26/01/21 Comments Closed Brawl Chess sounds like it should be an aggressive take on the everlasting strategy classic, maybe filled with interactive cutscenes where a Bishop smashes the Queen to bits with his sceptre like it’s the end of a Harry Potter film. Sadly, that’s not the case. No offence to chess, but this is just chess and nothing more. I think the main issue here is the marketing. The game is marketed as a kid friendly introduction into the world of chess, but the first thing I noticed was the complete lack of tutorials. For people that know how to play, this is obviously going to be fine. For newcomers, not so much. Imagine, an eight years old browsing the Switch store and coming across the cute cartoony graphics of Brawl Chess, or perhaps a parent seeing the same thing and figure it’s a perfect introduction to game for their kid, only for them to get into it and be very confused as to how the game works.