History VideoGame / Lumines

''Lumines'' proved very popular in Japan, selling more than half a million copies since its initial release. It also garnered Greatest Hits status in North America and Europe, prompting a mobile phone version of the game created by Gameloft. A direct sequel was made the following year, and it was later joined by ''Lumines Plus'' for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 and ''Lumines Live'' for UsefulNotes/Xbox360's Live Arcade. A port of ''Lumines 2'' (with some skins and VS modes removed, plus the ''Lumines Live'' interface) was released for the PC, distributed by WildTangent Games and UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}. In 2009, a UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 version of the game called ''Lumines Supernova'' was released on the Playstation Network, which contained a new mode called Dig Down mode, and new skins (including one based on ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet''). ''Lumines Touch Fusion'' was released for UsefulNotes/{{iOS|Games}} in 2009. A UsefulNotes/PlaystationVita installment, ''Lumines Electronic Symphony'', was released in 2012. A remake of the first game, ''Lumines Remastered'', was released for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, Steam, and UsefulNotes/XboxOne on June 26, 2018.

''Lumines'' is a series of FallingBlocks puzzle games started in 2005 by famed ''VideoGame/SpaceChannel5'' designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi, as one of the first UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable titles and the first one under his new game label, Creator/QEntertainment. The premise is much more simplistic when compared to other games like it...blocks fall in 2x2 squares, and the player can only score points by matching up squares of the same color (2x2 or larger). As the music plays in the background, a timeline sweeps the joined blocks away and adds lights and sounds to the mix. Players advance through levels, or "skins" (which changes the background, music, score display, sound effects, even the block appearances) and the tempo of the new songs switches up frequently, requiring the player to stay on their toes as things get harder and harder.

* LicensedGame: Many of the tracks are licensed. ''Lumines II'' is notable for having big-name Western musicians like Music/{{Beck}} and Music/GwenStefani.

* FallingBlocks

* LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading: ''Remastered'' has a bit more loading than there really should be. Need to restart 60-second Time Attack? Time to sit around for 10 seconds!

* NoPlotNoProblem: This series has LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters but none of the playable Avatars have any known personality outside of some FlavorText as well as Vs. CPU mode being implied to take place in a tower in Remastered.

->''Shinin', Shinin', Shinin', Shinin', Shinin', Shinin', Shinin', Shinin'...''