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We hope you enjoy the show. Hello and welcome to the long
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and short of it. The podcast where we discuss
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each of the games on the Metacritic top 100 list.
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My name is Lawrence and I'm joined by this is Dan.
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Welcome to the podcast, welcome back.
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We've had a little bit of a break little week off after
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persona, but we are refreshed and raring to go.
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You've been on a little holiday, haven't you?
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I have ya. Got back on Saturday.
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Had a lovely treat, North Korea, was it?
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Not this time. Maybe next time they I'm bad and
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of course course and where was it?
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You went into lovely Manchester Airport and lovely holiday to
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Manchester and all the trains were not running because trade
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strike, so had to pay for a lovely taxi from Manchester
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Airport to Lancaster. Lovely costing quite literally
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hundreds of power. Excellent.
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Yes. It's just what you need after
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advice holiday. But where did you go?
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I went to Austria. Bloody lovely.
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Yes, it was very nice. Yes.
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Well, excellent, but now we must come back.
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Yes, quite but at least you had a fun game to take away with
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you. Yes.
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See. See how that?
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That was a nice little segue. I did there was a good link.
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That was that was? I wasn't it.
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So without further Ado, we'll we'll discuss the game that you
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took away. With you to Austria this week.
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We are talking single game. I only took one guy.
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Only one game. You can't take more can only
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take one. Can't fit it in your bag.
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All right, just the one game and that one game was Tetris effect
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connected. So we've we've discussed this
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for a few weeks because I was absolutely outraged at the cost
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of this game and I still somewhat am outraged.
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Yeah, we had to pay for this but it was released in October 20,
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21 and Are two entries on to the Metacritic list for connected.
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There might be three actually but the two that I saw was the
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switch, which has a score of 94 and the PS5, which had a score
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of 93. So it was developed by monstars
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ink and resin are. And like we said released in
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October 20, 21. So firstly, what is your
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experience with Tetris effect or Tetris effect connected?
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Nothing with this version of Tetris, but I think anybody who
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played Gameboy as a child had Tetris, we had Tetris, we had a
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few other games Mario, Land, 1 and 2's.
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Oh dr. Maria canning.
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I didn't have dr. Mario actually still It's a
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shame that is it is maybe you can help.
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You can add that to your games on the list.
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When I get drunk, maybe that'd be nice, wouldn't it?
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Yeah. It's a Tetris was one of the
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games that I had on the Game Boy and I mean, Tetris is Tetris
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synonymous with games and it's really quite surprising that
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there is not another entry for Tetris on this list.
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I think we discussed in one of the episodes.
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How Tetris did in some form deserve to be here and Tetris
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Tetris, everyone knows Tetris, the, I believe it's the best
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selling franchise in terms of video games ever.
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Yeah, so for it, not to be represented on this list would
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have been a bit, a bit of a misstep.
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So I remember playing that game. It had before soundtracks,
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including the classic doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo,
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everyone's favorite? Yes.
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And yeah, the game Is undergone various iterations over the
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years but fundamentally is still Tetris.
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You still got your your five tournaments lose.
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Yeah, you five sorts of shapes block shapes that you've got?
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I think, I think it's five. And you are, I mean jumping
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ahead now. I know I'm not going to jump
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ahead. Actually, I'm gonna, I'm gonna
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backtrack, I'm going to ask you what your experience with Tetris
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as a Series has very little I Didn't have the game boy,
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version, as you mentioned there, most people probably got
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particularly people, our age probably got their, their first
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exposure to Tetris on the Gameboy.
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And there has recently been a film that came out about how
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Tetris became what it is. But before that, there is a very
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good video on YouTube that I do urge people to watch.
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If you're interested by the gaming historian, which is a
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very, very good Channel. And he goes into a lot of depth
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about how the Japanese and the Americans managed to get the
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rights for Tetris, from from the Soviet Union.
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Because obviously, it was, it was 1986, I think in Russia and
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obviously communist Russia, at the time wasn't really about
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exporting its goods. So there's a really interesting
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story behind it, but Tetris is it was never Really a game that
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I played that much. And I'll be honest with you, I'm
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absolutely kak at Tetris, I'm so bad.
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I just something about it. I just can't, I struggle with it
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massively. So I've played Tetris and bits
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and Bobs before maybe on a few different consoles.
