It’s well known that Tetris is a masterpiece of the art form, and Tetris Effect certainly doesn’t do anything to mess up that formula. My criticisms instead lie with how this version executes its attempts to differentiate itself from other Tetris games on the market, with the effort to make Tetris into a sensory experience. The themed maps are often bland, in both virtual and rectangle reality, showing the player such exciting sights as a bunch of hot air balloons, and only a handful of maps have the vocalized songs that are supposed to prompt emotions in the player. Furthermore, the added sensory information in the maps that are cool doesn’t add much when I’m zoned in on surviving the onslaught of fast-falling blocks or just zoning out to a podcast. So the distinguishing elements don’t add much to the impeccable base layer but hey, at least as far as Tetris games on Steam go, at least this one was made by Ubisoft.

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