I was playing around on Verizon's Get it Now with my new VX9800 and to my surprise saw that Lumines Mobile had been released.
Has anyone else had a chance to play this yet? I can say it's pretty much the best game, original or otherwise, that I've played on a cell phone. The music is great and the graphics keep up with the PSP counterpart pretty well. The only real complaint (other than the horrible control schemes on cell phones) would be the clunky piece movement.
Anyway, the mobile version seems to be giving a sneek peak at some of the new features and levels we can expect in Lumines 2, Lumines Live, and Lumines PS2. There are several new types of pieces, straight lines and "Z" shaped blocks similiar to Tetris. At first I was turned off by these new pieces but they're growing on me. Also new are several types of individual blocks that can blast out a 3x3 section of any colored blocks, blast straight lines (horizontal or vertical), crystal blocks that can adapt to the color you need to clear out a section, and a block that will smash out a whole 4 wide row when you drop it. Also new is the addtion of a 3rd color on some stages.
Also cool on the mobile version is leaderboards and online verses play. So in a way, this versions even better than the PSP! If you check the leaderboards, I'm under "Blissful". I just starting messing around with it a couple of days ago but I'm in the top 10 on a few boards as of right now.
This is a great teaser for all the new Lumines offerings coming down the pipe and if you're a fan of the original game, you should be downloading the mobile version right after you read this.