Virtual Boy Complete - Game #23
It's Tetris, like actual Tetris, so I feel like I should be in the same situation as Space Invaders Virtual Collection, 6 stars, no innovation but perfect base - but the music is terrible, the new mode is terrible, it's lacking the modern Tetris touches (block holding, ghost blocks), and as The_X_Button pointed out, it has a bizarre habit of giving you 60 I blocks in a row, so I have to rank it lower than SI, despite both having equally as timeless source material.
I guess I'll have to talk about that new mode. It's basically a tube-shaped tilting Tetris, common trope for puzzle games in the 90s. There's a few problems with this, namely: you have to make lines within the gameplay box, not the entire tube, which takes away any reason to really play this mode, not just that, but if you tilt a bit and find out you made a line, you don't reap the reward - and 2. blocks build up on the back on their own, but not intelligently, and will often create gated blank areas.
The 3D backgrounds are nice, but that's about it.
It's Tetris, like actual Tetris, so I feel like I should be in the same situation as Space Invaders Virtual Collection, 6 stars, no innovation but perfect base - but the music is terrible, the new mode is terrible, it's lacking the modern Tetris touches (block holding, ghost blocks), and as The_X_Button pointed out, it has a bizarre habit of giving you 60 I blocks in a row, so I have to rank it lower than SI, despite both having equally as timeless source material.
I guess I'll have to talk about that new mode. It's basically a tube-shaped tilting Tetris, common trope for puzzle games in the 90s. There's a few problems with this, namely: you have to make lines within the gameplay box, not the entire tube, which takes away any reason to really play this mode, not just that, but if you tilt a bit and find out you made a line, you don't reap the reward - and 2. blocks build up on the back on their own, but not intelligently, and will often create gated blank areas.
The 3D backgrounds are nice, but that's about it.