Comments on: Statetris Game [Japan Style]

By: the overthinker

the overthinker — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:47:25 +0000

Oh, it’s definitely fun (though to be honest, I cannot see a time when knowing the actual shape of, say, Gunma, would ever actually be important). The other ones for Africa and Europe are cool too, though I didn’t even bother with the counties of South Carolina (I’m guessing that is where the game is based) or the departments of France.

By: feitclub

feitclub — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:36:15 +0000

Given that shortcoming, this game looks like great practice to learn which pieces go where. A recent Japanese quiz show had a “identify the prefecture based on its silhouette” game and I couldn’t name a one.

By: the overthinker

the overthinker — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 05:32:13 +0000

“Hard” is pretty hard, though once you realise it does the map from the bottom up it gets easier, and by the time you’re doing Tohoku it’s no problem. However Wakayama was hard – I never realised it had little outlying bits, which I thought were islands. Weird….