This one's been a long time coming!
For those of you unfamiliar with Tetris the Grandmaster,
this ancient post will get you up to speed. Before Tetris came to Nintendo, it was a Sega arcade game, and the Grandmaster series is a continuation of that tradition which tweaks the typical formula just enough to create a faster experience.
This fourth game has a few compromises due to orders from on high at the Tetris Company. The hold feature and multiple piece previews make the game more strategic and less manic than TGM1 and TGM2, and there's a new game mode where you (of course) collect anime girls; thankfully, you can turn off the former in the settings and ignore the latter.
Why get this game rather than the Hamster port of TGM2 if the best way to play it is by customizing it to be the same thing? Two reasons for me: those crunchy new audiovisual effects, and the Asuka and Practice modes, which I'm hoping might be enough to finally get me over the Level 400 hump I've run into in TGM2.
A new version of a game is also a great rallying point for revitalizing interest in a series, whether that's your own interest or your friends'. I just played TGM2 for the first time in about a year last night, so this timing was perfect. Join in!
(It's dangerous to go alone,
take this...)