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May be playing it on my friends Game Boy.
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Perhaps, when I was younger and I agree with you Tetris, is the
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synonymous video game. And if aliens came to Earth, And
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said, right? Show us what your concept of
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gaming is the game that you would be best suited to show
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them. It wouldn't be Mario.
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It would be something like Tetris.
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So it is important. And as some people have
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described, the only perfect, yeah, video gets a perfect video
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game. I'd say that alongside maybe
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pong, but even so, Tetris is even more simple than that, to a
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big extent. But no, not much history or
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Tetris because I suck at it, so therefore, I don't enjoy it.
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Dang it. And yeah, this is my first time
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playing Tetris effect connected, which has got a few gimmicks
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that are a bit different from normal Tetris.
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Yeah, so why don't we talk a little bit about what you do in
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this game for anyone? That doesn't know what Tetris
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is. As Dan said, you have different
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shaped Tetra nomos. I struggle to say that word
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which are constantly falling from the sky and you have to
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arrange JH, the blocks for anyone that gets that reference,
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which I don't think I've ever sent to you.
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Either is a Tetris related video on the history of the USSR which
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is very funny about the man who arranges the blocks.
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But Tetris is a game where the blocks fall from the sky, you
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arrange them and you basically have to form complete lines.
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And once you do that, the line will disappear meaning that you
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can continue to build. But because the different shapes
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it can sometimes be difficult and it can get a bit
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overwhelming and you will then miss maybe a spot or two and a
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line. Meaning you can't clear it and
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it then turns into complete chaos.
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I say swear words and stop playing it for a bit.
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Is the main basis of Tetris. I mean anything to add there,
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the shapes are randomized and you're basically in a way trying
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to build a wall without any gaps in.
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And if you do manage to create a line without gaps, it will
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disappear. And you want to keep your blocks
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down. And if you, if your blocks get
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too high as you say it's game over.
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Yes. Quite so what's the gimmick
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here? Because tetris-like, we say, is
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Tetris 99% of people that have ever heard of a videogame.
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No of Tetris will know how Tetris works but what makes this
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one so special besides the look and the visuals and the sound,
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which we'll get onto a bit later.
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So to me, I may Maybe I'm Wrong. Maybe I misunderstood the
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gimmick here, but the gimmick to me is that you, you're racking
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up as score. You can get combos and various
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things, and once you finished a level, once you've you've
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eradicated, I think it's so on on the beginner difficulty,
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which I dropped it down to because this game is quite
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solid. I've got about probably thirty
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three percent of the way through and yeah, drop the difficulty.
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And it on the beginning. Difficulty, you have to
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eradicate, 36 Rose, I think it is or 34.
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And once you've done that, you are very quickly whisked off
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straight into another level and the score that you've built up
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from the first level will be carried over to the second.
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So, not only you trying to build a combo in the level that you're
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in, but you're also trying to chain together levels.
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Yes, and if you fail, you lose your score.
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You can start again from the level that you were wrong, but
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you lose your score. So it's all about getting a high
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score over, say four or five levels that are linked together.
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And there is very little in the way of loading between the
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levels. You are quite literally whisked
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from one level to the next. I don't know if that's the
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gimmick, you referring to know. So there is there is another
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gimmick in this game, which isn't in Normal.
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Trish. So usually it's the case because
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tetrarch Tetra nomos are only four blocks in length or height.
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You can only really ever knock out a line of for if, you know,
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if you do well in your perfect, however, this game brings in
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another Elements which is called The Zone.
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And I'd because it isn't really explain to you.
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The start, the game that I watched a few videos, it was
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only after I played it for an hour or so that I watched a few
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videos. I was like, oh, okay, I didn't
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realize that was a, that was an element.
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Out of it on the bottom left of the screen.
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You've got something called The Zone bar, which fills up as you
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knocked down lines and the gimmick.
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With this version of Tetris, is the fact that once you've got
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the Zone bar filled, you can then go into like a focus mode,
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which effectively stops time until your Zone bar runs out and
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you can then basically clear additional lines.
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So that once your Zone M empties.
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You saying, I've only cleared for tetrominoes, you can get it
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up to I think like 30 or 32 lines in one go.
