Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s trippy new take on Tetris will put you in the zone

Not long ago, Tetsuya Mizuguchi, the legendary game designer behind musical classics Rez and Lumines, was on vacation with his family in Hawaii. When he looked out the window of his Airbnb, his view was dominated by a lush, green golf course. As he stared outside, he couldn’t help but see very specific shapes in the grass. “I found a tetromino in the golf course,” he says.
What Mizuguchi experienced is something known as “the Tetris effect,” a condition where peopl