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Surlent Koopa Back to the roots                   Since: 11-18-05 From: Berlin, Germany Last post: 6309 days Last view: 6309 days |
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You may know this video already, where a Japanese person plays Tetris The Absolute: The Grandmaster 2 Plus (yes, that's the title if you want it to type it correctly) in Death Mode and reaches Level 999 in a pretty nice time. The Grandmaster Series just is ... well, Tetris, but on its kind it is very interesting and attracted me, after I saw this video. Your main goal in Grandmaster mode is to reach the GM rank. You start out on rank 9, which goes down to 1 when you pass a certain amount of points for each rank. Then it goes up again from S1 to S9 - and when you fulfill certain other requirements (such as being very fast and attaining certain grades early), you earn the rank Grandmaster. It is very fun to play, since its level and game mechanic system slightly differs from original Tetris: Instead of increasing the speed every 10 lines, it increases which each tetromino dropped, as well as it goes up one each line. They drop faster and faster, each x00 level the background changes and you may receive an additional boost in speed, later you will have instant falling, where you must align the tetrominos with just moving them in the short amount of time you are granted before they lock - and you might want to move them several times and rotate in the _right_ direction, otherwise you will die soon, as it seems very challenging, at least for me. But it also offers great fun. There is the Normal Mode with only 300 levels which is not quite as fast and offers two bonus blocks at level 100 and 200 which delete holes/uneven lines and align your stack properly. Great for a small warming up. Also after you reached Lv 300 while the credits roll, the game continues in 20G mode for a short amount of time, so you take a peek into later levels in GM mode. The video shows the Plus variant - the 20G mode is activated in the Death Mode (I have the non-plus variant for MAME), but if you see TGM3 or maybe even in TGM3 for Xbox 360 (don't know about this one), there is the Shirase Mode - and the speed there ... just ist insane. I'm not wondering no one officially mastered the GM mode in TGM3 ever yet ... and the game is out since August 2005 
You will need a specific MAME version to let the game run, since Arika demanded to remove TGM2 and TGM2+ from the game list. The arcade game also doesn't seem to be released outside Japan what is very sad - I think of a lot of people who just want to play something "simple" they're good in - and can get the challenge with these games. TGM1 is much more easier in this; I reach S1 with relative ease, the difficulty curve increases with each game in the series. You might want to see the very nice TGM3 demo which shows the GM mode in the first part and Shirase mode in the second part. I like the upbeating music, although I never will be even close to that fast to handle about 3 tetrominoes per second, I would like to test that game some time 
Sadly the download rates are rather low, I download with about 55 KB/s from arikaonline, usually I get rates up to 250k with my 2048 kbps connection. My personal record in TGM2 is Level 499 with grade 2, but usually I die within the 300s already. Much to go 
How about you, anyone playing TGM ? Maybe someone like Abused Rib, since on the tetrisattack.net forums people also mentioned the TGM series. |
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Cynthia Uh-huh.   Since: 11-17-05 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Last post: 6297 days Last view: 6297 days |
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| I've only played the original via MAME but it's a hell of a Tetris game. Simple Tetris, no strings attached... just that it becomes EXTREMELY hard in a hurry.
I didn't know TGM2/2+ are playable though... must try that out and search down an unofficial MAME. |
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Hiryuu Sword Maiden Retired Admin  Since: 11-17-05 From: Nerima District - Tokyo, Japan Last post: 6297 days Last view: 6297 days |
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| I sent Colin a TGM3: Terror Instinct a while back. The damned thing is freaking insane.
A shame that the only version I know that exists is supposedly on the XBOX 360. The game looks hella sweet...that or if I knew of an arcade that carried the game itself. Finding Tetris in an arcade, for me anyways, is an extreme rarity. |
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