Tetrisphere
Tetrisphere
Tetrisphere
Tetrisphere

Tetrisphere

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Imagine Tetris pieces that never fall, wrapped instead around the shell of a slowly turning sphere, with a little robot trapped at its core waiting for you to dig it out. That is Tetrisphere, and it is one of the strangest and most rewarding puzzle games Nintendo ever published. It began as Phear, a puzzle game the Calgary studio H2O Entertainment showed for the Atari Jaguar at Winter CES 1995. Nintendo reportedly picked up the rights after seeing it, reworked it into a Tetris title, and brought it to the N64 in 1997.

The rules take a few minutes to click, and then they become addictive. Instead of completing lines, you drop a piece so that at least three matching shapes touch; they implode, and any identical pieces connected to them go too, so one well-placed drop can tear a crater through several layers. You can slide held pieces across the surface to line up the perfect hit, chain gravity and fuse combos, and earn magic items for combos of twenty pieces or more. Spinning the whole sphere to find your angle gives it a spatial feel no flat-grid puzzler can match.

Rescue is the main event, with each level adding layers, bigger robots, a faster-draining timer and new piece types. Hide and Seek keeps the digging but swaps in different goals, such as uncovering a picture imprinted on the core, while Puzzle mode removes the timer and asks you to clear the sphere with a limited number of slides and drops. Time Trial, split-screen versus races against the CPU or a friend, and a hidden Lines mode round it out.

Then there is the music. Neil Voss composed the techno soundtrack in FastTracker 2, and it is a big reason people still talk about this game: pulsing, layered tracks, including the Balinese chorus sampled in “Extol,” with a menu that lets you choose your favorites. Nintendo Power named it the best soundtrack of 1997, and GameSpot scored the game a 9.5. Tetrisphere never got the marketing push of Nintendo's big names, which is exactly why it plays like a discovery today: an inventive, slightly demanding puzzler with a sound all its own, found on the N64 and nowhere else.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1997
Publisher
Nintendo
Developer
H2O Entertainment
Genre
Puzzle
Players
Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
About the game

Tetrisphere is a variant on Tetris in which various shapes are shifted across a wrapped three-dimensional grid resembling a sphere, and then destroyed. The objective of the game changes depending on the mode, but generally consists of removing layers of shapes to reach the playing field's core. Despite very little domestic advertising, Tetrisphere enjoyed moderately good sales and a mostly favorable critical reception. Reviewers praised the game's originality and the musical score composed by Neil D. Voss.

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