Video by Matt S. Hanafuda cards – particularly the Koi Koi game that is played using those cards – might just be my favourite Japanese traditional game – I like Shogi and Kendama too, don’t get me wrong, but there’s a beauty about Hanafuda cards that has always drawn me…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Everyone knows that the minigames are almost the best thing about the Yakuza series. There’s just so many of them in each game, and for “minigames” they’re often as not better in a Yakuza title than they are when the entire game is built around them.…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. You can learn a lot about a culture from the games that it plays. I’m not just talking about video games here (though, obviously, I’m a big advocate for Japanese video games as well), but rather the traditional board and card games that predate video games.…
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