Koi-Koi Japan (2015)

Hey, have you ever played koi-koi? It's a really fun game played with Hanafuda (a deck of japanese flower cards) about matching similar cards together and making sets out of them. So when I saw a someone made a video game out of it, I had no choice but to buy it. And yeah it's a good game I guess.

It does exactly what it sets out to do: It's turns Koi-Koi into an automatic video game experience, and lets you play together with your friends online. It does try to do a few more things, like adding a single player game mode that's incredibly boring, and a different single player game mode that's not as boring. There's also a hana-awase mode that I honestly don't understand at all.

The music is super stereotypically japanese and also very non-intrusive, so you don't notice it half the time. Kudos to the game for getting the card slapping sound right, though.

And as for the visual presentation... there's anime girls. A lot of different anime girls actually. They show up in the menus and in some of the AI enemy pictures, but I don't think they ever speak in the game or do anything??? idk the game is just full of really weird choices.

There is not much else to this game, honestly, but I'm not sure that's a bad thing. All the additional things it tries to do fall really flat and are very forgettable. But in the end... It's koi-koi. And koi-koi is a damn good game. And the game is really good at doing fun and responsive koi-koi gameplay.

If you like Hanafuda, and you have a few friends to play hanafuda with, then this is an excellent way to play.

In conclusion: In case you haven't noticed, I'm weird. I'm a weirdo. I don't fit in, and I don't want to fit in. Have you ever seen me play mainstream games? That's weird. 7/10.