A puzzle game in which the goal is to place as many 2-color falling blocks (a la Tetris) on the playing field in like-colored blocks in order to wipe it clean. During play, a timeline crosses the field from left to right, clearing and counting up your matches. The more matches you make before the timeline wipes them clean, the bigger the combo multiplier towards your score.

As you progress through the game, Lumines will reward you with new "skins" which completely change the graphics, sound effects and music during play.

In "puzzle" mode, you stack the blocks in order to create the various shapes that you are shown.

Lumines also lets you play against the CPU or wirelessly against another player on the PSP.

The 2007 PS2 port is completely identical to the PSP version, except for some new skins.

[edit description]

Alternate Titles

"闪亮魔方" -- Chinese Title (Simplified)
"Lumines Plus" -- PS2 title
"ルミネス" -- Japanese Spelling

[add alternate title]

Part of the Following Groups

Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Lumines: Puzzle Fusion
	Lumines II	PSP	$19.99
	Lumines	PSP	$32.00
Please select your country: Not an American user?

User Reviews

There are no reviews for this game.

[review game]

The Press Says

GameCell UK	2004	10 out of 10	100
3DAvenue	Sep 01, 2005		100
G4 TV: X-Play	Jul 19, 2005		100
Eurogamer	Aug 30, 2005	9 out of 10	90
Digital Press - Classic Video Games	May 01, 2005	9 out of 10	90
Game Informer Magazine	May, 2005	9 out of 10	90
Gamer.nl	Sep 04, 2005	9 out of 10	90
IGN	Mar 08, 2005	8.6 out of 10	86
Fragland.net	Sep 08, 2005	82 out of 100	82
Gamestyle	Dec 08, 2006	8 out of 10	80

[see more rankings | add ranking]

Forums

There are currently no topics for this game.

[new thread]

Trivia

When the PSP upgraded to version 3.5 of the firmware, it blocked the ability for people to downgrade the firmware at a future date in order to run homebrew game. However on June 23, 2007 an exploit/hack was found when running the game Lumines: Puzzle Fusion that would allow people owning this game to be able to run programs and change the firmware. By Monday June 25, 2007... the game was showing a 750% increase in sales. By the end of the month, the game's sales had risen by 5000% from what it once was. This exploit has since been fixed in PSP Firmware version 3.51

[add trivia]

This entry was contributed by Sciere