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Lumines

Lumines is a block-dropping game, that may seem at first to be similar to Columns and Tetris. A 2 x 2 square (an O tetromino) made of four smaller block pieces is dropped into the playing field, which may…

85 12 December 2004

Lumines is a music developed by Gameloft, released 12 December 2004 on PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, iOS and Legacy Mobile Device.

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What Lumines is

Lumines is a music game developed by Gameloft and released in 2004. It was published by Bandai. It is available on PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, iOS, Legacy Mobile Device and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Lumines is a puzzle video game series developed by Q Entertainment. The core objective of the games is to survive by rotating and aligning 2×2 blocks varying between two colors to form 2×2 squares of a single color which will be erased when the Time Line passes over them. The game is lost when the blocks reach the top of the playing field.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Lumines holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 84% of the 483 rated music games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored 15 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Lumines launched on 12 December 2004, within three weeks of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords, World of Warcraft, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within and Gran Turismo 4. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords, World of Warcraft, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, Gran Turismo 4.

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When did Lumines come out?
Lumines was released on 12 December 2004 for PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, iOS, Legacy Mobile Device and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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