#MAHJONG ARTIFACTS GAME PSP#

This is all to draw the player into a story that is told before game boards are laid out.

The game boards represent different locations across the world, and the tiles’ art changes accordingly. I found myself hoarding pearls to make sure that I was able to dig myself out of bad plays. Both of these twists add a bit of new strategy to the old game. On top of that, special game tiles do similar things, like freeing up stuck tiles. These moves range from rewinding your last move to shuffling the entire board to help you out in a pinch. These pearls can be used for special moves to help you along. Random tiles have an embedded pearl in them, and a successful match with these tiles frees the pearl for your collection. Pairing tiles is much more fun that it sounds, and the spins that Mahjong Artifacts 2 puts on the classic game keeps things interesting. If you’re rusty or new to mahjongg, the title comes with a solid tutorial to play through. The rule, as always, is that you can only remove tiles that are not covered, and are open on their sides. You pick the ones that match and remove them from the board, with the goal of removing them all eventually. It goes down as always: Tiles with different pictures are spread out on a board.

#MAHJONG ARTIFACTS GAME PSP#

Is this particular PSP mini worth the asking price? I think so, but then again, I like mahjong. I never played the first one, but that didn’t stop me from giving several hours of my life to tile matching and stereotypical Asian background music. The “2” in the title implies that there is a Mahjongg Artifacts 1. This is Mahjongg Artifacts 2, a PSP minis title.

Some days I played this title until my eyes became crossed. It seemed to fill some gap in my PSPgo library that I didn’t know needed filling.

But I will say that I played the hell out of this title. I’m not going to tell you that this is some groundbreaking videogame.

Mahjong artifacts game