Tetris Effect is the most immersive VR experience you’ll ever have

IMMERSION is a word that gets thrown around a huge amount in gaming. Developers chase it, players demand it--but Tetris Effect defines it.

With a PlayStation VR headset strapped on, tetrominos falling in front of you, and Tetsuya Mizuguchi's unique vision flooding your senses it's almost impossible not to get utterly lost almost immediately.

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It's a world designed to mess with your brain that is at once both utterly alien and entirely familiar. Your focus is on the field itself, and the surrounding visuals start almost subliminally thanks to the tunnel vision that Tetris encourages.

As the levels change, so do the visuals the and music. Clearing lines results in bursts of colour popping across the board, and the more you clear the brighter the bursts. A four-line clearance practically fills your field of vision with colour, and the reaction of the music to your success adds to the effect.

As your adrenal glands pump hit after hit of dopamine through your brain the experience becomes rapidly meditative, as long as you keep clearing the lines.

Clear enough and you're rewarded further with the one gameplay tweak that Mizuguchi brings to the table--The Zone.

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Activated at will once you've filled the meter, this focuses all your attention on the board by sweeping almost everything else away and halting descent of the blocks. For a time you're in total control, and are rewarded with point bonuses for the duration.

Clearing a level floods your world with colour and speeds you onto the next. It's impossible not to lean back and let the colours wash over you.

Playing Tetris Effect effectively surrenders control of your pleasure centres to Tetsuya Mizuguchi; having played it once, we now can't wait for our next hit when it comes out for PlayStation 4 this Autumn.

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