Customer Reviews

Tetris Worlds

5 star:		(10)
4 star:		(15)
3 star:		(12)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

It's hard to believe that someone could make a version of Tetris that I wouldn't want to play, but here it is.

Here are the problems:

1. The animated backgrounds. This is a killer. Everything on screen is trying to distract you from playing the game. Just a static image on the sides would have been great.

2. The spin bug. You can rotate a piece once it hits the bottom as often as you hit the button. This means you can just keep spinning a piece around until you need to drop it. No challenge.

3. No battery. A huge part of the game was trying to beat your old scores. Also this means you can't save settings.

4. Far too permissive default settings. You get to see the next 3 pieces, and see an outline where the piece should go. Want to change the settings? You can, but you can't save it, so you have to do this *every time* you play the game.

Everything about this game feels wrong. The floating cube head mascot, the annoying backgrounds, and the lame attempts to change the gameplay. I still use my copy of Tetris DX instead! I just wish I could get a copy of Tetris DX in a gameboy advance cartridge, as it sticks out of my gameboy advance sp.

Stay away from this game. Hopefully the next Tetris will bring back the classic DX version, which was the best version of Tetris ever made, for any platform.

This is a great game! with this product, the fun can go on and on. It has many great versions of the original tetris. The added background scenes make the game a little more fun and pleasant to loofk at. Tetris is a great game for people that travel a lot. There are many options avaliable, including six different background scenes and music.

Hint: The popular version of tetris is revealed by holding down the L button and pressing select. This will only work if you are in the menu with the game variations.

I was really looking forward to this title. Tetris has been a mainstay of every version of the Gameboy. With the Gameboy color the fantastic Tetris DX was released. Nice, vibrant colors, solid controls, good music and gameplay.

Tetris Worlds did the impossible, it ruined the Tetris experience. THQ is the new developer with the Tetris license and they took this game away from it's core. Tetris is all about the blocks, dropping them down, faster and faster, always focusing on them. Well with their GBA title they decided to do everything possible to distract you while playing. The game has animated backgrounds with bears, eagles, deer & other animals wandering around making it hard to see the blocks. Don't get me started about the flying block character. Ugh! Like the paperclip in Microsoft Office, you just want to slap it. The controls don't feel as responsive, the blocks are hard to distinguish, and the default mode even has this cheater mode enabled where you can both hold onto pieces to use later, see the next 3 pieces coming and even see an outline on the bottom of where your piece will go when dropped. Where's the strategy with that?

All I wanted was Tetris DX in a GBA shell really. Instead I got a game that literally gives me a headache while I try to play it. AVOID this title, pick up a used copy of Tetris DX instead, you'll be much happier.

I just bought this for my daughter as a gift for Christmas since she is also getting a gameboy advance. I tried it out, you know, to make sure the game worked ok.....wouldn't want to give her a broke game or anything.....anyway, I really liked it. It's been awhile since I've played Tetris.....I especially liked the outline of the piece being dropped at the bottom so that I can see what it's going to look like before I drop it. I also like the various twists on the origianl version.....keeps it challenging and interesting. But what I liked the most was the graphics.....very nice and not distracting from the game....imho.

While the game looks great, the 'Tetris' fun is gone. The fun of Tetris is getting better and improving yourself. But there is no recording of scores in this game. I own Tetris DX for the GBC and my wife plays that. I bought this game for her, but since you can't save your highscores the impetis for challenge is gone. At least with Tetris DX you can camp away for hours chipping away at all the records.
Tetris Worlds is pretty graphically and the new modes are fun, but the features found in more primative versions of Tetrix (i.e. DX) should have been incorporated into this version.
Buy Tetris DX instead.

If you're a Tetris fan and absolutely NEED a Tetris game for your GBA, I guess this is okay, but it's a poor substitute for the classic.

The new Tetris games offered in the menu aren't that great. Why mess with the original? If it ain't broke, why'd they fix it?

The "worlds" component is basically a background option--it lets you chose different backgrounds that appear behind the board. All of them are extremely distracting and actually detract from the game by having little animated creatures dancing behind the Tetris board. Sometimes it's hard to see the pieces because the creatures get in the way.

They did-away with the little cinematics that original Tetris had; like when you passed a higher level you'd get a little guy playing the violin in front of The Cathedral of Vassily the Blessed; or on the Game Boy version you'd get a cinematic where birds and other animals would fly by--their size determined by how far you got in the game...what happened to those?? They were cool!!

