Lumines Comments by Tom Bramwell

Seems to me you could have used the first few sentences of the review, where you linked to the existing review and noted differences. You could have then filled the rest of space telling us what you all did over the bank holiday weekend :)

I went to see a huge ship being set alight, and it was great (it was legal and organised, before you make any calls).

I don't see a point in buying this kind of game for £35 when you can find a lot more variety on the net.

Damn skippy!

Like someone said a few days ago, even if everything is just for xmas, Lumines is for life. And i'm agreeing all the way so far.

Edit : That bit just now WASN'T me agreeing with hula-hop sumthing. Everyone should spend the 35£ (50€) and find out why first hand.

...and, judging by some recent forum threads, all we ever do is spend time in the pub

Hehe, we love you really! Legends.

My game of the year.

It's... Tetris?

The wonders of new technology.

Really like this game. It was the first game I bought when i got my jap PSP, and I was not disappointed.

As an aside, my girlfriend has just phoned me in work to say that virtua tennis has dropped through the letter box. Result !!! I will give some opinions of it tomorrow (unless eurogamer beat me to it !!). Cant wait to get home to stick it in the little black box........... oh er missus !! ;)

This is the only thing currently tempting me to an eventual PSP - damn it!

They should make a PSP port of Fantavision.

No its not tetris.

No you can't get anything like this on the web.

Adds no. 7 to the list.

/is going to be sooo broke

@kewny

please do so. I'm in doubt as whether to buy VT or Colin McRae next thursday, and i've yet to ear anything proper about the game (apart from the crap review over at GamesRadar).

bring it on NDS!

Great re-review, but I'd just like to add that the soundtrack is really, really great. You almost go into a trance playing this game the first few times... after that, you sort of get used to the tunes and visual abuse the game screen throws at you and you just focus on the game. Until you reach a new skin you've never encountered before, of course - then it starts all over again.

"No you can't get anything like this on the web."

No, but you can get a PC version.

Meteos is better

If you have to ask why you can't play this on the PC, or whether you should pay £35 for the pleasure I have to ask - why are you interested in this news item?

No you can't play it on the PC, but then isn't that missing the point? I don't sit in bed \ on the loo \ on a flight \ in an airport etc with a PC in my hand. That's the PORTABLE element coming into play - clue - its in the title of the machine. Second, you don't have to pay £35 to play Luminies, you import it for £22 from Canada or order the European version for £29.99 from most web retailers.

I've played Caboodle... its just not the same - sorry.

I love my PSP. I'm still playing Lumines despite having smashed the single player challenge score (I've played a single game for something like 5 hours), and completed every puzzle mode. It really is a fantastic experience, and well worth the £20 or whatever I paid for importing it from Canada.

And now I have emulation of SNES and SCUMM up and running, its very hard to put the PSP down. Playing through Chrono Trigger and Monkey Island again, and when I get a 1gig memory stick I'll be playing Broken Sword, one of the best games ever.

But, as everyone has been saying, just import one for god's sake :)

Max

Let's face it - the PSP is a rip for early adopting suckers - always the way with new consoles, handheld or otherwise.

And if anyone denies it, it's becuase they already lashed out on one... QED!

So, if i've been playing various fun and excellent games on the machine since i purchased it some 3-4 months ago, been regularly using it as a MP3 player, car video screen (some nice concerts on MS, with the sound hooked up to the radio system) and as a way to make long trips seen much shorter i have been nothing but a ripped-off sucker heh?


.... Riiiiiiiiiight.....

Kewny - where did you order your Virtua Tennis from?

So what games have you been playing? Ridge Racers and Everybody's Golf dont count!

name the games #sucker#

and how much was the 2Gb memory stick duo?

etc etc, yawn

"And now I have emulation of SNES and SCUMM up and running, its very hard to put the PSP down. Playing through Chrono Trigger and Monkey Island again, and when I get a 1gig memory stick I'll be playing Broken Sword, one of the best games ever."

ah yes, anyone on list got a ZSNES or a GBA emu (boycott advence a.n.other) running on it - now that a killer app!!

Rickets: I ordered my virtua tennis from play.com @ £29.99. It was despatched last friday and arrived today. Looking forward to finishing work today (since when did I ever need an excuse !).

Will post my impressions tomorrow morning hopefully, probably on one of the recent PSP game reviews' comments section.

Lumines, Wipeout Pure and Mercury are all excellent in my book. I also got Bleach and Vampire Chronicle, which are good though not great, but certainly a lot of fun for me as a fighting and anime fan.

I didn't get Everybody's golf (will do soon quite soon) because i haven't been able to afford it due to other expenses, but just so i know, why doesn't it or RR count?

