GAME CLEAR No. 12 -- Tetris Effect

Tetris Effect (2018, Multiplatform)

Developer: Monstars, Resonair, Stage Games
Publisher: Enhance Games
Clear Date: 1/1/2021
Clear Platform: PS5 via Backwards Compatibility

I beat this game at about 12:30AM on January 1st, which put me on pace to beat about 17000 games this year! Suffice it to say I have not kept that pace since.

Been wanting to knock this one out to clean up my PS4 backlog, and it was easy to put away. It’s got a very short campaign, I just never quite finished it. Finally did, and it was very unexciting, but a “campaign” isn’t really the point of Tetris. What this game is good at is being a really pleasant audiovisual experience. Playing Tetris while a surprisingly good music generation engine operates behind it is just so cool. It’s the kind of synthesis of concepts I’d never have thought of, but I am so glad someone did.

Not a lot else to say about this one, but it’s definitely good. I’m sure I’ll return to it from time to time in the future.