Chess meets Fighting games. Crush your opponents in the arena and on the chessboard in this online multiplayer competitive tactical fighting game that mixes the strategical elegance of Chess with the fast-paced execution of fighting games.
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Definitely greater than the sum of its parts because some of its parts are pretty subpar. The chess part is great visually but I don’t like how it shows you everything you’re putting yourself in range of and everything you could take. Plus your opponents can always see exactly what you’re hovering over which is a little annoying. The fighting game part also has some problems. Animations are a little choppy and don’t always read perfectly (even though key poses are quite strong). The lack of high-low mix makes offense feel a little stale for everyone except the grappler. THAT ALL BEING SAID, this game is still excellent in every other aspect. Pawns being able to capture and be captured without a fight is genius and I was genuinely shocked the first time I won by taking a king with a pawn. The piece/character archetypes all make a lot of sense. Even though I’m almost always a rushdown guy, they’ve done a great job making every character fun and intuitive. Also, it goes without saying that this might be the best concept for a game ever. The chess gameplay adds a lot of variety to the FGC gameplay which would probably get stale pretty fast with how simple the characters are. Overall, great game that I would love to see expanded upon in future updates.
I love the idea, but It really needed more features and support. If it gets some patches I will be back to play more.
Not a huge fan of how it practically holds your hand for the chess portion of the game, telling you everywhere you can go and every person you can attack if you click on a piece. It really feels like the chess part is a very minor part to the game and the fighting is what's really focused on. This is especially true because as long as you're good at fighting games, you don't have to be good at chess at all and you can still win easily. The chess seems like an after thought and that was pretty disappointing
Also, I can't put my finger on why, but the fighting in the game seems a bit wonky. There's something about it that's just off (I also don't like that A (Xbox)/X (PlayStation) is used to jump instead of another attack button
All that being said, I still really do like this game. I love both chess and fighting games, so this was a cool combination
6.5/10
Also, I can't put my finger on why, but the fighting in the game seems a bit wonky. There's something about it that's just off (I also don't like that A (Xbox)/X (PlayStation) is used to jump instead of another attack button
All that being said, I still really do like this game. I love both chess and fighting games, so this was a cool combination
6.5/10
chess if it wasn't fucking around
L'idea è bella solo nella teoria, se il set delle mosse è così piccolo il gioco non ha interesse ad essere masterato in alcun modo. Piuttosto giocate a scacchi coglioni
A great game, held back by complete lack of content. There's an interesting set of mechanics here, but with only versus matches with humans or bots, and an extremely low player count, you don't have much to do with it...