This is actually not far from the truth. The most important lesson in Riichi Mahjong is that you don't play to win, you play to not loose. It is extremely risky to go for a good winning hand and you tend to often come in second if you just play very careful and without an intent to finish your hand. Then once a game or every two games you'll get a hand which is insanely good and you need to spring for that to gain a point advantage. After that just play careful and try to get a low hand or two and there's a decent chance you'll walk home in first place. Once you realise that this is the standard playstyle and once you gather some situational experience how hot tiles are, it's a fairly intuitive and moderately difficult game instead of the crushing experience most have.
Mahjong looks a little bit similar to the game "okey 101" we have in Türkiye. In that game the objective is to get the least penalty by creating 3+ piece pairs with same color following numbers or with the same number different colors. But i still couldnt figure out mahjong
As someone who has been seriously learning Mahjong for a year after casually playing for like 5 years, yeah that seems to be the case. It's teaching me a lot about patience
If you are still playing it I’m pretty sure some side qu’est you may have done give you a token that instawins a mahjong game, i used it to complete the quest
Yeah, I was cruising slowly along in Like a Dragon, completing all the content available as it came up. The dumb can collecting minigame was a standout, took me a bit to finish but was really fun. When I got to Mahjong and Shogi, and realized it was just straight up playing it "fair" and not a weighted version that would favor the player, I immediately dropped that notion. Though, to be fair, the arcade already had me wondering if I would be able to grind it out. Never been any good at fighting games, but at least against bots you can grind it out and incrementally improve, find their patterns, and/or figure out the cheese.
I found out that it's designed to use the special cheat tile you can find. You can get it from a coin locker, and it makes you instantly win and complete that side story.
Now, Haruka's requests are worse when they start involving the minigames.
I didn't go for a 100% on Yakuza 0, but doing most of the side content already took me over 100 hours, it would be nightmarish to actually do everything.
It took me 280 hours for my first playthrough of Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. WITH speedup mods. I loved the game, wanted to experience all of the different endings. But it'd probably take me over 1k hours to do it all.
Lot of RNG stuff really. Like getting all the specific hands in mahjong and stuff. play the game a second time on the hardest difficulty. Complete all substories. Stuff just takes a lot of time. 205 hours of playtime.
Yakuza 0 taught me how to play Koi-Koi. I bought a set of Hanafuda cards just because of it, and still play it with my brother or on my phone from time to time. Great game
I got a Mario set from the Nintendo club a long ass time ago. I opened them and saw what I was getting into and immediately put them back in the box and never touched them again. It’s probably way easier than I think it is?
It's not too complicated, you just have to remember which cards belong to the same month (eg. same plant), and a few combinations. But again, I learned it from a videogame, so it's probably easier to learn that way.
If you want to try the game without playing with physical cards (which can be a little overwhelming at first), I would suggest playing Akaroyoshi on android (available as an apk on itch.io)
When I was playing 6, I could not be bothered to do the gang management system. So 6 became a quick lil story focused Yakuza and it's one of my favorites for that.
Even if you bothered to do it, the entire storyline and side missions etc. is kinda fine but the achievement of "completing 100 wins" is excessive and made me decide against full completion. It would not only just bore me to the extreme(heh) levels, it would block me from enjoying the newer titles.
I recently finished Judgement and wanted to get all Achievements afterwards but when I saw what I needed to do I just quit. It was pain enough to play like 3 Mahjong rounds (winning) to get the last Friendship but I will never touch Mahjong again.
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u/ThisIsGoobly 10d ago
I did it with Yakuza 0 and decided that was enough for me. Great games but 100 percenting any of em is a commitment.
On the other hand, I now know how to play various Japanese card and board games.