Mahjongg Artifacts: Chapter 2 review

Another Mini where you will want your mute button handy! When you get to the menu screen the first thing you'll notice is the horrible music - then you'll see there's 3 different gameplay options in this game; there's "Play Quest", "Play Classic", and "Play Endless." Sounds fun. It's all typical Mahjongg really, as you would expect.

The controls are rather annoying, but easy to get used to. R1 is used to zooming into the cards for better viewing. The analogue stick is then used to move around, and L1 is used to zoom back out again. L1 + R1 together make it autozoom, which actually works fairly well. Select will toggle the game to only show the free tiles, with the rest blacked out, which makes for easier playing. Then you simply use the D-Pad to move the cursor and select two identical tiles, as you would in any other Mahjonngg game.There is also the option to press triangle for a hint, which will instantly show you where two identical tiles are. Pressing circle will undo moves. Like i said, the controls are numerous, but they make sense, and they don't really take many minutes to get comfortable with.

Quest Mode is what you might just call normal mode. You basically just play through levels doing the Mahjonng thing of destroying all of the identical tiles. Classic is much the same again except you choose the layout that you want to play, from 99 different layouts. That's a lot of value for your money right there!

In endless mode you choose from a tileset and then you play through that i assume. I got too bored to try it out.

If you're a fan of Mahjonng games (and haven't got bored of them yet, in which case there must be something wrong with you), then yeah i totally recommend this for you, as i'm sure you will love it. If you haven't played a Mahjonng game before, and you want to get into them, then this is a good game to buy to start!

I'm sick of typing Mahjonng. Who decided to spell it in such a stupid way?

Mahjongg Artifacts: Chapter 2