Let's Look At: Tetris 99!

[@RECTANGLE339]

Every time a block appears, the tubular question is asked. *”Where we droppin’?”*

[@skywardtardis]

Keane Escueta “Where we misdropin’ boys?”

[@koveltskiis8391]

T-Spin Towers?

[@carloskarchviz]

Im gonna be honest, that was one of the best commented, most entretaining NL's videos I seen. He was so into the game, and so was I. I heard stories fof young NL and his parents, Kate teaching egg how to tetris, game mechanics and solid enthusiam...

[@lou_gubrious]

more tetris videos

[@PetreyTurkeybable]

i want to like the comment but it has 69 likes PepeHands

[@LozanYo]

Woot. 169

[@LancerEagle]

24:10 Overconfidence is a swift and immediate killer.

[@lxiaoqi6275]

'mom'

[@Bumhole94]

In all my years watching NL, this is the first time I've really understood how much harder it is to talk and play at the same time. I'm getting mind-flooded just listening and watching.

[@Cronos804]

Actually the level of multitasking that NL is doing is quite impressive. Try narrating through a slay the spire run and you will run out of topics in about 2 minutes, because most of the things in your head do not make sense to an outside person. Your need to think a lot about what you even can talk about.

[@johnhabermeier4694]

@@Cronos804 He might be the only person who does what he does. There are lots of gaming streamers, but there aren't that many gaming streamers who double as one-man variety-show podcast hosts

[@SteamPumpGamer]

NL is seriously gifted

[@iami3rian394]

@@Cronos804 StS is actually one of the easiest games to talk over. There's no timer, and he NEVER talks about anything that's not gameplay related. It's all narrating moves, which is a hundred times easier than talking about, say... the moon landing conspiracy theory, or delicious BBQ sauces. Just stream of consciousness'ing what you're doing is a million times easier than talking about anything else. As such, I implore YOU to try it, you might see that it's not nearly as tough as you think it is.

[@curtisehoffman]

Tetris Trash talker NL might be my favorite new thing. Also, that complete 180 turn after was fantastic.

[@curtisehoffman]

@Adol Fitler Indeed, I'm actually genuinely amazed at how well he was playing overall while keeping up that steady of commentary.

[@jansenmtan]

There is more strategy than you give Tetris 99 credit for. For example, at 21:20 you should have cleared rows to defend yourself

[@timoman6]

I've been playing Tetris since like... middle school, and I'm really good, Tetris 99 introduces some rad mechanics with targeting and all.

@@timoman6 "Since middle school" is rather arbitrary for the rest of us. ;)

[@indeimaus]

canadian egg screams over the intense tetris menu music part 1

[@twinkiecat296]

Indeimaus hello

[@Relossz]

24:10 My god the comedic timing.

[@IncrediBelleJessi]

Just when I thought my life couldn't get more boring, I start watched a Tetris let's play

[@eliasmsv3156]

I feel ya

[@NoMoreENRG]

dw i was watching tetris speed run

[@Droid15243Z]

This game is actually pretty intense when you know the mechanics. Check out one of Wumbo's clips and you'll see a guy win a 9v1 and proceed to mop the floor.

[@RoborobWall]

Fuck, I need to turn off my computer

[@IncrediBelleJessi]

@FitmoGamingMc same 😓

[@snol]

Ryan v Kate tetris battle when

[@ChargeQM]

She'd cram his shiny dome down the garbage hole.

[@Doomroar]

Wife kills husband on tetris stream.

[@Ben_R4mZ]

probably best to use Puyo Puyo Tetris for that if they want to duel.....

[@a3aan240]

Mo-ooom stop watching Northernlion play teris, it's already midnight!

