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<\/a><\/p>\nGame story (attract mode)<\/h2>\n
Our hapless hero Kousuke is out for a walk in the woods, when he finds a suspicious door (with the Nichibutsu owl on it).\u00a0 He unwisely opens it and falls into a dark void.\u00a0 When he wakes up, he comes face to face with bunny girl Vanilla.<\/p>\n
Oh, did you just wake up? Are you feeling okay…? <\/p>\n Nice to meet you… Hey, wait a second!<\/span> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n When you’ve put in a credit a screen will appear allowing the player to continue using a code from a previous game, or start a new game.<\/p>\n Start will begin a new game, use A-N to enter the code if you have one, use Riichi to move the cursor right, Kan to move left, Pon to delete the selected letter and Ron to enter the code.\u00a0 Pressing Ron with an invalid code is fun.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If you beat me, I’ll let you choose one door key.<\/span> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n From here the game follows a sequence of item shop, Mahjong round, key selection, and back to item shop again.\u00a0 Instead of having to deplete Vanilla’s points as in other games, you simply have to beat a single hand.\u00a0 Should you lose a round you will lose points, but these are accumulated as you play.\u00a0 The more points your hand is worth, the more carrots you’ll receive – currency in the item shop.<\/p>\n A. “Take back!”<\/strong> – “After being dealt a tile, you may exchange it for another tile once!” If you have any familiarity with these games, most of the above will make sense, but here are the explanations:<\/p>\n A – you get 10 seconds, select any tiles you want to replace before the timer runs out.<\/em> This is the main game window, Vanilla will encourage you and generally react to the flow of play, lots of good artwork here and the music each round alternates between a few tracks.\u00a0 Everything else should be fairly obvious here – it’s very standard rules and she will make fun of you if you end up in Furiten.\u00a0 As with most Nichibutsu Mahjong games, finishing hands quickly is usually more important than big points.\u00a0 If the game decides it’s time to crush you and hikes the rank up to max, no amount of points will help.\u00a0 I’ve seen 75k banked turned into zero with 3 losses.<\/p>\n This is the key selection screen upon winning a round.\u00a0 At the start of the game red 1 & 8, green 3 & 8 and blue 8 are unavailable.\u00a0 This location notation is used for the entire walkthrough.\u00a0 You don’t really get much time to select the key, use M and N to navigate and Ron to select – it does wrap from red 1 to blue 8 though which can be useful.\u00a0 Behind each key is a character from this dimension who may give the player a quest or a clue.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hey, try one more time!<\/span> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n If you lose all your points you’ll be encouraged to continue, but if you choose not to the game will give you a code for picking up where you left off later.\u00a0 Without this feature I suspect nobody would have the patience to beat the game.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 50 or more carrots will turn into 50.<\/span> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The message about 50 carrots I believe means that any carrots you have in excess of 50 will be discarded.\u00a0 You get quite a long time to record the code presumably so people can rush around an arcade trying to borrow a pen.\u00a0 Finally after all that, it’s time for the actual walkthrough!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>Who are you…? And… where am I…?
\n<\/span>You opened the door to another dimension.<\/span>
\nI’m Vanilla, the guardian of that other dimension. Nice to meet you!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSend me back to my world! I have a date to go on!
\n<\/span>Sure…<\/span>
\nI’ll give you a chance if you take me on at mahjong…!<\/span>
\nSo… What’s it gonna be?
\n<\/span>Okay! I’ll do it!<\/span><\/p>\nPlaying the game<\/h2>\n
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\nChoose carefully and find the one that leads back to your world, okay?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>Select the powerup and press M ot Start to buy it, or N to return to selection.\u00a0 At selection N (“I don’t need anything!”) or Start will leave the shop.\u00a0 The powerups are as follows (actual translations):<\/p>\n
\nB. “Stop Riichi!”<\/strong> – “When you want to cancel a Riichi, just press the Start button after doing a Tsumo!”
\nC. “Just a peek!”<\/strong>– “When I do a Riichi, I’ll show you the tiles needed to beat my hand for three seconds…”
\nD. “Magic spell Nenkororin”<\/strong> – “After being dealt a tile, you will be able to see the upcoming 10 tiles!!”
\nE. “One shot!”<\/strong> – “Once you do a Riichi, there’s a 99% chance you’ll finish in one go!”
\nF. “This one!”<\/strong> – “Before being dealt a tile, you are shown a list of four and can pick any one you like to play!”<\/p>\n
\nB – after Riichi the game locks your hand, unlike some other games you can’t cancel it by taking a tile to improve your hand.\u00a0 Use this item by pressing Start to remove Riichi state if something good comes up.\u00a0 Once purchased you retain this item across hands and continues – it will show as unavailable in the shop if you have one stocked.<\/em>
\nC – simply displays the tiles Vanilla needs when she uses Riichi.<\/em>
\nD – at the start of the game Vanilla gets electrocuted and falls asleep, you have a short amount of time where you can take up to 10 tiles to improve your hand – for the price this one is great.<\/em>
\nE – next time you Riichi (carries across hands) it will be a special orange carrot, 99% chance of getting a hand finishing tile.\u00a0 Don’t waste this one if Vanilla is already in Riichi state and instead play for time.<\/em>
\nF – pick from one of four possible starting hands, not sure how useful this is given the cost.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nCome on… No can do?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\n Let’s meet again somewhere… See you later! Bye-bye!<\/span><\/p>\nVanilla Syndrome Walkthrough (full steps)<\/h2>\n\n