Overall, I very much like this game. I have become somewhat addicted to it. Given the game's incredible amount of deck building diversity, and card count, no two games ever need to be the same, offering an almost infinite amount of replayability.
The main things that I don't like about the game are listed below, in no particular order:
A: some of the rules don't make sense compared to the physical card game, like the "Stash" system for instance, which I also don't like.
B: The over reliance on RNG, for which there is NO "Git Gud Bro". You can't "Git Good", when it comes to just pure bad dice rolls. That is not a player problem.
C: Why do I have to keep fight the same card twice, after I already beat it at the start of the combat phase?
D: Why can I never get the cards that I need, like blessings for Sajan, when I need them? I end up using Lem, so that I can use his special ability to get the cards that I need.
E: For the love of god, the dice rolls... Only Ezren can roll a 3, to recover a card, three times in a row, using 3D10, while Ranzak fail's every single roll, no matter what, to explore the area again. The dice rolls are the single biggest flaw with the game.
F: Using the blessings as a timer for the scenario, breaks immersion, because your being forced to rush the game to beat the scenario. This usually means one thing, which is that you need to build a better deck to deal with each scenario accordingly. At this point, you shouldn't aim to complete the Scenario. Instead, you should aim to collect better cards to improve your deck, helping you to complete each scenario quicker.
That said, there is just something about the game's design that make's it incredibly addictive, and its all about wondering what card your going to get next, or how your going to build your next op deck with Seoni, or Ezren, or Ranzak, or Lem, or any character included with the game.
The game is excellent for being a 1:1 conversion of the card game. This means that you can use the digital character add on cards included in this game, with the card game, to create a hybrid system, if you don't have the Character Add on Deck for the actual card game. I assume that you can also use the Scenarios included with this game, to fill in the blanks for the physical card game, if there are gaps in your Pathfinder ACG collection, like there are in mine, because all of the information that you need to build the scenario, is actually included on the location datasheet in the top left corner, when you start a scenario, and begin to explore the locations.
The card game will always be superior, because I can edit my dice rolls, I can use homebrew rules to just do boss battles if I want too, or to disregard the timer system all together, but for what it is, this game isn't bad at all. I even used it as a tool to teach myself how to properly play the card game.
If I had two wishes to use for this gaming system, they would be
A: More character based content, like the inclusion, for example, of the Magus Deck.
B: More game conversions, like The Mummy's Mask and Skull and Shackles. All we have is Rise of the Rune Lords, when there are 4 official AP's for the ACG, which are Rise of the Rune Lords, Skull and Shackles, The Mummy's Mask and Wrath of the Righteous.
Furthermore, and I have to clarify this, but I've read certain idiots calling it a pay to win game, banging on about buying stuff with gold etc. When a review starts "it's probably a good game", that's the first clue that these people don't really know much about the game. The game has zero in game purchases for things like gold. Gold is what you earn as a reward for either completing scenario's or selling cards. You don't buy it with real world money. There is no MTS in game. You then use this Gold, to buy upgrade chests in game, which you use to upgrade your character decks.
All this talk about in game MTS and buying Gold is BS.
Another aspect that I like, is the game's system requirements. The requirements are so low, that it will run on a toaster. It runs perfectly on my 2nd laptop, my Lenovo Yoga x380 13.3" touch screen, which I use in tablet mode.
All in all, it's a wonderful little game, being a perfect 1:1 conversion of the original deck building card game, which I also collect.
As it stands right now, I can take my pick between the card game or the digital edition, since I actually own full runs of Rise of the Rune Lords, Skull and Shackles, and Dragon's Demand complete with The Curse of the Crimson Throne for the card game, a decade after it went out of print, so I am in a somewhat privileged position owning most of the card game content, and the digital edition also. I still don't get what the big thing about Paladins is though?