[@ultraviolet7434]

Go to your room and don't tell me what to do

[@xEvilAliv3x]

Little Tip NL, Instead of building huge 1-gaps for I's do 2 gaps and then u can start comboing with any piece. Instead of clearing one 4 adn thats it, U start clearing 2-3's in sucesive turn

[@achanmould2904]

Egg recoding from a nightclub

[@ultraviolet7434]

Dude if there was a nightclub that played only EDM remixes of classic games I'd be living there

[@mityakiselev]

And here's where it all started

[@josiahguerra500]

"NO! YOU COWARDS!!" -NL 2019

[@garmo1968]

fyi a spin in tetris is where you have a spot that a piece cant go into because your way down is blocked by the mishapen well, but issuing perfectly timed rotations you make it fit anyway and work it into proper place using tons of skill, although they typically don't count unless you manage to clear a line with the move... they are most easially done with the pyramid triangle peice (the T Block) but technically can be done with every piece

[@danielharness1336]

THE MUSIC IS A BANGER

[@MetalMockingjay]

Each day I've beaten my previous best placement by one. If this continues, today should be my first win. Wish me luck, fellas.

[@JudgeDeadMJ]

Jayden Potter Keep us updated

[@MetalMockingjay]

I did it. I also beat Hexagonest in Super Hexagon, and the normal sixth floor boss in Monolith. Triple Triumph.

[@PaperLaur]

@@MetalMockingjay A rare Monolith fan in the wild! Have fun with hard mode ;)

[@MetalMockingjay]

Haha, Poor D-13 hasn't had much luck yet. Only managed to beat the Overlord so far.

[@DrAiPatch]

You have 45 people targeting you at all times because you have it on random!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Random is literally the worst thing you can have it set to. Most normal people have it set on Attackers, so if your randomly attacking people guess what happens...... You get attack by a ton of people.

[@budspudsy436]

Tweet him this so his shell doesn't get cracked

[@DrAiPatch]

@@budspudsy436 I would have done that but i dont have a Twitter.... and as much as i kinda enjoyed this I'm not making a Twitter just to tell NL he is back at a game lol.

[@budspudsy436]

@@DrAiPatch Well your comment implied that you were trying to talk to NL directly (hence why you said "you" multiple times), but he doesn't read YT comments. If you really want to comment at him directly you have to do it through other channels.

[@Zwijger]

@@budspudsy436 The guy above me didn't say that he didn't want to direct his comment at eggdaddy (he clearly did want to tell him something), he said that he didn't wanna specifically make a new platform to do it on.

[@budspudsy436]

@@Zwijger "The guy above me didn't say that he didn't want to direct his comment at eggdaddy" I know? That's why I told him how he could direct his comments to NL (Because that's what he was doing). You're just reiterating what he said in his reply, which is unnecessary because the interaction was clear as crystal up to this point.

[@stormtroop007]

@10:22 Bruh NL baby what is you doing...

[@mimi-xx]

iffy controls might be a pro controller issue. dont knock the joycons until you try them properly, because the pro controller d pad is super finnicky, and the joycons are superior here because of its seperate buttons, causing fewer misplays.

[@lord37052]

I honestly loved the commentary in this.

[@umbaupause]

All I wanna say to this is: BOOM tetris for Northern!

[@SHADOW_F_A_X]

Remember when this game became a meme for 30 minutes?

[@snol]

The flight of the bumblebee remix is a banger

[@snol]

Shame you'll never hear it tho ryab

[@MetalMockingjay]

Roasted

[@queenofsprinkles]

He was so slow back in the very beginning. It's amazing how dramatically he has improved! So proud of our egg!

[@Jmdeleeuw-]

Fantastic video NL, loved the little story about your parents playing Tetris. I actually felt that you had alot of fun playing this. Trash talk was great too. Please keep it up with these kind of videos!

[@petersantaana3532]

Started watching this 8 months later just to see the first impression of the game that is driving NL to insanity.

