Is playing Tetris against Zed a recipe for sure defeat? My brother was observing what was happening in Zed's field and apparently whenever I hit him with Tetrises, the garbage blocks more often then not have a slot where an I-block can fit, and he almost always gets an I-block immediately after he gets hit with a Tetris.
I played against Jay and Elle (are they supposed to be harder?) and just steamrollered them easily, but I can't beat Zed no matter how well or aggressively I play.
The CPUs are probably better at downstacking than you, so that's why it feels hard. (Downstacking is when you focus on clearing the gray garbage lines to prolong survival. You have to think ahead many pieces to do this efficiently. The AI is pretty good at this, even if they are slow). The solution is to play faster or abuse something with higher DPS or damage per line like t-spins, perfect clears, and combos.
My god I am so bad. I watched all the tutorials and still can't win a single match. I wish there was a solo option so I had time to teach myself the basics better, but I guess that would defeat the purpose of it being a demo. The trash blocks ruin me every time.
I'll probably buy the full game and force myself to get better.
On top of the tutorials, try watching some pro-play videos. Maybe something will click.
Supposedly the story mode sort of functions as a tutorial in some ways because it teaches you how to play properly.
I wouldn't stress losing too much based off the demo.
Hm well... in a way, it
forces you to learn how to play properly lol. If you die enough times on a stage, the game will let you skip it. But you can't skip the end of chapter bosses. It seems a lot of people with the JP ver struggle to pass the Tetris boss stage in Chapter 3.
Does the final game have just a solo Tetris/Puyo Puyo mode? Where I can sort of go for a high score type deal?
Yes. You can.
While I'm quoting this, I want to add something in relation to the high score stuff mentioned previously by sixfortyfive in this thread. We forgot to mention that Tetris and Puyo Puyo have been pretty much solved in terms of getting a high score in endless mode. You can max out the score pretty easily in Puyo Puyo if you're patient enough to do 1 Chains for five hours. As for Tetris, Tetris players have proven that stacking setups like
ST Stacking and the
Infinite T Spin Triple produce the highest score per line.
There's definitely value in training yourself to spam these setups as fast as possible to optimize your score, but seeing as it can feel "solved," many players prefer to focus on VS play instead.
Oh yeah, and contrary to the
popular belief that you will always lose in Tetris, there's solutions to play forever in modern Tetris games as long as certain conditions are met (e.g. 7 bag randomizer, at least 3 previews, Hold mechanic):
https://harddrop.com/wiki/Playing_forever
I do like me some TEHTUHRIS.
