
So he drew her animations exactly like he wanted.

He knew he was working with meddlesome executives, and he also knew exactly what he wanted the Queen to look like, how she should move, etc.

Game of Kings also gives him a much more muscular build than the original game. Authority Equals Asskicking: The King, who has no problems going toe to toe with much younger and stronger characters.Attack Reflector: The Knight defeats the Queen by bouncing her Baleful Polymorph back at her with his shield.Same for a King attacking a Knight - the Knight catches the Cartoon Bomb the King bats at him, blinks at the player, then looks down when he realizes the fuse is burning out.The Pawn briefly looks at the player in response, as if to say: "What the hell?!" When a Queen attacks a Pawn, she uses her magic to make his spear vanish.It's arguably worst in the NES port, where it's so adamant on never losing any pieces that putting so much as an enemy pawn in position to be captured will cause the CPU to lock up while it tries to think of a way out of the predicament.

Artificial Stupidity: As mentioned in the main blurb, the AI isn't the sharpest to ever appear in the chess game.Armor Is Useless: Knights are often on the receiving end of this - sword thrusts effortlessly penetrating their breastplates is a common result of battles in Game of Kings.Amusing Injuries / Bloody Hilarious: Contributes to the Black Comedy in Battle Chess and goes into downright slapstick territory in Chinese Chess.Agony of the Feet: In the original Pawn vs Pawn.In Battle Chess, it transforms into a rock monster when moving and fighting. Adaptational Badass: The Rook, in the original board game, is a watchtower of some kind.A remake, Battle Chess: Game of Kings was released on Steam in 2015. It had sequels: Battle Chess 4000, which is normal chess but with sci-fi characters used as chess pieces, and Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess, based on the Chinese Chess board game.