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I never managed to do it because I'm not good enough at Tetris.
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I wasn't even aware of it so I don't know if there's a special
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button, I'm sure I built up the meter at some point.
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Yeah, you would have done this on it's either b or the
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triggers. I always get confused with the
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switch but yeah, that's how you do it and you go into the focus
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mode which from watching videos, like I managed to get it once.
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Even though my bar was only half full and I didn't take full
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advantage of it because again, I'm shocking at Tetris.
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But I mean seeing people that are good at Tetris playing this
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game on YouTube doing the stuff that I physically couldn't do is
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very satisfying to watch. And I think that anyone that is
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a Tetris head probably really like that element.
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The other element that you've got in this new version of
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Tetris is the multiplayer stuff and you can play with two,
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three, four people. And you can have a Zone bottom.
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Once you fill up, you each take it in turns to, you know, clear
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the lines. So there is a big element of
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multiplayer in this version of Tetris, which I think is quite
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cool because the, the last kind of version of Tetris, I remember
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that had a bit of a gimmick was Tetris 99 was very cool.
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Yeah. Which released on the switch,
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maybe two or three years ago, which was you playing Tetris
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with 99 other people. And as you can, Cleared lines.
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It would be thrown on someone else's screen until it was only
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two or one left. Just to rub salt in the wound.
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That was free. Yeah, it was free.
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Yeah, so there are a million versions of Tetris and, you
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know, this is one of the oldest Concept in terms of games on the
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list. Like I said, I think the
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original was released in 86 so it's back to the Ice Age it
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does, it does State back to the ice age when you Any footage
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that you watch of like Tetris founder, I've mentioned a few
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times, his name is Alexey pajitnov, he walks around in
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this suit and the design on the suit is obviously made of two
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truck Tetra Nemo's. I'll get used to saying that
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word soon, but yeah, there's so much history and there's so much
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background in Tetris and I even watched a video on YouTube of
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like the the number one Tetris player, or like the fastest
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Tetris player from when he was a kid.
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Is it mr. Blobby Be it was mr.
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Blobby and instead of Techtron ammos, it was blobs.
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So blocking most that blah. Yeah.
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Blobby mode getting into the blobs own sounds off.
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Yeah, it sounds awful. They are.
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You can you can imagine that but other than obviously watching
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mr. Blobby play it.
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I did also watch like a world record Champion, playing Tetris
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connected, and And watching him play was quite something, and he
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played it twice, he played it once on a controller on a PS4, I
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think before it came over to PS5 and then he played it again but
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in VR and amazingly in VR, he was even better and it was
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really interesting to watch, you know, I urge anyone to watch it
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but Tetris doesn't have a story. Tetris does have a plot Tetris
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Tetris as I keep saying? So, Can you please?
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King is Tetris effect connected fun?
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Yeah, I enjoyed. So I played through the, there's
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a journey mode. Yes, I'm applied through the
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Journey mode to the last level. We had on beginner difficulty,
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admittedly, we had to eradicate. I think my 90's and I got to
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like, 76 and gave up. Yeah, so I got a played this
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quite a lot and it was it's just a very enjoyable game to dip in
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and out. A out of it's quite a good
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palate cleanser. So if you're playing a big game
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or something just to go away and switch off and play a bit of
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Tetris. So yeah, I think to me I think
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it's really fun to play. Yeah, I'd agree with you.
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I, I find this game very frustrating but it's the kind of
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game that I can dip in and out of so that I don't really have
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games on my phone. I don't really play mobile
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games. Games are often the only one
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that I've got on my phone is Candy Crush.
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And the only reason that it's still on my phone is I'll
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occasionally jump into it when I've got like 10 minutes spare
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or it's a classic sitting on the toilet game, Candy Crush and
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I've got to like level I do 1900 might I might be into the 2000s.
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Now my save file has been going on for about seven years and
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Tetris. This version of Tetris, really
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makes me think of Candy Crush, because this isn't the kind of
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game. I can sit there for, you know, a
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good hour plowing time into. It's the kind of game that I can
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play, until I lose my temper with its top and then I'll go
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back. Maybe half an hour later.
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And although, it's frustrating, there is something, obviously
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quite fun about it because it kept me.
