Tetris DS is a great game, but some aspects can be better.
Tetris DS have a lot of game modes. There's Standard mode, who's the Tetris that everybody knows. But there are also 5 others game modes who are fun. To start, there's the Push mode. It's a two players mode where a big bloc made of Tetriminos have to be push on the territory of your opponent. It's a good idea but it's not the greatest mode in Tetris DS. The greatest of all is certainly the Touch mode. To play this one, it's only with the touch screen. You have to move and rotate (or not) Tetriminos to complete objective. Well, for me, I love this mode. It's just amazing. The Puzzle mode is simple. There's Tetriminos on the touch screen and you just have to erase all the Tetriminos who are in the top screen. Good but not so fun. Mission mode is like the Standard mode, but it's different because you have to complete objectives like «clear 3 lines at once» and «use a Tetriminos of 2x2 to clear a line». It's good. You can have a lot of fun in this game mode but for me, no. The last one is Catch mode. Well it's not Tetris. It's just you have to connect Tetriminos to kill metroids. But this game mode is the worst of all. It's long and not entertaining at all.
Nintendo have a good idea: the backgrounds are based on NES games like The Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong, Metroid and Super Mario Bros.. It's a good idea... but it doesn't offers great graphics. The game is not done for 3D graphics. But it's still fun and we don't care about it.
The game is also ordinary on the sound. The remixes of NES games musics are good because it doesn't destroy the songs but at somewhere, it's not so good for the quality of the sound, in the soundtrack and in the sound effects. It's pretty sad but it's the life.
The value of Tetris DS is not on the puzzles (Puzzle and Touch modes). If the Puzzle mode has 200 puzzles, they can be finished in 30 second... only if you know what to do. Because you can pass a lot of time to think to what you have to put. The puzzles of the Touch mode are also not so great. There are only 50 puzzles and some are placed at the wrong place. But what put the value of Tetris DS so much great? It's so fun that you can replay some game modes. It's just very addictive.
Frustrations can happen in this game. And there are all caused by... the player. Let's just explain.
-If you don't see the thing in all the game modes named «How Play», you can find the game mode hard.
-If you press the up button too long, you can put some Tetriminos in bad positions.
-You can also don't understand why some puzzles can't be complete when you have the Tetriminos to complete them. But I can't say why...
But all the game is good and fun.
At the end, we have a Tetris who's revolutionary for a Tetris. The game has new things on the gameplay, and it makes Tetris younger that he looks. So, if you're just looking for fun, Tetris DS is a good choice for you.