Silly Putty

Lumines is officially the best game ever invented. Lumines: Puzzle Fusion was created by Japanese game maker Tetsuya Mizuguchi, released in North America in March of 2005. It's a little bit like tetris, but way better and with way cooler graphics. You might think releasing something similar to tetris for the PSP would be a rip-off, but this game's simplicity just adds to its entertainment value.

Like tetris, multi-colored blocks fall from the top of the screen where they come to rest at the bottom. Unlike tetris, the blocks aren't rigid; if you put half a block on another raised block, half will break off and continue to fall downwards. Additionally, you can't get rid of accumulated blocks by filling up one row; in Lumines, you must "delete" blocks by creating 2 x 2 squares of blocks of the same color. This might seem to be just as boring as tetris, but the game also incorporates lot's of cool special effects, sounds and lights when you get rid of blocks or beat a level. As well, they have some intuitive features such as shuffle mode, challenge mode and even boss mode (where you have to survive longer than a CPU).

However the best part of Lumines is the music, OMGSH the music! Lumines has a huge host of "skins" (different backgrounds either animated or static), each one with it's own playlist of great music! They often feature hot artists like The Black Eyed Peas, Gwen Stefani and The Chemical Brothers, just to name a few... it's sort of like DDR; the louder the music the harder you want to play, hehe.

Anyways, I recently got the phone version and although it is slightly "dumbed down", it's still just as addicting as the PSP version, and there's even cool music too by some dude named... Mondo Grosso, although he is apparently quite famous.

kamster