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Awful port... how do you mess up Tetris?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 39 / 43
Date: September 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

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.

A very colorful and vibrant disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 25 / 28
Date: October 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

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.

Disgraces the Tetris name

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 13
Date: March 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

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!

how dare you name this tetris

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: July 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This Tetris is as different from the real tetris as snood is from Bust a Move, except Snood is fun... This game just does not feel like real tetris, it sucks!!!!!!!!!! Give me Tetris not this artificial weird thing. The pace is off, its way too forgiving, and multiplayer makes no sense and is so far from real tetris multiplayer... It's sad that the DS cant play original GB games because this Tetris cant hold a candle to Tetris DX. Unless you have a DS, get Tetris DX, and if you have a DS, wait for a new Tetris game and we'll see if it doesn't suck.

Don't buy this.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: March 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Well some people might like it. What I wanted was Tetris, for the Game Boy Advance. I have the original Gameboy Tetris, which is perfect except for the fact that it forgets the high scores when you turn it off. The point of Tetris, for me anyway, is to compete with your friends for the high score. They completely eliminated scores from Tetris Worlds. It says it has a "classic tetris" mode. But it's not. You have 15 levels to complete and the game ends. That's not classic Tetris.
I just found out you CAN play classic Tetris, but it's hidden for some reason and it still doesn't keep track of your high scores. To get to it, go open the "Marathon" menu, then hold L and press Select. "Popular" game type will appear. If it's so popular, why did they hide it?
I haven't tried it yet, but I'm hoping that Tetris DX for the Gameboy Color is more like the original. Tetris worlds IS cheaper and it's an advance game, so it will not stick out of your shiny new Gameboy Advance SP like classic Gameboy cartriges... that's about the only positive thing I can think of right now.

sucks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: December 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

the worst tetris game ever next to the tetris worlds on all 3 major systems lets face it finding nemo was by(thq)tetris worlds is by(thq)and i can go on and on thq makes some of the worst games i have ever played stay away from them.the graphics suck the game doesnt even have a save feature to save your scores and its hard 2 play when stuff gets in your way when your tryin to drop peices its horrible

Not as Good as the Old Tetris

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 13 / 15
Date: February 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This latest version of Tetris has a couple of interesting features -- but you won't find the old, familiar Tetris game here.

The most annoying feature is the different "worlds" you can play the game in. The multi-colored backgrounds of these settings make it difficult to see the Tetris shapes dropping down.

Also annoying for people used to the older version: No scoring. To win, you work your way through the 15 levels. If you come up short, you lose.

What the...?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 12 / 16
Date: February 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I wanted something that my girlfriend and I could play together on the Gamecube she bought me for my birthday. Keep in mind the last time she owned a console was the Coleco. Keep in mind the last time she was really addicted to a video game was "Tetris" on NES/SNES and maybe a little SimCity (the original).

She asked me to teach her how to play "Metroid Prime." Well, that was out. So off I went to get the Gamecube Player and Tetris Worlds (for the GB Advance).

It's not as bad as some reviews would have you believe, but...well, okay, it's bad. God only knows why they can't come up with a decent Tetris game. They simply never have. Look, people, it's a black background bordered by a visual of the "Kremlin," and some geometric colored blocks. My grandma could program that on a Mac classic. (And she's dead.)

Music: The default background music is some jarring thing. Go into the Options and you can reset the music to the Tetris Russian/Babushka music you're accustomed to. They've got it set to "The Tetris Theme" as a default, but if that's the Tetris theme, then I'm your mama. The REAL Tetris theme can be found as "Faster."

Gameplay: Well, it's still Tetris. Sort of. That's the nicest thing I can say about it. Two annoying options here: "Ghost" piece and "Hold" piece.

The "Ghost" is a shadow of where your piece will fall at the bottom. Good idea, right? Helps you avoid all the times you've accidentally placed an "L"-shaped piece right on top of the skinny long one when you wanted it to go next to Skinny? Forget it. When you're using "Ghost," tapping the down button will sometimes slam the piece right down to the bottom--could just be a bug, but I'm not sure. Get that stuff off.

"Hold" piece was described as thus in the context menu under Options: Allows you to hold a piece until the next round. Man, what's up with that?? That's not Tetris. That's like "crying little girl" Tetris. Off, I say, off!

How's the gameplay? You might think they could at least get that part right (down, right, left, rotate), but you'd be wrong. The controls are twitchy. When you want to advance the piece down a little ways (because, otherwise, it's falling as slow as Rosie O'Donnell in January), tap the down button carefully. Otherwise, one minute it was at the top, the next minute, it's sitting on the bottom.

Perhaps most damning of all are the backgrounds. Dear god, the backgrounds! Who was the video-game mogul who thought, "Hey, let's throw some cheap looking backgrounds--like a weird square shaped cartoon floating next to a seahorse or a weird square shaped cartoon floating next to a penguin--AROUND the Tetris playing field. The kids will really dig that!"

Not only are the backgrounds fugly, but they're distracting as all get-out. You can't concentrate on your little geometric piece when you've got a square flying around the side of your screen.

Pros: Tetris

Cons: Everything not Tetris-like (plenty)

Buy, but only if you're really desperate for Tetris on the GC or GB Advance.

Good... but not Great...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: October 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I wish I had waited to read more reviews on Amazon before I bought this game. It's good... it's Tetris, so you already know more or less what it's all about. But it's just not great. Tetris DX for Game Boy Color is much better. This new Tetris does not have a battery back up, and it does not have as many good game variations either. In addition, while they put a lot of effort into adding graphics and animations, it actually takes away from the game. I wish I could recommend it, but I just can't.

Dude, where's my old Tetris?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 16 / 16
Date: January 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

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.

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