Tetris Effect: Connected

TETRIS EFFECT: CONNECTED

RELEASE YEAR: 2021
PLATFORM: Nintendo Switch
RATING: ****1/2

I can never imagine Tetris feeling more at home on any video game platform than a Nintendo handheld. Tetris Effect may have been a groundbreaking VR experience on PlayStation, but the experience on Switch in handheld mode, with all the haptic feedback in perfect sync with the sound design, simply outshines the dizzying experience of cutting-edge VR immersion.

The game is a visual and aural tour de force in the most visceral sense, a total delight for the senses with the traditional and eternally addictive Tetris gameplay fully intact, this time with more tricks and techniques to master. It's almost the perfect portable game for the Switch, except that all the dazzling effects and perfectly synchronized haptic feedback end up being absolute murder on battery life. It won't last a long commute quite the same way as Tetris on the old AA-powered Game Boy.

-VirtuaMuser