[@Andrew-jw4vc]

I love that Tetris is so universal and, as you said, evergreen. This and Tetris Effect are so awesome because they show that despite new graphics, consoles, or even generations of people, we still come back to the perfect game design of Tetris, just stacking blocks

[@PaperLaur]

A little unsolicited tip for anyone reading this from someone who's won a couple of T99 matches and achieved the highest grade in TGM 1 after two years of practice...try not to leave more than one hole where only one piece can fit. You want to keep your options open, and having to wait for three I-pieces to deal with your board is...not a kind of position you want to be stuck in when the randomizer decides it hates you (which it does, often). For instance, in this video you can see some points where it might've been better to place an I-piece sideways or straight up on top of the stack rather than on one side of a two-block hole with tall sides that could've been filled by a square piece or an L/J piece.

[@EpicGamerScout]

The somewhat serious answer to NL's "What can you do" bit mostly is just having to play faster during the safe bits and keeping a potential tetris prepared to defend the attacks during the scary bits. Once attacks have came in(And are waiting on the left to be build up as garbage) they can't really be raced even by going ungodly fast, but any lines cleared before they appear on your board will also clear them; So defense is mostly coming up with galaxy-brain plans ahead of time to clear a ton of lines within 2-3 blocks of you getting hit.

[@tonyng5645]

Yeah I always have a straight in the hold so I can quickly clear eight lines if I get a big attack

[@Bspammer]

If you're being attacked by several people, switch to attackers mode. You get a bonus for each person attacking you, so even a single line clear can completely block huge amounts of incoming garbage.

[@BrianAlainHunt241192]

this was honestly a lot of fun to watch, hope you come back to it.

[@pollyphemeus]

Two simple tips to improve your game: it's ok to leave a 1x1 hole on occasion to maintain speed, if you clear lines quickly enough. Second, occasionally you freeze on a turn because a piece is awkward to fit, speed is better than perfection, just minimize the holes you create to keep a consistant flow.

[@nickcrusaire]

i am so proud of eggfather right now, gracing us with all these let's look at videos.

[@saeberrr]

I watched this for over half an hour and actually enjoyed my time, good job egg

[@leebydeeby]

27:17 could genuinely be a meme template Same energy as that image of a cat with all the knives pointed at it

[@AceofJays15]

In the description, it says the game is Terraria and I'd love to see Team Unity play that after Minecraft

[@i_am_ergo]

NL plays every Tetris match like it's his first one to keep things fresh.

[@saraxtea]

Love watching you play this game. Hope to see more in the future!

[@RGSNate]

You know, at the end of the day...

[@fahfahfred]

Not sure why but this vid was the most entertaining thing I've watched in a minute. GJ NL.

[@IgneousGorilla]

Is there something similar to this on PC?

[@myshcoolaccount]

IgneousGorilla I don’t know if it’s still up but the Tetris website has free competitive Tetris.

[@Alphatox]

tetris battle on fb i guess

[@Crazimo]

Looks like PC is no longer the master race, we Switch bois now.

[@lewman999]

Tetris friends supports 8 players at once (with items if you want), though the targeting system cycles between everyone rather than being chosen.

[@itchylol742]

JSTris, plays in browser. There's currently 26 people playing as of now

[@hhehe24]

It's called a tetris well, sweetheart, look it up.

[@arempy5836]

Well, excuse me princess.

[@mityakiselev]

doesn't seem that well to me

[@mrbenman97]

A glimpse into the pre-wyatt era

[@stopquinn]

i love tetris but i don’t have a switch, my friend was the one who informed me of this game and i was like “holy shit sounds rad” and my friend was like “it’s tetris against 98 people...” as if that’s a deterrent

[@Cleve_Crudgington]

Take a drink every time NL says "at the end of the day".

[@yaboiguzma8733]

Comboing clears stalls enemy attacks, so in Tetris 99 it’s sometimes better to do chains of small clears rather than going for tetrises

[@HisMagnificence]

More of this. This video was great. So great I didn’t realize I’m skipping a class today

[@Ch4rmander]

I saw NL talking to Austin in another video saying the pro controller is better for this than the joy-cons, but I gotta say I think the opposite is true. All these false drops NL is getting here are most likely from the garbage d-pad on the Pro that is well documented to very easily give you false up/down inputs when switching from left to right

[@TonyTheTGR]

@ 23:00 when Egg gets talking smack... XD PRICELESS.

