Lumines II Adds A Heavenly Star To Its Music Track

Posted Jul 28, 2006 at 7:53AM by QJ Staff Listed in: PSP Tags: Glamoove, puzzles, Tetsuya Mizuguchi
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In addition to the already impressive soundtrack and video line up of the upcoming Lumines II on PSP, Q producer Tetsuya Mizuguchi and his team collaborated on a special track called Heavenly Star. The music itself was described as "insanely catchy" while the "simply stunning" video features an alien singer, not from south of the border but outer space, looking for her soulmate on our planet. Good luck with that sister! The Heavenly Star video was designed by Glamoove, a renowned Japanese visual team. Mizuguchi says it was inspired by "Take On Me," one of the cutting edge videos of the mid-80s featuring A-ha.

About the game itself, Lumines II will retain its classic innovative puzzle/music gameplay but with new attractions all-new skins, over 100 new icons, new battle modes, additional 3D backgrounds, more brain-busting puzzles, plus a Skin Play edit feature, Play History, and a replay theater.

If you haven't tried out Lumines (which will be coming to mobile phones, Xbox 360, and PSP) here's how it plays: squares made of four smaller block pieces are dropped into the playing field one at a time to form same-color squares. As they succumb to the law of gravity, a vertical timeline sweeps across the screen from left to right and removes same-color squares from the playing field. Unmatched blocks pile up, and the game ends when the pile gets to the top of the playing screen.

Know more interesting tidbits about the game straight from the team (Katsumi Yokota, senior graphic designer and Ryuichi Hattori, game designer and director) that developed it by clicking 'Read' below.

 
 
 

Comments

by - 2006-07-28 07:55:55
kool

take that
by fimmy - 2006-07-28 08:02:00
tekken warlord

kewlie! kewl !
by - 2006-07-28 08:02:39
Well, not a licensed track, at least

The title says it.. this seems to be proof that this will actually not be a "stupid american-localized licensed track".
by - 2006-07-28 08:39:10
WHO CARES!!!!!!!!!

WHY THE F**K IS THIS ON THE FRONT PAGE???
by - 2006-07-28 08:47:55
(yawn)

What a waste of space... ...not only that, but this soundtrack is really bad - almost as bad as a typical EA offering.
by - 2006-07-28 12:59:30
Oh boy, a replay feature!

"In addition to the already impressive soundtrack and video line up of the upcoming Lumines II" .....Hahahahahaaahahaa!!
by mhz - 2006-07-28 16:34:58
Lumines on 360??

You gotta be kidding me... Lumines on HDTV, *lol*! And huh, Lumines is already out for mobiles, I have an s60 version, no comments about it..
by - 2006-07-28 17:41:43
Lumines rocks

All you dorks above ^^ who hate the game and its news on the front of pspupdates, good for you. just the fact that it irritates you just adds more salt to the wound. LUMINES II ROCKS. WHO CARES IF THE SOUNDTRACK SUCKS! And because you responded shows you all are closeted Lumines fans. Nice to know you love Lumines too.
by pauridius - 2006-07-28 20:59:20
#8 Lumines has always been about the music

So what youre saying #8 is that Lumines II Rocks... but the music sucks... alright, why dont you just play the first one then? With music that doesn't suck? And by the way, the above posters hate the soundtrack, not the game. Lumines II is going to be that one stage in Lumines you try to avoid at all costs, except it will be EVERY DAMN LEVEL. i think I'm going to stick with the first one. Unless This song list is just a horrible nightmare and it'll all go away when I wake up. "In addition to the already impressive soundtrack and video line up of the upcoming Lumines II" I laughed pretty hard at this comment too. It's impressivly bad maybe. It's sooo bad, that I'd rather have babies with Roseanne than sit through "Holla Back Girl"
by - 2006-07-28 23:53:47
LAWL

I FOUND THE MEH HEE CAN OH COMMENT TO BE HILLARIOUS
by - 2006-10-10 12:21:11
annoyed.

I am so dissapointed with the video addtion in lumines 2. And my still not topped score of 991,126 to unlock the water flower and lights skin. At least one of these I know I can change. Lumines 3? No videos! More Skins! More Graphics! More sound effects! Less Commercial Music!

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