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Lumines is a fun, simple puzzle game not too different from your favourite blocks-falling puzzle game. Yet, Lumines does set itself apart from being just different enough to be its own series of puzzle games. The main difference here being that you are not removing lines but blocks, and that you have to work with two different colours to create those blocks and potentially bigger combos. With a timeline that moves slowly across the screen, it is very satisfying to clean as much blocks as possible in one timeline round. It does the job it set out to very well, and that's being addicting and easy to pick up. There is a good amount of skins to unlock as well, either through a mode specifically designed to unlock skills, challenging the CPU or puzzle mode. With the latter two I do have slight issues however. The CPU mode always starts from the same skin, and whenever you lose you have to start all over again. I would've liked a lifes system being implemented here, since it's not that difficult to lose a CPU battle. Now I need to restart CPU mode every time and make it back to the point where I lost to get a chance at that skin. Puzzle mode is really fun, but I find it to be kinda lazy that the latter half is the same as the first half, just doubled. Nitpicking aside, Lumines is a fun puzzle game that I can recommend to anyone looking for a casual, relaxing game. Though the game has been remastered now, so you may want to check out that one. This game still holds up well however, so you can't go wrong with the PSP version either.
7/10
