Playing the remastered version on Switch as my first Lumines game and having a great time. I do wish I could just resume where I lost on in the main mode at the cost of not having a high score saved or something. I just find by the time I'm in the 40s, the game gets too fast and unlike something like Tetris, a single wrong placement can really fuck you in this game. I feel like I'll never get good enough to actually make it to level 100 in a single run.
I've watched a lot of videos and have definitely improved a lot from when I started, I just mostly struggle with the later skins where the blocks drop faster and the sweeper moves slower. I just get overwhelmed eventually and then put a few blocks in bad places, which rattles my confidence until my demise lol.
I tried Electronic Symphony and am a little shocked they didn't add a similar checkpoint system to this remaster. You can actually see all the skins with low-medium skill and even if you lose a long run, you gain experience so it doesn't feel like wasted time. It makes runs much more user friendly, considering I've put 20 hours into this and still can't get past level 45 with nothing to show for it.
I've done lots of the puzzles and missions but you play those in shorter bursts under more relaxed conditions. I just don't think I have the dexterity this game demands to get to level 100. I do still enjoy it, though! I'll keep doing the missions and puzzles and maybe someday I'll git gud enough to pull it off lol.
Far from a 3.8 for me, but I'm surprised by how much this has stuck as the first arcadey puzzle game that I've really gotten into. There's a level of forgiveness here that isn't present with something like Tetris (as much as I hate to perpetuating that comparison) which makes it a hell of a lot more accessible. It's been really tricky trying to get into anything else in the PSP library now that I've played this. I'm gonna miss it once I finally get past the last two skins in challenge mode and never play it again
I tried Electronic Symphony and am a little shocked they didn't add a similar checkpoint system to this remaster. You can actually see all the skins with low-medium skill and even if you lose a long run, you gain experience so it doesn't feel like wasted time. It makes runs much more user friendly, considering I've put 20 hours into this and still can't get past level 45 with nothing to show for it.
I've done lots of the puzzles and missions but you play those in shorter bursts under more relaxed conditions. I just don't think I have the dexterity this game demands to get to level 100. I do still enjoy it, though! I'll keep doing the missions and puzzles and maybe someday I'll git gud enough to pull it off lol.
It's been really tricky trying to get into anything else in the PSP library now that I've played this. I'm gonna miss it once I finally get past the last two skins in challenge mode and never play it again
That song is bliss. Starting over never sounded so good.
Game is solid. Gonna be in my rotation for a long time I think