But battle royale Tetris? How does that work?Īs in two-player competitive Tetris, players in Tetris 99 can target each other with attacks. In the past year, shooting-game standbys Call of Duty and Battlefield V both announced and introduced Battle Royale modes, and earlier this month EA released Apex Legends, a brand-new shooter that’s already challenging Fortnite’s viewership on game-streaming platforms such as Twitch. The trend was first popularised by PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, and made stratospherically popular by the now-ubiquitous Fortnite. Tetris is surely the most unlikely game yet to jump on the Battle Royale bandwagon.
Am I secretly this rubbish at everything? I even started concocting conspiracy theories: maybe I’m failing this much because I’m good at Tetris! It’s clearly giving me an invisible handicap.
It came close to prompting an identity crisis. I downloaded it this morning and match after match, I languished in the bottom 50, assailed continually by grey blocks. (If you’ve got a Nintendo online pass, you can play it right now, for free.) This is Tetris meets Fortnite, with 99 players starting each game and just one victor. I finished last year’s Tetris Effect, a version of the Russian block-rotating puzzle game that somehow turns it into a psychedelic meditation on the birth of the universe, in one three-hour session.īut last night, in a surprise announcement, Nintendo released Tetris 99 – a battle royale version of Tetris for the Nintendo Switch.
Beginning with a year-long asynchronous rivalry with my brother on the Game Boy, where each of us would play obsessively until we’d topped all the high-score tables before smugly handing the console over to the other, I’ve played Tetris most of my life. Until this morning I thought I was a Tetris prodigy. I’m sorry to have to tell you this – not everybody takes it well – but you’re probably not as good as you think you are at Tetris.
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