Recent reviews by jiji

i think this is a good game. i have drank almost a half-gallon bottle of brandy during the night that i bought this and held tab for the entire length of time i have thus far played. this has been sufficient to kill and unlock. if the next world war is anything like this, we can rest assured knowing that we will all be dead by the time it comes.

i love and approve the thicc furry agenda

kino is back on the menu

please never sell your game to paradox or gearbox

i love finland i wish it were real :(

this is the game i wish existed when i was 13 and hooked on Firefly. having a job sucks because i don't have enough time to play this as much as i'd like to.

merchant's guild approved simulator for building buckin' foxen broncos and breeding buxom braphogs

protip: if you have a file named imma.degenerate in the game folder it enables the forbidden feature.

The very first thing that should be iterated about this game is that it is by NO MEANS a good way to learn how to play Riichi Mahjong at all. Don't buy this expecting it to include a tutorial on how to play; the only "help" it includes is a quick reference to what buttons do what when pressed. This game is basically your standard, low-budget, offline Mahjong software that's pretty common in Japan. As such, it's marketed towards a demographic which is already, at the very least, passingly familiar with the game and how it's played. The translation was likely done via google translate in an attempt to make more sales by cashing in on a Western audience who might've watched Akagi or Saki and thought "man, I have no idea what the ♥♥♥♥ is going on but this looks really cool! I want in!" In that respect, it would seem that the developers were pretty successful in their endeavour, much to the buyers' dismay.

That being said, the game itself is solid as far as Mahjong software goes. It looks to be an almost straight-port of "Nagomi Mahjong" on Android, which as far as mobile Mahjong apps go, was one of the better ones. The gameplay itself is fine: it's responsive and all the yaku work (from what I've seen), which is pretty much all you can ask of a Mahjong game. It a fairly extensive set of customizable rules, and also includes gameplay statistics so you can track your performance over all your games. The only real gripes I have with the gameplay are:
1). Making any call plays this slow animation that becomes gruesome to sit through if you're impatient like me, and there's no way to turn it off.
2). The camera only views part of the table, and calls made by the Shimocha and the Toimen are only viewable if you click and drag the camera to their side of the table.
Also, the AI is pretty poor, but that's pretty common across most offline Mahjong games, so I'll give it a pass here.

These problems pretty much mean that the game plays much slower than some of the alternatives out there. If your main concern about the game is speed, you may want to look elsewhere for your offline Mahjong fix. It should also be noted that, as I pointed out a bit earlier, the translation is basically a wholesale travesty. This hasn't bothered me in the slightest because I use the Japanese language setting, however, if you're going to play this, you might as well just use the Japanese setting to avoid the headache. Learning the Kanji for all the Yaku is extremely useful in the long run if you plan on playing a LOT of Japanese Mahjong anyways, and since the translations used for the Yaku in this game are, for the most part, unused anywhere else, even in the few cliques of Japanese Mahjong players that use English terminology exclusively, there's no point in bothering to use the English language setting.

There is, however, a few unique aspects to the game's rules customization that I was pleasantly surprised with:
1). 3 options for game length. Tonpuusen (East only), Hanchan (East-South), and a non-standard option that I've never seen anywhere else titled "Tonba Nikyoku" (East Round, Two games). I'd never play a two-game match competitively (standard rules are enough luck as they are), but with bots, it's a pretty fun option.
2). Starting points can be set to any interval of 1000 between 10,000 and 50,000. Most games I've encountered have only between 25,000-30,000 as starting points options. Combine this with Tonba Nikyoku to have what amounts to a sudden deathmatch! Anything higher than Mangan means death!
3). It has the really obscure Yaku that I believe originate as local rules in the Kansai region that most other Mahjong softwares don't employ. These include:
*Sanrenkou
*Suurenkou
*Daisharin
*Daichiisei
*Shiisanpu-tou (No Shiisuupu-tou, however) [had to use dashes in the romanization here, as part of the name was censored]
*Benikujaku (Ryuuiisou except with the Chun and the red Sou tiles, fairly obscure by most standard rulesets)

As a collector of obscure Mahjong software, these few quirks alone made it a worthy addition to my collection. That being said, for the average joe just looking for a good offline Mahjong application (if you can call that person an average joe, even), Mahjong Pretty Girls Battle will most likely not suit your taste. There are certainly better options out there in terms of speed and presentation, and I can only recommend this game if you want either a). Obscure local rules or b). Mediocre art of school girls with large chest things. I will, however, still give this game a positive review, as personally, not only did the obscure rules please my autism, but I made the money I spent on it ($1) back with the cards I got from the game, and I can use it as a timetrack for whenever I play Mahjong on SEGANet or Tenhou, so I can now advertise to all my steam friends how much of my life I waste playing Chinese dominos!

If you want my recommendation for a pretty good offline Mahjong application, Saikyo no Maajan 3D is great, has excellent rules customization (more extensive than this game in terms of normal rules, but doesn't have the same non-standard yaku, points distribution or round lengths), and has a good English translation available. AFAIK, it doesn't include a tutorial, so if you need a game to actually LEARN Japanese Mahjong, I'd recommend Gamedesign's flash game above all else, as it includes a fairly good tutorial and has all the Yaku listed on the same page as the game for ease of reference. This alone may not be enough grasp all the concepts of the game, and for someone really willing to take the deep-dive into the world of Japanese Mahjong, I recommend watching HanaYoriUta's 4-part Riichi Mahjong tutorial on YouTube. It is inarguably the definitive English tutorial on how to play Japanse Mahjong for someone who lacks any real knowledge of the game.

took almost a decade, but now the game is as good as it was in 0.15d days, better even because now you can booze cruise

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