{"id":322,"date":"2009-04-16T00:20:49","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T06:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=322"},"modified":"2009-04-14T23:08:25","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T05:08:25","slug":"for-best-results-put-on-the-rokkin-brawl-remix-of-tetris-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=322","title":{"rendered":"For best results, put on the rokkin’ Brawl remix of Tetris B."},"content":{"rendered":"

The other game I was playing all Easter weekend was, well… Tetris.
\nIt’s all this thread<\/a> on Talking Time’s fault. There was Tetris love! And I love Tetris. Not as much as, say, Panel de Pon<\/a>. But I love Tetris.<\/p>\n

So when Rei linked to Tetris Friends<\/a>, I went and checked it out.
\nHours later, I realized I had just played, well… hours of Tetris.<\/p>\n

Tetris Friends leaves little to be desired, if it’s Tetris that you crave. You can turn the “piece shadow” off and on, so if you’re a purist who doesn’t like that, that’s your option. It has the hold thing, which I hadn’t actually used before this but actually adds a great additional element to the game. It has a couple completely normal Tetris variants, which are always needed. It has 2 player VS mode, which would be nearly perfect if you could pick your opponents. I do like the “only 2 minutes” aspect of it. Makes it easy to go “just one more game” since you know you’re not going to get trapped in an epic back and forth battle. It has a neat mode called Sprint, which you can play alone or in multiplayer, which is basically a race to clear 40 lines first. The strategy is actually much different than a normal multiplayer, as setting up Tetrises is much less important.<\/p>\n

The only really unfortunate thing about it is that you can’t pick your opponents. I can’t challenge a friend to a game of VS. It’s all done by their matchmaking. Though their ranking system seems pretty darn effective. When I get online in Tetris DS, I am immediately destroyed by power-players. In Tetris Friends, I have yet to be completely stomped in a match. When I did some complete stomping myself, the game popped up a window and offered to rank me up about 5 ranks, which I accepted. Now I’m facing people more my level faster, which is exactly how it should be. Playing with just people who are close to your skill. Awesome.<\/p>\n

But yeah, I dunno. I have no idea how this venture is making money. One little ad can’t pay for everything, can it? Especially since I think this is licensed and not like… the Tetris Company itself putting this out? But it’s everything I could possibly want from a Tetris game, and it’s free and online and with robust stat tracking and a “token” earning system to keep you coming back again and again. What’s not to like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other game I was playing all Easter weekend was, well… Tetris. It’s all this thread on Talking Time’s fault. There was Tetris love! And I love Tetris. Not as much as, say, Panel de Pon. But I love Tetris. So when Rei linked to Tetris Friends, I went and checked it out. Hours later, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}