It's Tetris! Really good Tetris.

This old post about the game sold me on it. Tetris, refined for speed, for competition. Tetris, with a hard time limit.

Has anyone played this series? I've been dreaming about it. The Tetris effect is real.

I had no idea this even existed!

So...it's Tetris. But different from all the other various forms of the game on Switch? Refined for competition, specifically? Huh.

Not sure if want, but if it's not too hard on the ol' wallet, I might dabble in it. maybe.

@GameDadGrant

It's $7, and it's great! Don't play the classics they just put on NSO, play this!

The premise is that fall speed increases until blocks appear on the stack instantaneously, and every is balanced around this. You need to be able to pre-rotate pieces before they spawn, which means there needs to be a slight delay between when they lock and when the next one spawns. Allowing for infinite spinning would defeat the purpose of high speed, so that's out, and there's a different set of rules for how you're allowed to move a piece after it touches down but before it locks.

Because the performance expectations are so high, there's no reason to treat the game like a marathon anymore; you place 999 pieces and then the game is over. Surviving until Level 999 is a massive challenge unto itself, and then you get a rank based on your performance. It's gameplay density, all killer no filler!

Only $7? …alright. I may dabble.

Forgive me, I still played the NSO games. Wow the NES version is weird.

I hate that I made the title all caps though. And should the "Arcade Archives" be there? This is the official eshop listing!

@Secret_Tunnel

Yeah, “Arcade Archives” should be in there. Is there no way to edit the subject title?

Oh, we can edit game titles now. Much better!

Alright, I downloaded this using my stash of Gold Coins.

Hope this is good.

Yeah, it's Tetris, alright. Pretty fun. Maybe I'll try posting a high score in the online challenge mode sometime.

I'm kind of waiting for the third entry to hit Switch, but I'll definitely pick one of these up. In the meantime, I did play GBC and NES Tetris, which were recently released on NSO. I never think about stuff like UI and responsiveness and tactility, but they really are so much sharper in recent Tetris games. It was kind of hard to go back to those old-ass versions. At least give me a hard drop!

I also want to try that Tetris collection, mostly for the fabled Tetris Battle Gaiden and that new Tetris Time Warp mode that Digital Eclipse included.

Tetris!

I have kind of a soft spot for Arika. Not so much for Endless Ocean, but Street Fighter EX and Mega Man Network Transmission are good, janky times. And their NSO games are fun oddities.

@Anand

They're making a Grandmaster 4 on Steam in a couple months! Hype!

I ended up playing this for a few days and then falling out of it.

Haha, I saw that. It is kind of amazing that people are still iterating on Tetris. So many weird little variations...

I was pretty fond of The New Tetris on N64. Making the little silver and gold blocks was satisfying. Tetris Effect was decent, too. But I wasn't as bowled over by it as everyone else.