Tetris Attack!
Tetris Attack is best described as a hybrid of Tetris and Bejeweled. The objective of the game is to line up the colored blocks into rows of 3 or more (thus making them disappear), and to chain combos together.
The end result depends on the game mode the player selects (Versus, Stage Clear, et al.). In Versus mode, you dump "garbage blocks" on your opponent's side, pushing them closer to touching the top and losing the game. Garbage blocks can be reduced to colored blocks if a block elimination occurs that touches the garbage block. Sound complicated? It's not once you have the game in front of you.
Tetris Attack is awesome because it encourages high-speed pattern recognition, hand-eye coordination, and to a certain degree critical thinking (which is a subject in which most people don't receive enough reinforcement).
Tetris Attack should be remade because it's an excellent fast-paced puzzle game that modern gamers would receive well as long as the programmers didn't botch it, and because I have not seen any other game quite like it.
While we're in the business of remaking the great, why not remake the truly great? There's as much of a market for Terranigma and Tetris Attack than there is for another remake of a fossilized turn-based RPG that you can find on virtually any SNES emulation website on the internet.
Article comments
1 - Kobra
I choose to perceive that nobody had anything to say about this article means that everyone agrees and my opinion is absolutely correct. Either that, or nobody has read it yet.
2 - Asator
I am interested in the game Terranigma now. It sounds like a bit of a classic that got passed by, just like Suikoden did. I'm not sure about Tetris Attack, there seems to be so many puzzle games these days that it would just be "another" brick in the wall of releases.
Good read though, keep it up. I like seeing some opinion on Blog Critics. Inspires me to start up again :)
3 - Kobra
Give Tetris Attack a chance. ;)
Yeah, Terranigma really did not get the following it deserved.
4 - Doug Rosbury
"Games people play" Does not include me.
5 - Kobra
I never called you a game that people play. Not sure what your point was.
6 - Yoshi K. Hansen
Ok I know this post is old but I was just going to say that someday Ill be done with a demo that people can try out^^ I dont know when though...:/ I just want to know if it would be a good idea to complete it?... Why 2 years? Well cus i have remade all the music into more modern versions and i want it to be perfect cus the real old classic deserves a good (what should i call it... Oh wait i got it) a good son:)
In the end im thinking of putting the same gamplay part, just in classic mode so that if people have played it b4 they can see the joys and wonders the game actually had at that time^^
7 - Kobra
What are you talking about?