Talk:Tetris 99

(Up to) 99 players?

Masem, good work starting this! Should the current text "Tetris 99 has the player matched with 98 other players at the start of a match" say up to 98 other players? I haven't played the game yet, but I expected that matches would be however big based on availability with matches up to 99 players at a time. The way it's worded is definitive; I could be wrong, so please correct me, if so. --Bchill53 (talk) 00:26, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

Yeah, probably. Will fix. It's unclear yet how graceful the game is if there's <99 players around so its cautionary langugae. --Masem (t) 01:12, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks, Masem. Looks like Elliot321 answered our question. :) --Bchill53 (talk) 20:03, 15 February 2019 (UTC)

Battle Royale?

Is there a reason why the game is categorized as Battle Royale and the description even mention that genre? Just being a 99 Last-Man standing multiplayer game doesn't automatically make you a battle royale game. There's no gear to scavenge, no progression in term of equipment whatsoever (in a Battle Royale you typically start "naked" (or with very little equipment) and proceed to gather better equipment along the way, including from targets that were eliminated). There's no "map" and therefore no random spawn nor shrinking play zone. Outside the last-man standing element and the 99 players, nothing else makes is close to a battle royale game.

At no point in time Nintendo used the term "Battle Royale" to describe Tetris 99 could it be on their trailer, website, eShop etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Antipika (talk • contribs) 01:37, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

Nearly every other RS talking about the game called it a battle royale. --Masem (t) 02:00, 17 February 2019 (UTC)

Nintendo UK have described the title as "an online 99-player battle royale" on its website. --HelloYellow18 (talk) 05:56, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Missing informatiins about events

This article is missing a few informations about the events that Nintendo organised for Tetris 99. You could take over a few informatiins from the German article. Maxeto0910 (talk) 17:42, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

We can mention in general they have events, but it becomes too muhc a game guide to list each one. --Masem (t) 17:47, 26 May 2019 (UTC)

Marathon is not endless

Quote: "and Marathon, where players play an endless game of Tetris" - Marathon in Tetris 99 is not "endless", instead it ends after you clear a certain number of lines (150 or 999, you choose). I don't know how to describe the mode better though. User670839245 (talk) 02:56, 22 June 2019 (UTC)

Should there be a mention to other 99 games/make it a series?

There have been plenty of games in this format by now. Maybe we should consider making this a series, like the Wii series? We have Tetris 99, Super Mario 35, Pac-Man 99 and now F-Zero 99. They all follow a similar format (last man standing, with first place added as a win condition in F-Zero, with a heavy emphasis on KOs), and they share quite some traits on the way they are presented (free bonus for Nintendo Switch Online members, level based progression that goes up regardless of place, cosmetic unlocks in the form of icons/badges, etc.). The first three games even have an incredibly similar UI and approach, as well as being made by the same developer (Arika). I feel like this should be made a series, but I don't know exactly what characteristics are taken into account to make it one. Carro179 (talk) 16:47, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

There's no indication these "99" games are intended as a series. Masem (t) 17:53, 15 September 2023 (UTC)