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Going back, anyone that's listening to this podcast for
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any amount of time. Will know that if I think a
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games rubbish or something or I'm not enjoying it, it's very
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easy for me to fall off. And just blah.
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I just can't. And this game did keep me coming
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back, which, you know, shows that there is something to that
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small games like this on the podcast, where you want to just
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put in the bare minimum, and not the Pac-Man game that we did for
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you. Yeah.
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And this one, I wish they were more normal levels, but they
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kind of ran out. And I got to this tough level at
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the end. But I wish there were more
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normal levels so I could play more of it without Having to
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replay the same levels. So, yeah, that's gotta be a
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complement to this game. Yeah, 100%.
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So, what there's no favorite move, because it is Tetris, but
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what is your favorite element t-shape?
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You like the T-shirt? I was personally a fan of just a
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Long Tall one which do ya around to all the other ones that
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you're always waiting for, you've always got your always
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get your four lines together and you try and space it.
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So, You're waiting for a yeah. A line.
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And it never comes up a bloody shirt.
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Designs to come left less often than all the other ones selfish
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really. But what's your favorite
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elements of this game? I like the fact that you can,
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I'm sure this is in many other Tetris games, but I like the
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fact that you can store a piece. Yeah, it is.
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So you can say if you've got that line and it comes too early
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and you're not ready for it, you can store it.
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So I always had a line in back up and ready to you.
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So when I needed it I just think that adds another layer to it,
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doesn't it? Yeah.
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Then the speed makes things quite interesting.
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So in my experience it could go higher than this.
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It went up to ten speed, and at that point, you need to be
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looking ahead. You can't be looking at the
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block that's going down. You need to be looking at the
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next block before it comes and planning ahead, because it moves
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so fast that if you don't do that.
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So Tetris, although it's super simple.
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And really understandable to just about anyone.
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There's a steep learning the layers to it.
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Yeah. And those people that that
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Master it like you say it's fascinating to watch and you can
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see how much stress do this game has.
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Yes, yeah, that's cool. Yeah.
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I mean, my favorite element of this game, it doesn't really
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come down to the gameplay and I think that, you know, there's
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own feature on, it is quite cool.
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I think the Multiplayer function is quite cool if I'd have played
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multiplayer at all, but I didn't want to embarrass myself that
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heavily that my favorite feature of this game is the, the visuals
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and the sound. Yeah, it's awesome.
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And it really stands out and that brings me on to our next
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section, which is the look in the sound.
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Can you explain this look to me and what this sound is?
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Dubstep, drugs and dubstep on LSD.
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So, this game is really. Built designed to basically
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Hammer your senses and what I mean by that visually it's very,
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very striking. It's colorful.
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It's sharp its Punchy and it has these backdrops to each level.
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It could be a desert or it could be the sky or a deep ocean
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backdrop. Yeah.
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And it's a theme and it doesn't necessarily add to what you're
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doing, but But it just is really refreshing.
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It feels it just looks so good and the blocks themselves will
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change depending on the level that you're in an accompanying
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that you've got. As you say, you've got the
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audio, you've got a great great soundtrack.
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Yeah, of original songs I believe he hasn't Each each
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theme matches, the level that you're in.
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So if you're in, there's a level, which is sort of Native
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American, and there's this Native American theme in the
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background. It sounds like Tarak, and it's
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just cool. And it's, and what's great about
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it is that this game moves along with you.
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So the tempo of the music ramps up.
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When you're placing block, yes, you're you're clearing row.
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Once you've done like 10 lines or whatever, the music will amp
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up a little bit and then once you get to 20 at a peeve and
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more and like the baby tiny place a block.
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There's that there's a beats that.
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Yeah. Part of the soundtracks, it's
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like you're creating the soundtrack and a company that
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further you've got the switches Joy con vibration.
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I can't remember what they call it.
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I can't remember. But yeah, basically it was it's
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it's better than a lot of other vibration and it may not be the
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haptic. Feedback that the PS5 has.
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No, I imagine that would be cool to play with this game but it's
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a step above what you imagined Rumble to be and the switch can
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literally be vibrating in your hands.
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And then your you've got the Beats as you're laying down the
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blocks and you've got the music, which is up and down and speeds
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up when the level speeds up and slows down when the level speed
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slows down. So you you've kind of got this
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these calm moments and these really high Tempo moments.
