21. Tetris Effect
Beat Journey on Normal, played a chunk of Expert, and played around with Effect a bit. This feels very slightly closer to TGM, mechanically, than PPT did, and the new Zone mechanic is neat if not particularly complicated. The various Effect scenarios seem pretty great, particularly Mystery. I think there's a really good argument to be made that this is the best Mizuguchi game: mechanically I'd take a very good Tetris over Lumines (let alone Rez), and aesthetically it builds on top of Rez Area X's particle-focused look and Lumines' theme-specific and beat-matched sound effects through a ton of super-distinct and beautiful stage themes. And that's before accounting for VR, which inherently adds a ton to the experience despite the game having nothing particularly noteworthy going on implementation-wise.
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