Posted Jul 18, 2006 at 09:27AM by Timo K. Listed in: News, Games, Lumines 2 Tags: Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Buena Vista, Q Entertainment
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Together with two new screenshots, publisher Buena Vista Games has also published a list of artists who'll be gracing your ears in Q Entertainment's highly anticipated follow-up to the PSP puzzle classic Lumines. These are all very popular musicians and this list shows that Buena Vista is really upping the ante regarding puzzle game soundtracks.

So here's the final list of songs included in Lumines II:
  • Beck – “Black Tambourine”
  • Black Eyed Peas – “Pump It”
  • Chemical Brothers – “Star Guitar
  • Fatboy Slim – “Gangster Trippin’”
  • The Go! Team – “Bottle Rocket”
  • Gwen Stefani – “Hollaback Girl”
  • Hoobastank – “Born to Lead”
  • Junior Senior – “Take My Time”
  • Missy Elliott – “Lose Control”
  • New Order – “TBD”
Two additional songs will also appear on the game’s soundtrack:
  • Junkie XL – “Breezer”
  • Stigmato Inc – “Reality Check”
Shinichi Osawa (aka Mondo Grosso), who is responsible for the first game's opening tracks, will add some supplementary music, together with Ken Ishii and Techriders. Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Q Entertainment's chief creative officer commented:

“In order to showcase my vision for ‘Lumines II,’ we needed to find music and videos with just the right tone, mix and energy to incorporate into the game. I couldn’t be happier with the result and am excited to get the game into players’ hands."

All in all, the soundtrack seems to be offering a nice variety of styles, and should work pretty well within the game's context - though if you ask me, more tracks by The Go! Team would have made it even cooler. Personal preferences aside, Lumines II will be hitting North American stores in November, hoping to continue and improve on the original game's success.


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   by steve_723 - 2006-07-18
 » I have

nocomment

   by will (Unregistered) - 2006-07-18
 » ??

y dont they make one for 2.70??????

   by onehand (Unregistered) - 2006-07-18
 » Lumines Soundtrack

Great... Hoobastank and Missy Elliot in the soundtrack.. I think they've just ruined Lumines for me.

The one thing I absolutely loved about Lumines was its original soundtrack; the collection of those abstract beats, synths, and sound FX that just enveloped you into the game. I doubt I'll be experiencing any completely engrossing moments like that with "Hoobastank" running through my head...

Sad. I always like what Mizuguchi does with his games, but I must say, this move is disappointing.

   by Arias (Unregistered) - 2006-07-18
 » Gun to my head....or Lumines II?

I know which one I'm getting.

(bang)

(thud from lifeless body hitting the floor)

   by Volsfan91 (Unregistered) - 2006-07-18
 » Noooooo

They ruined Lumines.

   by dude (Unregistered) - 2006-07-18
 » import!

Maybe the Japanese version will have j-pop on it - it'll save me from throwing my psp against the wall whenever Fergie's ugly mug shows up.

   by Sephiroth1089 - 2006-07-18
 » custom sountracks

maybe they should allow for like custom soundtracks. but not like gta cause thats really annoying. they should allow u to use the music that u can listen to under the music icon in the psp screen

   by youresam - 2006-07-18
 » .

lol @ "pump it"

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   by Slacker (Unregistered) - 2006-07-18
 » What the heck...

This looks horrible.

:X

   by Astaroth (Unregistered) - 2006-07-18
 » *cries*

They ruined such a good game. I could not force myself to play it with such a terrible soundtrack. :(

   by Big_L - 2006-07-18
 » Fools

Shut up hatters!! It's not all about music in Lumines but also gameplay and thats more important to me. Maybe bopping your head to something familiar will make lumines better, maybe, I just hope they add more game modes cause I still play the first one everyday, I still can't get to the last Vs Computer guy, that game is like CRACK!! So Lumines II shold be like HEROINE!! SWEET!!

   by Syd (Unregistered) - 2006-07-18
 » ok, so the soundtrack sucks...

but what about the gameplay, i haven't seen anything yet that distinguishes this outing from the first one...

