oh yo

oh hell yess

Oh my god they pushed it live with broken controller support

Or is it just my deck misbehaving... hmm... pain......

Ok got it working. For some reason it's temperamental about detecting my controller. I had to reboot my deck for it to acknowledge it. Also I guess their servers are getting slammed based on my failure to log into the online mode

Just tried quitting and relaunching so I could try the online and now it's refusing to detect my controller again even after a reboot so I guess that's all I'm gonna play of it for now

Impressions of what I was able to play (the run of three Journey Mode skins) ✅ - great experience on steam deck (docked) without any additional config. Looks gorgeous and runs perfectly. Felt like 60fps (didn't check) ❓ - it throws a LOT more of those linky-combo blocks at you than previous games

⁉️ - the zooming in and out got on my nerves big time ✅ - but there's a very thorough accessibility menu that lets you turn all that stuff down/off ✅ - visual art direction (assets and the way everything moves) is lush and a clear evolution of everything from tetris effect

🤒 - why is it being such a fucking cop about my controller dude. It worked one time and now it won't recognise it no matter what I do 🫩 - I do not care for the Move A Little Guy Around style of UI and I think it should be abolished

👎 - as much as I love how it looks and feels... the music is not good. I actually hate it a lot. Lumines' identity has always been cool funky quirky Japanese dance/techno (and charmingly incongruous licensed tunes) but the three skins in the demo are the most fucking boring rancid-ass EDM imaginable

Like this is what I want out of a Lumines game. The songs in the demo are like. Fake nightclub music from mass effect. Impossible for me to overstate how disappointed I am by what I've heard so far Gonna wait for reviews on this one

I wanted Girls HDR 4K but I got david cage in da club instead. Bereft