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Lumines Plus Comments by Dave McCarthy

3 March, 2007

Scintillating. Sort of.

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SuperZ
03/03/07 @ 09:30
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I played the first one to death and actually enjoyed the homebrew LuminesSweeper on the GBA more than Lumines II, so will give this a miss...
tachikoma
03/03/07 @ 09:46
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It's cheaper than getting a PSP for one game (two if you count Lumines II). I'm getting it but it's a shame it doesn't include the likes of "Shake Ya Body".
NewYork
03/03/07 @ 10:12
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Lumines overkill.
Hugundo
03/03/07 @ 11:36
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Think ill give this a miss, first one frazzled my brain.
Kiigan
03/03/07 @ 11:49
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It's really not much like Tetris though, is it? Just for once, I'd love to read a review of a puzzler that doesn't refer to Tetris.
soylent_grey
03/03/07 @ 12:25
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Basically I haven't got a 360 or a PSP. Thats why I haven't played lumines.
Might pick up it up if I see it under a tenner, basically.
bluebird
03/03/07 @ 14:39
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I have an xbox 360 and a PS2, which is better, this version or the 360 live version?
SeesThroughAll
03/03/07 @ 15:01
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Lumilkes.




Just stop releasing the same thing over and over again. Please.
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Agent_Llama
03/03/07 @ 18:07
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I've played the Live and PSP versions of Lumines, and I've yet to understand the fuss. I really, really don't get it. It's generally terribly dull.

Meteos on the other hand...
LFMartins
04/03/07 @ 02:58
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Damn,30€ for a tetris style game is a little too much,but the godamn game is so good...
spongebob
04/03/07 @ 09:27
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(from the review): Lumines Plus is, basically, a straight port of the original PSP release of the game that spawned...

After all, Lumines Plus is basically a straight port of the PSP original,...

Having said all that though, Lumines Plus is, basically, a straight port of Tetsuya Mizuguchi's original Tetris-alike.

So, what you're saying is that the game is, basically, a straight port? :D I think I got it the third time you wrote it, man.
oerhört
05/03/07 @ 01:12
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Yeah, somehow it comes across as a fairly poor review, with apparently few points to make and too many words used to make them.

If it really is more or less the same game, I think it'd be fair to expect the score to be similar too, yet the original PSP version rightly got 9/10. A game that in my opinion, two years after its original release, is still more or less the best puzzler available. If this version is just a straight port then surely it should be just as good?

As for not getting what the fuss is about: You just need to play it more.

As for calling Lumines Tetris-like: Bullshit of the highest order.
Dave_Taurus
05/03/07 @ 11:05
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Well here's the thing: blocks fall from the top of a grid and you rotate them in order to arrange them in such a manner as to make those blocks disappear. That's pretty like Tetris right? Certainly, it's enough like Tetris for a comparison to provide a useful shorthand description for anyone who might not know what Lumines is.

As for the score, it's like Eurogamer has said with previous versions of Lumines: if you haven't played it, add another point (since the extra skins gained and one or two skins lost make it inferior to the original, in my opinion).
spongebob
05/03/07 @ 12:58
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Lumines is most definitely one of the best Tetris offspring games there is. I'd say it has even Meteos beat (more content and it's more challenging).

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