In further news, Nintendo has announced it’s intentions to sue Nintendo over trademark violations.
I actually never played old Tetris, even though I had a NES and a gameboy. I was kinda late on the Tetris bandwagon.
There’s a sort of NES Tetris mode in Tetris Effect. Having played mainly “modern” Tetris, like DS, standard Effect and 99, I just hadn’t realized how I’d miss all the little things that were refined around the 90s. No hard drop, no super rotation, completely random block distribution, no hold… Rough.
Weird that a game that looks exactly the same could feel that different.
If you want to get weirder, Tengen released the first version of Tetris on NES. It looks better. It plays worse.
Wait. It wasn’t already there? How?
They’ve been messing around with Tetris this entire generation. So many better Tetris games have existed before and we got stuck with Tetris 99 (which admittedly isn’t the worst, just distracting imo), Tetris Effect (more distractions, less fun), and a slew of ancient games, some connected to pay services.
My favorite Tetris of all time, and I’m no master, is The New Tetris, from N64. Its feature of block making (4x4 constructions) was very interesting. Some Tetris games since then have implemented their own unique features, some more interesting than others. All of these games have been tabled in favor of those others I mentioned, with the closest being another flop imo, Puyo Puyo Tetris. Some garbage combination with terrible graphics.
Tetris has been done dirty over the last several years. And, this latest game, Tetris Forever, looks like a tribute to that terribleness!
Tetris Effect is damned near perfect, IMO. You can turn off the visual effects / particle diarrhea, but the audio immersion & synchronization is «chef’s kiss», and it plays so well.
If you’ve not tried it once in VR, you need to.
I’ve only played in VR, and the weird part is after a while, the visuals barely register. I’m too focused on the game to notice the crazy shit happening in the background. Like, oh, wait, there are dolphins now… For how long have they been there?
Sound feedback is awesome though.
And I’m a big fan of the co-op 3 player connected game.
I appreciate that. Maybe I’ll mess around with the options some more. I believe it’d be the Tetris game I’d look at again if I ended up doing so. No access to VR, but that might be neat.
Remember Tetrisphere? That one was fun and interesting.
I’m not sure I played that one but the name is definitely familiar.
