Tetris Effect: Connected offers up impressive multiplayer variety

Tetris Effect: Connected’s coolest multiplayer mode is its Classic Score Attack. This is a faithful re-creation of the versus rules from Tetris for the Nintendo Entertainment System. This is the game that the world’s best Tetris pros play at the Classic Tetris World Championship each year. And it’s awesome that developers Enhance and Monstars went to the effort of bringing that exact style of Tetris forward onto modern machines. Tetris Effect: Connected launches November 10 for Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, and PC. Current Tetris Effect owners also get Connected as a free update on PC and PS4 in summer 2021.

When I say that Classic Score Attack is faithful, I mean that it strips out most of the modern conveniences casual Tetris fans rely on. You won’t get a ghost outline to show where your piece is going. You cannot bank a piece. The game only shows you one upcoming piece instead of four. The NES didn’t have those features, so this doesn’t, either.