   by to 13 (Unregistered) - 2006-07-18
 » poor 13

i feel ur pain lol

   by ***** gwin steffani (Unregistered) - 2006-07-18
 » ***** gwen steffani

seriously pop music needs to put a 45 up its ass and pull the trigger how hard is it to actually have a band instead of standing on stage and lip synching....

to all the real bands out there

the greendays
and system of a downs

i applaud you oh and the only musician i aprove of on the list is beck beck is awesome

   by xeno (Unregistered) - 2006-07-18
 » agreed.

i agree, the abstract music is what really draws me in, the fact that your actions in the game determine the beat and synths of the music.

i dont see how they're going to do that with proper songs.

   by Namaru (Unregistered) - 2006-07-18
 » STUPID

Great, they ruined the game. Thanks alot.

   by Hopper (Unregistered) - 2006-07-18
 » ***** YOU QJ

i *****ing send ye guys the link to this article and ye dont even say thanks.
*****!

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   by me again (Unregistered) - 2006-07-18
 » @21

i couldnt disagree more. without the music lumines is just a tetris clone, only not quite as fun. it was the music that got me interested in the game and that has totally been killed in this one.

   by h3inousguy - 2006-07-18
 » Gameplay vs. Music.

The gameplay may be quite the same. I would buy the ne Lumines even if it had same setup... But not with Hollaback Girl, or any of those other GD bands. It's awful, Why not make custom soundtracks aplicable, or possibly... just J pop, or that abstract stuff they had. Don't mainstream Lumine's music...

   by nllx - 2006-07-18
 » Yay for Mainstream!

Most suck-tastic songs will surely bring people into gaming. I'm sure many gangsta girls will dig this now that their Hollaback gurl in on here! Yo yo yo! PEACE!




*barfs*

   by name (Unregistered) - 2006-07-18
 » Never Gonna Purchase.

They have chosen some of the worst songs for this game. This game deserves JPop songs from Eri Nobuchika, globe, Hikaru Utada, Nami Tamaki, Kumi Koda, day after tomorrow and not the crap I am seeing now. Even some JRock would do much better like ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION, HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR, and ZONE.

   by Kiatsu (Unregistered) - 2006-07-18
 » worrying

what I find more disturbing is the number of people who can't spell...

   by me (Unregistered) - 2006-07-18
 » custom soundtrack

i personally dont think it would be possible to do the custom music unless the game would be smart enough to fit it into the game play. all of the songs in the first one interacted with the gameplay, remixing as you made combos or didnt make combos, i think that wouldnt work very well with custom music, but who knows....

   by D (Unregistered) - 2006-07-18
 » oh no

Oh no they killed lumines.

   by brian (Unregistered) - 2006-07-18
 » gross

so much for lumines. they just took a horrible horrible turn. that music is f-in gross.

   by 7ru (Unregistered) - 2006-07-18
 » please

tell me this is a joke.

   by marcellus wallace (Unregistered) - 2006-07-18
 » =*(

gta liberty city stories had no need for custom soundtracks. this, on the other hand, is begging for it. lumines is an awesome game, but this was a bad idea. now i gotta figure out what port the tampon goes into on my psp.......oh and the only way to possibly fix this is to release rez on psp, with force feedback, screw every extra extend.

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   by Spirit (Unregistered) - 2006-07-18
 » Oh great.

Earlier, there was an article about this possibly happenening. Well, they did. Why does every company think that gamers want these crappy licensed tracks?

   by Detroitbootybass (Unregistered) - 2006-07-18
 » LAME

Way to ruin a great game!

I'll have to dump the ISO and replace all the tracks by myself in order to actually play Lumines II... way to sell out, Tetsuya.

   by jay (Unregistered) - 2006-07-18
 » hahaha

You people diss Gwen stefani and Missy elliot from being in Lumines but you want Japanese mainstream bull***** like Koda Kumi,Utada and Ayu as well ass other AMERICAn mainstream garbage as System of a down and Greenday?

***** Please......



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