Lumines Arise

This game is the most recent entry to the Lumines series, at least at the time of writing. It takes Tetris Effect, their previous game, and puts its innovations to Lumines gameplay. If you're [i]only[/i] looking for Lumines gameplay, then something like Lumines Remastered will serve you better. But if you like the choreography of amazing visuals and soundtrack from Tetris Effect, and you want more, this game will do. It has a similar Journey mode. It comes with the Burst mechanic, which is quite similar to Zone from Tetris Effect. Are you asking what is Lumines? It's an action puzzle game series, not as old as Tetris but still like around 20 years by now. Drop square pieces of two colors and try to form 2x2 squares of the same color. A timeline sweeps through the playfield according to the music; your 2x2 squares are only erased as the timeline sweeps past them, so you can use them to build more/larger squares. Introduced in this game is the Burst mechanic, which allows you to freeze one particular square so it doesn't get cleared by the timeline for several sweeps. This allows you to build more on the square, getting a huge, satisfying clear at the end of the burst. The variety in the stages comes from the different timing. Faster music means faster BPM means faster timeline. You might be forced to drop a piece faster than usual, similar to how the gravity might pick up in Tetris. In addition, with completely different visuals and music per stage, sometimes the difficulty comes from reading the board. ...which is unfortunate, but so it is. The game comes with other features too. There's a multiplayer lobby for a 1v1 battle, sending garbage blocks to try to overwhelm your opponent. There's a mode for puzzles for learning, as well as custom game modes such as being confined in a much smaller space than usual. You can personalize your character (mainly for the multiplayer lobby), and you can spend in-game currency to roll a gacha to unlock more customizations. While the inclusion of a gacha element is a bit unfortunate, you're not going to get repeats, so it's just a matter of playing long enough until you get everything. If you're only looking for a Lumines experience, the price tag might be quite steep. But if you're in the intersection of Tetris Effect lover as well as action puzzle enjoyer in general, this game is well worth it.

Growing up i remember sneaking my brothers psp that had lumines on it. I would play it all the time. When i saw the same developer that did Tetris Connected also developed this lumines i had to check it out. The soundtrack for this game is awesome and the visuals are equally as good. The chameleon level has to be my favorite. The levels are fun and if you played Tetris connected, it has the same style of level transition so that was something that was familiar. Lets not forget that this is NOT Tetris, but rather its own puzzle game and a great one at that.

It is like Tetris Effect but with crazy variety of music and effects!