Chess Knights Viking Lands Review (Nintendo Switch)
Help the Knights to rescue their Kings and Queens in the beautiful and dangerous Vikings Lands. An innovative game concept inspired by chess: Infiltrate mindfully, rescue quickly and get out alive if you can.
Pros:
- Nice graphics.
- 679MB download size.
- Tutorial option to show the rules.
- Puzzle chess gameplay.
- Touchscreen support.
- Full camera control including zoom in and out.
- Highlight moves-on/off.
- The game involves you using chess pieces to avoid enemy pieces and retrieve your pieces and return them, doing so will open the next segment.
- Death-restart the current segment.
- Fast respawn time.
- Undo button.
- Excellent brain food.
- Pieces that both you and the enemy use conform to their respective rules so Bishops only go diagonal and Rooks go up and down etc.
- Works really well.
- Very atmospheric.
Cons:
- The tutorial is just text and a choppy video.
- The game just starts, nothing is explained or any guidelines.
- Performance is up and down.
- At game over you can’t just hit undo the last move and instead have to restart.
- If you angle the camera a certain way it will just sit there rotating endlessly.
- The controls are not great, it’s awkward with the stick as it works on a rotation basis and it’s not accurate so there is a lot of spinning the arrow around until it shows where you want.
