[Vinesauce] Vinny – Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate

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1. This game is literally you at 13 playing chess against your father, then suddenly your king is all that's left and in order not to lose you say your king has a shotgun or magical powers or some random nonsense.

2. For prospective buyers, this game is definitely worth it. Along with what you saw in the video there's different guns, difficulty levels, and two other modes. Go check it out!

3. A ridiculous amount of worthless achievements that serve nothing outside of making it as painful and drawn out as possible to complete it. Mentally bankrupt developers who would rather inject their own wierdo political views than make up proper names for things. A complete lack of balance, you're going to die unless the RNG hard carries you. A-yea no pass me on this shit. The concept is fine and all. But when it's made by incompetent people it's just a ticking time bomb.

4. Chess in Ohio

5. Vootbee. You have to know how to play chess to win

6. We need more concepts like these, chess but your king has a shotgun, it's genius. Reminds me of when pokemon decided to name one of them FourMouses

7. "So what if I'm down material, I have buckshot"

8. Chess Eternal

9. This game looks fun, even though Vinny was suffering

10. This game is way too blue for me

11. Let it be known, I was the first person to reach difficulty 14 since the new update.

    I cannot make it past 15 though. Someone else beat me to it :C

12. Vinny really should learn the basics of chess.

13. It does look fun, but I know that I am one of the worst chess players on Earth, so I likely wouldn't have any fun actually playing this. I would die in the first round.

14. Oh my god watching him pick up upgrades/downgrades without even looking at them at all is so infuriating.

15. "There's a lesson to be learned here. Take your time when playing chess and don't rush, even if you have a shotgun" -Vinny 2022

16. I guess youve never played chess before huh

17. Chess Person Shooter

18. Wow Vinny is really bad at chess

19. Holy shit Vin is bad at chess lol

20. holy hell

21. Hell, yeah! My recommendation in an email came through (^⁠‿⁠^) This is a cool concept to break the mold of chess a bit.

    Upd.: 1:01:28 "came out of nowhere… I don't even know how I found this…" oh, ok, Vinny :[

22. This looks awesome. I wonder if he'll check out FPS Chess next lol. We seem to be in a renaissance of chess games with a ton of cool stuff being released.

23. Missed opportunity to say "checkmate" instead of "game over".

24. 19:25 Binyot reading what the card does and then immediately failing to follow it made me buy another Nintendo Switch

25. Play 4D chess

26. I feel you need a specific amount of chess skill to be good at this. Like not enough and you’ll make dumb choices like Vinny, too much and you’ll get hung up on the rules and forget modifiers.

27. Vinny's impatience proving to be his worst enemy once again.

28. Good to see the gun based chess genre going strong.

29. "Battle Chess"

30. There's a Game Jam version for free available on itch, very hard. I've seen professional chess players struggle at this.

    I learned about the game thanks to Terry Cavanaugh's blog "free game of the week", really good source for some cool upcoming devs.

31. Revealed checks get me most in this game, killing a piece which lets another attack me.

32. I played another chess based roguelike a while back called Pawnbarian, no shotgun in that one but it was still pretty good. You got given a movement deck with different chess pieces on them and your movement options each turn was based on the cards you drew.

33. The shield is pretty much useless. You're better without it.

34. This can't be the true Chess 2 because en passant isn't forced

35. Vinny come on you suck at thinking
    You gotta look at their faces

36. 2:07 only two minutes in and Vin already understanding one of the key concepts brings me much joy

37. Played this game. Very glad Vin is playing it. It's very fun

38. I feel like this would be fantastic ported to mobile

39. Ah, the Winchester gambit!

    Hail to the king, baby.

40. The sound-design in this game is pretty nice. Gameplay looks interesting as well. Thanks for covering this, Vinny.

41. 15:13 the vinussy be stinkin

42. This game is such an odd concept yet it works SO well. I love it. (Even if I’m terrible at it.)

43. Chess 3 in the tradition of Goat Simulator 3

44. Three not so obvious things:

    1) You can increase the amount of protective shields in effect from the options.
    2) You can reload the shotgun without moving by clicking on it's icon on the top left.
    3) Shield will protect you when you would sometime win from killing the king, as with blade there. If you're certain it's a kill or wanna take your chances, disregard the shield.

45. chess is a thinking man's game, I remember in the august of 1984, when christoff mansler opened with the "give me your wallet and give me the trophy, i'm not fucking around" gambit, and while some would call it a risky opening it did work out for about 28 hours before the swat teams shot him dead.
    Little bit of chess lore for you, don't say you didn't learn anything today

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