17 people found this review helpful
Recommended
1.5 hrs last two weeks / 17.1 hrs on record (2.2 hrs at review time)
Posted: 2 Nov @ 7:30am
Updated: 2 Nov @ 7:46am

After a Super Amazing Wagon Adventure, I landed in the promised land...

...alas, instead of milk and honey, I admit it was a world of falling blocks, cascading colors, and by far the dopest puzzlin' vibes I've felt in while.

Enter TETRACHROMA (テトラクロマ).

It struck me immediately as a studied and passionately made iteration drawing from a few of my favorite TETRIS games.
For example (and I am by now means a TETRIS expert, so forgive me), the overall graphical style hits like TGM, it's beautiful white outline of stacked pieces accelerating my subconscious for high speed play. Rotating backgrounds, a strange but beautiful soundtrack, tons of modes, tons of detail in how blocks move and are animated when scoring points; again I get moments of TETRIS CD-i, NullpoMino, Shiromino, Apotris, and even TETR.IO. I'm sure there are even more influences...

What this amounts to nothing less than a great time tapping away at my keyboard. Plenty of modes to explored and find your threshold of difficulty, lots of customization in terms of block color, grid, music, you name it.

Now in terms of kick tables and rotation behaviour, again, I am not expert, but having spent quite a few hours with TGM and TETRIS: Effect, Tetris DS, and the above mentioned games; the game feels good. You can play quite fast and really feel that flow.

It also means a lot that the dev, sparsevector, is friendly on the discussion forums and seems quick and attentive to updates and patches. The game itself is pretty damn awesome right now and at a great price, in my opinion, too. However, the idea that there could be even more tweaking and additional content for this game would probably crank my enthusiasm from 10 to 11.

Overall, as a 'falling-block puzzler' fan, it was so, so, so, refreshing to have a sweet 'lil game like this kicking around on Steam in particular. For any puzzle lovers, TETRIS fanatics, Reversi warriors, and generally anyone who's lingering on the store page; I think this is a solid buy!

It's fun, it's challenging, it's lookin' good. Thanks for reading and the best of luck! May your T-spins find their way.





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2 Comments
Ace -=666=- 2 Nov @ 9:17am 
:happy_cats::BC_ThankYou:
Rognar 2 Nov @ 8:55am 
Great review! Sold! :woo::steamhappy: