Use the hints when you’re stuck! Another original mahjong game is Mahjong Connect. It’s straightforward Mahjong Solitaire with a top-down view and traditional Chinese symbols. Mahjong Classic is a superb starting point. Ready to match your way down 144 tiles of brain-puzzling symbols? Start with traditional Mahjong games to learn the basics and hone your eye for fine details. When you complete one level of tiles, the tiles below will be exposed, allowing you to match those and continue progressing down the tower. However, this is only possible if you can move the tile left or right without disturbing other tiles. The goal of Mahjong is to match the same tiles by moving them beside each other. This game includes four versions of the classic Shanghai game: The Great Wall (Shanghai meets Tetris), Bejing (Slide rows to make matches, Action Shanghai (clear tiles quickly before more appear) and Classic Shanghai (either regular or face down for an extra challenge).Traditional Mahjong is based on a board of 144 tiles stacked on top of each other. Slide all 144 tiles off the board and you win the game. Shanghai is a puzzle game using MahJongg tiles where you slide available matching tiles off the stack to reveal more tiles. Replay Value: Only die-hard mahjongg fans will stick with it for prolonged bouts of play. Sound: The sound effects become annoying and seem loud, even with the volume turned down.Įnjoyment: The games are basically fun but ultimately aren't much different than most other mahjongg games. Graphics: While some tile sets are decent looking, the overall quality isn't what it could be. The great moments in Shanghai Great Moments are few and far between and, while some element of fun is present, gameplay isn't overly exciting.
Other than the option to get hints, tournament mode simply isn't much different than normal gameplay. It's a nice addition but not particularly exciting. In two-player mode, opponents take turns and are given an arbitrary time limit to make a match. All the variations, though, seem a bit pointless since, despite slight changes in the rules or board layout, they're basically interchangeable. Action Shanghai is perhaps the most exciting but doesn't offer much more in gameplay than the normal version while Beijing, the most complex of the four, requires more strategy and is ultimately the most challenging and fun. In the Great Wall, tiles fall as those beneath them are removed but, rather than enhancing gameplay, the element seems more of an annoyance. Of the four game types included, Classic Shanghai is the most familiar, providing alternate challenges with several different layouts. While these aspects seem to be included as an attempt to bring a more informational bent to the game, most of them are too short to really teach anything and many players won't know what's being represented unless they refer to the tile guide.įortunately, the animations and sound effects can be turned off - certainly a welcome option after watching them repeatedly. Some of the sound effects are a bit frightening and loud and the animations are often quite poor. The small animations and movies given as rewards for matching two tiles are initially fun but soon become annoying and make the game go much slower than necessary. In both cases, the images are so hard to decipher it's much easier to simply match the tiles directly. The Romance and Invention sets further complicate matters by allowing you to directly match individual tiles or their respective counterparts. In others, though, such as the People and Art sets, the tiles blur together making it very difficult to make matches. For some, like the Science Fiction and Events sets, it's not a significant problem since the pictures are fairly easy to match. While the basic tile set is straightforward, all the others are plagued by their small size.
With tile sets that cover history and art as well as space exploration and romantic couples, the game seems to have a lot to share but, mostly, it's just frustrating to play. Shanghai Great Moments has an excellent premise behind it, merging traditional solitaire Mahjongg with added educational elements.
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