I think some folks here know that I played Tetris 2 before I played actual Tetris. And then when I found actual Tetris I was confused because it lacked a color matching component too it. I mean the commercials on tv had all those brightly colored blocks, the colors had to mean something right?
This week I picked up Tetrachroma which is a game that finally corrects this whole lack of color matching problem that Tetris has had from day one.
…in all seriousness I have played hours of Tetris by this point in my life. And Tetrachroma’s additions push it in new directions that are simultaneously pure evil and extremely clever at the same time. Making a game that is 90% just Tetris but that last ten percent is color matching and manipulation recontextualizes every block, every formation, and the entire possibility space is different than normal Tetris.
I’m really enjoying this galaxy brain falling block puzzler.