Tetris Effect review – ChristCenteredGamer

Tetris Effect is an “official Tetris product,” with all the gameplay implications that suggests. Boxy shapes called tetriminoes (the official misspelling used by Tetris) fall from the top of the play area, rotated and positioned by the player. Tetriminoes come in seven forms, each a combination of four squares: two Ls, two Ss, a large square, an I, and a T. When they horizontally fill up a row of the Tetris matrix, they disappear. Over time pieces fall faster. Clearing multiple rows at a time gives more points. If the pieces pile to the top of the screen, the game is over. That is Tetris, and it has been for three decades. In modern Tetris, a tetrimino can be stored and swapped in for later use. The point system of Tetris Effect recognizes tetrises (clearing four lines at once), all forms of T-Spins (a T tetrimino set by rotating it into a spot it would otherwise not fall into), all clears (clearing every line of the matrix), combos (multiple clears in a row), and back-to-back clears (chaining tetrises and T-Spin clears without intervening, less-valuable line clears). The game does not assume you know any of this, and the brief tutorial will bring you up to speed if you have never fit in a full game of Tetris before.