Lumines Live!
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| Developer(s) | Q Entertainment |
| Publisher(s) | Q Entertainment |
| Designer(s) | Tetsuya Mizuguchi |
| Release date(s) | October 18, 2006 |
| Genre(s) | Puzzle |
| Mode(s) | Single player, Multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | ESRB: Everyone 10+ PEGI: 3+ |
| Platform(s) | Xbox 360 |
| Media | Direct Download |
| Input | Gamepad |
Lumines Live! is a puzzle game for the Xbox 360. It was released on October 18th, 2006 as an Xbox Live Arcade title. An Xbox Live Silver or Gold membership is required to download this game from the Xbox Live Marketplace.
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[edit] Gameplay
The gameplay in Lumines Live! is very similar to the gameplay in Lumines, Lumines II, and Lumines Plus.
As a block-dropping game, its look and basic gameplay is similar to Columns and Tetris, although the music and visuals are far more important to this game. A 2 x 2 square (an O tetromino) made of four smaller block pieces is dropped into the playing field. The small blocks that comprise the larger blocks will be one of two different colors. The player makes the blocks disappear by rotating their component block orientation and using the D-Pad to form four matching colored blocks into a square. A vertical "timeline" periodically sweeps horizontally across the field and removes such squares. Unmatched blocks pile up, and the game ends when the pile gets too tall. When part of a falling block hits an obstruction, the unobstructed portion of the block will split off and continue to fall.
Lumines Live! is played in different "skins". Like software interface skins, these change the visual appearance of the board, but they also control the soundtrack. Each skin contains a different song and different sound effects, which are triggered by game events and then integrated into the soundtrack. As in Mizuguchi's earlier game Rez, the separation of soundtrack and sound effects is much less than in most computer and video games. Skins are unlocked by progressing through the different game modes.
[edit] Features
The game runs in 720p and supports 5.1 surround sound. It features at least seven modes of play, built-in multiplayer both offline and online, Achievements, Leaderboard and GamerScore support and online competitive modes.
A new feature in Lumines Live over the original Lumines is the ability to create one's own sequence of skins from the skins that have been unlocked through single play mode. Any number of skins can be used exactly once in this sequence and the sequence can be set to either be a single time through (providing a score-attack mode), or to loop indefinitely (providing an endurance mode).
[edit] Pricing
The core game costs 1200 points (~$15US)[1], and an optional downloadable pack that contains 22 extra skins costs 600 points (~$7.50US). The optional pack was originally supposed to be released on October 18th along with the core game, but due to technical reasons the pack was released the next day on Thursday, October 19th. Future packages coming in 2007 include[2]:
- An Artist Pack featuring music video content
- A Puzzle/Mission Pack featuring 50 new problems in Mission mode with 3 bonus skins, and 50 new problems in Puzzle mode with 3 bonus skins (100 points for a limited time - Jan 24 to Feb 21).
- A VS CPU mode Pack featuring 11 new skins for 300 points (100 points for a limited time - Jan 24 to Feb 21).
- A Heavenly Star Pack featuring Genki Rockets' Heavenly Star from Lumines II on January 24, 2007. For a limited time only (Jan 24 to Feb 21) this skin will be available for free to Xbox Live Gold members.[3]
There is some criticism leveled at the distribution of the packs, with some claiming that the core pack was incorrectly marketed as it did not let you play the "full game." Others complain that the dividing up of the game modes was a way to squeeze more money through microtransactions.
[edit] List of Skins
Lumines Live! currently has 54 playable skins. 12 skins are in the Base Pack (core game) and the remaining 42 skins are available in purchasable downloadable content.
[edit] Base Pack Skins
- Circles
- JUST...
- Morning Beats
- SQUARE DANCE
- MEGURO
- STRANGERS
- Take a coffee for a moment?
- HOLIDAY IN SUMMER
- TAKE A DOG OUT A WALK
- tiny piano
- Big Elpaso
- Spirits
All of the Base Pack skins except Circles, Take a coffee for a moment?, and tiny piano are from the original Lumines.
[edit] Advance Pack Skins
- Block the Sky
- Aoi
- Bean jam?
- ROUND ABOUT
- You are not here.
- So that someone may visit you.
- TALK 2 YOU
- Hometown
- Kabuki
- ABACK
- The mission to The moon
- bad boy century
- SISTER WALK
- Dao
- DARKSIDE BESIDE THE RIVER
- KAWAI
- Shadow of Grand Father
- Mysterious travel to Asia
- Cuckoo clock
- HIKARU frame work
- TINTOY [Unlocked by reaching 250,000 points in Challenge Mode "Advance"]
- Fanatic [Unlocked by reaching 500,000 points in Challenge Mode "Advance"]
ROUND ABOUT, TALK 2 YOU, ABACK, SISTER WALK, DARKSIDE BESIDE THE RIVER, and TINTOY are skins from the original Lumines.
[edit] VS CPU Pack Skins
- That savanna calls.
- Auto Mobile Industry
- Naha!!
- The bird singing in the night
- The speed of light
- Japanese Form
- Go to a toy town.
- Whoop-De-Do
- Papa's ukulele
- Moon Beam
- Mekong [Unlocked by finishing Vs CPU mode]
Auto Mobile Industry, The bird singing in the night, Japanese Form, Whoop-De-Do, Moon Beam, and Mekong are skins from the original Lumines.
[edit] Mission / Puzzle Mode Skins
- 45 Degrees
- neodimium
- RODENT
- Manager Class
- Sparks
- Please return my CD
- prime factor
- MACHINE INTERFACE
45 Degrees, RODENT, Please return my CD, and prime factor are skins from the original Lumines.
Genki Rockets' Heavenly Star is available as a separate pack, and is played in Challenge Mode as a single skin endless loop. To date, it is the first skin in Lumines Live! that has a music video.
[edit] External links
- Official sites
