Lumines: Puzzle Fusion
| Format | PSP |
|---|---|
| Year Released | 2004 |
| Publisher | Bandai |
| Genre | Puzzle & Strategy |
| ESRB Age Rating |
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TVG Rating: 9.3
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Average Rating: 4.5
used to downgrade psp fast delivery as described.
usded game to downgrade psp which was easy from 3.11 when had this game , was bought only for this but the game turns out to be fun anyway worth a buy if you can pick it up for a good price
Rating: 4 Buy from amazon.co.uk
Lumines
Great puzzle game, very entertaining, fast, colourful and fun. It's simple to be sure, but passes time nicely on long flights or train journeys. At this price, it's hard to argue!
Rating: 5 Buy from amazon.co.uk
The best puzzle game on PSP
When I bought this game I was unsure if it would live up to the hype generated by gaming critics. It was cheap and I needed a pizzle game for my PSP, so I decided to get it.
And the critics and reviewers are certainly right giving it the acclaim it deserves. The main game in Lumines is Challenge Mode where you earn points to unlock new skins you can play in Single Skin Mode. The aim is to create as many 2x2 blocks with the same colour using other 2x2 blocks. It sounds really simple, especially when I mention that there are only two colours per skin to make squares with, but thats where the simplicity ends and the addiction begins. Why? Well, the reason you will get hooked into this game is because it is difficult and I do play on this game on a lot and I have not got to level 50 yet and you become determined to complete and thats where the addiction begins.
There are more modes than Challenge mode. You can play on single skin mode where you play on athe same skin for an unlimited time. There is time limit mode where it test you on how many blocks you can delete in a set time limit. There is also a puzzle mode where you are giving a frame and your supposed to delete it twice within a set time limit. You can also face the CPU in amatch where you delete blocks to gain more room to work in. The best thing about Lumines is that is a puzzle game where you can have two players where you face each other to gain more room to work in and force your opponent to the top of the screen.
The only bad thing I can say if that there is a lack of variety when it comes to music as you seem to be stuck with dance beats from unknown musicians or world music. It needs established acts within R&B, pop, inidie and rock to give the skins more variety. Lumines II apparently has Black Eyed Peas and some well known musicians so if you want real pop music get Lumines II. However if you are not bothered about the music then get this version as it is addictive and it bursts with originality. Buy it! 9/10
Rating: 5 Buy from amazon.co.uk
The best "zone" puzzle game since Tetris? Quite possibly!
Any gamer worth their salt will have played Tetris, and any gamer worth their salt AND pepper will have played Tetris enough to have it completely dominate their brain, the block-dropping patterns creeping into their mind when trying to get to sleep, when trying to concentrate on work, and even when watching TV or a film.
Lumines is just such a puzzle game, like Tetris, to get inside your head.
The player drops square 2x2 blocks into a space where a line is sweeping across in time to very hip, stylish music. The patterns are made of two colours and the aim of the game is to construct shapes of 2x2 or larger of the same colour, which will be removed with the sweeping of the line.
It's really that simple.
What makes Lumines so effective, like Rez from the same producer (Tetsuya Mizugichi), is that the music and bright, colourful lights move you into a trance-like state of block-dropping and pattern forming. Playing Lumines is a pleasant, relaxed experience of musical and aesthetic enjoyment.
The game doesn't try to beat Tetris as a deeper or more satisfying puzzle challenge, it simply offers something else to the mix - music and graphics - to take the experience in another direction.
Lumines is the kind of title you can play a bit every day for months. It's perfectly suited to the portable format as you'll find little times here and there (on the bus, in bed, on the loo) where you just have a quick 10~40 minute burst that causes you to forget about all your problems and trivialities of modern life and just escape - get lost in an abstract world of satisfying aesthetics.
Lumines isn't a game to rush out and buy immediately (there are other PSP titles that I would play before it priority-wise) but it's definitely worth snapping up cheap and having in the collection for when the puzzle mood takes hold of you.
Rating: 4 Buy from amazon.co.uk
Lumines - A launch game to be proud of...
I am not usually a fan of simple puzzle games, I owned Tetris for the Gameboy a long time ago, but out of the twenty-odd games I have in my Playstation 2 collection, most of them are driving simulators or third-person shooters. Consequently I did not have particularly high expectations when I purchased this game for a bargain price with my PSP two weeks ago.
After firing the game up and entering straight into the challenge mode. I was surprised at how simple the concept of this game is. Like Tetris, it involves fitting coloured blocks together to achieve the highest score, with bonus points being given if more than one block is erased at any one time. Although in Lumines, the blocks are always made up of 2x2 squares, which did seem a little tedious at first. However, this initial downfall is completely forgotten after a few attempts, which is helped by the unique style of the game and the attention to detail found during play. Firstly, the music starts off rather chilled and the block colours fairly plain, however, once blocks are dropped faster and the pace of the game increases, the soundtrack steps up in tempo and the game's "skin" and contemporary backgrounds alter in line with what is happening onscreen. An unobtrusive line constanly moves across the screen in time with the music and if more squares can be erased before the line makes full circle, bonus pints are given. Large amounts of blocks can also be erased at any one time by careful positioning and using the bonus blocks which are sometimes capable of emptying the screen in one go. This can be very convenient at times in the game when I was beginning to become very unstuck! Suffice to say, after a few attempts at the challenge mode I was addicted, just like the old Tetris days.
Although there appears to be little depth throughout the main game, the constant changes in atmosphere drew me back to play again and again, with at least an hour being lost in only one sitting. With the multiplayer and puzzle modes (which asks the player to make shapes out of the squares which can be diverting for a short while) as an added bonus, I was not only very pleased at the originality of the game, but actually taken aback at how good it is. Simple, but very effective!
Rating: 5 Buy from amazon.co.uk
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