Review GigaDeathNullGolem 4/5 · Oct 19, 2017
'Slayer' Mode
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"There are actually two games included here: the aforementioned Shanghai and a variant called Dragon's Eye, in which two players (or one player and the CPU) are pitted against each other as "Dragon Slayer" and "Dragon Master." The Dragon Slayer is trying to "slay the dragon" by clearing a small board using tiles from a hand …
I'll copy this:
"There are actually two games included here: the aforementioned Shanghai and a variant called Dragon's Eye, in which two players (or one player and the CPU) are pitted against each other as "Dragon Slayer" and "Dragon Master." The Dragon Slayer is trying to "slay the dragon" by clearing a small board using tiles from a hand of 6 whilst the Dragon Master is trying to "awaken the dragon" by filling the board from a hand of three. The board starts out with 8 tiles arranged in the centre in a square. If the slayer cannot clear a pair he must add a tile to the board, whilst the master just adds a tile and then draws a new one. There's a "flip" button for use in two-player games so players can hide their hands before their human opponents look back at the screen (take note WiiWare card game developers) and then buttons for drawing tiles and ending your turn. Otherwise it plays much the same as the familiar solitaire game"
IBM version. I enjoyed this. Dragon's Eye/Slayer is cool. I would play it with the fantasy themed tile set that had orcs, goblins knights and various martial weapons, but otherwise had very little interest in the 'normal' watered down game of shanghai. In an era where there was only physical MTG cards, (and few places to play) this strange repurposing of mahjong tiles was a unique experience and not half bad card/board game VG adaptation... I should give Shanghai III a chance sometime.