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| jiji
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, posted Fri 14 May 15:35
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Sometimes you can press the triangle button while your freshly drawn tile is selected. This brings up a message window [from the dog] and allows you to... call something, I assume? Pon and all that stuff? How does this work?
You can try pressing triangle at any time, but it only works when you can execute chi, pon, kan, ron, riichi, or tsumo. Here's the breakdown:
chi - チー - Take the other player's last discarded tile and make a series of three tiles (1-2-3 bamboo, for example)
pon - ポン - Take the other player's last discard and make a set of three identical tiles
kan - カン - Take your most recently-drawn tile or the other player's last tile and make a set of four identical tiles
riichi (reach) - リーチ - When you're within one tile of winning, you can bet 1000 and execute this, and if you end up getting a winning tile, you get 2000 back. If you don't win, then you don't get anything back. You can't execute a riichi if you've exposed any tiles with a kan, chi, or pon. When you execute a riichi, the game automatically draws tiles for you until the round is over or you've got tsumo. When you've got the winning tile, it'll just sit there and wait for you to press triangle and execute tsumo or ron. When you get your winning tile on the turn after you call riichi, it's called ippatsu (一発) and it's worth pretty good points.
tsumo - ツモ - Basic win. You can do this when you've drawn the tile that completes your hand.
ron - ロン - This is used when your opponent discards a tile that you can use to win the game. It can be used with or without a riichi.
My thoughts:
This is almost as lazy a port as they could manage. It runs in high resolution, but all of the character art is still low res, as well as the title screen, menus, and scoring-type text. Strangely, though, the tiles are now high res, as well as onscreen display elements. The sound effects are straight from the arcade, scratchy as ever, but I think the voices have been re-recorded. The music was redone and is cleaner, thankfully.
And, of course, the censorship: No nipples are to be found here, either exposed or seen through fabric. But somehow, we still get to see Ain's extended member through his loincloth in the artbook (and presumably in the game as well). Bit ridiculous, I think. As such, all of the punishment (oshioki) scenes that involved nipples have been modified, usually to add swimsuits. The cosplay oshioki scenes are boring: mash the button to change the picture to a still image of the girl in a different outfit (still low-res). This is budget treatment, and it should have been budget-priced. Psikyo are milking their intellectual property for all it's worth, without regard to quality.
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| jiji
85th Post
Occasional Customer
|  "Re(5):Extra gals & guy"
, posted Sat 15 May 16:59
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Excellent, thanks for the info. To avoid punishing them, do you just let the time run out? I don't remember seeing an exit option or anything like that...
The last option should let them go. If there's no last option (I'm pretty sure it's there), then letting time run out should have the same effect.
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The 'censoring' is almost funny in a way. It's such a tease mashing the buttons to get nothing more than a glimpse of the girl's bra or something silly like that.
Hehe, indeed. I feel ripped off when it ends up being a cosplay scene, but the others are funny just to see how they've censored them.
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Also, what is the second special point option? I know the first is a tile switch option and the more expensive ones let you reach automacically...
That one makes the dog influence your initial hand a bit so it'll be a bit easier to work with. Each further option, up until the ippatsu reach one, influences your hand more.
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Oh yea, do you guys continue?
Yep. I don't see much reason not to...mahjong is too probability-based, and I'm not good enough at it yet to be picky.
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| jiji
88th Post
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|  "Yuka"
, posted Sun 16 May 02:42:
Well, I got to Yuka tonight. As near as I can tell, what triggered it was that I forgave Tvice, the S&M girl. Yuka's pretty tough, though I like her as a character. Her punishment scenes have no animation, though - just a slow fade from one frame to the other. Boo. Lazy X-nauts.
I wonder if unlocking all the punishment scenes in the omake menu opens anything up? I can't see any space for anything else, though, so probably not. I've noticed that with some girls, you can't see all of the possible punishments on a single playthrough. The omake menu and that aspect help the replay value a bunch.
What's the point of Jong Fight if it doesn't support two players? (I guess 1P vs. 2P would be difficult, though, on a single screen...).
[this message was edited by jiji on Sun 16 May 02:42] |
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