Perfectly competent guideline Tetris game. Although, the "story" mode (the main reason I played this) is a bit of a misnomer--so, you know how Tetris tends to have an endless mode and a marathon mode? Yeah, well, the story mode is just marathon mode. There's a opening cutscene that does some worldbuilding, some blurbs in the info menu, and a short little 3-5 second long animation when starting and ending a game, but that's about it, as far as a proper story goes.
Still, it's guideline Tetris, and guideline Tetris is good. Some of the modes are definitely better than others, Hot-line is interesting since you're incentivized to stack poorly and be good at recovering near the top, Fusion introduces single block pieces that can't be cleared away which makes clearing the board a fun challenge. They're not all hits though, Sticky doesn't ask you to play any differently than in normal Tetris (except you get cascades now), Cascade is fine (but I found chaining cascades much easier in Fusion), and Square isn't great since it fucks with the bag system and asks you to build these really ugly and imposing squares, but at the end of the day you don't have to play all of the modes and you still get Tetris.
Didn't take me very long to mute the announcer though, I never do that in any Tetris game but I can only handle so much sensually whispered "single"s before it gets annoying, which it turns out is only like 30 minutes worth.
Still, it's guideline Tetris, and guideline Tetris is good. Some of the modes are definitely better than others, Hot-line is interesting since you're incentivized to stack poorly and be good at recovering near the top, Fusion introduces single block pieces that can't be cleared away which makes clearing the board a fun challenge. They're not all hits though, Sticky doesn't ask you to play any differently than in normal Tetris (except you get cascades now), Cascade is fine (but I found chaining cascades much easier in Fusion), and Square isn't great since it fucks with the bag system and asks you to build these really ugly and imposing squares, but at the end of the day you don't have to play all of the modes and you still get Tetris.
Didn't take me very long to mute the announcer though, I never do that in any Tetris game but I can only handle so much sensually whispered "single"s before it gets annoying, which it turns out is only like 30 minutes worth.
What Tetris finally needed: a plotline.
Música irritante, cenários feios.
i used to play this in 8th grade on the chrombook when i was bored
How do you make Tetris so boring
this game made me go mentally insane
Funny as fuck tbh
traumatizing
The closest we'll ever got to a Hylics & Tetris crossover, and it's like, exactly as good as you'd expect it to be.
How did they make Tetris weird?
we must find a new home
Honestly one of the best Tetris games ever. Story Tetris goes hard!
You can't go wrong with Tetris but this isn't necessarily my favorite version of Tetris we've had.
The whole fun of the GBA version is seeing what fucked up early CG animal is gonna show up in the background next
Shitty, chunky Tetris with fart noises for a soundtrack.
YEAH BABY ITS TETRIS!!
A sexy woman narrates this game, calling out each clear type as you land it. If you are playing poorly and only clearing one line at a time, you will repeatedly hear her whisper “single” in your ear as you struggle to keep your head above water. This is one of the funniest jokes the medium of video games has ever told.
There are better Tetris games.
god the narrator is hot
The only reason I got to play it it's because, for some weird reason, it was bundled with Star Wars Episode II tie-in game on Xbox.
we must find a new home