The Chess Variant Pages
Custom Search

[ Help | Earliest Comments | Latest Comments ]

Single Comment

This item is a game information page
It belongs to categories: Orthodox chess, 
It was last modified on: 2005-06-16
 By (zzo38) A.  Black. Shogi With Pokémons. Pokemons with special powers are added to an otherwise normal shogi board. (11x11, Cells: 121) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Anonymous wrote on 2010-05-22 UTCAverage ★★★
Ok, so I really like the basic concept (which is to say, shogi with pokemon. Esp. since your handling seems to imply that one major way to do this is as a form of 'chess with different armies'), but this does suffer from a number of issues. For one thing, it does seem to suffer from a shortage of pokemon/items. I realize you were planning to change that in the future, though, and it's not like other people can't make their own pokemon, so I won't agonize over it. Moreover, I don't really understand the purpose of the bizarre capturing rules (IE: what happens when a pokemon captures a promoted bushido, what happens when a bushido captures a pokemon, etc. A lot of it seems like just needlessly nerfing the bushido while adding unnecessary complexity to the game). Also, I may be misunderstanding, but it seems to me that the pokemon aren't really very well balanced against each other (which is an issue if people are using the 'random' set up). But with a little work it could at least be fun, so...