And gamesbitch, why would i need 2GB MS? I got a Sandisk 1GB MS (new) for just under 90€ on a auction, and it serves me just fine. I keep 2 1 hour concerts, about 4 23 minute anime episodes, some 80 mp3's, a bunch of photos and i have plenty of room to spare for all my game saves.

Did i forgot to mention that i also use my PSP to view all the photos i take with my Digicam when i go to parties and trips with my friends?

Perhaps if you should stay locked indoors all the time and have no friends, you would prefer to just spend your time bitching about what other people enjoy rather than doing the same yourself for whatever reasons you have, but i can assure you that in my case i make my machine worth the cash i spent on it. If you can't see things that way, well that really isn't my problem now is it?

Meh, Lumines has a big flaw in that in makes you start the Vs. CPU mode from scratch every single time. There is no good reason for this, none, and that's why I traded it in.

Kewny - I have just played VT - a guy has it in the office. Plays great. Nice presentation. Not long now until you can leave work....

"i can assure you that in my case i make my machine worth the cash i spent on it"

fair enough mate, can't argue with that :)

Rickets: Nice one, lookin forward to it even more now........... /counts minutes till 5

How do you pronounce it ?

How do you pronounce it ?

Loo-min-ezz (stress on first syllable)

Well, that's how I pronounce it... I think I remember the developer saying they pronounced it Luminess, but I could be wrong.

Don't get me started on I-co/Ee-co...

Loo-meenz, surely?

Yup, I'm still playing this game and I've had it for 9 months. Infact I was playing it today. And yestarday. And they day before. Probably the best PSP game there is.

Lumines. How else can you pronounce it?

Loo-mynes? Lum-eens? Lummy-nez?

Best played on the Loo! *coat*

The way to pronounce it is with a French accent.

Loo-meen?

[lu me(n)]

?

What? Loo-men? No you have me completely confused.

Let's get this cleared up... I would say "loo-meenz," right?

No

Lu - min - es

as in luminescent.

its a 3 syllabled name. so yeah, its Lu - Min - Es. with emphasis on the 'Lu', as said before.

The only reason I'd buy a PSP, there isn't any other game on the machine aside for maybe Devil May Cry that interests me.

This, Everbobdy's Golf and Mercury have me leaning towards the system. Virtua Tennis, Ridge Racer and WipeOut Pure would do if I gave a stuff about Tennis or racing games. If GTA and PES live up to expectations and they sort out the anemic release schedule I might just have to buy one!

Lumines is pronounced "Loomin' Ass"?

Hi guys had chance to play virtua tennis PSP last night. In short its an excellent conversion (if you can call it that) which plays really well. If you liked VT on the DC or PS2 then this is a no brainer to buy basically.

Presentation is spot on, nothing complicated and you can get into a match straight away. Apart from quick match, you can customise an exhibition match, play a tournament, play some new mini games (pretty addictive and dont worry, the old mini games are still in the world tour mode). The world tour mode is similar to previous games (ie brill).

Graphically, everything is nice and sharp and looks great. Character detail is not as good but you can tell who you are playing as. Movement is pretty fluid and intuitive (as always) and control is as good as ever. All in all its is extremely playable on the PSP.

Sound is fine, basically as it was in the first game. One thing worth mentioning is that occasionally there is a slight pause in between points and then the score is read out. Nothing big just noticable sometimes. Loading times initially are long to get to the menu screen (1-2min) then not too bad to get to an actual game itself (30s max). Ive seen worse loading times on other games so its pretty much the norm for the early PSP titles at the moment.

All in all a great game to have in your PSP collection especially if your a fan of the series. Well done sega !! 8/10 (as good as halo !)

oh and another thing worth mentioning, anyone with a imported PSP with a low number firmware seems to have to upgrade to 1.52 (which is on the UMD) before you can play it, but once upgraded it works fine.

Kewny,

I heartily concur with your thoughts, this really is top notch.

The only slight downside for me so far, is that although the games themselves are easily 9 out of 10 stuff both in graphics and gameplay, the world tour mode is dissappointing me a little at the moment. I'm finding the global map a bit of a pain in the ass, the silly training mini games are much much more difficult and less fun than on a full size machine, and the silly calender thing that means you can have to wait ages for an actual tournament to play in, and then can actually miss it because you didn't notice it was the day for it and had another go at a training event instead, is a complete pain in the ass.

Ceatlan.

Thanks for the impressions. I really only needed to know if it played like the DC version and if it had a good number of minigames. I'm sure to pick the game up tomorrow.

kewny:

there is a program for 1.5 firware that allows you to make the PSP think it is 1.51 1.52 and even 2.00. this should allow you to keep your homebrew and play the new games. it does not change the actual firmware.