3D Mahjong impressions - Nintendo DS, DSi & DSiWare Forum

Eel · 2010-08-16T22:59:23+00:00

so, i always wanted one of these mahjong games and figured this would do, so i downloaded it, now here are my impressions: The menu us nice and clean, if a little confusing for the first time, the game sends you directly to this screen, no "licenced by" and wasteful stuff like that, i like that. You can select from 50 different layouts (10 easy, 10 medium and 30 hard), you can also play memory and matching, in three difficulty levels each, too. The game itself. You start with two different views of your board, a 3D one in the upper screen and a basic 2D one in the bottom screen, you can change the screens, but the upper screen is always the contrary of the bottom screen, i mean, the upper screen shows the pieces you have already discarted and the bottom screen shows the pieces still in play. I personally found the game easier to play in 2D (for bigger designs, smaller ones are easier to play in 3D), even if the pieces are smaller, the 3D pieces are harder to look at because its harder to notice if they are in a lower row or not, but i guess others may disagree with that. Every time you pair two pieces there is a wait time for the next move, so you cant really go on a speed frenzy or something like that (this gets a little annoying in the matching game), and sometimes you need to tap twice to select a piece. Memory is harder than your usual memory game, because of the complicated designs the pieces have and matching is more about speed than brains, but what ever. The controls of the 3D camera are kind of awkward but they work i guess. You can select 6 different backgrounds and piece designs, one of which (aptly named "easy") is very easy to look at, there are also other cool ones like egypt and poker. those are nice options that may help keep the game fresh. You can also change from the +control pad and buttons to the stylus at anytime. There seem to be only 2 different slightly long songs which play one afther the other, i like them. other sounds include taps and clicks. The mahjong designs are also nice, and they save your best time for each one, you can save and quit, reshuffle the pieces and stuff. This a quality pick and play game and its very nice, i like it, i dont know if others may like the 500 price tag but i think it is fair for what the game is. i give it a ----- drum roll 79/100 +1 point for the animated icon

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Bankai
Tue 31st Aug 2010

theblackdragon wrote:

is there any way we can get off the semantics of 'Mahjong' and focus on the DSiWare game at hand, please? none of us here can help that that's what it's called; if you don't like it, get in touch with the developers and complain.

You don't think it's relevant to point out that a game called "Mahjong" is not actually Mahjong?

It's not semantics, it's false advertising. As I said earlier - it's like saying calling a game "Poker", but the game itself is Memory.

[Edited Tue 31st Aug 2010 by Bankai]

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theblackdragon
Tue 31st Aug 2010

theblackdragon wrote:

none of us here can help that that's what it's called; if you don't like it, get in touch with the developers and complain.

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Eel
Fri 21st Sep 2012

Oh wow, call me slow, but I had no idea that this game was (or is now) part of a bigger DS retail game:
http://www.amazon.com/Solitaire-Overload-Plus-Nintendo-DS/dp/...
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Looks like a good compilation of solitaire games lol (it seems they also include expanded versions of their other DSiWare games in this).

[Edited Fri 21st Sep 2012 by Eel]

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