Game:

Lumines: Puzzle Fusion (2004)

Duration: 2:43

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Oh my... now I'm in for it. How I wish I actually had something difficult to describe instead to work with, but I guess that's how REAL irony works for you. Fickle (and totally avoidable) fate has shown me what for and turned things on their head in a most unexpected way... but only really unexpected because of how I'm constantly winging it and steadfastly refusing to do something simple like see what's coming up or even just what's come before in order to make informed "predictions" for the future and avoid making crazy backfiring statements about stuff like this.

If you hadn't checked out before with the promise of duplicating puzzles by performing them in actual duplicate, this quartet of puzzles will surely test the patience of those remaining... even though I did claim that I believe these have a right to exist just by the nature of what they've got you doing. Well, at least more right to exist than the single-solve versions, but without those, these wouldn't exist either... so is that a push, or does the dealer win this one? (Trick question, I win. I always win. Except when I don't.)

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Puzzle Mode
Puzzle 38: Arrow Left x2

From a more technical standpoint, I'm noticing that my capture device must've felt rather overworked after all this puzzling, and when that happens... assuming it doesn't decide to quit outright or blink out and scramble the image or some other video-destroying artifacting, it'll start.. shaking. Well, more like fidgeting, really... but the end result is a weirdly jumpy video... and we're talking like... one scan line, so it's not terrible, but it's still noticeable.

Then again, YouTube has actually made a couple of interesting advancements that exist on that weird outside chance that they introduce a change that I can actually use and appreciate, so maybe this will all be moot by the time some people actually read it... there's a filter that might serve my needs that was originally intended to help people without tripods and shaky camera hands, but I'll remain that blend of cautiously optimistic and suspicious that it won't degrade the video quality like when it offers to eliminate the borders introduced by the PSP's unusually small and letter- AND pillarboxed output image.

Uh... right. Arrow! This time to the Left! I think my trepidations (play-wise, not the technical video mumbo jumbo ones) from the previous video's mistakes followed me into this puzzle, but at least the crazy maneuvers and fixes to the formation were actually more effective for it.

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