I really do love how often I see the fighting game player to shmup player pipeline in action. It’s a real thing
in my experience there's a hard generational line that determines who goes to other arcade genres and who completely divests and goes full degenerate MMO player
inevitably, all roads lead to poker/chess/mahjong
if mahjong is the last stop on the road to FGC Retirement then Yumeiro Yuram's like, FGC Assisted Living
This upcoming Japanese mahjong sim not only claims to be the first online mahjong client to allow for manual shuffling and wall-building, complete with simulated physics, it's also offering a goddamned training mode for those who want to lab setting up the table
(it also claims to have super-flexible custom rule configs, so it might be worth paying attention to sans-gimmick)
