Oh sure, everyone loves noclipping and BLJing through the hitbox of reality to enter the Backrooms or whatever, but when they see a t-spin triple in Tetris they go "what in God's name" and "what do you mean they programmed it like that on purpose". I see how it is.
On another note, I think it's very funny how Columns, Puyo Puyo, and other stuff like this game all avoid the big difficulty issue with Tetris (overhangs) by simply not allowing pieces to overhang ever.
Tetris, despite its abstractness and skill ceiling, is basically a Timmy game, in the sense that most of the joy is in simply finding solves and playing fast.
Puyo Puyo is surprisingly Spike-like for its age, but the only people who'd even want to play it are Johnnys.
*thinking to oneself in meditative contemplation* If the Columns magic gem was in Tetris, it would land on a row, and then all rows with an identical number of holes would be erased. *the corner of my lip imperceptibly twitches in satisfaction*
"In Tetris, empty spaces are garbage blocks that you destroy by filling up." – strange wisdom dismissed as heresy by the ancients
Everyone goes on about how Puyo is OP versus Tetris in Puyo Puyo Tetris. What they haven't considered is that Puyo is just a better videogame *the elephant from Madou Monogatari 3 walks in and pulls the lever for the trapdoor also from Madou Monogatari 3, thus securing my escape*
Falling block puzzle gamers LOVE doing something called "charging DAS"
It's fascinating to read about how action-puzzle games were inspired by real-world puzzles, even as they converge on similar matching themes. Tetris, jigsaw puzzles. Panel De Pon, the 15-puzzle. Puyo Puyo, dominos.
Klax? That famously longevous puzzle, tic-tac-toe.
"Tetris versus game that takes you back to the exact same RNG seed each round" sounds like a plot twist in the first third of a Higurashi game that makes Keiichi's eyes bug out, but there are actual arcade Tetrises that worked like this.
Top 10 Versus Puzzler Sound Effects (Non-Vocal)
1-6: The Tetris TGM next piece sounds
7: Top-out flourish (Panel De Pon 64)
8: "Here comes a new challenger" fanfare (Super Puzzle Fighter II)
9: Garbage queued (Soldam)
10: 20 garbage queued (Petal Crash)
