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August 7, 2011 3:11 PM Subscribe
Unplayable on Ubuntu/Firefox. I suspect it has something to do with the flash advertisements stealing keystrokes before they get to the game.
posted by Ted Walther at 3:30 PM on August 7, 2011
posted by Ted Walther at 3:30 PM on August 7, 2011
That was fine until they started throwing weirdly shaped Tetris blocks at me. A cross? A little three-square corner? An extra long Z? No way. Turns out I'm a purist.
posted by arcticwoman at 3:30 PM on August 7, 2011 [5 favorites]
posted by arcticwoman at 3:30 PM on August 7, 2011 [5 favorites]
That was fine until they started throwing weirdly shaped Tetris blocks at me. A cross? A little three-square corner? An extra long Z? No way. Turns out I'm a purist.
I had the same reaction. I actually felt myself getting angry when a nonstandard piece started falling.
posted by danb at 3:35 PM on August 7, 2011 [3 favorites]
I had the same reaction. I actually felt myself getting angry when a nonstandard piece started falling.
posted by danb at 3:35 PM on August 7, 2011 [3 favorites]
I really liked the odd Tetris shapes. Eventually that's what did me in. I was starting to feel really smart, though, getting up to those high speeds. Then I felt really stupid, realizing I'd been playing for 20 minutes while forgetting to check on my spaghetti. Then I thought about posting about here about my spaghetti, and then I remembered I was playing Tetris. That's the story of how I lost.
posted by jwhite1979 at 3:38 PM on August 7, 2011 [12 favorites]
posted by jwhite1979 at 3:38 PM on August 7, 2011 [12 favorites]
Between this and Kingdom Rush, my physiotherapist is going to retire as a very wealthy woman.
posted by maudlin at 3:39 PM on August 7, 2011 [6 favorites]
posted by maudlin at 3:39 PM on August 7, 2011 [6 favorites]
It's fundamentally the same game, except for the mutant and forbidden Tetrominos that totally throw off traditional Tetris strategy to deal with left hand and right hand pieces. It sure is pretty, though. Not very much lag even on my slow computer.
Well, I guess there's a bit more flexibility since you can place pieces without being blocked by the walls at either side, allowing for more placement options.
But that also screws with the left-right placement strategy. I can't seem to build a Tetris well or hole reliably the same way you can with traditional Tetris, and I suspect that would be true even with the forbidden pieces.
True Tetrominos are composed of four equally sized squares for a reason. Not one square, nor three, nor five. Four.
posted by loquacious at 3:45 PM on August 7, 2011
Well, I guess there's a bit more flexibility since you can place pieces without being blocked by the walls at either side, allowing for more placement options.
But that also screws with the left-right placement strategy. I can't seem to build a Tetris well or hole reliably the same way you can with traditional Tetris, and I suspect that would be true even with the forbidden pieces.
True Tetrominos are composed of four equally sized squares for a reason. Not one square, nor three, nor five. Four.
posted by loquacious at 3:45 PM on August 7, 2011
Edit: I suspect that would be true even without the forbidden pieces.
posted by loquacious at 3:46 PM on August 7, 2011
posted by loquacious at 3:46 PM on August 7, 2011
Oh, grand. I didn't want to get anything done this week anyhow.
posted by Adridne at 3:47 PM on August 7, 2011 [3 favorites]
posted by Adridne at 3:47 PM on August 7, 2011 [3 favorites]
That was fine until they started throwing weirdly shaped Tetris blocks at me. A cross? A little three-square corner? An extra long Z? No way. Turns out I'm a purist.
Agreed. I gave up and had to close the window when the urge to scream "tetra- means four! FOUR!" became overwhelming.
posted by Blue Jello Elf at 3:54 PM on August 7, 2011 [3 favorites]
Agreed. I gave up and had to close the window when the urge to scream "tetra- means four! FOUR!" became overwhelming.
posted by Blue Jello Elf at 3:54 PM on August 7, 2011 [3 favorites]
AND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON "ONE-MONTH ANNIVERSARIES".
posted by Wataki at 3:57 PM on August 7, 2011
posted by Wataki at 3:57 PM on August 7, 2011
Unplayable on Ubuntu/Firefox.
Weird, no problem here. I just killed about half an hour. Try Adblock or something similar maybe?
