mahjong
An even and unbiased review of various online mahjong clients by the second-place winner of the 2025 Riichi City Tenkaichi tournament (2/2)
Niche mahjong choices, and therefore, Sega.
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arcade games
I’d tell you more about the Fatal Fury: City Of The Wolves beta if I hadn’t spent half my time waiting for a match
I had a great time playing City of the Wolves over the weekend and I’m looking forward to the completed game, but whether I buy it on launch or wait until it’s on sale depends entirely upon whether or not this online matchmaking experience improves.
arcade games
Bonus: Some of my favorite characters in Virtua Fighter 5 REVO
Now that the review-vital stuff is out of the way, I want to talk about the point that actually makes VF so fun and so rewarding to return to. That’s the characters, and how well-defined they are. I get that they don’t have the lore and story modes
arcade games
Virtua Fighter 5 REVO with rollback netcode is my Forever Video Game
Listen, I reviewed this game the last time it came out. On the Xbox 360. For Joystiq. Nine years ago. So I’m not going to write the same review again, say everything I’ve been yelling on street corners about Virtua Fighter for twenty years. I’ll try and
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I want to see impact and physicality in the new Virtua Fighter, and I don't want to see super meters
"...what I truly love about Sega’s arcade games is that they have always pursued a kind of magical realism. They’re obsessively detailed... but they aren’t actual simulations of real life. They’re exaggerations of it. That’s where you find the magic."
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Gapoli Pt. 2: I am going to review a bunch of medal games, and you're gonna either like that or you won't
We can say that an anime is officially “for old people”– or, charitably, "a nostalgia title"– when it gets the pachinko/slot treatment. Incidentally, there are two different Code Geass slots on Gapoli.
arcade games
Gapoli is not the Sega/Sammy Super Game, but you can trade your points for a TV, so maybe it actually is
Before I go any further I need to explain the weird, fascinating legalized prize-room gambling going on in this app.
games
I inevitably got hooked on Konami medal games for a week - 1 - Intro and Bingo
(This ran quite long so I decided to split it into two pieces: one is a general introduction to the concept, and the other is about the various bingo games I played.) Recently I got hooked on watching a Youtuber play various Japanese medal games— fake money gambling games with
fgc
Beta report: The new 3-versus-3 mode in Guilty Gear Strive is chaotic, hard to read, probably not to be taken too seriously… and is a total blast
In this video you can see what Arc has in mind for the 3v3 mode, ideally. It’s not what happens when you play it for the very first time with a bunch of randos. The other weekend Arc System Works beta tested a new 6-player, 3vs3 game mode in
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In Tekken 8, I have to shift my brain between “smart” and “stupid” gears over and over again
In its nearly decade-long run, Tekken 7 left behind a complete package that left nowhere to go next. The gameplay is that unique Tekken blend; it works because it works, and you don’t mess with it. The graphics are already pretty high-end ten years later. The cast– adding enough
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Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Spoiler Space - don’t worry, I won’t say anything in the subject line
This is probably the first thing you want to know, right? I just want to get it out of the way...
video games
Nier: Automata's 2B in Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising is not the character Nier from Granblue Fantasy, that's a different character
Nier from Granblue Fantasy is the evil catgirl. This is 2B from the videogame Nier: Automata in the fighting game spinoff of Granblue Fantasy where Nier, an evil catgirl, is also present.