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The exact feel you should get from an anime / heroic fantasy in-universe boardgame.
This is the perfect anime game, from summoning monsters to changing the whole setup in a brilliant move, perfectly combining the resource administration aspect with the abstract strategy. In fact, this is so cleverly capturing the fantasy board game that it might well be... well might have been a new standard from which to judge such chess variants.
This second starter set (two starter are required to play!!!) is more centred around defensive movements and the use of monster's (Masetai) abilities. Which is to say more of the pieces in here have a lesser movement range than the first set, but they do compensate for it by letting you get resources faster, teleportation, and a few other tricks.
I really can't quite get why this didn't manage to survive longer when it first got out... possibly it got drowned in too many similar but inferior products during the beyblade and Yu-Gi-Oh Rush. It might get difficult to get boosters nowadays, and it's a shame that none of the starter set had a "bounce" piece; but the game remains fairly enjoyable even with only the basic masetais.
The rules could have been clearer on a few points, but it is still easy to make sense of it. (Pieces should get back to their original side when they get captured. Yellow movement pattern ignore path from starting square, hence most pieces can "jump over", which is still limited in number of spaces compared to the "doted lines" which is a jump on an unlimited row or column. Bounce is for all the directions of a pattern, not just one, etc...) I found back the errata on the wayback machine, but in case you would not be able to, the aforementioned where the most difficult to confirm.Read full review
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Navia Drapt = Chess Plus
This unique variant of Chess is a total blast! It's how the pieces move and interact with each other that made this a winner to me!
Verified purchase: Yes • Condition: pre-owned • Sold by: smblokchvy