A Tetris reboot on touchscreen devices from Electronic Arts should by all accounts be a mess of awkward controls and microtransactions. Tetris Blitz retains little of the sentiment from the 1984 original, but inventive and frantic gameplay, mobile sensibilities, and cues from Pac-Man Championship Edition DX combine to make this the Tetris you want for the device you have. It also uses the word Tetriminos without irony.
Do you know how to play Tetris? Talk about a silly question, one that's possibly more absurd than "Do you know how to breathe?" Everyone has played Tetris, including your grandmother, your father, your hamster, and those aliens that invade your bedroom every night and put you in suspended animation just so they can go a few rounds on your old Game Boy cart. After so many ports and revamps, is there anything else that can be done with gaming's favorite falling blocks? EA hopes so; it's turning up the intensity with Tetris Blitz for iOS and Android.