History VideoGame / ShotgunKingTheFinalCheckmate

* BladeOnAStick: The Pikemen white card gives all Pawns a spear that allows them to attack 2 squares forward, nullifying their greatest weakness in the inability to attack straight downwards and replacing it with a strength. It gets even deadlier if combined with Militia, which allows Pawns to move in all cardinal directions and attack in all diagonals, because Pikemen will also allow them to attack 2 squares in every cardinal direction! It did get nerfed later on, where it now prevents Pawns from attacking diagonally.

* TheManyDeathsOfYou: Besides the standard "caputured/crushed by a White Piece", there are a few other ways to die:

** Pieces knocked back from Rightful Curtsey/Ramesses II and Rooks that uses Castle to swap with a King can no longer instantly checkmate you, making the former more appealing and the latter far less dangerous.

* EpicFail: With a right combination of White Cards, it's possible for ''every'' square to be in check to the point where [[OneUp Black Mist]], which saves you from death and places you on an safe square, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmLEh1rGmJQ fails to work]]. Even if you do get the right combination of cards, you'd have to be trying on purpose to get checkmated this badly (i.e. not killing the Militia Pikemen Pawns).

* SuccubiAndIncubi: A possible White card is called Succubus and it depicts a White Queen with demonic wings. In-game, its effect adds another Queen to the board, but gives you a free Soul slot implying that White's forces sold their soul to one.

* GeoEffects: The Moat is a card that converts the fourth row from the bottom into Moat tiles. Any piece (including the Black King) that isn't a Knight or an Ascension Bishop cannot cross it in one move, forcing them to move onto the moat first before being able to attack the other side of the map from there. The Deep Waters card takes things even further by preventing any non-Knight piece on the Moat from attacking you until they get off.

* ShortRangeShotgun: While you can aim your shotgun to increase its range, it will increase its firing arc so that less pellets will have a chance of hitting one target, at best hitting multiple targets at once. You can increase the range and decrease the firing arc though, with the Engraved Scope upgrade allowing you to turn the shotgun into essentially a sniper rifle temporarily.

* BeginWithAFinisher: Welcome Gift gives you a whopping 4 extra firepower, but deactivates for the floor if you reload even once. This encourages you to your first clip count.

** Undercover Mission places a waypoint on the upper side of the board that when landed on, will allow the Black King to sabotage White's pieces in a debilitating way. This effect can be selected by the player, ranging from deactivating a White card, lowering the max HP of all of White's units by 1, getting free ammo and refills, or damaging the White King.

* ManipulatingTheOpponentsDeck: One of the choices for reaching the waypoint spawned by Undercover Mission is "Sabotage the White Army". This allows the Black King to select and deactivate one of White's cards for the floor, making them lose their effect while retroactively removing pieces that those cards spawned (such as removing the Queen if Homecoming was selected).

** Taunting Hop got changed to using up your turn into becoming a free action once per turn.

* GuideDangIt: In order to get fight the TrueFinalBoss and obtain the secret endings, [[spoiler:you need White to have both the Theocracy and The Red Book cards, and have no other pieces but a ''single'' White bishop alive when you defeat the final White King. The only hints one gets is the Black Bishop holding a red book in the opening cutscene, and a White Bishop holding the same book in the standard ending]]. Getting the best ending ''also'' requires that you have [[spoiler:at least 1 remaining shell loaded in your shotgun when the Black Bishop is felled]].

** The KnockBack from Rightful Curtsey now prevents affected pieces from attacking you on the same turn, which used to be a source of cheap deaths (especially against Knights). It still does ''not'' save you from discovered check from knocking a piece out of another's attack.
** Castle no longer allows Rooks to instantly checkmate you upon a swap, making it much more tolerable, if still annoying.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: The folly shields. They exist primarily to prevent you from accidentally checkmating yourself, however they activate if there is even a hint of danger, even if there’s a 99% chance you’ll take the checking piece out before it can move. They can be disabled in the settings.

* SwapTeleportation: The Castle card makes the King swap places with a surviving Rook whenever he would take damage, causing the Rook to [[TakingTheBullet take damage in his stead]]. If you're orthogonally lined up with the King and the Rook survives taking the shot (quite likely, as they have 5 health without modifiers), you will be immediately checkmated. Be thankful its a rare spawn.