Tetris‪®‬ 4+

Okay so when the app first came out it was amazing. You opened it and you played Tetris. Then they added a bunch of stuff in the menus and I didn’t touch it for a while but now it is complete. If you want that old experience, then simply turn on airplane mode. Now, however, this is the greatest. EA Tetris was crowded and kind of junky but all in all, it was good enough. This Tetris is so much better. Swipe controls will never be perfect for Tetris but these feel fantastic most of the time. There is the option for buttons which work fine, but are small and slightly awkward. They are also unscalable and immobile. If you grew up with Tetris on a Game Boy or DS like me they feel marvelous and are in a similar configuration, but their cramped size hurt my thumbs after a while. The micro-transactions are still there but they aren’t going to ruin your experience. It is kind of scummy that the premium pass needs renewed and the thirty second unskippable ads before every game are unpleasant, but understandable. There is the classic marathon Version that finally got level select. There is Tetris Royale which is kind of fun and a three minute mode for when you are in a rush. A fantastic thing that they added were local and global leaderboards. Tetris is one of my all time favorite games and this one retains everything that made Tetris amazing in the first place.

I’m a long time Tetris fan. I just recently downloaded this from the App Store and have only been playing it for a few days. I’ve come to find that while this is great if you like classic Tetris, there are some issues to this app. Here’s my biggest problem with this app. As you progress in the game you are rewarded with coins or points. Now in other games, you would save up your points to purchase different skins or textures or power ups. When I went to the “Store” section of the menu, all it gives you is the option to buy more coins with real money. I looked all over this app and there’s nothing you can purchase with your points. So that means all your rewards from completing levels are completely useless. It literally does not matter. I don’t know if this is something the developers are currently working on? But why put a cash system in the game if there’s nothing to spend them on? My final complaint about this game are the ads. Yes I know most mobile games have ads in them. But you get hit with ads after every level. And it’s always the same Gardenventures ad. So that’s it for me. It’s not a bad app at all, but if they fixed these 2 things I’d give it 5 stars.

Edit: I just found out what the points are for. You can use them to get gift cards or money off at hotels. Which I think is kinda weird for a mobile game. Like I said, make it so you can use the points to buy textures or something to use within the game.

So don’t get me wrong for a game that was originally on the nes and now is on mobile, it isn’t to bad. But there are a lot of flaws. First it kinda feels like almost a candy crush type game, adding a thing called “moves.” This ruins the entire game because the point of Tetris is having unlimited moves while getting a whole row of blocks. Also, I almost feel that the levels sometimes get really unfair at times, or maybe it’s just a skill issue. For example, 13 lines, 40 moves, sounds easy enough right? Wrong, if your an og Tetris player like me you know that one of the best ways to play the game is by stacking blocks as much as possible until you get the long piece so you can snag a Tetris or 3 rows. But with the new move feature this completely ruins the gameplay of the game and has made me rage quit multiple times. Now don’t get me wrong, there is the marathon which is basically the original Tetris but almost feels like the blocks come at you way to fast. Also, ads kinda get annoying, like maybe put them at the end of every 2 rounds but nope, after every single one. This game isn’t bad it just could really use some improvement, especially to the entire move system.