[Baconsammy]

I've watched the credits 3 times now and still no trophy. Between this and the bullshit about there being a hidden Platinum, Mielke can suck it.

[JacksUsername]

Damn at some of the scores being posted here - I haven't even crossed the 50,000 mark yet. I just got the game on Sunday and this is my first Lumines game. I think I'm actually going to read through that pdf when I get some free time later this week to figure out some of the deeper mechanics. I'm guessing a lot of it just comes from playing it enough to recognize patterns and setting things up.

Totally dig the music though and I'm glad I got this digitally so I can just boot it up at any time without worrying about swapping cards.

[Alchemy]

Just got to 9,999,999 and the game is still going... I'm banning myself from using avatar after I finished this game lol.

What Avatar ability are you using? From what I've seen so far chain block is the best.

[twentytwo22]

Yeah, what's this avatar trick?

Anyway, broke into seven digits last night with about 1,100,000. Used a chain block avatar.

[kinggroin]

Well I went from barely being able to break 80k, practiced a little bit, and now I'm at 250k. Think I'm gonna put this game on the back burner. Stopping at level 45, I feel pretty satisfied.

This was my first Lumines experience, and I must say, its the current front runner for my personal GOTY.

Time for Uncharted!

[Alchemy]

I guess I'll just keep assuming the chain block is the best avatar ability, though I don't really use them all that much.

[RS4-]

Not sure what it is, but I find this version easier than the PSP/PS3 one lol.

gaf: rs4-
psn: resonating

pretty annoyed that I did have a nice high score once then hit retry instead of exit

[Baconsammy]

I guess I'll just keep assuming the chain block is the best avatar ability, though I don't really use them all that much.

Yeah, chain is the best for me, but the triple solid block one is good at the start to get a quick batch of 10Ks.

[lantus]

I just got 298k, I can't even fathom how some of you get the scores you do, I need to learn some new tricks then haha.

[lantus]

Ok scratch that, just got to 442k. :D

[Maastricht]

Heh, I got my first playthrough at 900k without even remembering there was an avatar trick. Personally I think 1 hour of play is more than enough already, yikes. I like the playlist mode, wish there was some kind of score-keeping for that, that would have been perfect. That way I could try to get a 5 skin play through once highscore, would always be a fixed length, so not take too much time.

[RuGalz]

I guess I'll just keep assuming the chain block is the best avatar ability, though I don't really use them all that much.

Eh depends on what you mean by "best". I find chain and shuffle are good for saving your butt in the Hail Mary sort of way. The slow drop one is good for re-gaining control on faster skins. Triple block ones are good for getting some extra 10ks.

[Bazza]

I brought this before i was about to go to bed last night, planned to have a quick go and i was still playing at 3.30am.

My PSN name is Bazza100

[Wario64]

Just got to 9,999,999 and the game is still going... I'm banning myself from using avatar after I finished this game lol.

I heard about this. Pm me the trick :)

[reminder]

I've watched the credits 3 times now and still no trophy. Between this and the bullshit about there being a hidden Platinum, Mielke can suck it.

I got the trophy when i booted up the game the next time after i watched the credits.

[Jonnyram]

I heard about this. Pm me the trick :)

Umm, it's line freeze, isn't it? You can get simply insane combos with it.

[Tadale]

Between this and Child of Eden, Q is quickly becoming one of my favorite developers.

I hit 300k last night – took me about an 1.5 hours of play.

[Baller, PhD]

People only getting 50k must not know... ...although, I am only getting 150k by knowing that.

Mind blown.

120k =/

[Baconsammy]

Heh, I got my first playthrough at 900k without even remembering there was an avatar trick. Personally I think 1 hour of play is more than enough already, yikes. I like the playlist mode, wish there was some kind of score-keeping for that, that would have been perfect. That way I could try to get a 5 skin play through once highscore, would always be a fixed length, so not take too much time.

Agreed. The only reason I played Voyage was to get all the skins unlocked. I'll probably never play it again. Removing high-score tracking from playlist mode is a really lame change and has diminished some of the fun I get out of these games.

[Captain Pants]

On the one hand, I'm really happy that I got a new high score tonight, but I'm really pissed that I couldn't break 3,000,000.

It was so frustrating to be so close and not be able to close the deal.

