got a chance to try out yumeiro yuram! it's gonna take a bit more getting used to but I like it. at my beginner level, I got an advantage against a similar beginner by screenwatching a little bit, and launching decent sized attacks as quickly as possible when I was confident that the opponent couldn't counter. but I also played someone else who was much better at planning yaku than me and I got pulverised

the game starts you off with a few tetrominos each time, so you have to plan yaku that work with that starting arrangement. I was just trying to match colours and make spreads (bottom half full of tetrominos) or squares, but I got a lot of "all colour" and "shape connect" yaku without planning anything

the character in the demo has a character skill that increases the chances of pieces with two of the same colour appearing. another character's skill increases the visible "next piece" queue from 3 to 5. I wonder what skills the other characters will have

gonna play a bit more now