Tetris DS
I just kicked Tetris DS' arse. 200 lines, from Level 1 to 20.
Cool little ending!
(Only had it since Monday too!)
For the newest incarnation of the block builder, Nintendo have combined two addictive and fan-worshipped things in one.
NES games and TETRIS.
Yes, you heard right. Six game modes, all themed with NES characters!
Mario lines up the standard mode (pun intended), where the objective to win is to make 200 lines clear.
(And in this mode, you can earn the tunes you hear - ALL remixes of NES classics! - to play as records in the Options menu, 21 records in total!)
Link lines up the Mission mode, where you complete a given objective from a scroll on the top screen.
Donkey Kong lines up the Push mode, where you and a second player (human or CPU) fight over the play field, completing lines to "push" the other player over the top or bottom boundries (akin to tug of war).
Samus from Metroid heads up the Catch mode, where A and B rotate a central hub for blocks falling to land on, but watch out you don't hit a Metroid, or stack outside the perimeter too!
Yoshi heads up the Puzzle mode (the theme fitting his puzzle game Yoshi's Cookie), where you touch the screen with your stylus to choose which piece to drop next into a screen already stacked with blocks to clear them all.
And finally, the hero - I'll call him "George" - from Balloon Fight lines up Touch mode, where you use the stylus to shift the blocks, double tapping to turn them, all to clear lines!
But that's not all!
I found, in my gaming, several OTHER games' themes emerging as you play!
The games I spotted (because my main focus was on the rapid gameplay, not the top screen's NES antics):
- Excitebike
- Duck Hunt
- Dig Dug
- Urban Champion
And if you didn't notice, the Professor who explains the rules is right from the good old R.O.B set!
Add to this the ability to play against TEN, yes TEN other gamers with ONE copy of the game, that's a kickarse feat of programming right there.
Add also the fact that with a Wi-Fi connection (via your Wi-Fi Internet OR the Nintendo Wi-Fi USB Connector), you can play against the WORLD with two or four player Tetris (without and with special items respectively).
(For the Wi-Fi mode, you can also add friends to your list to play often.)
Ah, retro gaming. How we love thee. Old and new certainly isn't dead, but hopefully NEW games coexist with them.
Cool little ending!
(Only had it since Monday too!)
For the newest incarnation of the block builder, Nintendo have combined two addictive and fan-worshipped things in one.
NES games and TETRIS.
Yes, you heard right. Six game modes, all themed with NES characters!
Mario lines up the standard mode (pun intended), where the objective to win is to make 200 lines clear.
(And in this mode, you can earn the tunes you hear - ALL remixes of NES classics! - to play as records in the Options menu, 21 records in total!)
Link lines up the Mission mode, where you complete a given objective from a scroll on the top screen.
Donkey Kong lines up the Push mode, where you and a second player (human or CPU) fight over the play field, completing lines to "push" the other player over the top or bottom boundries (akin to tug of war).
Samus from Metroid heads up the Catch mode, where A and B rotate a central hub for blocks falling to land on, but watch out you don't hit a Metroid, or stack outside the perimeter too!
Yoshi heads up the Puzzle mode (the theme fitting his puzzle game Yoshi's Cookie), where you touch the screen with your stylus to choose which piece to drop next into a screen already stacked with blocks to clear them all.
And finally, the hero - I'll call him "George" - from Balloon Fight lines up Touch mode, where you use the stylus to shift the blocks, double tapping to turn them, all to clear lines!
But that's not all!
I found, in my gaming, several OTHER games' themes emerging as you play!
The games I spotted (because my main focus was on the rapid gameplay, not the top screen's NES antics):
- Excitebike
- Duck Hunt
- Dig Dug
- Urban Champion
And if you didn't notice, the Professor who explains the rules is right from the good old R.O.B set!
Add to this the ability to play against TEN, yes TEN other gamers with ONE copy of the game, that's a kickarse feat of programming right there.
Add also the fact that with a Wi-Fi connection (via your Wi-Fi Internet OR the Nintendo Wi-Fi USB Connector), you can play against the WORLD with two or four player Tetris (without and with special items respectively).
(For the Wi-Fi mode, you can also add friends to your list to play often.)
Ah, retro gaming. How we love thee. Old and new certainly isn't dead, but hopefully NEW games coexist with them.