{"id":31644,"date":"2018-07-01T00:37:39","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T00:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=31644"},"modified":"2018-07-01T00:37:39","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T00:37:39","slug":"not-many-games-are-worth-buying-four-times-lumines-is-one-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=31644","title":{"rendered":"Not many games are worth buying four times. ‘Lumines’ is one of them."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Let’s see. PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, and iOS.<\/p>\n

Before its Nintendo Switch (and PlayStation 4\/Xbox One) release this week, those were the platforms on which I already owned and had played Lumines previously. Each one, a version I’d happily, enthusiastically purchased. And here I am, back on my bullshit and fully on board for Lumines Remastered.<\/p>\n

SEE ALSO: The top 10 video games of 2018 (so far)<\/a><\/p>\n

I think a lot of us probably have games like this in our lives. Familiar, comforting experiences that you can just slip into and lose yourself for a few hours. I don’t think it’s quite accurate to say it happens on “autopilot” — I’m completely focused and engaged when I play Lumines. It’s more that the act of play is effortless and almost meditative. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

More about Entertainment<\/a>, Gaming<\/a>, Lumines Remastered<\/a>, Entertainment<\/a>, and Gaming<\/a><\/p>\n

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Let’s see. PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, and iOS. Before its Nintendo Switch (and PlayStation 4\/Xbox One) release this week, those were the platforms on which I already owned and had played Lumines previously. Each one, a version I’d happily, enthusiastically purchased. And here I am, back on my bullshit and fully on board for Lumines …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1241,1113],"class_list":["post-31644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-entertainment","tag-gaming"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/2018%2F06%2F29%2F52%2F142ac322714b49f2ac4baa4a6b565a9a.648c91530405461.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}