arne360 » Gaming personalities http://arne360.com a look at videogames and the videogame from inside the industry Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:23:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Lumines Live! – I don’t get it? http://arne360.com/2007/02/01/lumines-live-i-dont-get-it/ http://arne360.com/2007/02/01/lumines-live-i-dont-get-it/#comments Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:47:14 +0000 arne lumines live tetsuya mizuguchi xbox live arcade advanced pack heavenly star vs cpu puzzle mission microtransaction microtransactions luke smith xbox 360 http://www.arne360.com/2007/02/01/lumines-live-i-dont-get-it/ Lumines Live! - puzzle modeA couple of weeks ago, new add-on packs to Lumines Live! were released on Xbox Live Arcade. And I bought them. They were cheap, so it doesn’t matter. I bought the Xbox 360 version of Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s critically acclaimed (yes, I used those words) puzzler when it came out and everybody was crying foul over microtransactions — specifically the full cost of the game and the way the game was broken up into different downloads. Anyhow, I was drawn back into trying out Lumines Live! with these new packs, especially since I had failed horribly to even be passable at it when the game originally released.

I still don’t get it. I can’t do well in this game to save my life. I can’t seem to grasp the logic behind thinking ahead to make the blocks disappear correctly. I can’t seem to think ahead like I could in, say, Tetris or Dr. Mario — two other puzzlers where you knew what the next or next few blocks would be shaped like. I downloaded several of the top time attack replays and I’m totally astounded. I want to understand (and like) this game, but I just don’t get it. Someone show me the path. Please.

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