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The Magic Of ‘Tetris Effect’ Seems To Be Working Again In The Demo For Its Developer’s Next Game

Robin Bea

created: Aug. 26, 2025, 1 p.m. | updated: Aug. 28, 2025, 7:37 a.m.

In 2021, Tetris Effect reimagined the classic puzzle game, keeping the core of its block-stacking gameplay intact, but giving a transcendent overhaul to the way it looks and sounds. Now, developer Enhance is giving the same treatment to a classic PSP puzzle game with Lumines Arise. Lumines Arise is another puzzle game revival from the developer of Tetris Effect. I’m a much bigger fan of Tetris Effect and still distinctly remember the feeling of the near-spiritual experience that playing through the entire campaign mode in one sitting can produce. The relative complexity of Lumines seems less suited to producing the trance-like state that makes Tetris Effect such a joy.

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