Pentix Nova - Falling Blocks 4+

I love this game. But every time I ACCIDENTALLY tap the advertisement below the main play area, it opens a Safari browser window. Then, when I try to go back to Pentix, it reloads Pentix and I have to start a new game, rather than resuming the game I had in progress. This is very frustrating, especially when it was a long game & I was very close to winning.

I tried using the developer website to report the bug. But the link never works. So I never actually get to the website.

It’s a serviceable Tetris variant. At first I was making a lot of mistakes with the touch controls but you get used to them and the app has a decent enough UI. the Pentix game mode with only pentominoes is pretty difficult by nature and that’s where some of the mechanics start to be a problem. The hold function in this game doesn’t work like other games, making it feel punishing. Basically in other tetris games you can switch the held piece at will, but in this game you have to hold and then unhold that piece before you can hold again. There are some problematic pieces that you basically will want to hold 100% of the time, so you have to be playing around this hold and unhold mechanic which is a bit frustrating. It’s not as big a deal with the other game modes which are significantly easier. All in all I’ve sunk some time into this one so nice job.

I would recommend that they add two things: 1) being able to rotate the pieces both ways instead of having to choose clockwise or counterclockwise rotation. And 2) being able to start the game at different drop speeds

Other than that, the game is better than the current Tetris app in my opinion because I prefer the NES version of Tetris. It’s just plain solo competition trying to get your highest score from banging out tetrises. I actually like the 5 block piece version as well, it’s challenging and a great spin on the traditional game. Rotating the pieces both ways would really take this app to the next level but it’s a very well done version of Tetris.