![]() Clear some lines, and a batch of junk lines will appear in a queue next to your opponent’s puzzle space. If they can clear lines of their own, the junk-in-waiting can be negated if no new lines are completed, the weight of your success will bear down on their board and reduce the free space for mid-drop tetrimino trickery. Somewhat frustratingly, Tetris 99 offers no explanation of its inner workings nor the function of various attack modes you can pick from during a match. You can get really far by simply playing Tetris the way you always have, but an uninformed player will always be at a severe disadvantage. Even though all the info is a quick internet search away, it’s disappointing that Tetris 99 is bereft of these details or explanations. So here it goes: You can influence automated attack patterns using the right analog stick, determining whether your offensive lines get sent to randoms, players attacking you, people near death, or players who have done the most killing in the match. Playing handheld, you can also use the Switch touchscreen to target players manually. Less intuitively, when playing docked, the left analog stick can be used to cycle through the phalanx of players on either side of your screen. The control given to you by most of these options can be used in strategic ways, but none more so than by attacking killers, AKA the “badges” option. It’s named thusly because killing a player nets you a portion of a badge and, better yet, any belonging to the defeated player. These badges enhance the output of your attacks, throwing more lines per combo and making the final moments of a match a living hell for your opponents. With the increasing speed of a Tetris 99 match, manually picking your targets based on small icons is an expert’s game, so these automated attack profiles are ultimately to your benefit, even if they aren’t explained well and could potentially be a source of confusion for new players. The beauty of Tetris 99 is the tried-and-true game at the center of it all. Tetris is a god among games, and competitive Tetris only enhances the rising tension of a match. ![]() Tetris 99, being a game with so many competitors and a default “random” attack pattern, means that you will inevitably enter matches where the odds feel stacked against you from the beginning with no rhyme or reason. And when that happens, you may find that you have no recourse with a screen full of junk lines.Įven though each loss isn’t always a lesson learned, it’s also just a small roadblock, as a new match is generally seconds, rather than minutes, away.
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