'Tetris Effect: Connected' Is Getting TATE Mode In A Free Update

The tater tot update

Tetris Effect is a superb game that made me fall back in love with Tetris. But need a flipgrip for my OLED to be able to try this.

for people confused: "tate" (たて) is Japanese for "vertical". It's gamer terminology that comes from arcade games, where game designers had the option of using vertically-oriented displays in the cabinets.

@BenAV
https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1124751598/portrait-mode-grip-accessory-for

Weird how they're showing off this feature while the Tetris grid takes only a small chunk of the screen. You can zoom in just fine with regular screen orientation in Tetris Effect, surely the same applies for TATE mode?

I love playing this on my PS5 with the pulse headphones on in a darkened room.

You really do get immersed into it

Tetris 99 was always my favourite take on the game till this came along

Playing this on an OLED screen and in tate mode sounds like the perfect way to play. I'm actually amazed it took this long thinking about it

Sorry, but looking at it, they have just extended the background, the game itself is still in normal mode, just smaller, I dont see how this is an upgrade. Get rid of the side characters or whatever they are and make the game FILL the screen, that is what Tate mode is all about

I'm glad it finally got TATE mode. I was wondering how long they would implement that into the game for Switch.

@Bunkerneath You know you could play with the camera view by zooming in and out with one of the analog stick right? This guy in the trailer just choose to play the game zoom-out.

My Mum likes this game, but she finds the menu system oddly difficult to navigate compared to that of Puyo Puno Tetris. I'm not really sure why, it's not "that" hard of a menu, but she really does struggle with it.
I tend to play it on Quest2, so it's already nice and vertical

Can't help myself from pointing out that it is perfectly possible to play games in TATE without using a flip grip.

It is cool option but the accessory is too expensive for me to buy it for so few uses. Maybe I can modify a way to stand the OLED up (like maybe with that Wii U gamepad stand?) and do it table top style.

I loved flipping my monitor around in Downwell.
https://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/switch-eshop/downwell

@Serpenterror Ah I did not know that, why dont they show it?

O!!! This game is so beautiful I mean the effects for the most. Only Tetris I want to play right now. I remember this game. Only update oke.

Unless you can zoom in, that TATE mode looks almost useless. Terribly inefficient use of the screen real estate.

Second game I regret buying after the hype orchestrated by this otherwise clever website. don’t get me wrong I love Tetris, hate the presentation, it is of a very personal taste. And for me, in general, it goes as windows xp esoterica diorama screensaver fiesta.

I found a Flip Grip alternative on Etsy that works great. It's called Pintendo. Works with OLED too.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1124751598/portrait-mode-grip-accessory-for

For a second there I thought the game now had a mysogynistic mode added

I'm wondering if you can rearrange some of the HUD to better use the space for the matrix itself. Like moving the score and timer above or below it, or altering the queue positions.

I’m actually one of those “hardcore” people that were mentioned, in that I have my TV installed with a rotating wall mount. Unfortunately, the main console I game on is the PS5, and even games that have a TATE mode on Switch don’t have one on other consoles.

It sucks because I bought a lot of pinball tables on PlayStation before I got a Switch, and I don’t want to buy them all again (not to mention the increased resolution and performance). I know that it’s not no work to add features into a game, but I don’t think it would be too hard to have feature parity across the different versions of the games.

Saying all this, knowing that I’m one of a very few that would use the feature on something other than a Switch.

I should really update my 3D printed design for a tate mode grip for the OLED model and dust off my 3D printer to print one so I can play tate mode games again. I loved playing down well this way a couple years ago.

I’ll stick with YOKO mode.

@Bunkerneath @coderkind This guy will show you all the secrets you didn't know about the game until now. All of these options works on the Switch version as well.

I like dabbling in this mode occassionally.

Great game by the way.

@Serpenterror thanks a lot for sharing the video 🙂

@BenAV actually you can use Switch OLED in Flipgrip without risk of scratching or volume buttons damage (which was my major concern): just insert the Switch OLED WITH THE VOLUME/POWER BUTTONS ON THE RIGHT. They won't be squeezed and you cannot do any damage. The only difference is that the orange lock mechanism will do nothing but you'll notice that the switch will be firmly secure nonetheless. Give it a try!

Oh man, I've still only played this game for like 30 minutes total, and I've only played with my Flip Grip for about the same. Time to pretend like I'll get around to fixing that and instead continue slowly chip away at other games on my backlog! Sounds awesome, though.

@DwaynesGames

"I’ll stick with YOKO mode."

"YOKO"?

@Mario500 Yoko is horizontal orientation.

I am just being a smart Alec. I know what Tate mode is, but it would be clearer to just say vertical orientation (or portrait and landscape orientation).

I can see the awkwardness here where what makes it immersive without interfering with gameplay is the imagery on the side. That's cut off if he zooms in, so either they feature the benefits of the mode or they feature the benefits of the game. It still seems like he should have zoomed in.