TETRIS® THE GRAND MASTER 4 -ABSOLUTE EYE-

this game is like having a woman twice your height kick you in the stomach and spit on your face before begging you not to leave her good for people who are already big fans of tetris

I Love TGM type tetris, but this game falls short of delivering the sort of major gameplay advancements that defined installments of the earlier TGM entries, and never quite feels right to me. If you are a tetris player, and have not tried a TGM type falling block game, I absolutely think that you should: when the games challenge comes from high gravity, and low lock delay/ARE it makes for such a different experience than say Tetris 99 or tetr.io where those things are basically never a threat, and you are only ever worried about garbage/topping out. To be fair, this game does have the basic elements of TGM there at its core, but I have so many little gripes about this game, and when you are trying to find the perfect tetris experience the little gripes become big ones. Some examples: A) I prefer SRS to ARS, and I am glad they put SRS in this game, but in normal mode when using SRS there is no option to use the extra button for ARE cancelling, which makes the start of the game feel super slow. B)The grading system is more confusing than other TGM games, and also just less rewarding.There are no timer or section times to keep up with to help decrease delay times as you play. C) The modes are confusing, and none of them feel quire right to me: Normal mode (which is most like TGM master modes in previous games) after update 1.7 doesnt even have decreasing delay times as far as I can figure out, and sort of just feels sluggish the whole way through. The x modes 1.2 and 1.3 are fun resemblances of T.A. Death and T.I Shirase, but there are no fun resemblances of master modes from TGM2 or TGM3 which is a shame. The master mode istelf in this game is fun, but is again like a death or shirase mode with some extra stuff happening, not like a classic master mode. I think I am just quite upset that the normal mode is so bad. In addition to the problems I have with the game, there just isnt anything this game does which goes above and beyond to advance the genre. There is the frozen mountain part in master mode which kinda forces you to play a bit higher on the board, but that feels like more of a fun gimmick. With each previous iteration of TGM there was some major mechanical advancement to the game, such as the introduction of sonic drop/ lock in TGM2 or the introduction of the hold in TGM3, but here there is no major advancement here. In the many years since TGM 3 fan games have come up with significant advancements, the biggest being 180 degree spins, but this did not make it into the game. SRS-X with 180 spins and sonic drop/ lock is sort of a cult standard that many of us became accustomed to with HEBORIS or NULLPOMINO (both still good options for TGM type games), and it feels strange to return to basically TI-world rule set but get robbed of your ARE cancelling button. The long and short of it is this: I love TGM, and you should try it if you have not, but for a variety of reasons I suggest that you should just download Cambridge (or one of the aformentioned games) instead, for free.