Last Piece 2

About the game

Last Piece 2 is the sequel to the chessboard strategy game in the style of Shotgun King, to play in the browser. You are the psycho king with a shotgun against the black army, and each stage ends when the black king falls.

The rules are those of Last Piece: each turn you move the king one square, shoot or reload, and then the black army moves one piece. The shot fans out in a cone and damage falls with distance, from 10 point-blank down to 1 farther away. There are 64 stages, and the novelty is all around it: a title screen, its own menu, animated attacks and upgrades in the form of cards.

Each black piece strikes in its own way: the knight leaps with a lance, the bishop calls light from the sky, the queen slaps and the rook cracks the floor. When a piece falls, it explodes. You can speed the animation up with F or skip it with Space, and there is a reduce motion option.

After each stage you clear you pick a card from those offered, from a catalog of 265 cards across four rarities: common, rare, epic and legendary. They affect damage, ammo, range, defense, mobility and health, and some charge a price in return for power. Scoring follows the first game's rule and goes to the leaderboard when the run ends.

How to play

1. Click or tap a highlighted square next to the king to walk one square; the arrow keys also move the king.
2. To shoot, press T or use the shoot button, pick the direction with the arrows or the mouse and confirm with Enter. The cone shows the damage before you fire.
3. Reloading (R key) uses your turn and returns shells. With no shells, you can only move or reload.
4. Eliminate the black king to clear the stage, then pick a card with keys 1 to 4, the arrows and Enter, the mouse or touch.
5. Esc opens the pause menu, F speeds up the animations and Space skips the animation in progress.
6. The pause lets you continue, restart the stage or go back to the title; progress is saved.

Game modes

• 1 player. One player: the psycho king alone against the black army, across 64 consecutive stages, with a leaderboard at the end of the run.

Tips

• Damage falls with distance: let a piece come close before you shoot so you eliminate it in one go.
• Red squares are under attack; stepping on one costs a life, and after losing one the next attack does no damage.
• The cone and damage show before you fire, so check who would be hit before confirming.
• Pick cards that fit together: the catalog groups cards into families such as shot, ammo and defense, and some have an extra effect when you already own others from the same family.
• If the animation slows your pace, use F to speed up or Space to skip.

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