Watch this video, and take a sip whenever you would have taken a tetris. http://www.nihon.se/arika/No_Tetrises.mp4
Yep, I'd be long gone. If I didn't need to be on the road in 4 hours (and the fact I have no alcohol in my home)....
Yeah, no. I'm smarter than that...I think I, too, would've been long gone had I done that. By the way, bonus kicker for anyone who's paying attention: c_t can GM without tetrises faster than about 75% of the GMs on the TGM1 board...myself included. I need to play some TGM1 again, clearly... ~EI
By the way guys, that funny feeling you get whenever I don't take a tetris is called an N400. I bet that tetris skill is positively correlated with the amplitude of the N400.
The idea of filling the hole with L and S pieces instead of I pieces is not entirely foreign to the mind of someone who has played enough Push mode in Tetris DS. Still, there were quite a few spots where I wouldn't have caught myself in time. Wow. Just... wow.
Wow. That's some good play except for the last section. Horizontal I's on the left felt like the easy way out. Good job, at least we definitely know for certain it's not a tetris requirement that was stopping me (and therefore extremely likely a 7 minute "torikan").
[robot-voice] Blame it on this, blame it on that Blame it on everything but yourself Blame it on the person who drinks the alcohol Blame it on the person who drinks the alcohol [/robot-voice] I didn't sip my Diet Mountain Dew much. For one thing, I'm used to a game where you make one 3- or 4-line clear and then combo off it for more points than the game gives for back-to-back 4-line clears. And by level 100, I caught on that L triples were to be your preferred scoring method, just as they are in Tetris DS Push (as Caithness pointed out). But I still saw some opportunities for L triple-S double combos that you didn't take, like when you gained grade 3 at level 138, and immediately afterward at 147. But you did take the combo around 337 and 347, and you finished the score criterion (S9 + 6K) with over 50 levels to spare, so I see why you didn't feel the need to combo attack as much as I'd expected. Great job. Aside: Hot pink S pieces at level 233 are hard to see in the preview against the hot pink background of level 200-300. Had Mr. Mihara played Zoop?
I got to around 9 sips of orange juice before my cup was empty. But I kept watching and counted 27 times I might have made a Tetris. Though I lost count a few times, and a few of those probably wouldn't have been possible (I'm used to TI's I floorkick) But yeah, it made me feel uneasy each time.
Nice skill the both of you! Almost top 10 on the TGM leaderboards colour_thief! I see myself having no problem getting no tetrises in the 20G part of the game and I'm quite good at comboing between level 0-300. But I don't think I could ever get to the end of the game at the moment and certainly not with the GM grade.
