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Lumines Review
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Posted: 18 months ago, last updated 2 weeks ago.
Author: @GeekDadGamer and Jo Robertson.
Overview
Lumines is a music puzzle game where you rotate and align small blocks to form squares of a single colour. As you do this, in time with the music, they are erased as the beat line passes over them. The game is lost when the blocks reach the top of the playing field.
Lumines can appear similar to Columns or Tetris. It's a block dropping game. But here you are making squares and half the enjoyment is how that interacts with the music. You can develop a range of strategies. Certain blocks with gems can create coloured squares and allow all individual adjacent blocks of the same colour to be eliminated at once. Bonuses are also awarded by reducing all remaining tiles to one single colour or for removing all non-active tiles from the screen altogether.
Lumines can appear similar to Columns or Tetris. It's a block dropping game. But here you are making squares and half the enjoyment is how that interacts with the music. You can develop a range of strategies. Certain blocks with gems can create coloured squares and allow all individual adjacent blocks of the same colour to be eliminated at once. Bonuses are also awarded by reducing all remaining tiles to one single colour or for removing all non-active tiles from the screen altogether.
- Lumines: Puzzle Fusion (2004) on PSP, PC.
- Lumines Live! (2006) was ported to the Xbox 360
- Lumines II (2006) a sequel on PSP
- Lumines Plus (2007) on PlayStation 2 and PSP
- Lumines Supernova (2008) including a music sequencer on PlayStation 3
- Lumines: Touch Fusion (2009) on iOS
- Lumines: Electronic Symphony (2012) PlayStation Vita
- Lumines: Puzzle & Music (20026) on iOS, Android
- Lumines Remastered (2018) PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC
Game Details
Content Rating: PEGI 3
Release Date: 01/01/2004, updated in 2018
Platforms: Android, PC, PS3, PS4, PSP, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Genres: Creative, Puzzle and Rhythm
Developer: Mizuguchitter (@Mizuguchitter)
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Commitment
Duration: It takes between 5 minutes and 15 minutes to play a round of this game.
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room, but you can’t play it online.
Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room, but you can’t play it online.
Costs
Lumines usually costs £7.99 to £13.49.
Additional in-game purchases are offered for items that enhance the experience. Lumines Remastered offers in-game purchases for 20 additional songs.
Lumines Remastered
Lumines Remastered Digital Deluxe DLC Bundle
Additional in-game purchases are offered for items that enhance the experience. Lumines Remastered offers in-game purchases for 20 additional songs.
Age Ratings
Accessibility
We haven't documented accessibility features for this game yet. Our Lumines Accessibility Report details system-wide settings that may help, and suggests similar games with accessibility features. Tweet the developer (@Mizuguchitter) to let them know about our Accessibility Questionnaire.
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