First of all, I have to admit that I am an old person who has been playing on red and white consoles all the way. Now I look at all new games with a critical eye. But this bar really reminds me of the time when I squatted in the arcade with my buddies and played a game of chess all afternoon.
Think about those days, what were our board games back then? Either it was a grid-playing game like "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", or it was developed in "Fire Emblem", or it was "Auto Chess" which became popular for a while - but to be honest, the pace of Auto Chess was too boring at that time, and it would take half an hour to start, and it was hard to finish playing. Now this "Chess Soldiers Battle" is better, with a 15-minute game, it just condenses the pleasure of "the heroes are divided" back then. Do you think you enjoy it?
What impresses me the most is that this game actually mixes "trading game" and "war chess" together. Old players all know that in the past, trading cards were like "Yu-Gi-Oh" and war chess was like "Dream Simulator". The two things were like oil and water, and it was difficult to mix them together. But this game just gives you a whole board to recruit heroes while saving up economy. Once the bond is triggered, the screen full of special effects explodes. It feels like the first time you saw the hero's magnified moves in "Warcraft 3" - oh, this feels right!
Let's talk about this economic system. Nowadays, young players may think that "building an economy" is a new term? I think back then when we played "Monopoly" we had to buy land and build buildings to create a monopoly! It's just that they replaced buying land with buying chess pieces, and replaced the dice with deploying positions. On the surface, it's high-tech, but in its heart, it's still the same skill of "calculating people's hearts." Look at this 8×8 chessboard. If the positioning is just one square off, the game could be overturned. It reminds me of the underhanded trick of "hindsight" in chess back in the day, haha!
Of course, what struck me the most was the "humorous chess player" setting. When I was young and playing "SNK vs Capcom", I loved to use those mean characters. Now in this game, players can still taunt their opponents. I thought, isn't this the electronic version of "Come here" in the arcade? But now times have changed, everyone is of higher quality, and the voice is all "666" when turned on.
To be honest, this game is free to download, and you don't have to pay for in-app purchases. The developer is a Shenzhen company, which I'm quite surprised about. The war chess games on the market now are either made to be crushed by kryptonians, or they are just like working. This "Chess Fighter" is good. It retains the "fun of configuration" that we had when we played "Royal Knights", and also learned the fast pace of modern mobile games. It is really like "old trees blooming with new flowers".
Finally, I have to say that although we can never go back to our youth, the joy of strategizing on the chessboard can be found in this game. If you have some spare time, you might as well play two games, and we can also compete and learn from each other - but if you lose then, don't blame me for my "skills"! 😏