Unleashing My Inner Rock Star

Speaking of Guitar Hero World Tour, I’ve now scored 100% on quite a few songs at medium difficulty. Most songs I can play at 90% or better, with many at higher than 95%. I completed career mode some time ago and am currently at the 14th rank.

You’d think that would mean that I should be playing at the hard level, but I still get booed off stage on most songs, because too many difficult new elements are introduced. I need to play in practice mode, I suppose. Nevertheless, when I play against people on-line, more often than not, I emerge victorious.

This game just never seems to lose its appeal. Nevertheless, I took a moment to make my first PlayStation Store purchase a few days ago: Lumines Supernova.

When deciding late last year which video game console to buy, I chose the PS3 because the next instalment of Lumines was going to be coming out on that system. Incidentally, several years ago, I also bought a PSP (PlayStation Portable) just to be able to play Lumines and I scarcely played another game on that system until Lumines II made its debut. As you might suspect, since that day, Lumines II has permanently occupied the cartridge slot of my PSP.

Lumines Supernova hit the Playstation Store in the US just before Christmas, but we Europeans have had to wait just over a month for it to become downloadable over here.

I haven’t explored the game’s new modes. In fact, I’ve played the normal single player game only once, but I can tell you that it looks and sounds great on a 65″ screen with a good audio system. It feels a bit odd to play it with a PS3 controller, but that’s because I’m so used to the PSP. I daresay I’ll get used to it.

Now, if someone could find a way to combine Lumines with Guitar Hero…