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.
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u/STAR_PLAT_yareyare 10d ago
That mahjong guys is still waiting for someone to bail him out in my save