Kathunter's Personal Space

"At first blush, Lumines looks a lot like it should have a name like 'space Tetris,' since it features a playfield with dropping blocks that you can shift as they fall. The demo on display at TGS showed two basic colors for the boxes, orange and gray. You use the PSP's face buttons to manipulate the assorted boxes to arrange their like-colored sides in blocks of four that are then removed when a spaceship of some kind flies across the screen, dragging a spotlight behind it. By carefully stacking your boxes, it's possible to create 'chain' combinations wherein waves of bricks get removed at once. However, what puts a different spin on the action is game's use of modern music that appears to be reactive and change based on your performance. "