PSP Game: Lumines
After voting last weekend I went downtown for a browse. Browsing a game shop with no intention to buy anything a couple of PSP puzzle games caught my eye. Lumines and another one whose name I forget - something about silver blobs or something. Well anyway, it turns out the other one wasn't actually released yet so I could only get Lumines. In order to save cash I just need to stay away from game/tech store. All the best intentions in the world won't stop me buying something if the moment grabs me.
Lumines is basically Tetris but all falling blocks are a 2x2 square where each cell could be one of two colors. Make a 2x2 or larger square of the same color and that square will disappear causing blocks above to fall down. Simple really. Apparently.
I played it for a few minutes and thought it was pretty lame. The manual was supremely unhelpful on how to actually play the game properly. The little slip of paper inside the box basically just told me how to insert the disk into the PSP. $90 wasted.
I went back to it later and figured out some more details. While playing with it in bed, actually less rude than it sounds, I found some more features. Next thing it was about 2am and my thumbs were about to fall off. I'm hooked; kinda like my thumbs.
The "vs CPU mode" is still kicking my arse but I've got the "1 player mode" down pretty well. The music really fits the game and some songs actually change as you move the blocks round. That shows just how random techo music really is. If you can randomly press buttons and still get a music track out of it, how hard can being a techno producer really be?
I played a single 1P mode game for about 50 minutes non stop before I knew how to get decent scores - so only got about 40,000 points. Now that I'm trying for big scores a 50 minute game seems like an imposibility.
I'm stuck in the puzzle mode needing to make a 4x4 square but that's ok, I'll get it done one day.
I wonder if I should try to find that silver blob game on the internet somewhere.
Lumines is basically Tetris but all falling blocks are a 2x2 square where each cell could be one of two colors. Make a 2x2 or larger square of the same color and that square will disappear causing blocks above to fall down. Simple really. Apparently.
I played it for a few minutes and thought it was pretty lame. The manual was supremely unhelpful on how to actually play the game properly. The little slip of paper inside the box basically just told me how to insert the disk into the PSP. $90 wasted.
I went back to it later and figured out some more details. While playing with it in bed, actually less rude than it sounds, I found some more features. Next thing it was about 2am and my thumbs were about to fall off. I'm hooked; kinda like my thumbs.
The "vs CPU mode" is still kicking my arse but I've got the "1 player mode" down pretty well. The music really fits the game and some songs actually change as you move the blocks round. That shows just how random techo music really is. If you can randomly press buttons and still get a music track out of it, how hard can being a techno producer really be?
I played a single 1P mode game for about 50 minutes non stop before I knew how to get decent scores - so only got about 40,000 points. Now that I'm trying for big scores a 50 minute game seems like an imposibility.
I'm stuck in the puzzle mode needing to make a 4x4 square but that's ok, I'll get it done one day.
I wonder if I should try to find that silver blob game on the internet somewhere.
posted by Nick at 4:59 PM
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