{"id":123676,"date":"2022-04-07T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-129949"},"modified":"2022-04-07T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T20:00:00","slug":"defend-the-rook-is-a-roguelike-tower-defense-that-takes-its-moves-from-chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/04\/07\/defend-the-rook-is-a-roguelike-tower-defense-that-takes-its-moves-from-chess\/","title":{"rendered":"Defend The Rook Is A Roguelike Tower Defense That Takes Its Moves From Chess"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9bb3e4676a32a\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9bb3e4676a32a\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9bb3e4676a32a\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"92WW2kaVM1E\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>Chess<\/strong> is the worst board game. It doesn&#8217;t have cute player tokens like <strong>Monopoly<\/strong>, it doesn&#8217;t have fun moving parts like <strong>Mouse Trap<\/strong>, and if you take chess to a cool party, everyone will call you a nerd and a dork and then they will play <strong>Dixit<\/strong> without you.<\/p>\n<p>The only good thing about chess is when people reinvent it to make it better, like in Defend The Rook, a roguelike tactical tower defense game with <em>story<\/em> and <em>characters<\/em> and <em>magic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Set on a chess board, Defend The Rook is all about protecting the Rook &#8220;at all costs&#8221; \u2014 it&#8217;s the tower in the tower defense \u2014 and you&#8217;ll be able to cast spells, place traps, and lay down barriers to stop the invading forces from destroying the Rook, which represents the realm&#8217;s life essence.<\/p>\n<p>Defend The Rook will come to the Nintendo eShop on April 14th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Chess is the worst board game. It doesn&#8217;t have cute player tokens like Monopoly, it doesn&#8217;t have fun moving parts like Mouse Trap, and if you take chess to a cool party, everyone will call you a nerd and a dork and then they will play Dixit without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}