EA Japan Shows First Trailer For Tetris Monsters, Due To Hit iOS This Summer (VIDEO)

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EA Japan is currently developing Tetris Monsters, a puzzle/RPG hybrid that’s scheduled to hit iOS this summer. The game hasn’t been announced for other markets – or Android – yet.

Details are scarce at the moment, but Tetris Monsters will come with the official Tetris license, offer battle scenes in 3D, and introduce a new feature in the puzzle part called “stack”. Check out the trailer video below.

This stack feature apparently allows users to build big blocks in the Tetris part of the game which can then be used to launch particularly strong attacks against enemies during a battle. Tetris Monsters will be free-to-play, offer in-app purchases, and distributed platform-free.

Battle of the hybrids

EA Japan’s announcement doesn’t come out of nowhere: the overwhelming success of GungHo’s Puzzle and Dragons has triggered a wave of mobile games that combine puzzle and RPG mechanics.

Tetris Monsters will not even be the first such game with Tetris-like mechanics in the puzzle part: I tried out a pretty obscure title called Block and Monster from the Japanese iTunes App Store months ago, and there might be more out there. But it seems that app has been removed since then – perhaps because it didn’t carry the official Tetris license (I can still play it on my iPhone, however).

Here is the first Tetris Monsters trailer:

(Editing by Steven Millward, Enricko Lukman)