Every Tetris fan and/or DS owner should have this.
The game consists of six game modes, standard, push, mission, catch, puzzle and touch. The first three are your standard version of Tetris, each one offering a different Nintendo theme (graphics, music), as well as different gameplay.
Standard: Unlimited, Line clear, VS CPU
Push: Vs CPU
Mission: TIme trial, Marathon
The next mode, mission is sortof inverted Tetris, since you control a platform and need to catch falling pieces instead. I didn't like this mode much because it can take forever to finish.
The last two modes also involve the use of the touch screen. In puzzle mode you get a few tetriminos and you need to clear a block by using them in the right order/direction. It's an interesting mode but you can finish by simply retrying over and over, which makes it kind of pointless. 200 puzzles total.
The other mode is touch, which presents you with a tall tower of already placed Tetriminos which you need to clear up with your stylus by aligning them properly. This mode is very funny, but you have to work real hard to reach high scores, particularly on higher difficulty levels. Then there is also touch puzzle mode, which presents you with a set of tetriminos you need to clear up by following instructions. 50 puzzles here.
The graphics in this game are completely adequate, the tetriminos look like they are made of plastic, and the rest is very much in retro style.
The music is a weak spot since you kinda get used to it, and it becomes boring and repetitive after a while, particularly if you like to play certain modes at certain difficulty modes, but then again you can just turn it off.
Another weak spot is the score board, since the game only remembers the highest score reached. WIth so many game modes and some of them pretty hard I would have liked to see an extended score board.
Same goes with options screen, which only has two options, to turn off hard drop and ghost piece. I would have liked to see more options, like disabling the Hold box, and infinite rotation, both of which are apparently hard-coded.
Nevertheless, this is a great DS game nobody should leave home without. It's definitely a cartridge I'm taking along with my DS wherever I go. And you should, too!
9/10