Mahjong Magic Journey

Mobile Trash..

Wanting to play something without an asinine time limit by MTX filled Lost Lands: Mahjong, I bought this dirt cheap. I refunded this in 50 mins.

CONS:

1. UI/UX: Garbage UI/UX that feels unresponsive. You can't even deselect cards you've selected, though I'm sure there's any need to since you can just keep clicking any card without any negatives.
   
   You can't scale UI or change rest. It's one of those indie games where all art is made at like 1280x720 res and then scaled up in a blurry mess on higher res. Which is also the reason all cards look tiny, since the art is designed for mobiles, not PC with larger resolutions. There is no borderless fullscreen, so if you watch YouTube or something on a secondary monitor while playing this game (the reason why I bought it), the game keeps getting minimized.
   
   So tiny cards, terrible mobile UI, unresponsive menus, sound sliders which don't properly depict the volume levels, etc. It's just a terrible experience.
   
   
   
   
2. GAMEPLAY ANNOYANCE: Now the biggest reason for me, for refunded this game, was the asinine "HINT" a lot of these indie shovelware games have.
   
   "What's that? Took more than 5 seconds to look around and find the cards? Well, we can't have that. Here, let the game highlight matching cards for you because you must be brain-dead."
   
   This is the same shit a lot of match 3 games have. You aren't allowed to sit down and enjoy a game, you have to keep playing non-stop, no breather, else the game will spoil the game for you by throwing hints.
   
   Nah, I'm good.
   
   
   
   
3. SHOVELWARE WITH STOLEN ASSET-FLIPS?: If you look at other titles in the series "Mahjong Magic Journey", developer spammed these games on Steam with only background changes. These are all the same games with only backgrounds changed. Some person in reviews have even claimed the backgrounds were stolen from the net (those wallpaper sites).
   
   Whether or not the images are stolen, these games are just dumped without any effort or improvements put into them, which is funny because these games were dumped years apart on Steam, and are all same with missing achievements and Steam cards from anything but the first game (which was added to Steam on 2018, years after second and third title in the series).
   
   
   
   

PROS:

[*] First game in the "series" of shovelware is dirt cheap, if you don't care about quality and are dying to play more Mahjong (with tiny cards on res larger than 1080p).

I refunded it. Not a big fan of lazy mobile games being dumped on Steam with minimum effort and attention put into them to make them desktop playable.

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SCRAPPY JUNKYARD - Curator Group

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This game takes you on a magical Mahjong journey! couldn't believe how much Mahjong was on the journey this game took me on. Just wow

It's Mahjong :shrug: