Bastard Tetris
June 22nd, 2005 by RoryI had heard about Bastard Tetris or “Bastet” before and it sounded like it would be quite difficult. It’s just regular Tetris except that it uses a special algorithm to determine the absolute worst piece to drop. The preview pane shows you what piece you were probably hoping to get. I don’t think I’ve ever played a game that made me so mad. It dropped about a dozen of the same S-shaped pieces on me and I almost lost because I had nowhere to put them. After playing the game for about an hour I decided that it wasn’t worth my time — though it definitely will sharpen your Tetris skills as you have to learn new patterns to place things. The usual setup for a tetris will NEVER work in this game, so you have to rely on just getting as many lines as possible. I got two lines at once and that was damn spectacular. I ran around the computer lab screaming “OH YEAH, TWO-LINE BONUS, BEESNIATCHES!!!”