I really would have liked a warning about the different blocks before the game started. While the "What the hell is that?" moment passed quickly, it throws you off for a while as you start wondering what you might see next.
posted by Avelwood at 3:59 PM on August 7, 2011
Weird, no problem here. I just killed about half an hour. Try Adblock or something similar maybe?
I really would have liked a warning about the different blocks before the game started. While the "What the hell is that?" moment passed quickly, it throws you off for a while as you start wondering what you might see next.
posted by Avelwood at 3:59 PM on August 7, 2011
Wow, I'd hate to see you guys play Rampart.
posted by JHarris at 4:02 PM on August 7, 2011 [3 favorites]
posted by JHarris at 4:02 PM on August 7, 2011 [3 favorites]
This is good. My first game lasted a surprisingly long time, and at the end it told me I got a high score. I was quite proud of that until I found out it stores the high scores locally, not centrally.
posted by FishBike at 4:03 PM on August 7, 2011 [4 favorites]
posted by FishBike at 4:03 PM on August 7, 2011 [4 favorites]
I felt like I was playing Tetris with Jean Valjean.
posted by WaspEnterprises at 4:06 PM on August 7, 2011
posted by WaspEnterprises at 4:06 PM on August 7, 2011
Neat. But I think the cylinder aspect actually makes it easier because there are more locations for pieces, when not dealing with a barrier at two locations (the edges of the traditional game).
posted by LoudMusic at 5:16 PM on August 7, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by LoudMusic at 5:16 PM on August 7, 2011 [2 favorites]
So like the reverse of that level from the Tron arcade game?
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 5:17 PM on August 7, 2011
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 5:17 PM on August 7, 2011
There was also Tetrisphere on the Nintendo 64. A bigger departure from the standard Tetris mechanics, but a fun game nonetheless.
Well, I guess there's a bit more flexibility since you can place pieces without being blocked by the walls at either side, allowing for more placement options.
If I understand the mathematics correctly, I think that means that an indefinite game would be possible, unlike standard Tetris.
posted by roll truck roll at 5:27 PM on August 7, 2011 [1 favorite]
Well, I guess there's a bit more flexibility since you can place pieces without being blocked by the walls at either side, allowing for more placement options.
If I understand the mathematics correctly, I think that means that an indefinite game would be possible, unlike standard Tetris.
posted by roll truck roll at 5:27 PM on August 7, 2011 [1 favorite]
The best part about that game is the piece that is just one big torus so as soon as it makes contact with anything it annihilates itself. More games need suicidal pieces.
posted by Peztopiary at 6:06 PM on August 7, 2011 [2 favorites]
posted by Peztopiary at 6:06 PM on August 7, 2011 [2 favorites]
I didn't get odd-shaped pieces, but maybe I didn't play long enough.
I quit when it was still easy. The only special challenge here is over-coming the poor UI design of cylinder vs rectangle.
posted by DU at 6:16 PM on August 7, 2011
I quit when it was still easy. The only special challenge here is over-coming the poor UI design of cylinder vs rectangle.
posted by DU at 6:16 PM on August 7, 2011
That was interesting but I found it really boring compared to regular tetris. Kingdom Rush, as mentioned above, monopolized about 3 days of mine.
posted by zephyr_words at 6:30 PM on August 7, 2011
posted by zephyr_words at 6:30 PM on August 7, 2011
I like it a lot. Especially the preview of how your shape would fall.
posted by Miko at 7:56 PM on August 7, 2011
posted by Miko at 7:56 PM on August 7, 2011
This is great. Lack of walls makes it a lot easier than conventional tetris, at least for me. And that solid ring piece freaked me out. What would be really evil would be a solid ring except for one segment.
posted by Mitheral at 8:20 PM on August 7, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Mitheral at 8:20 PM on August 7, 2011 [1 favorite]
The first messed up piece I got was a donut. One block high, and a full circle around. I said 'what the FUCK YOU?' but when it dropped, the entire thing disappeared since it had completed it's own row. It was bizarre... made me feel a bit like this last panel.
posted by FatherDagon at 7:07 AM on August 8, 2011
posted by FatherDagon at 7:07 AM on August 8, 2011
Hmmm, good, but not as good as Retris, which also has weird pieces designed to fuck your game right up.
posted by mygothlaundry at 8:11 AM on August 8, 2011
posted by mygothlaundry at 8:11 AM on August 8, 2011
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After a minute or two I got a 1X1 brick. That's much weirder than the cylindrical shape.
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 3:22 PM on August 7, 2011 [1 favorite]