It is splashed with fullscreen ads, which are very hard to dismiss. Multiple times I've 'clicked' the ad while thinking I was getting rid of it. The normal game mode has 'goals' which appear to be the same two things over and over: get x points, clear y rows. There is some kind of competition (or gamble? I don't know -- there are prizes.) Maybe in-game purchases? You need to pay coins for some things? I can't tell, I'm trying to avoid the buttons.
There is a 'delete your data' button in settings that takes you to a form you have to fill out, finding data codes from some other location. It's as user-unfriendly as you can get.
The actual gameplay takes ages to load; I cannot understand how simple game logic like a Tetris game can have a ten-second loading period to start the app and multiple seconds to load the Tetris part. The music is exactly the same, no variations. The graphics are unimaginative. I can even criticise the icon: the icon is mostly a grid of filled squares like Breakout, it barely _looks_ like Tetris.
I can barely believe how bad a once-famous game like this has become.
> I can barely believe how bad a once-famous game like this has become.
The officially licensed PC/console Tetrises are still fine, but yeah the licensed mobile versions are universally garbage. As I mentioned in another comment you should probably just install the Delta emulator instead and use it to play a good modern Tetris like Apotris (https://akouzoukos.com/apotris) or one of the licensed console versions (NES, GB, DS...)
Parent is right though. Tech, computing power, software, OSes etc have advanced enormously.
And yet, run 20..30y+ old game on emulator often gives more satisfaction than ad-riddled, bloated modern incarnations. Pathetic! And still many people put up with the latter.
Ok I can understand a big mobile game on which a whole team of developers worked over a year, needs funding. And ad-supported is how it's done these days. But Tetris? A simple chess game or breakout clone? Come on...
Never mind that if [funding to create games] were a goal, then "open source, or at least remove ads once creation cost have been recouped" should be considered. Ever seen a (big) mobile game developer do that?
I used to work for a free to play mobile game company and something like half my colleagues had come from paid-install companies that went under. We hate this too but have rent to pay.
Reminds me of mortal kombat X on the playstation 4. Starting it up I thought it was exactly like a shitty F2P mobile game. Full screen ads you have to click past just to get to the main menu, even more ads on the main menu once you get there, paywalled off characters and moves, time gates, etc. I can't imagine paying full price for a game and putting up with that shit. I picked it up years after release, paid less than $10 for a used copy, and before round 1 I was already feeling ripped off. I don't know how much of that crap was there from the start, but I know the game got good reviews when it came out.
I think that mobile games are a lost cause but I'm so happy that not all console/PC titles ended up being polluted by ads and greedy mobile game tactics. I picked up Stellar Blade a while back and was so happy to see that it included none of that garbage and that game was even made by a mobile game developer.
It is splashed with fullscreen ads, which are very hard to dismiss. Multiple times I've 'clicked' the ad while thinking I was getting rid of it. The normal game mode has 'goals' which appear to be the same two things over and over: get x points, clear y rows. There is some kind of competition (or gamble? I don't know -- there are prizes.) Maybe in-game purchases? You need to pay coins for some things? I can't tell, I'm trying to avoid the buttons.
There is a 'delete your data' button in settings that takes you to a form you have to fill out, finding data codes from some other location. It's as user-unfriendly as you can get.
The actual gameplay takes ages to load; I cannot understand how simple game logic like a Tetris game can have a ten-second loading period to start the app and multiple seconds to load the Tetris part. The music is exactly the same, no variations. The graphics are unimaginative. I can even criticise the icon: the icon is mostly a grid of filled squares like Breakout, it barely _looks_ like Tetris.
I can barely believe how bad a once-famous game like this has become.
Link, if you really want it :( https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tetris/id1491074310