The Carnival of Death: Tetris's Hardest Event...

join me as we talk about the carnival of death, one of the TGM community's most difficult yet popular Tetris event.
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music:
HOME - 4
SAPHES - SPLIT
Bonus Points - Stay Tuned
Shinji Hosoe - Staff Roll [from TAP]
Shinji Hosoe - Happy Happy [from TGM1]
Shinji Hosoe - Level 900-999 [from TAP]
Neil Voss - Polyasia [from The New Tetris]
Jim Andron - Level 0 [from Tetris CD-I]
Jim Andron - Level 9 (a.pathrose flip)
a.pathrose - kmph
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[@Sakimotor]

Wow I literally found out about your channel because yt promoted the tgm vids 2 days ago, didn't expect to see fresh content so soon. Keep up the good work bro !

[@chronosaga]

thank you so much! i’m hoping to upload more this year so expect some more content in a few months!

[@Shuey187]

Really well done, thank you! I'd love to see more videos from you on things like secret grade, playing forever and Tetris art/pattern building!

[@chronosaga]

Thank you so much Shuey!! I'd love to talk about those in the future, especially a video on the history of secret grade since I enjoy building them.

[@mizu_yt]

It's funny how prevalent the camb server is despite it literally being an afternoon thought like seeing how me posting the link to the very first versions of Cambridge, milla and I getting hyped up about it to full on reviving the game and bringing the original dev back in, and creating the server out of a spur of energy, is both cool and fucking funny

[@chronosaga]

it honestly is, i’m really glad i could meet all of you guys cause the community is amazing

[@mizu_yt]

@@chronosaga aww that's cute, thankuu

[@wyvren_sc]

T. A. Death/Shirase was iterated into Tetris Effect as the Master Mode, it even has the ability to start at any MLevel (equivalent to the highest gravity, less piece time per level idea in TGA:TAP) and people are able to clear all 300 lines now! Looking forward to see what else is to come in both the Master Mode and these tournaments! This vid is amazing too, it has all the details and such for the carnival!

[@NOT_A_ROBOT]

it's not an exact copy tho. it uses lines for leveling, unlike tgm which uses a unique leveling system. plus, the speedcurves are different, as well as the piece spawn height, lock delay reset amount, and the rotation system (ti-world does not equal guideline srs)

[@wyvren_sc]

@@NOT_A_ROBOT True true

[@bland9876]

Holy crap this is hard I can't get more than 2 lines and I only did that once. I set the spread level to m30. Normally I can beat Tetris just fine even that one game with the invisible blocks (I wanna say Tetris DS)

[@NOT_A_ROBOT]

@@bland9876 Tetris DS doesn't have invisible blocks as far as I'm aware. Also, welcome to the 20G club! You might wanna start by actually surviving Marathon level 15 or 20 first, then you may try Master mode again.

[@bland9876]

@@NOT_A_ROBOT ya I turned it back to m1 and was able to at least get some lines.

[@TetraShot7]

This is one of the greatest videos so far!

[@muhammadjuhlan]

Great video! Loved your series on the TGM series

[@muhammadjuhlan]

Also nice editing

[@chronosaga]

thank you so much!!

[@millabasset93]

Always a good day when chronosaga! Not biased opinion

[@NOT_A_ROBOT]

based

[@chronosaga]

definitely not biased

[@lumanae]

really solid vid. your editing style is nice and snappy. i did not need to know any of this information. looking forward to more horrible tetris community information beamed directly into my eyeballs

[@chronosaga]

thank you, i'm glad you enjoyed it!!!

[@GekkiSpeedruns]

youre underated buddy! keep it going! sick video!

[@chronosaga]

thank you so much!!

[@AmnesiaGm1]

Great video, I did not know we had so many Carnival.

[@100hundert]

I only started playing TGM properly when the Switch ports came out, and while I love TGM1, there's an immediate intensity to DEATH that makes it unbelievably enjoyable for me. I can barely make it past level 150 / ~70 seconds right now, and making a Tetris or even a stack that isn't full of holes requires all my concentration, but having these pieces come crashing down like a landslide while trying to keep the chaos controlled is so cathartic! The original Tetris was already what some call "the perfect game". But TGM adds this whole new strategic layer that fits the original concepts incredibly well, while adding an unseen dimension of depth - both strategically and mechanically. Having to consider so many more elements (rotation rules, stack shape, speed, reaction speed) without making it feel like a gimmick is a masterpiece of game design. Very few games come even close to giving me this satisfying buzz in my brain that playing DEATH does. It's Tetris pushed to it's absolute limits, and every little mechanical detail is shaped around making this speed playable. The longer I play it, the more I'm baffled that this game exists.

[@jmunhoz]

great channel :))

[@rhinozz43]

fun video!!

[@chronosaga]

thank you rhinozz!!

[@meikyeon]

5:54 Man played Secret Grade in this Game Mode very Impressive

[@chronosaga]

thank you!!

[@NOT_A_ROBOT]

1:04 "more and more low" --> "lower and lower" 2:37 audio sounded stitched together. i guess you were just tired and kept messing up. happens to everyone dw about it other than those, epic video. great job.

[@chronosaga]

english is hard ;) also the original audio glitched out while recording and i didn't have my normal mic on me

[@FreakyByte]

3:38 Look mum, I'm on TV! ;)

[@chronosaga]

yeah!!

[@robinnVA]

i like game boy tetris :) (good video , the tetris community is crazy)

[@chronosaga]

game boy tetris is pretty cool (also thank you so much, wholeheartedly agreed)

[@bland9876]

There are many Tetris games on Gameboy. Tetris 2 is always a good choice if you like Dr Mario. And Tetris plus has a nice puzzle mode. I would probably skip Tetris dx because of the wall climbing and other glitchs but it has some good music. Never played bombliss so idk about that but ya that's just the og Gameboy then we have games like Tetris worlds on GBA that introduced many modes along with a song called Tetris theme even though it is not song A from the pack in title on the og Gameboy and that song is instead called faster for some reason.

[@robinnVA]

u cant top the launch title

[@tysonbecker1344]

You’re you’re one day in front of me

[@TheRealRidley12]

That's way too fast for me. I'll just stick to Tetrist 99. 😆

[@keshy1688]

sounds fun for me but not for my hands

[@alecrutz6979]

"death toll" 💀💀💀

[@chronosaga]

you’re not wrong lmao