GAME STUDIO DESCRIPTION: Bust blocks, groove through puzzles, and jam wirelessly with friends. Stack ’em right and you’ll unlock lush looks and buttery beats. Want to be lumines? Just let the music guide you. Advance through 24 action-packed levels, each with its own musical theme and sound effects. 4 gameplay modes including single-player and multiplayer ensure varied and lengthy gameplay. Time attacks, duels, and puzzle challenges await! Unlock new customizable skins and avatars as you progress. Flaunt your progress in multiplayer mode; push your opponent right off the screen. Challenge yourself, or go head to head with an opponent via wireless multiplayer functionality. Listen as the jam intensifies depending on your skills. Stack ’em and crack ’em to unlock the best beats and score high points. Combo and link for best results.
PLAY: Addiction. That’s the easiest way to describe Lumines. If you’ve spent endless hours playing Tetris wondering why you’ve wasted your life looking at silly shapes and still went back for more then Lumines is your ticket to paradise.
Lumines is based upon squares that are made up of four smaller squares each are colored. One could be solid color or another may have one color that is gray and three that are orange. You have to make them into combos of one square of solid colors. At first it seems really easy—it gets harder. Once you stack them too high you lose.
As the blocks speed up and the music tempo picks up you get really tense and nothing in the world matters but getting combos. There are special blocks that can clear out a whole row of blocks or the entire screen. The game is based around your score.
GRAPHICS: As you get further in Lumines there are more colors and other animations that offer an incentive to continue playing. There is a dizzying assortment of colors and themes. For such a simple game it’s a real spectacle.
SOUND: The techno soundtrack not only adds atmosphere it also adds to the tension as the game progresses and increases in speed. The speakers on the PSP don’t reproduce the soundtrack well so grab a good pair of headphones.
FRANKLY: Lumines is pure addiction and adrenaline. Who would have thought that matching colors could be so much fun? Lumines seems to be a game that might have been released on the NES or SNES a decade ago and yet the awesome technology of the PSP gets a release that isn’t particularly complicated and completely engrosses the gamer who is light years beyond it. Go figure.
+ Richie Wright
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