes temporary alliances.
Armello is a high fantasy digital board strategy RPG, with traditional high fantasy elements, such as a medieval fantasy setting and magic. The story of Armello includes a grim twist of high fantasy, in which there is a spreading corruption affecting different heroes and characters of Armello, especially the king. At the same time, the game features elements of fairy tales, especially considering that the protagonists of Armello are in general animals, such as wolves, rabbits, bears and rats. In this sense, Armello is a unique experience in the RPG genre as instead of the traditional human hero protagonists, the heroes of Armello are not human, but animals.
Armello is not simply a video game in which good heroes fight evil monsters, but rather, a video game in which ambitious heroes vie and compete for power in a land afflicted by a tormented king and a spreading corruption. Each hero and clan of Armello have their unique motivations and reasons for disputing the throne, such as the personality of each hero of the game is quite unique. In this regard, the main dispute of the game, which is the dispute for the throne, can be quite complex and not as dualistic as one would see in other high fantasy RPG video games. At the end, Armello is about different clashing powers disputing power for their own reasons, in a land that has lost its king to the spreading corruption.
Gameplay of Armello
In Armello, players must use a variety of ways in order to earn prestige and defeat the opponent players. Some of these strategies involve using cards that can be used as traps, spells and equipment, directly fighting the heroes of other players in combats that use dice roll and burned cards that may give an edge, as well as stealth and temporary alliances. The main part of the gameplay of Armello is exactly this dispute between the heroes, because there can be only one victorious hero in each match of Armello. Thus, these disputes will often require of players strategic thinking, planning, as well as attention to opportunities. While in this regard, considering this competitive gameplay, Armello could perhaps be considered to be a MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena), its gameplay is a traditional board game gameplay, although in digital format, as Armello is a video game. The gameplay of Armello also is not a fast-paced gameplay such as seen in traditional MOBA video games such as Dota 2 and League of Legends, but it is rather a turn-based gameplay such as seen in some RPGs and other board games. For this reason, the description of Armello as a digital board video game is accurate.
The board of Armello is a representation of this land of disputes and spreading corruption, with different unique locations that can be visited by the heroes, such as mountains, settlements and dungeons, with each location offering different rewards and risks. Players that enjoy immersing themselves in RPG video games will especially like the Seasons Board Skins available in Armello that change the skins of the board of the video game to a different season in each playthrough, providing not only more variability in the game environment, but also beautiful board landscapes.
Armello can be quite an immersive experience not only due to its detailed digital board, but also because of its immersive soundtrack. Indeed, the soundtrack of Armello is a great addition to the experience of playing the game, as it sets the tone for the gameplay, providing a high fantasy environment while at the same time adequatelly suspenseful and epic. Due to the immersive digital board and to the immersive soundtrack, Armello is a very immersive digital board video game experience.
Playing Armello is about finding the hero that better suits the gameplay style of the player, while also employing different strategies and tactics in order to earn prestige, and either be the hero with the most prestige at the end, or to cure or slay the king in order to be victorious and claim the throne of Armello. Thus, Armello is a multiplayer strategy board game, and also a multiplayer digital board video game, although it also has many RPG elements, a reason why it could also be described as a multiplayer digital board RPG video game.
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