Slydris 2 takes the basic gameplay concept of Slydris-sliding blocks left and right and letting them drop into place to create full rows-and refines it into the ultimate line-clearing endless puzzle game designed specifically for a touch screen. Cast your mind back to 2012 and you might remember a block-dropping game called Slydris. Shortly its sequel, Slydris 2, will be landing on.
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[ This app is no longer available for download ] Sliding and dropping blocks into complete rows has never felt as satisfying or looked as good on a mobile device! 'Slydris 2 is the thinking person’s Tetris – a hugely compelling turn-based take on tile-matching puzzlers' 5 out of 5 stars! (Stuff.tv) 'Slydris 2 takes the core components of Tetris and plays around with them to brilliant effect' 4.5 out of 5 stars! (Pocketgamer.co.uk) 'Slydris 2 is exactly the kind of game I’ve been waiting for and I’d recommend it to any puzzle fans' (AppUnwrapper.com) In 2012, Slydris took the mobile-gaming world by storm, launching to amazing critical and consumer reviews. It went on to win multiple awards, including GameTrailer.com's 2012 iOS Game of the Year award, and ranking as Modojo's #2 iOS Game of the Year, and is Radiangames' most-played game of all time. Slydris 2 takes the basic gameplay concept of Slydris--sliding blocks left and right and letting them drop into place to create full rows--and refines it into the ultimate line-clearing endless puzzle game designed specifically for a touch screen. Slydris 2's design brings more strategy and variety, and better balance to the Slydris formula. The relentlessly addictive gameplay is enhanced further with fantastic visual effects and earth-shaking sounds. Slydris 2 also features 5 beautiful color schemes to unlock, and 5 mesmerizing music tracks that synchronize with the play field visuals. Quick Note on Ads: If you don't want to watch any Ads, Ultimate Mode is the way to go. If you don't want to pay for the game and don't want to get interrupted while playing, you can watch multiple videos before playing and store up to 20 skips (aka play for nearly 2 hours without seeing any ads). Lots of small tweaks/fixes: * Added Experience-unlocked starting points at higher difficulties/scores (up to 6,000 points at Max Difficulty) * Tweaked 3rd step of tutorial * Increased ad timer 15 seconds * Increased ad timer 1st time you play * Added 'DROP' below the drop button when less than 4 lines * Replaying Tutorial now resets extra elements of the tutorial * Fixed battery saver slowdown * Fixed Review and More Games button links * Fixed main menu song at start of game for 1/2 second (when playing for the 1st time)
Our verdict: Good
+ Slydris 2 is a highly rated app (4.5-star).
+ The app is free.
Slydris 2 obviously stands on the shoulders of the puzzle game giant that is Tetris. But it does its best work around the shins.One of the most excruciatingly annoying things about Tetris is when you leave whopping great gaps in the lower grid. Mistakes made with the foundation of your block stack serve to constrict and spoil the rest of your game.Slydris 2 gives you the power to correct those mistakes, and forms one of the best mobile matching games of recent times into the bargain.Falling like tetrominosTetrominos drop into a tall, narrow playing field. You must shuffle those shapes them side to side in order to stack them neatly and form solid rows of blocks, which then disappear.Yep, Slydris 2 follows the Tetris playbook alright.
But it pretty swiftly starts messing with it, and to fascinating effect.For starters, you can't rotate those tetrominos, only move them laterally. In fact, they drop in twos, and you can only shift one block per turn.Ah yes, turns. Slydris 2 abandons the real time panic of Tetris in favour of a more considered turn-based approach.
It's a far more tactical, cerebral affair as a result.Southern blockBut the key twist here is that you can choose to move more or less any block from side to side. Even those blocks that have already settled on the grid.This quite literally adds a whole new dimension to play. Your stack might be nearing the top of the screen and a game over state, when a small adjustment towards the base causes the whole lot to collapse in one glorious combo chain.Needless to say, it feels absolutely glorious when you engineer/chance upon such a scenario.There are special blocks too, which will take out additional clusters in various configurations, or else stay stubbornly still and force you to work around them. Negotiating each micro-challenge feels like a further triumph.Back slidingSlydris 2 exists for these euphoric moments, and it doesn't concern itself with the flash and pageantry of modern mobile gaming.
There are no cute characters or loot box drops here.You can change the colour of its Tron-like retro blocks, and minimalist electronica track you want to listen to. That's about it.All in all, Slydris 2 feels like a glorious portable gaming throwback, both to the early days of smartphone gaming and beyond that to time when stacking little monochrome blocks on our Game Boys was all some of us wanted to do.