[@Bottles7]

Man recent tetris games have been bangers

[@harrycoulter5754]

I would love to see some more of this, good stuff man!!

[@yosh9651]

Yes egg daddy, stack me up :)

[@IAMTHEJUGGERNATE]

I'm not going to lie, you did a WAY better job of playing frantic Tetris while talking coherently than I ever would/could.

[@Akranejames]

I never really played Tetris, because just watching it gets me so stressed and excited that I just know it's too intense for me. Weird to say, but honest.

[@PibsterPewPew]

Id honestly watch more of this nls reaction to getting targeted and then his smugness when he forght it off was golden

[@BulaienHate]

Be careful if you play with the pro controller it will do an extra up input when you press left right quickly (a known issue with the pro controller)

[@rat146]

Would love more Tetris 99 vids! I love it ahaha

[@eliasmsv3156]

I’m really liking all the different content atm

[@Pirat3Hunter99]

"I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me" Woolie made the same reference for this game lol

[@donkeykong315]

A BR fit for an egg

[@LightoLuka]

I got a switch for Christmas and finally got an actual switch game (Mario kart) for my birthday last week but didn’t find it worth it to pay for online until this game. I downloaded it bc of you, so thanks egg! I got top 10 in 2 of the 3 games I played ^_^

[@eliasmsv3156]

I played tetris for the first time when my dad played it on his phone. I downloaded it and i hate mobile games cuz of the controls. Since i own a switch and it’s free i might as well try it out!

[@piplupisgood]

I feel like when he's getting targeted by more than one person or at any time he should just attack the attackers (right stick)

[@lethauntic]

Why is it that when NL is being targeted by over a dozen attackers, he stays on 'random', but then switches to 'attackers' after they've already sent garbage and left. Sure, it _can_ be annoying being targeted by a ton of people, but when you can just attack all of them back so they leave... That's on you at that point.

[@rebca_]

12:18 Oh come on, your playfield is just begging for a t-spin!

[@9Flatline]

I love this game I've played like 50 rounds and only failed to get into the top 5 3 times. Plus 4 total victories

[@itsgaylebitxh]

I didnt expect to look forward to this so much

[@vaannebilim]

Use the joycons to play this the separated directional buttons are better that the dpad so you don't press up accidentally

[@jacobpritchard3390]

When I realised this was recorded before he got all the tips on Friday stream and got a bit better I just wanted to die

[@Canomonke]

I played on pc before coming to this, I used my right hand to move and also turn my pieces with the arrow keys, and my left hand just to hard drop. Getting used to these controls were a nightmare. I also played with no holding, so a totally new mechanic for me.

[@lou_gubrious]

this is my favorite video you've made in a long time. your decision making is terrible but it makes me feel like a better tetris player

[@SharpenedMirror]

24:07 I fell off my chair after that instant karma

[@Zyjem]

Let's be honest, if you've ever played Tetris before in your life, you'll probably get past 50th place. Some of these people are basically the Tetris equivalent of Draco Centauros in Puyo Puyo. Edit: it seems like the more people targeting you the stronger your attack in order to make up for it, but to be honest you could use the buff to wipe the floor with random targets.

[@xarris37]

i never thought i'd be enthralled by tetris gameplay

[@marmottin]

I like Tetris, but that's the catchy music that kept me watching 'till the end.

[@Pipl0]

This game stresses me 👏👏 When the music speeds up, the panic induces :')

[@aceroeh173]

I am actually feeling the music in the backrounds

[@dietaube6898]

Oh boy, all those Let's Look Ats. Very nice.

[@jcruz821]

Now this is just what I heard from someone else's gameplay, but the pieces that get auto placed out of your control are forced down when another player attacks you.

