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You won't be able to adequately judge the cars from responses on the internet. You need to just go drive a BRZ and feel it for yourself. Either the car will speak to you or it won't.
For what it's worth, I grew up in a family with British sports cars and Corvettes. My dad has three Corvettes right now, including a C5, a C4 ZR-1 and a C2, and my brother has a '72 convertible of his own. They have had some others, and I even had a '74 for a while myself that I traded back to my dad for a pickup truck. I don't know what happened to that car.
While I appreciate the Corvettes, I never really wanted one. I got more out of driving the MGs and Triumph. They had low power, but it was matched to the handling. The handling on the BRZ is better than any of our old British cars, but the power is much higher to match the suspension and provide balance in a similar way. Even now the Corvette team is chasing better balance with the new mid-engine model.
So again, if I were you, I'd go drive one. I would try to drive the manual version if possible to get the most engagement with the car and the most out of the experience. If you can find a twisty road for the test drive, do it. If not, scope out a large, empty parking lot where you can invent your own course on the fly to feel how it corners. Not hooning, per se, but just putting it through a little more cornering than you'll get on the street.
None of us can really tell you how you'll feel about the difference in power. Only you can decide that.
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