"National Chess" game review The strange way to open chess

What is it like to play Ark of Tomorrow on a chess board?

Yes, I'm not crazy, nor drunk. What I want to recommend to you today is a weird game that integrates tower defense and strategy gameplay into chess - "National Send Chess".

A few days ago, the author suddenly became addicted to chess and wanted to find someone to kill a few games. But I had no chess board and no opponents, so I could only go to the software store to find out if there is an APP that can play chess.

In line with the principle of choosing the highest-rated software, I downloaded this Chinese Elephant game with a strange name - at that time, I absolutely did not expect that this unintentional move would be the beginning of my "inconsolation" that day.

Just just opened the game, everything was normal, I just clicked [New Game] to start.

Chess rules? Isn't this simple? The car is walking sideways, like walking sideways, the soldiers can only take one step forward, etc. I have participated in the Youth Championship and must be aware of these. So I clicked [This?] with confidence.

But the next second I lived in Bengbu. At the beginning, our Baiqi actually drew out the "weapon" at the same time, and even the car and elephant were holding a machine gun! Who will encounter this kind of scene when playing chess? Obviously, he had never seen the other party's black chess before, and immediately surrendered and fled in scattered ways.

There are only 16 white chess left on the field, and my heart is full of big questions - isn't I downloading the chess APP? Isn't it that I played chess? Or do I have learned fake chess over the past 20 years?

When I looked at the entire game carefully, I finally discovered the clues of the game from the "dialogue" on the left side of the interface:

As sure, in this world, I and the King of Black Chess are the normal people!

When I doubted life, the game began to introduce my own gameplay—

We must protect the king's safety; each piece has its own attributes including attack, defense, attack speed and attack range; the piece can be upgraded for money; the movement method of the piece is still based on the original logic but the number of movement steps requires money to be purchased; the black chess piece will keep approaching our camp and our chess piece will automatically attack the black chess piece within range.

Isn't this a tower defense game? It turns out it was you! You are the Ark of Tomorrow!

It's easier to deal with if you know the rules. Isn't this much simpler than the original chess? So I began to arrange troops and stack our camp into a rugged front and back, so that the enemy's chess pieces would be attacked by us when they approached!

The famous memes for upgrading chess pieces in the game are also very interesting. For example, you can ask our [soldier] to shout "I'm super, bin!" to increase its attack frequency;

You can also ask your [elephant] "Why not banMammoth? ” to reduce its attack CD;

You can also make the [King] shout "I have no cheats!" and you can instantly increase your King's attack by 9999 and transform into a terrible killing machine; even when your [King] is crippled, you can have a philosophical exchange to restore its HP.

During the "fire exchange", our chess pieces will also completely withdraw from the battle due to their exhaustion of their lives. But as long as [King] is still alive, nothing can be considered a loss. After many games, I discovered a secret. If the chess pieces are arranged into a winding maze, it can greatly extend the time the opponent's black chess arrives in front of our [King], and it can better protect the safety of the [King].

Of course, there is naturally more than one way to achieve victory. After all, chess itself is an open game, and nothing can restrain a person's free thoughts on the board.

However, this game is still in the trial stage. As long as you resist the 3-4 wave of Black Chess attack, even if you win, the overall playable content of the game is relatively limited. The author personally believes that this game can be combined with some classic elements of chess themselves and even chess game to arrange troops. For example, setting up the "Sicily Defense" starting formation can double the defensive attributes of our chess pieces;

(Sicily Defense: Black side's countermeasures against White side's E-line supporters at the beginning)

For example, the game cannot be changed to [Wang Che] at present, and every time the [Car] is about to come out, you must first move the [Soldier] away.

(King Che's Transposition: A special move in chess, which can move your king and a car at the same time, as a move that the king performs. This can put the king in a safe position on both sides in one step.

Only by adding these elements can the characteristics of the theme of "chess", otherwise why would I come to play this game with no picture quality and no content? Isn't he good to play Ark of Tomorrow?

If you can produce more interesting content in the subsequent game, I would like to recommend that you contact this game. Whether it is treating it as a tower defense game or using it as a medium to contact chess itself, it is a good choice.

Of course, after saying so much, who still remembers why I downloaded this app at the beginning? I really want to have the next game of chess, hey!