寿司王 -sushi ou-

I've been enjoying this game so far. I've been looking through the locale files and google translating them to figure out the yaku. I plan to post a guide when I'm done, but I don't know when that will be. Maybe an official English translation will be made before then. In regards to the game itself, if you want some alteration on Riichi Mahjong, this is a pretty good game. It's a simplification of Mahjong, maybe too simple. Because the only hand is 5 pairs, the heuristic for adding something to your hand is too simple. Similarly, a large portion of the complexity of defense is gutted. Because most sushi are very similar in value and you cannot build sequences, no sushi is more efficient than another, so sakigiri doesn't exist. Similar, without sequences, suji does not exist. I also believe furiten doesn't exist. What this means is that when playing defense, your only surefire defense is card-counting: dropping the most-discarded card in your hand is the safest. Sushi Ou answers this problem in an interesting way: eating. With your drawn sushi, you have an option of eating it, you can do this up to 5 times a game and it costs 200 yen. This is different from discarding in that it …