Tetris Forever review – the history and spirit of the eternal game

The story of Tetris is pretty well known by now. There have been books and documentaries – foremost among them a wonderful BBC doc called From Russia with Love – and there have been movies and YouTube histories and all that beautiful jazz. And yet what I adore most about Tetris Forever, a new playable, interactive documentary from a team that has already shown it’s very, very good at making playable, interactive documentaries, is kind of perverse. What I adore most are the moments that Tetris Forever steps away from the familiar story, the familiar falling shapes, the familiar talking heads and talking points, and makes Tetris feel really weird again.

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Source: Eurogamer.net