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Tetris Effect
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13-11-2018 12:14am#1Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 29,074 CMod ✭✭✭✭Join Date:Posts: 27788
Is there anything more satisfying then seeing a major game director / studio make the game they were always destined to make? Because Tetris Effect feels like the perfect culmination of Tetsuya Mizuguchi's career to date. I mean, he and his various teams already secured their place in the gaming canon with Rez, Lumines, Child of Eden... but Tetris Effect is god-tier. It takes perhaps the most familiar game in existence, and transforms it into something thrillingly, lovingly new.
Yes, it's Tetris - the same fundamental gameplay you played back on the Gameboy. But the difference presentation makes - glorious dynamic music, particle heavy visuals and an overall sense of bold, determined direction elevate this to something truly remarkable. I'm only playing on a standard TV, but it's trance-like with a pair of headphones in - a trippy, utterly captivating game that's among the purest, greatest achievements in this still young medium.
I fear I'll immediately double dip if this comes out for the Rift - after all, playing Rez Infinite on that is as far as I'm concerned the quintessential VR experience I've had to date. I envy those with a PSVR headset who get to check this out in its apparent perfect form.
Anyway, Tetsuya Mizuguchi and Enhance are among the best developers in gaming, and this might be their most transcendent experience yet. Again: yes, it's Tetris - but it's also absolute ****ing magic. It's all connected...1
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johnny_ultimate wrote: »
Is there anything more satisfying then seeing a major game director / studio make the game they were always destined to make? Because Tetris Effect feels like the perfect culmination of Tetsuya Mizuguchi's career to date. I mean, he and his various teams already secured their place in the gaming canon with Rez, Lumines, Child of Eden... but Tetris Effect is god-tier. It takes perhaps the most familiar game in existence, and transforms it into something thrillingly, lovingly new.
Yes, it's Tetris - the same fundamental gameplay you played back on the Gameboy. But the difference presentation makes - glorious dynamic music, particle heavy visuals and an overall sense of bold, determined direction elevate this to something truly remarkable. I'm only playing on a standard TV, but it's trance-like with a pair of headphones in - a trippy, utterly captivating game that's among the purest, greatest achievements in this still young medium.
I fear I'll immediately double dip if this comes out for the Rift - after all, playing Rez Infinite on that is as far as I'm concerned the quintessential VR experience I've had to date. I envy those with a PSVR headset who get to check this out in its apparent perfect form.
Anyway, Tetsuya Mizuguchi and Enhance are among the best developers in gaming, and this might be their most transcendent experience yet. Again: yes, it's Tetris - but it's also absolute ****ing magic. It's all connected...
Yup, seconded. Probably the best available VR experience right now.
At least I won't regret my PSVR purchase for a few weeks at least.
The unfortunate thing about VR is that the kind of games that work best in VR are pretty outdated in comparison to the popular range of modern games.
VR Doom, Skyrim and Wipeout have all been massive disappointments for me. Sure, when you put the headset on and look around the world it's an amazing feeling but there's just TOO much going on. Too much movement etc.
With those games the VR is more like a novelty. You put it on for an hour or 2 here and there and then once the "wow" factor has worn off you just forget about it. I've probably played a couple of hundred hours of Skyrim on Switch and PS but in VR I've played less than 10 hours.
Tetris Effect is exactly what a VR game should be. It's a solidly challenging game that is replayable and still gives the "wow" factor of VR without being overly complicated.0 -
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Try Astro Bot and Moss; both are apparently good to very good. Maybe Resident Evil 7 & Superhot VR too.
Already have all of those.
RE7 and Superhot suffer from the same problems as Skyrim etc. Just too much going on. Like, they are impressive experiences and I didn't not enjoy them, just they don't have any longevity.
Rez and Tetris Effect have that replayability factor where I feel like I can look forward to picking them up again and again to just beat high scores. Plus the simplicity helps, in my opinion.
Moss is wonderful but maybe a little too short lived. When I first played it I though this was definitely the future of VR games. It utilizes the VR incredibly well. It's over too quickly for me. Sort of avoids everything bad about Skyrim VR, for example, but then doesn't deliver an extended experience.
Astro Bot is probably the best of the bunch in terms of merging modern gaming design and gameplay with the VR platform. Of course the first thing I think is "what could Nintendo do with this technology". The biggest criticism is just that it's too short again.
They are not charging full 60 euro price for these games at least which is nice.
For me Tetris Effect is the best VR game so far but obviously "it's just Tetris" is not an unreasonable criticism.
The VR platform is better suited to much older "arcade" style games, in my opinion.0 -
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It’s hard to overstate how well suited Tetsuya Mizuguchi‘s aesthetic interests are suited to VR. The sort of pulsating light show and trancey soundtrack are intense on the senses, but in the way that doesn’t make you feel physically ill. In some ways, it’s the exact sort of abstract dreamscape that a lot of the early fantasies of VR resembled.
So yes, while it’s still Tetris, it’s married to one of the most assured, distinctive visions in gaming. The Tetris gameplay may be basically the same as it ever was (with the few modern tweaks it has picked up over the years), but the synesthesia delivery has come on a lot from the Gameboy day: 0 -
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I just watched this now, popped up on my youtube feed, my first real look at the game and may counter the thinking VR is just a novelty for it.
Game looks great, i may get it.... some day0 -
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This wee little masterpiece is coming to PC next week (Epic Store), and as per the thread above it’s ****ing marvellous:
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