[@stevethepocket]

There really does seem to be an issue with it registering up presses twice. I'm seeing a lot of hard drops happening as soon as the previous piece falls. I don't know if it's a hardware issue or if the game is just dumping extra-long up presses into a buffer and letting it clear out, but either way, they need to patch it so every time a piece lands, it clears out the input buffer and blocks up presses for maybe half a second.

[@AirahsELL]

Hes playing on a pro controller and fucking up.

[@00000000000000366]

Best place to learn tetris is in high school english class with friends when youre supposed to be working on your presentation

[@calzonecalvin3586]

6:45 When they come for you...

[@PuertoricanFrodo]

Keep up the let's look at! Great job!

[@ericlamb4501]

Honestly I feel like this game would be incredibly easy cause literally half the community of folks who own a Switch are millennials who have never even heard of Tetris, not to mention there is already a Tetris game that dumps randomly generated lines on the bottom of your screen at even intervals. If you're good at that, you can easily do this. Plus both mindsets work. You can take your time and make 4 lines, or you can whittle people down with a constant stream of lines before they can even react.

[@oh_banana]

In 10 games not once did i experience NL's consecutive 5+ people targetting

[@Droid15243Z]

Are you set to random?

[@Seymour101]

You know i've seen a lot of things battle royale , i never expected tetris could be one of them . what a time to be alive eh

[@Droid15243Z]

Bomberman when?

[@IAMTHEJUGGERNATE]

The problem I have with the majority of BR games is the down time between action. I always thought Counterstrike was about as slow as a good shooter should be. And even then, you could at least spectate your teammates and give callouts during play (unless the server blacked your screen out). But with most BR games, you have to wait for minutes in a pre-lobby, then a minute to fly over and drop to your preferred location, just to basically flip a coin on whether you find a good gun first, or an enemy nearby finds one first. If you are unlucky, you can go up to 20 mins without actually getting a decent game going. For me, I'd rather play a full TDM match or 2 in that time. I get that it's a bigger rush to win a BR, but I still get a good rush from a 10+ killstreak or clutching a close TDM game, so I still think the cons out-weigh the pros with BR.

[@jasonmelanconjm]

You should do a mini series of this game

[@uncleflansy5621]

Awesome. I was just thinking to myself at work, 'what game could Ryab play that would cause me physical pain to watch?'

[@MatthewSchellGaming]

Finally a Switch exclusive that makes me wish I had a Switch. Hope it comes to PC, though being published by Nintendo idk.

[@Droid15243Z]

Someone may make a PC version?

[@MrJenssen]

"Oooohhh attackers!" - proceeds to build a sharp thin tower of bricks in the middle of the screen...

[@hatefulvengeance]

22:49 Holy shit... I'm fucking dying from that!

[@Alwayz114]

I came here for a random video to have on in teh background as I played games, but got entirely too involved and 31 minutes just flew by

[@TwistedAttitudes]

I find that playing Tetris 99 in docked mode feels so much nicer on the hands than playing it in handheld mode, handheld mode is when I start getting sore

[@TwistedAttitudes]

Dunno what the heck you mean about touchy controls though. Its literally a d-pad, the original games all used d-pads/arrow keys.

[@jonasmanchester8603]

My friend Northernlion, tis not your Tetris skills and sensitive controls. The game has a mechanic where if someone does a line at the right time it drops your tetranome block down instantly.

[@marvinfung2050]

And ''tis is not true, only way this could happen is if you get spiked, get sent several lines at once, as you are dropping you piece down otherwise its called a misdropped where you accidentally drop your piece where you didn't want it

[@cppilgram]

My most recent Tetris platform was a TI-86 Graphing Calculator

[@MrJens1990]

So, at the end of the day, I guess Tetris 99 is a nice game to play at the end of the day. This was my review at the end of my day.

[@Tropcopter]

Tetris theme is the OG VG banger

[@jasperdavdson]

2 years later he's the king of Tetris