Banjou no Geass Gekijou: A Discussion Post

[kagu-chan.livejournal.com]

And now for something to take minds off the soul-crushing heartache festival that is Episode 18.

コードギアスR2:　ばんじょうのギアスげきじょう Anything Goes Post

The .rom's been out for a few days now and some of you've probably had a chance to play around with the game already. Therefore, this post is for sharing anything related to the game that you have to offer! Including but not limited to:

- Gameplay tips and instructions
- Easter eggs and how to get them
- Screencaps/icons from screencaps
- Translations
- Storyline help
- Gameplay mechanics help
- Fangirl/boyish rambles

Etc. Perhaps the most important detail: what on earth is Donjara (どんじゃら）?

Comments

[kagu-chan.livejournal.com]

...I don't know how to play mahjong exactly, though. ;; If you could explain how to play Donjara I would be eternally gratefuuuuul.

[aya-kari.livejournal.com]

I can explain it I hope! I didn't know about Donjara before, but after trying it a thousand times I've come to understand it and love it XD

Well, the thing is getting three groups of three cards (I don't know what they are so I'll just use "card" xD) of the same kind before the other player does. At the beginning, you have a deck of 8 cards with different characters. You must take a new card each turn and leave another one from your deck (it can be the one you just took). So if, for example, you have two cards of the same kind at the beginning, you should discard the ones you only have once, as you have to make three groups of three as quickly as possible.

The different kind of possible groups are 3 Lelouch, 3 Nunnally, 3 Rolo, 3 Kallen, 3 C.C., 3 Charles, 3 Suzaku, 3 Jeremiah, and 3 cards with a yellow background (for example Gino, Anya and Shirley or Viletta, Diethard and Xingke etc.). So if you have, let's say, 3 Lelouch, 3 Nunnally and 3 Rolo, it's donjara.

There are combinations which give more points though. For example, the one above gets you more points because the three are Lamperouge. There's a list of special combinations at www.geass-game.jp, if you click on the third button inside the DONJARA section (I can't read kanji lol so I don't know what it says).

(Let me send this so I don't lose it and I'll continue explaining now xD)

[aya-kari.livejournal.com]

So, each turn you leave a card, right? You can see which card your opponent leaves at the upper screen. If you already have 2 or more of that kind, in your turn you'll get the option of "PON". If you choose that, you take that last card he left and put it together with the other 2 cards you had to make a group. This is usually good to do unless you're aiming to form a combination that shouldn't include that group. For example, if I have Lelouch, Nunnally, Rolo, Kallen, C.C., Viletta (or any yellow background character) and two Suzakus and the other player leaves a Suzaku, you get the PON option to take it and form one of the three groups to make donjara, but if you look at the combination list, there's a special one that you can get when you have all the different characters (you only one with the yellow background). In this case, it'd be easier to win if I chose not to take Suzaku and waited to get Charles and Jeremiah, so you can choose "cancel" and not be forced to form a donjara with a group of Suzakus.

When you're only one card left from doing donjara, the option "RIICHI" appears. After that, you have to wait until you get the card you need by yourself (by taking a new card each turn and leaving it if it's not the one you need), or if your opponent leaves it you can take it and do donjara to. When you take the last card from him it's called "RON" and if you just get it yourself it's "TSUMO". If your opponent is in RIICHI and you are afraid of leaving precisely the card he needs you should look at the last cards he's been leaving, as that probably means those aren't the kind he needs. So if for example, you would like to leave a Lelouch and a Charles and he just left a Charles, choose to leave the Charles, as it's not the one he needs to make donjara.

...And I think that's it? xD If I left something or if I didn't explain myself probably (-is Spanish D:-) ask away, I'll be glad to help ^^

[kagu-chan.livejournal.com]

...I love you. ♥ Thanks to you I'm currently about 2/3rds through the ministories (only one character left to unlock, uhuhu). It's horrifyingly addictive. D:

[kagu-chan.livejournal.com]

Also, one more question: in the two rows of face-down tiles between your tiles and your opponent's, there's always one piece opened at the beginning of each round. What's that for? :O

[aya-kari.livejournal.com]

Lol I wonder myself too XD I haven't been able to guess what it is, even though I play as an addict as well *-*

Also, really glad I could help ^^!

[sweet-chii.livejournal.com]

I was wondering about this, too, but I think I might have figured it out? Maybe, haha.

I think that whatever tile happens to be the one opened, if you have that tile in your hand and you win the round, then you get extra points. For example, let's say, you have 3 Lelouch tiles and the opened tile in the middle is Lelouch, then you'll get the extra points.

I'm not completely sure if that's what it is, but I always see an extra ”ドラ(???)" thing when I receive points. ^^; I'm not sure if I explained it well enough, but I hope that helped?

[aya-kari.livejournal.com]

Thanks! ^^ You're right, that must be it then x9

[sweet-chii.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! I can only hope so, haha. xD