{"id":44,"date":"2006-01-08T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-08T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/wordpress\/?p=44"},"modified":"2006-01-08T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-08T18:36:00","slug":"lumines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2006\/01\/08\/lumines\/","title":{"rendered":"Lumines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s most immediately successful Christmas present: a Sony PSP + <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/psp\/puzzle\/lumines\/review.html\">Lumines<\/a>. It&rsquo;s a Tetris-like game but more and better. After a while, Tetris just comes down to having incredibly fast fingers. Here, planning and forethought matter more, and it&rsquo;s possible to get a lot better by practising. Higher levels are not just faster but also different, and require different tactics.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe &ldquo;colorful, swirling backgrounds&rdquo; that the review describes as &ldquo;clear and clutter-free&rdquo; are anything but, in my opinion (big flashing things in colours that are very close to the colours of actual game elements) but I&rsquo;ve got to admit that they are quite pretty.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThere are also &ldquo;time attack&rdquo; and &ldquo;puzzle&rdquo; modes which are good for short games &#8211; a full game now takes me about 30 &ndash; 60 minutes, depending on how well it goes. A very nice game; the first one in a long time that I&#8217;ve really loved, and quite addictive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s most immediately successful Christmas present: a Sony PSP + Lumines. It&rsquo;s a Tetris-like game but more and better. After a while, Tetris just comes down to having incredibly fast fingers. Here, planning and forethought matter more, and it&rsquo;s possible to get a lot better by practising. Higher levels are not just faster but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything_else","category-geeky_things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}