{"id":19189,"date":"2019-07-17T00:01:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T00:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19189"},"modified":"2019-07-06T15:20:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T15:20:30","slug":"tetris-99-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/17\/tetris-99-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Tetris 99 (Switch)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When Nintendo announced their paid online service for the Switch, I didn\u2019t get it right away.\u00a0 I imagine playing Smash Bros. online was a big selling point, but as much as I like Smash Bros., I\u2019m not that good enough to play against others online, so I didn\u2019t get it then.\u00a0 But recently when Super Mario Maker 2 came out, they had a version where you only had to pay ten bucks for the online service instead of 20, so I got that one.\u00a0 You kind of NEED the online service to play and upload Mario Maker 2 levels, so now I have a subscription (my first Mario Maker 2 level code if anyone is interested, by the way: 19T-PV8-V7G).\u00a0 So after I got my online subscription, I immediately downloaded another game: Tetris 99.\u00a0 Tetris is still one of my all time favorite puzzle games, and this one is free but you can only play it with an online subscription.\u00a0 So I figured now that I have it, I might as well review it.\u00a0 Better late than never, right? (it came out earlier this year)<\/p>\n

Anyway, I don\u2019t think I need to describe Tetris too much to you all.\u00a0 Most everyone has played it, as it is the most widely approachable game ever.\u00a0 Even more so than Pac-Man.\u00a0 And as a big Pac-Man fan, it\u2019s hard for me to admit that, but it is true.\u00a0 Many folks\u2019 first memories of Tetris are on the Game Boy, but I actually played it on PC a couple of years before, so the Game Boy version wasn\u2019t as impactful for me, even though I still certainly played it a lot!\u00a0 In Tetris, falling blocks fall into a well, and you must move and rotate them so that you can make full horizontal lines.\u00a0 When you do, they disappear.\u00a0 If your blocks reach the top, it\u2019s Game Over.<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s the big deal with Tetris 99?\u00a0 Well you know how in other multiplayer Tetris titles, you can clear lines and send them over to your opponent?\u00a0 You may have done this with another player, or maybe even three other players.\u00a0 But this version of Tetris lets you go online against 99 other players!\u00a0 Wow!\u00a0 It\u2019s a Tetris Battle Royale, and the first Battle Royale style game I\u2019ve ever played.\u00a0 And probably will ever play, unless Namco makes a Pac-Man 99 (please do, Namco).\u00a0 You can even see little boxes all around your playfield, and those are the other competitors.\u00a0 If you are playing in handheld mode, you can even tap on one of those squares to focus your attacks on one person.\u00a0 Only problem is that it\u2019s really hard to win, but I can get at least into the 20\u2019s and 30\u2019s before I lose, so I guess that\u2019s not TOO bad.<\/p>\n

There are a couple of offline modes you can purchase.\u00a0 One where you go against 99 CPU players, and one that plays like a regular Tetris endless mode.\u00a0 But they\u2019re both ten bucks each, and I don\u2019t even think they\u2019re worth half that.\u00a0 You can also unlock new skins to change your playfield, but I don\u2019t know how to do that.\u00a0 I heard there was a Game Boy skin and a Splatoon skin at one point.\u00a0 Overall, if you have a short amount of time to kill and have an online connection, Tetris 99 is great for moments like that.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 Even the online interactions are safe from what I can tell.\u00a0 Parental supervision is recommended for the in-game purchases, though.\u00a0 Tetris 99 is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Nintendo announced their paid online service for the Switch, I didn\u2019t get it right away.\u00a0 I imagine playing Smash Bros. online was a big selling point, but as much as I like Smash Bros., I\u2019m not that good enough to play against others online, so I didn\u2019t get it then.\u00a0 But recently when Super […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19191,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19189\/revisions\/19191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}