Hands On: Tetris Effect Is a Borderline Spiritual Experience with PSVR

Yours forever.

There were no shortage of people who scoffed at Tetris Effect when it was announced at E3 2018 earlier in the year, but anyone who’s played Rez Infinite on PlayStation VR will have understood. Tetsuya Mizuguchi, the mastermind behind the likes of Lumines and Child of Eden, excels at evoking emotional responses through audio-visual experiences – and he’s just transformed a classic Russian puzzler into a borderline spiritual experience.

Playable on standard television screen in 4K resolution on a PlayStation 4 Pro, there’s no doubt that this game excels with its optional PSVR mode. The main campaign, Journey, is Tetris – but at the expense of sounding like a beard stroking, mochachino sipping hipster, it’s a spiritual rollercoaster. You start out underwater, with each tetromino tilt playing blips and blops in key with the rumbling synth backdrop.

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