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The Hanafuda game is in the DC version of LB2. It is available after you beat the game once with any character. There is a demo viewer in the game that allows you to watch all the cinema sequences, staff rolls, cutscenes and character endings without having to play through the game. By beating the game with a character, you unlock all their demos. If you beat the hanafuda game with a given character, you unlock their LB1 ending and can view it in the demo mode. You can also watch all the cutscenes and cinemas from LB1 as well. They're grainy, and appear to have been captured using FMV techniques, but at least they're available.
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Hanafuda is a complicated game to explain in this forum, but I'll give it a shot. Here goes.
A Hanafuda deck consists of 48 cards, seperated into 12 suits of four cards each. Each of the suits represents one month of the year. A full game is concluded when 12 hands, one for each month, has been played, and is best played with three people. The winner is the one that won the most hands. The key to being victorious at Hanafuda is learning which cards are a part of which suits. Check out the gallery mode to study the cards better. You can look at them in greater detail than when playing the game, and they're in order according to suits. The first four cards in the gallery are the first suit, and so on.
The point of basic Hanafuda is a lot like Go Fish or War. If a card in your hand matches the same suit as one on the discard table, you draw the match and it's worth points at the end of the hand. You then draw a card from the remaining stack and if it matches with a discard you take it. If it doesn't, you discard it. The way you match up the suits in normal Hanafuda is by the tree, flower, or plant on the card. For example, January is represented by pine trees. Therefore, the four cards with pine trees on them are all part of the same suit. It's the same rule with all of them, except November. There's a wierd red card, called Rain or Flood in traditional Hanafuda, that is part of the November suit, which is the most valuable suit in the game because they're worth the most points. A willow tree is the symbol of November on all the cards EXCEPT Rain. In LB, the Rain card is red and has Awakened Kaede on it with lightning in the background.
That's basic Hanafuda. Too bad you don't play that version in LB2
. The game you're playing in LB2 is a variant of Hanafuda called Eighty Eight. In Eighty Eight, play stops when a certain combination of cards come into the possession of one of the players, who wins the hand. Eighty Eight is a lot more hectic, exciting and fast paced than basic Hanafuda. The trick is to always go for the most powerful cards as quickly as possible. For example, the combination of the three cards of Moriya with the red moon, Kagami sitting on his throne, and Lee dancing with the dragon head, are powerful, and instantly do five points of damage to your enemy. Likewise, all of the Tanzaku (ribbon) cards of the same type (purple, red, or with writing) captured by the same player equate to big damage.
Once you have a combination, you can choose to inflict your damage right then and there, or you can choose to withhold in the hopes of getting another combination to inflict even greater damage. In other words, if I hold off my five point combo and draw another five point combo two turns later, I can now do ten points to my opponent! The upside of this style of play is greater skill and bigger damage. The downside is that the longer you wait, the more opportunity you give the computer to hit you before you can 2X combo him and the more opportunity you give him to take cards that prevent you from getting the double goozle
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You can also do damage when you acquire a certain number of a type of card. For example, five of any of the more powerful cards will allow you to do damage, as will ten of the basic cards. Damage is low in these cases (as I'm sure you have seen), and is the result of not being able to get a more efficient combo, but it's better than doing nothing or drawing (AYUJI!!).
Anyway, to learn which combos do the most, study the cards in gallery mode and watch the computer as he inflicts damage on you with those same combinations. Eventually, you'll know what cards to go for from the outset.
Hope that helps
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And as far as fighting games goes, I don't necessarily like sword fighting games but I'm into feudal eastern culture. If Soul Calibur didn't have ninjas, samurai and chinese martial arts in them I probably wouldn't care much. But SS and LB, being a huge fan of samurai literature, history and cinema, are right up my alley. I'm still a bigger fan of KOF and FF, but not by much
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Taiso
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