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And then you've got the the visuals which kind of Pop
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alongside the beat and it's just this blend of sensory overload
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and yes, it's great. That's that's the best way I can
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describe it. Yeah, it is.
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I think that's a good word for a century overload and I can
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understand why the switch version has one point more.
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Like one Higher Metacritic Point than the PS5 does, is this game
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is made for switch like made for headphones as well?
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Yes it is. I do to use.
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Yeah. Yeah, they encourage game and
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particularly playing this game on the OLED version of the
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switch. Yeah, it was a real visual
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visual treat. I wasn't expecting it.
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Completely unexpected. Yeah, it was you and me talked
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about it a bit and we're alert it's it's Tetris.
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You know what what what can we expect?
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I think both of us were I wasn't too surprised by it because I
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knew what it was going inside. Watched a few videos on it in
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the past but It was definitely a nice not surprise for me but it
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was a nice realization that this was actually a pretty decent
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game that my biggest gripe with it and it was my biggest gripe
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for it. I've been going on for weeks as
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the price this. Yeah this game on the switch.
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I think it cost me 35 quid same and that's That's not cheap
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expensive. Yeah, I'm from 20 21.
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That is not that long obviously depending on how much time you
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put in. Yeah.
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Yeah, it it feels like a nice product.
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It feels like it's got a lot of Polish.
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Yes. But yeah the price I mean I'd
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have been much happier. I I would have felt happy with
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the final product if it costs a £20 yes, absolutely. 20 pounds.
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I think would have been a fair would have been a fair shell on
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it because 35 quid for this game.
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It's too much. Yeah, but alas, the cost is, of
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course, And it doesn't ever seem to go on sale, which was the
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another, the other irritating things we have this off for a
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while a few times but yeah, it hasn't gone on sale for.
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Yeah, it's rare. I'm so the question of the week
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today, what I wanted to kind of ask is what else do you think
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that Tetris can do? Like, we mentioned, you've got
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the original Tetris, you've got Tetris 99, you've got this,
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there are probably other version of Tetris, that you owe me,
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don't know about, but what else do you think Tetris can do?
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Because I don't think Tetris is in a fight to stay relevant
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because Tetris will always be there as what it is.
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And it doesn't need to reinvent itself every you know, few years
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because it's just constant. But what do you think Tetris
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could do? That would be interesting.
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I didn't think Tetris is ever going to be what it once was.
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Which knows that cutting-edge game that everyone was clamoring
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to play. It's never going to be that
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again. No, I think we have to accept
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that I think. Tetris effect connected.
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Really does a good job of modernizing.
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Tetris and probably does a good job of showing newer players why
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it was relevant to begin with with that coat of paint.
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That fantastic. Soundtrack the soundtrack which
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makes me want to go and play it. Yeah, that's how good the
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soundtrack is. It's honestly, it's brilliant.
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So they really did a good job of modernizing it and making it
25:30
feel like a fresh. Product and you compared it to
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Pac-Man. And I think that's a really
25:39
interesting comparison because Pac-Man didn't have nearly the
25:42
same effect on me as this did know.
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And and that version that man was somewhat similar, wasn't it?
25:48
Like, you know yeah. Bright neon lights, all that
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kind of stuff and a similar similar lineage between these.
25:53
Yeah, legendary games but to me, Tetris effect connected
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connected a lot more with me as for what it can do in the
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future. Short of Another Time, 3D Tetris
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and things like that before and short of adding new shapes, I
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don't really know. My answer was going to be re
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focusing on making 3D Tetris good because from what I
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understand, feet 3D Tetris is dire really.
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So I don't know if that is the case, but I would say that if
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they want to reinvent it further or, you know, tweak it then
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focus on 3D Tetris and do something with VR.
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Because 3D textures and VR because I know there was a 3D
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version of Tetris on the virtual boy back in the 90s and it
26:42
looked like a migraine, it was just so different answer.
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Okay. So, when you think about Tetris
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is sort of a geometric puzzle game, yes.
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When you think about other puzzle games and you think about
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games that have puzzle elements, what do they do to keep it fresh
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between games? They change the scenario.
