Videogame Review, Tetris for the Nintendo Gameboy (Game Boy Player on Nintendo Gamecube Console w/ Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Gamecube Controller)

Videogame Review, Tetris for the Nintendo Gameboy (Game Boy Player on Nintendo Gamecube Console w/ Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Gamecube Controller)

My thumbstick has a very good piece of rubber which clings to my first precision finger.  The direction pad, under my thumbstick, keeps the directions short, crisp, and pure.  Puzzle games have come to us over the years and we’re supposed to dig into these programs for entertainment and pleasure since boredom in a day can really increase depression levels, and that’s not desired for anyone.  Blocks fall into a barricade in irregular shapes while the goal is for us to deplete a single, straight line; like our language, which also comes in irregular shapes, Tetris begins and ends where the puzzles matter towards the Russian tastes for apology.  In the East they view apologies as invasions or methods of demolishment.  This becomes apparent when we consider the history of wars or the history of political negotiations: no, I’m not saying Tetris is really, REALLY political, but there’s a good amount of puzzle-making creations in the game which happen to portray visuals within means of complexity, as if the blocks are like those Russian nest dolls where the smaller faces are under the same face.  Unequal parts, or unequal blocks, make the simple goal really complicated and it’s very fun.  Consider a meal at McDonald’s as an example.  In that meal, we get unequal parts: burger, fries, and drink.  People may treat my example as something they already know about but I would also venture to guess they’ve never thought this way about a meal at McDonald’s before.  The goal for that meal is simple- just eat it.  However, which unequal part in the meal at McDonald’s will you finish last?  Is a bite of the sandwich the same as a bite of the fries, and is a drink easier to handle than the rest of the unequal items?  A burger is a sandwich, a fry is a long chip, and a sip depends on whether we’re talking about milkshakes, soda, tea, orange juice, milk, or some other beverage.  The blocks in Tetris can be like those unequal parts to a meal at McDonald’s.  And yet we can’t just simply eat it; maybe we want to stretch our fingers out, or get the hand shaking, or leave a button-press to some feeling in the nails.  In Tetris it’s nearly impossible to create an evenly balanced line for deletion without having a row or two filled with unequal parts; and, as equally combined parts mix with unequally combined parts from the shifting movements of time given to the barricade, the blocks can make us bewildered, or scared, or intense depending on occasion and variety in gameplay.