[AstroLad]

Agreed. The only reason I played Voyage was to get all the skins unlocked. I'll probably never play it again. Removing high-score tracking from playlist mode is a really lame change and has diminished some of the fun I get out of these games.

I know everyone hates trophies or whatever but Live had a cool trophy where you had to hit a pretty high number within a playlist. Really made you hunt around and explore different skins.

[Dogfacedgod]

what's the song called that plays on a neon red and blue skin? it's trance I think.

Probably Hey Boy Hey Girl by the Chemical Brothers. This one caught my attention too.

[abasm]

Oh man, there is no "quick Lumines break." I sat down to play for a few minutes, and came away an hour and a half later with a score of 880k. (On the bright side, I finished Voyage for the first time.)

[Troidal]

Umm, it's line freeze, isn't it? You can get simply insane combos with it.

Line freeze screws me over more than helps me. I guess when I am in the zone and use that avatar, I forget about the time line and overpile the blocks :(

Note to self: use it during skins where the blocks drop SLOWER.

[Baconsammy]

I know everyone hates trophies or whatever but Live had a cool trophy where you had to hit a pretty high number within a playlist. Really made you hunt around and explore different skins.

250,000 in 10 skins. Having the Holiday add-on pack really helped with that achievement.

[Snuggler]

Man, Disco Infiltrator fucks me up. It's always so much faster than the previous skin. Just barely survived it this time, though, but I have a nearly overflowing load of blocks standing between me and a potential new high score.

[areal]

Man, Disco Infiltrator fucks me up.

Bear in mind, we all fall behind from time to time.

[ZeroFate]

Got 500k my first play-through today! Haven't touched the series since the very first one on the PSP. It has my heart once again. GOTY <3

I swear, one of the most exhilarating/satisfying gaming moments for me are when ALL my blocks are piled to the top with barley any openings and by some miracle I'm able to come back. I always feel like such a BOSS. :lol

[Snuggler]

I swear, one of the most exhilarating/satisfying gaming moments for me are when ALL my blocks are piled to the top with barley any openings and by some miracle I'm able to come back. I always feel like such a BOSS. :lol

Definitely. But then then are also moments where the miracle never comes, and you're cut short just shy of your high score. Like what just happened to me. ;_;

Anyways, favorite skin? Personally I love 4AM, I'm hooked on the song now. This game has turned me on to a lot of great music.

[industrian]

I love Lumines. My favourite game on the PSP and now the Vita.

I almost had to change my pants when Out of the Blue started playing. I fucking love that song.

[RuGalz]

Umm, it's line freeze, isn't it? You can get simply insane combos with it.

I'm hoping Q will patch the game and reset leader board. I sent them an email. If they don't plan to respond, I'll post the strategy in a couple weeks. The strategy requires some skill but nothing too hard for any veteran.

[Wario64]

I thought it was the line freeze as well but it seems rather tedious and I don't see where the extra points are coming from. From what I understand it, you can score millions rather easily...

[RuGalz]

I thought it was the line freeze as well but it seems rather tedious and I don't see where the extra points are coming from. From what I understand it, you can score millions rather easily...

Well, getting to millions is kinda tedious either way (with or without avatar) :P

[turnbuckle]

I just went to the bathroom at work even though I didn't really have to go. I just wanted to play a bit more Lumines. I'm currently about to pass the 400,000 point threshold but I doubt I"ll ever come close to touching the types of scores people are getting here. I still don't feel like I've got this game down yet, in other puzzlers if I wanted to clean up the board I generally could pull it off. In Lumines, outside of the very beginning of the game I don't think I'll ever approach having a clean board.

[Alchemy]

I thought it was the line freeze as well but it seems rather tedious and I don't see where the extra points are coming from. From what I understand it, you can score millions rather easily...

Millions easily? Shit, there must be some avatar trick then. It would be nice if people would share their tricks but I guess I'll just keep trying to unlock more avatars and messing around with them.

[WonkyPanda]

Mind blown. 120k =/

Wait...what?

[perfect free]

Anyways, favorite skin? Personally I love 4AM, I'm hooked on the song now. This game has turned me on to a lot of great music.

Sunriser is pretty badass. I also really like Automatons, Celebrate Our Love, and Pacific 707. (All of these are new to me. Lots of great music I'd never heard before thanks to this game.)

And The Future of the Future is a classic. Tracey Thorn's voice is like comfort food.