27:06
They they change the setting or they changed the characters that
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portal think important? Yeah, well so yeah, that's a
27:16
good example portal. So maybe what you do to make
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Tetris. and again as you change the format you change maybe
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you're trying to make a very wide row or something and or
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maybe you're trying to Make a row, which is a t-shape what?
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Like what I mean is, maybe the stage isn't shaped like a
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rectangle may be the shape of the stage is different and due
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to that every stage would be a different challenge.
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I know that puzzle games in the past have dabbled with adding
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story elements between things and yep, I think that can be
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quite interesting if they do it, right?
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If they do a story, that's thematically relevant to Tetris,
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which I don't know what is Is maybe something involving
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Russia? I don't know.
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I mean it's not Tetris related but when we get to yours and
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mine mine in your 15 games, I've got a shape based puzzle game
28:20
that will be playing called Thomas Was Alone and that is
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effectively. Like I said, it's not Tetris,
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it's a platformer but that is what you do when you give a
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storyline to shapes and characters to shapes And it's
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it's a really lovely little game.
28:37
I don't know how you could do that with Tetris, but I think
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you raise a good point, you know, if you could do something
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along those lines with that, I think it would not reinvent.
28:44
Its like we say that wouldn't happen but it would give it a
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different perspective. I guess if you can change the
28:51
challenge without just increasing the speed, that would
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be interesting. Yeah, I feel like a lot of the
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difficulty around Tetris. Is around the speed that it goes
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at. Yeah.
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And if you take that element away or you change the
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parameters of that, I think you've got some interesting
29:12
possibilities. Whether they'll do that, I don't
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know. Yeah.
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But you think about any puzzle game, they what they do is they
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they all to some aspects and they change the challenge.
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I think that would be the answer here.
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As I said, maybe it's changing the shape of the stages.
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I'm sure they might have done that in the past.
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This is no ring. The cetera.
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So many, yeah, there are so many Tetris games that I've not even,
29:37
I'm not even aware of probably 95% of them.
29:41
So it's an interesting question and I think it's probably the
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question that all puzzle games have to face.
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Yeah, I'm with any sequel so and as you said portal to did a
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great job of it. Hmm.
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But what will Portal 3 do? Yeah.
29:58
How were they keep pushing that envelope?
30:01
Like I think it's a bit more challenging or a bit more of an
30:04
interesting question for puzzle games because you can't just
30:07
extend the storyline and show what happens next to the
30:09
characters now, because I don't really want to know what happens
30:13
next to that t shape. So, no quite yeah.
30:16
Other than making me boil over with frustration and anger.
30:19
Yeah, that is included quite so, obviously with it being a game,
30:26
like, this is a bit of a shorter episode, but what are your final
30:30
thoughts? What do you Think Tetris effect
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connected deserves to be in the list.
30:33
We didn't give it a position obviously because this is one of
30:36
the the latter editions after we'd finalized our list.
30:38
So we're just covering it as a game that's been added in, but
30:42
with the score of 94, you know, it's going to be, you know, not
30:45
not low down, you know? It's going to probably be midway
30:49
through. So do you think it deserves its
30:50
place? I think Tetris as a franchisee
30:54
absolutely deserves to be represented on this list.
30:58
Looking at some of the other games that are represented And
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possibly over represented on this list.
31:03
Yeah, this there's no doubt in my mind that a Tetris game
31:08
deserves to be here. Of course, the argument is,
31:11
whether it should be the original, but for me, I would
31:14
rather play this version of Tetris any day.
31:17
So two other versions. Yeah, so I'm quite happy for
31:21
this game to be on the list. I would say, I mean, you could
31:24
make an argument that it should be higher up.
31:26
I would say, maybe the top 30. Yeah, we're in there.
31:29
And I'll be quite happy for this game to be there.
31:31
R. Yeah I agree with that
31:32
completely top 30 I think will be absolutely fair enough and it
31:36
does deserve representation on this list compared to as you say
31:39
games are over represented here. So yes I think that it has
31:43
earned a spot and this is a good game not for me.
31:47
Unless you know, I'm looking to exceed my blood pressure limits,
31:52
but go away and listen to the soundtrack.
31:54
I probably would, I probably would call sounds good.
