Tetris DS The classic russian puzzle game on the Nintendo DS

The popularity of Tetris is felt even more than 20 years after its appearance. Million fans still continue to play the game or the one of its derivatives at the point where competitions of Tetris are organized still today. However, when a game attracts such a considerable number of fans, one cannot escape the companies trying to produce clones of them in order to refill their pockets with money, sometimes with success and on other occasion with a mediocrity which one would never wish not to see. It is today with the turn of Nintendo to offer to us its first game of Tetris for Nintendo DS with Tetris DS.

While playing each incarnation of Tetris or each clone of this last, I cannot prevent myself from asking me what makes the attraction of this Russian game. The principle is so simplistic that it is stupid. Who could have believed that to assemble blocks then to make them disappear could have given right a true phenomenon of the video game? With time, the style was refined and strongly outdistanced original receipt at the point where certain games forgot what made the success of Tetris. But with Tetris DS, Nintendo succeeded in incorporating the style of the original game with a multitude of innovations, the whole through the environment of its best series. Thus, you will be entitled to decorations coming from traditional games such as Mario, Metroid, Donkey Kong and Zelda. The result is very successful and makes so that Nintendo created the best Tetris since many years.

On the whole, the game proposes 6 modes, each one based on a traditional game of Nintendo. The principal mode remains the Standard mode, which is based on the game Mario Bros. As its name indicates it, this mode will require you to play of simple parts of Tetris by assembling blocks then while making disappear from the lines. You will be able to game in the traditional mode where you will have to eliminate 200 lines from blocks, in an option where you will have to eliminate a specific number of lines and against the artificial intelligence. What is interesting in the Standard mode is that it is possible to observe a constant progression of Mario Bros. in the screen top as you eliminate from the lines of blocks. Thus, more you will eliminate from lines of blocks, plus Mario will go far in a level. Obviously, you will not see one level of Mario Bros. and you will on the occasion to re-examine several tables of this game until the final affront with Bowser and even more still.

The most original mode suggested in Tetris DS is without discussion the Push mode, based on Donkey Kong. In this variant, a game appears in the screen top and the other in the screen of bottom. The goal is once again to eliminate from the lines from blocks. The modes Mission and Puzzle are also interesting. The first, which is based on Zelda, will require of you to supplement a series of objectives which will appear in the screen top such as eliminating one or more lines with a block in particular. The Puzzle mode, as its name indicates it, will impose more than one hundred to you of headache where you will have to place blocks which will be forced to you in holes in order to eliminate all the blocks from the surface of the game.

However, the Nintendo formula does not manage to make all the game exceptional. Indeed, a mode disappoints largely and even if it is included in the universe of Metroid, it does not manage to get concrete pleasure. This mode name is Catch and will ask you to design blocks 4×4, which will enable you to release from energy in order to destroy the Metroids. The more you will assemble blocks 4×4, the more you will be able to destroy the Metroids and larger will be your number of points. The blocks falling from the screen top could be assembled around one only block which will be able to rotate. Therefore, you will be able to make turn all the blocks which you will stick together if you wish it. The problem is not at the level of the originality of this mode, but well on the side of its pleasure. There is so to speak no spirit to assemble blocks to together eliminate from Metroids and that made so that the Catch mode does not collect our interest that during some parts at most.

Nintendo added two options to the playability of Tetris in order to make this traditional a little the easier for the uninitiated persons. Moreover, you will be able from now on to keep in reserve a block of your choice while pressing on button R. If you are not able to place a block in a good position or if you prefer to keep a block in order to place thereafter best, you can do it of a simple pressure of button. That makes the game not only simpler for the amateurs, but as well easier to accumulate several hundreds of points, in particular in the mode without end of the game.

One of the aspects which were most promising at the time of the advertisement of the game was the possibility of gaming online. Admittedly, to game with other gamers throughout the world with Tetris is mind blowing, but the online portion of the game could have been polished more. Thus, only the Standard modes and Push are offered on line, just like in the local multiplayer parts. You will be able to game against one in the traditional style of Tetris, to two or four gamers in Wi-Fi or with 10 gamers in a local way. Moreover, the game locally supports 10 gamers with only one cartridge of game, which is at the same time remarkable and convivial on behalf of Nintendo.

 

 

Obviously, if you have the code of friend of a person whom you know, to set up a multiplayer part on line is easier. Otherwise, you will be able to seek other gameers with whom to game, but only in the mode that you will have selected. It should be noted that as a multiplayer, various no-claims bonus are proposed in order to come you to assistance or to harm your adversaries. For example, you could be entitled to a weapon which will make so that you will be entitled only to straight lines during a short moment. I all the same found damage the impossibility of désélectionner certain options, in particular that allowing to put a standby block. That would have largely helped to raise the challenge suggested as a multiplayer. The number of modes limited to several is also damage and it would have inter alia interesting summer that Nintendo offers to us exclusive modes with the portion multiplayer rather than to allow us simply to game with other amateurs of the game in two modes available also in solo.

Tetris forever rhyme with graphic beauty, but rather with visual simplicity. Tetris DS does not make exception to the rule, although various elements come to decorate the visual beauty of the game, in particular in the Standard mode. This last is characterized not only by traditional sequences of games from Nintendo where you will find per moments of new backgrounds, but also by dynamic characters 2D who will move on the side of your surface of game. Each shape of block has its own color and as a whole, the game is colored enough. Nevertheless, as the game is based on the traditional ones from Nintendo, you do not wait to find superb visual effects or a graphic environment with all to break. Let us say simply that the nostalgic ones are more likely to appreciate those liking the very pretty games.

 

 

Will sound side, you be entitled to basic sound effects since after all, for what to await itself from a game where it only suffices to place blocks? On the other hand, the whole is decorated various sound effects of the traditional games of Nintendo. You will thus hear noises of Balloon Fight, Mario Bros., Donkey Kong and Zelda to fuse of a little everywhere and which will decorate the rate/rhythm of each one of your parts. Moreover, you will be entitled to remixed pieces of music of quality of traditional of Nintendo present in the game. Thus wait you to hear music of Mario Bros. and company throughout your parts which will plunge you in the rate/rhythm which can become very frantic of Tetris.

On the level of the lifespan, Tetris is still and always a very immersive game which can cut you reality during hours without you not realizing there. Put-with-share the mode Wrestling, the modes of Tetris DS will distract to you so much during many hours they can be hookers. The majority of the modes also offer several alternatives and of the levels of difficulty, in addition to making it possible to record its higher scores. Obviously, the portion multiplayer adds to the lifespan and capacity to game locally 10 gamers with only one cartridge of game weighs much in the balance. And even after having passed through each mode, a small portion of Tetris once from time to time is always, like at the time, extremely pleasant.

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