Lumines Block Challenge

After the popularity of the original Lumines for PSP in 2005, designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Q Entertainment and Gameloft all agreed to create a version for mobile phones. Lumines Block Challenge was released in May 2006 and features all the main modes from the original as well as extra modes and new skins. It also includes new electronica tracks and high-score leaderboards. The game has been both well-recieved by critics and has sold well with it topping the mobile gaming charts when it was released.

Controls

 * Left: 4
 * Right: 6
 * Down: 8
 * Rotate: 5

Controls can be changed in the Options menu.

Gameplay

 * Match up blocks of four, making sure they are the same colour.
 * The horizontal line will come across the screen and delete the blocks of four.
 * Make combos by creating bigger blocks of the same colour.
 * The bar at the bottom will tell you how near or far you are to completing the level.
 * On boss battles, you must continually create blocks and combos and that will make your screen bigger. You win by capturing all the screen. if you do not create blocks quick enough, your half of the screen will get smaller.

Arcade
This is the main mode of Lumines Mobile. Go through all levels to unlock skins and you earn more points on harder difficulty levels. The three difficulty levels are Easy, Normal and Hard. There are also time challenges that give you gold, silver and bronze cups if you complete the level under the allocated time. There are a total of 8 stages and 4 boss battles.

Other Modes

 * Challenge: Play the original Lumines.
 * VS CPU: Make combos to defeat the CPU.
 * Single Skin: Play on your favourite skin.
 * Time Attack: Play for a set amount of time trying to beat your highest score. Time allocations are 90 sec, 180 sec, 300 sec and 600 sec.
 * Puzzle: Copy the shape indicated on the screen.
 * Shuffle: Unlocked when four different skins have been unlocked. Runs unlocked skins in random order.

Skins
There are a total of 11 skins, 8 of which have to be unlocked.


 * Shinin' - Music by Mondo Grosso.
 * Sandstorm Calling - Music by Andy Hunter.
 * Holiday In Summer - Unlock in Challenge Mode.
 * Mystic Pulse - Unlock in Arcade Mode.
 * Shake Ya Body - Music by Mondo Grosso. Unlock in Arcade Mode.
 * Urbanization - Unlock in Arcade Mode.
 * Doodle King - Unlock in Arcade Mode.
 * The Spy Loves Me - Unlock in Arcade Mode.

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