31:59
Yeah, that that will help relieve the blood pressure
32:01
Maybe. So yeah, I think we both enjoyed
32:05
this game and I don't think we were expecting much from it and
32:08
I don't think it's over like overly over-delivered, but I
32:12
think that we were satisfied with what we played.
32:15
Yeah. For one of these smaller games,
32:17
it was a pleasant surprise. Yes.
32:19
And that's, that's a rarity with the smaller games that we cover
32:22
sometimes. So, what have we got coming up
32:25
next week? I believe it's quite a big game,
32:27
isn't it? Yeah, this is one.
32:29
We've been waiting for some time about three years.
32:34
Maybe, maybe not quite that long but yeah, we've definitely been
32:38
talking about this game for a long time and I've referenced it
32:41
quite a few times in the podcast.
32:43
So next game, we're doing is the Legend of Zelda breath of the
32:48
wild? Now, I know you may not have
32:51
completed it by the time, we record because it is a big game.
32:55
I've now sunk 165 hours into it overall, as massive, massive
33:02
game, Don't think most people seen that much time into it, but
33:05
I really played this game to hell and back when it came out.
33:10
So, yeah. Your challenge, obviously,
33:15
there's no timeline on this and it's still one.
33:17
I think it's old again that you've got.
33:18
Yeah, it's wallet princess. Yeah, it is to finish the Zelda
33:22
games and I will hold you to that but like I said, there's no
33:25
deadline to that. Yeah.
33:26
And I don't think I will have finished this game.
33:29
By the time we get to this Ive, put 25 hours into it so far.
33:33
You making good progress. But yeah.
33:34
It's a big game. Yeah, I've got to Divine beats
33:37
left and then the endgame. But there's just so much to
33:40
explore and do that. I keep finding myself being
33:42
distracted, which that's a great thing though, isn't?
33:45
Yeah. It is, which I'm sure will go
33:47
into a lot more detail of when we talk about it next week.
33:50
I think it's going to be a very interesting thing.
33:51
So it's worth sharing. The tip that I gave you before
33:56
starting was let this game. Take you, ya don't ya?
34:02
Just explore. Which is what happened.
34:04
Aim that is that the best word to describe breath of the wild
34:08
exploration. Yes and yeah.
34:11
So I think that's quite good. I don't know what I'm looking
34:16
for anyway. Yes it's a good, something
34:20
that's the word I was like, yes. And as we've covered pretty much
34:24
all of the main lines out at games in the in the list other
34:27
than Skyward Sword. I think that you know, this is
34:32
it's a big one. For us, and we wanted to leave
34:34
breath of the wild to. We did want to leave it to the
34:36
very last episode of the top 100, but with issues with
34:39
Half-Life Alex and the additions of the others, we thought, we'll
34:42
just we'll just do it and get it done.
34:44
Yeah, I mean, it's our podcast is now basically been extended
34:50
due to the addition of an another list, if definitely it
34:53
away all the time, software games, baby.
34:57
Yes, and lots of others. Yes, so join us next week for
35:02
breath of the wild. I think it's going to Very
35:03
interesting episode and it will be a, the end of an era to a
35:10
game series that we started relatively early on.
35:13
After we started this podcast in 2020, you say that.
35:16
But there's obviously, the addition of Tears of the later
35:19
sold again, which I started last night, and I'm very much
35:24
enjoying it so far. I do love me.
35:25
There we go. Minecraft, Minecraft Zelda so
35:29
dungeons Elder face. That's right.
35:32
So, Yes, as usual you can get us on all the social medias, with a
35:36
long short at podcast. You can email us at the long and
35:38
short of it podcast at hotmail.com.
35:42
But yeah, that was our episode on Tetris.
35:44
We will see you next week for breath of the wild, but is there
35:48
anything else to add from yourself?
35:50
No, that's it from me, lovely. We will see you next week then.
35:54
And in the meantime, take care cheerio.
35:56
See you on the next one. Yes, as usual you can get us on
35:35
all the social medias, with a long short at podcast.
35:37
You can email us at the long and short of it podcast at
35:39
hotmail.com. But yeah, that was our episode
35:43
on Tetris. We will see you next week for
35:46
breath of the wild, but is there anything else to add from
35:49
yourself? No, that's it from me, lovely.
35:52
We will see you next week then. And in the meantime, take care
35:55
cheerio. See you on the next one.