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colour_thief
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 Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 10:08 pm |
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| For what it's worth, Mihara (a VP at Arika) just announced that he'll show an early prototype of Tetris the Grand Master 4 at the upcoming AM09 on September 19th. |
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colour_thief
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colour_thief
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| Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 12:28 pm |
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More Tetris news!
Some screenshots of the upcoming Tetris the Grand Master 4. The theme is tenderness/caring/kindness, which totally caught everyone off guard. No word on the gameplay exactly but screenshots suggest Arika was given complete freedom to maintain their Sega-derived rotation system. Here's hoping the gameplay beneath the flowers, hearts and rainbows is meaty.
Also, Sega has put "Deka Tetris" on location test. Roughly translated it means "Huge Tetris" and the game has a somewhat unique gimmick:
Notice the rotation buttons placed on the oversized joystick, because presumeably you'll need 2 hands to move those things. As an interesting note, Sega made that game and is publishing TGM4, so they are kind of competing with themselves. Though given past examples, TGM4 might not see actual release for some time. |
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colour_thief
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| Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 10:10 pm |
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| luvcraft wrote: |
| How is this Tetris different from that one? I see that it now tells you the next three pieces instead of just the next one, and it looks like you can "hold" a piece (someone please explain to me how that works). Is there anything else? |
There's is a "hold" box that starts empty. When you press the hold button, it puts the piece into the hold box and gives you the next piece. After that, pressing the hold button switches your active piece for the one in the hold box. It's very useful to rearrange piece orders both for strategic reasons and to place them in an order that is faster. It's very powerful and versatile once you get used to it.
I'm just about to leave for the weekend so I've got to make this quick and can't explain it myself but I'll leave you with 3 good links.
A good TGM clone:
Texmaster (Windows/Linux/Mac OSX 10.5)
The first 2 games are also in MAME if that's your thing.
A good article describing the game features that seperate the series from other tetris games:
http://bsixcentdouze.free.fr/tc/tgm-en/tgm.html
French TV show "Superplay" episode explaining the game, with English subtitles:
http://www.mindflyer.net/tetris/%5bTC%5dNolife-TV_-_Superplay_The_Tetris_Emission.avi |
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