Lumines II Adds A Heavenly Star To Its Music Track

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.

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.