There were two things that I liked: 1) "Cascade Tetris" introduces the concept of gravity--which is nice if you always wished that the floating blocks would just fall and help you out; well, now they do with "Cascade" mode. 2) You can do a lot of shape rotating even once the piece reaches the bottom--this is nice once you're up into the double-digit levels and things are falling really fast--you can kinda slow things down by continuously rotating your piece so you have time to think!

In conclusion: get it if you gotta have your Tetris, otherwise use your money on Super Mario Advance 4.

Thanks for reading.

For old school Tetris fans, you'll probably get disappointed with this game as I did. The original concept of Tetris is plain geometric figures that effectively exercise the mind, but the designers of Tetris Worlds have decided to add superfluous bells and whistles that distract rather than engage the player. The most ironic annoyances are the "worlds," which is supposed to be the game's gimmick. You have a gracious 3-inch screen, but the actual game is just 1/3 of that! On each side of the actual game panel, you get floating graphics that have nothing to do to enhance the game. In fact, they distract you. The worlds even camouflage the "next" pieces, which themselves are so small that squinting is the only thing that helps. And finally you get the ghost piece feature, which adds a bulls-eye mark to where the pieces will fit. More experienced players will find it insulting, taking away the whole strategy of the game. To turn it off, you have to set up the options feature each time you start up the game. There are some good stuff, like the music and game variations, but neither can compensate for all the misgivings mentioned earlier. This proves that the classic version of Gameboy Tetris--in its pure simplicity and visible graphics--is still the best. I'll return to my classic Tetris. You can use the L+Select tip for the popular version (you'll see the BIG difference), but really, go buy yourself a good DVD instead. You'll feel better about the purchase.

This game is the best version of tetris there is. I don't care that it doesn't have a battery back-up, because that doesn't effect the game in any way. with 7 variations of the game and classic Tetris Music(including "the dance of the suger plum fairy" from the NES Tetris) this pak will keep you entertained for hours!
(hint: unlock the popular version of tetris by holding L and pressing select on the game menu. this plays exactly like the original version with scoring and no cut-off point.)

This version of tetris has a new scoring system: time. see how fast you can play through 15 levels, the required number of lines multiplying by the level number. buy this game. you won't be dissapointed

There's a reason this game is so cheap ( i found it for about $10-15)
It's a terrible game! Now, I almost never say that about games (most have something redeeming in it) but I am a die-hard Tetris Fan-Girl, and I found it, quite frankly, embarressing!
Just we're clear, this versian is for the GBA.
I picked it up, because I was excited to see that someone had finally made a color tetris game. When I turned it on, I noticed several things which disappointed me right off the bat.
There are several modes of play in this game, and only one which is "Plain-vanilla" tetris. Most of the modes are fun for a time, but only the classic tetris is even worth playing.
There are a few redeeming factors, but overall, being able to switch out your next piece (and "Hold" a favorite), and FINALLY being able to "quick drop" your piece instead of waiting as it drops, does not make up for the forgiving difficulty and distracting colors and backgrouds of theis game.
Several things prompted me to rate it so low.

One, there is no score-saving. Heck, there isn't any way to score the game at all! What fun is it when you can't even brag about your high score?

Two, the "infinate rotate" feature made it so you can continue to rotate a piece endlessly until you figured out where you wanted to set it.

Three, the "shadow block" makes it so that you can see where you your piece will drop. Makes the game too easy.

Those three items have effectively "broken" tetris for me! I promptly took the game back and requested a refund. Avoid this versian of tetris at all costs! If you must have a tetris fix, it's possible to find
the original for the gameboy under $10. (Even if it does stick out of your gba sp two inches!
Don't mess with the successful tetris formula!
Until a new versian comes out that addresses these issues, I'm sticking with my gb tetris!

If they would of simply made this the same as the classic tetris game from gameboy, it would be great. It is really distracting to see three of the next peices coming instead of one. Also, when you get a "Tetris" (four lines at once), the classic sound is not there. The sound effect when your piece hits the other blocks is not there. Also, the blocks themselves should be more detailed. The detailed backgrounds are cool, but sometimes very distracting. They should of included the option to play the original tetris as standard, instead you must put in a code to get it to appear. When you play the "popular" version, the background is always ugly grey, and the game makes no noise at all when you score a Tetris. Worst of all, it does not save scores. I got a score over 1,500,000 and I cannot save it. At least you can choose the classic tetris music though, thats the best part of the game so it gets 3 stars instead of 2.