Mahjong: Master Journey Free

You see a page of the story, play one round, then see another page of the story, play another round.
The story Mahjong: Master Journey Free is told in the form of a comic book.
And so on. Every 5 rounds, you change locales. This mostly affects the tile set used.
Solitaire mahjong games were really pioneered on the PC,
where you have large color monitors that makes the tiles clearly seen and a mouse to quickly pick the tile you want.
It can be tricky to do this on a smaller screen with no mouse.
This does a pretty decent job though. First off, it has a zoom function.
You can manually zoom in and or, or better,
there is an auto zoom function which gives you the maximum amount of zoom centered around all playable pieces.
It’s not perfect, but it does the job 95% of the time, I’d say.
You can also highlight which tiles are “free” so you know which ones you can match.
Picking the tiles you use is done by moving the d-pad around.
Basically it simply goes through all the tiles that can be picked for a valid move.
It’s a pretty decent solution but sometimes can be tricky selecting just which tile you want since the tiles are not set in even rows.
Besides the story mode, there is “Classic Mode”, where you simply pick the layout used (there are 99 of them) and the tileset (5 of them).
There is also something called “Endless Mode”, which isn’t explained.
You simply pick a tile set and apparently just match tiles until you get bored (or perhaps you can’t match any more?
I got bored after ten minutes and quit, so I dunno).
So like Chapter 2, there is a staggering amount of gameplay here.
Indeed, I bought Chapter 2 when it first came out, played it a ton,
and I still haven’t even finished the story mode, much less have played all the layouts in classic mode.
Although it’s an older game, this actually feels newer.
Mahjong: Master Journey Free is a great game, but perhaps because it was free title, it wasn’t that polished.
It was rough here and there and some things weren’t explained very well in game. This has the polish that Chapter 2 lacks.
On the other hand, it’s a bit duller in terms of gameplay than Chapter 2.
The powerups are less powerful, the story isn’t as interesting.
On the flip side, I liked the tilesets in this better, much easier to see, the ones in Chapter 2 seemed to be designed to be a bit tricky.