[Chocoboko]

Sorry if this has been posted somewhere but I can't find any info. I keep reading that I can continue the voyage mode if I lose at some point. How do I do that? I don't see any options anywhere in the game to continue.

[JEKKI]

nooooooo~!!!! this game is broken!!!!!!!!!!!!

fu**in avatar abuse mang!! slow down blocks, tap back to 100%, repeat as necessary,

99999999999 scores for all!!!!

[Aru]

Got a 600000+ high score on my second voyage.
Great game, but I'm sad that some modes from the first games are missing. I loved the puzzle and AI Duel modes :(

[Nert]

Sunriser is pretty badass. I also really like Automatons, Celebrate Our Love, and Pacific 707. (All of these are new to me. Lots of great music I'd never heard before thanks to this game.) And The Future of the Future is a classic. Tracey Thorn's voice is like comfort food.

Yeah, The Future of the Future is great. My favorite skin is probably Amon Tobin's "Wooden Toy," though; it's just so fucking strange and cerebral. I also love the frantic background that goes along with Apollo Throwdown.

[lantus]

Has Q said anything about dlc? I just want to listen to Junkie XL while I play this magnificent game!

[Alchemy]

nooooooo~!!!! this game is broken!!!!!!!!!!!! fu**in avatar abuse mang!! slow down blocks, tap back to 100%, repeat as necessary, 99999999999 scores for all!!!!

So the broken Avatar power is Hang Time? Wasn't expecting that. Everything I've read made it sound like the trick was getting 6-7 million points in about the first hour of play on the first 10 skins, so my best guess was doing some sort of massive chain reaction combo to score tons of points all at once but I haven't be able to create a pattern that effectively works with this.

Not know the trick is fucking killing me.

[Baconsammy]

My favorite songs are 4am, Rocket, Disco Infiltrator, Automatons, and Kelly Watch the Stars. Those are the 5 songs I've created and saved in a playlist.

My wife loves the Mark Ronson song, but she dirties it up by changing "plucking feathers" to "fucking fellas".

The only song I can't stand is Close To the Edit by Art of Noise. 80s shit.

[branny]

Yeah, I was making playlists of all the songs I liked, and I realized I only left out like three skins. It's criminal that there isn't a souped up "Bon Voyage" mode that includes all the additional original (Makoto Asai?) skins. They're incredible. It would've been nice to have better custom playlist score tracking.

Puzzle mode would've been nice, too, even though I got bored of it in the past when it was just redoing every challenge again two times in a row. I don't think this is one of the better action puzzle games out there for competitive dueling (Puyo comes to mind for versus play...), so I don't have an opinion on the lack of AI duels.

It really does suck that we can't take Electronic Symphony that seriously in terms of scoring, but that doesn't lessen its worth as an amazing "chill out" game.

[Alchemy]

Ok, the only thing that feels like it makes sense for this trick is that people are some how using avatar abilities to generate lots of screen cleared bonuses while clearing very few total blocks so they keep getting +10k without using going through very many skins.

Unfortunately Hover doesn't cause the screen clear bonus to tick multiple times in a row, so all I can see here is spamming hover to get a screen clear and just delay moving on to the next screen forever? And maybe there is a trick to building up avatar power through tapping that I'm not aware of because it feels pretty slow to me.

[Captain Pants]

Hopefully they wipe out any scores that people are getting by avatar exploits. I love competing on the leaderboards and it isn't fun if the people at the top are cheating.

[Alchemy]

Hopefully they wipe out any scores that people are getting by avatar exploits. I love competing on the leaderboards and it isn't fun if the people at the top are cheating.

Can it really be considered cheating though? As far as I can find (and I don't think I've found the exact way to do it because people won't say!) it isn't a surefire way to hit the score cap.

[lastflowers]

I'm seeing blocks when I close my eyes. I hope I don't get to the same nadir I reached during my initial bouts with the first Lumines.


I remember waking up in the middle of the night (3am or somewheres) and play lumines in my mind. The board would be all jumbled as I try to remember where every block was.

*sigh




EDIT: I'll be happy to get 2+ million. I seem to max out at about 1.1 mill, though I've only played voyage 4 times.

[SRTtoZ]

Woot, reached 215k tonight on about my 10th try or so. My best before this was 110k and I'm new to the Lumines franchise so no laughing.