Lumines Arise

This page details one or more prototype versions of Lumines Arise.

To do: Check the rest of the text files to see any differences from the final game. Render and write about Egypt hieroglyphs found in "ARISE" stage assets. Check that are the demo stages' assets different from the final game (except the obvious block design change in the "ARISE" stage). Add screenshot showing that the bonus arrow in the demo used a completely different font.

Before Lumines Arise was released, Enhance released a free downloadable limited-time demo of the game for Steam and PlayStation 5 for general feedback and multiplayer network testing. This demo has a lot of unused and unfinished content not seen in the final release in its files and is notable for lasting for 3 months until the full game's release on November 11, 2025.

General#

PlayStation 5 Menu#

• The game has "DEMO" added to the game's PlayStation 5 menu icon and startup banner.

Demo	Final

Demo	Final

Title Screen#

• A Wish List button was added to the Title Screen, and the Credits cannot be viewed in the Demo.

Demo	Final

Main Menu#

• Journey and Multiplayer can be playable in this Demo. Other modes (Playlists, Missions and Loomii-Pon) are not available.
• The Options menu can be accessed like the final game.
• You are given a pre-set Loomii avatar, and nameplate when you play for the first time, as Loomii customization is not in this Demo.
• Along with the Wish List button, a Feedback button was added to the Main Menu, as pressing it will bring up the ending splash screen.

Journey#

• When you start Journey mode in this Demo, you will be taken to the Tutorial (which can optionally be skipped). In the final game, there is an Area Select menu.
• When starting an area's stage in Journey mode, a short cutscene plays in the final game. This is not seen in this demo, as your Loomii drops onto the ground when starting stages.
• The following stage skins and their music are played through in order in this Demo:
  • "ARISE" / "Arise (feat. Krysta Youngs)" (Area 01: Dissonance - Skin 1 like in the final)
  • "DUO SOUL" / "Lighthouse" (Area 01: Dissonance - Skin 2 like in the final)
  • "CHAMELEON GROOVE" / "Dreamland" (Area 02: Buzz - Skin 4 in the final)
• At the end of the game, when you top out or clear all three stages above, the results will be shown. You will then be taken to the ending screen.

Multiplayer#

• The Astronaut Weekend Loomi-Live event is available like in the final game, except without its rewards.
• Burst Battle mode is available in this Demo. As there was no option to customize your Loomii and select your battle stage, Burst Battle is set to play only two stages: "ARISE" on 1st Round and "CHAMELEON GROOVE" on 2nd Round. The "Tie-breaker" last round uses the same stage as the final.

Audio Mixing#

To do: Check all of the other stages' sound files in the demo and document them, as some of the sound effects, and music tracks' mixing is sightly different compared to the versions used in the final game.

• The BGM in the "ARISE" stage has slightly different mixing compared to the final's in this demo.
  • In all phases, the mixing of the instruments in the BGM is different.
  • At phase 2, Krysta Youngs' vocals don't play until after the first four timeline sweeps, and there's no echo effects in Hydelic's backing vocals in the demo version. These were added in for the final game.
  • At phase 3, the synths were louder than they were in the final version, and an additional section of music was added in the final, which did not exist in the demo.
  • At phase 4, the section that leads into "Only Human" was longer in the demo. In the final game, it was shortened to reflect the added music section in phase 3.

Unused Graphics#

Early Save Data Icon#

There's an unused save data image in "Lumines Arise Demo\LuminesAriseDemo_Data\StreamingAssets", showing an early logo for the game that was never seen or used. This early logo used Serpentine Bold font like in most of the games in the series. The early logo for Lumines: Electronic Symphony also used this classic font.

Demo	Final

Unused Burst Result Popup#

There are four leftover sprites for an early Burst result popup in "Assets/Lumines/InGame/Zone/ZoneAsset.asset", made in the style of the Tetris Effect: Connected Zone result popup. All four sprites are completely the same.

Early Stage Cover Arts and Block Designs#

All stages' song cover arts had a white outline around them in this Demo, but the images were the same as the final game's ones. Some of the stage song covers are way more different from the final ones, and a few stages' blocks were changed between the demo and final release to address the block visibility issues. Despite only five of the stages files are present in the demo, all stages' blocks preview sprites (used in Burst Battle's stage select customization screen) are still there, which gives a look at how different the demo and final game's blocks were.

SLICE & DICE#

The Demo version used a completely different block preview sprite, which has red apples and limes as blocks. The final game features broccoli and bell pepper blocks instead.

Demo	Final

BEYOND#

The most changed between this demo and final game's song cover art is the one for "BEYOND", the final Journey mode stage. The demo's one is way more colorful and has more particles used, and is an unfinished one as it contains some visible leftover UI text.

Demo	Final

The blocks' preview sprite is also different. The demo's variant has a quite low resolution render of the white blocks. This was fixed in the final game.

Demo	Final

ARISE#

The demo version's blocks in this stage were much darker than the final game's ones, which is reflected in their preview sprites as well.

Demo	Final

DUO SOUL#

The demo version's blocks preview is rendered slightly different from the final game's one. Purple blocks are lighter and circles are off-centered, and the white blocks looked more like metal rings.

Demo	Final

RISE & FALL#

The demo version's song cover art has the stick figure appearing pixelized, like it actually appears in the stage. The final game's version removes the pixelization.

Demo	Final

TEMPLE BELLS#

The demo version's song cover art has a different landscape with trees and a lake in the background, a lot of yellow particles, and some glow at the bottom of the image. The particles, lake and glow are gone in the final game.

Demo	Final

ZERO GRAVITY#

The demo version's song cover art has some leftover lines seen at the left of the astronaut. This was fixed in the final game.

Demo	Final

DIGITAL HUMAN#

The demo's song cover art does not have blue tint and other coloring present in the final game.

Demo	Final

TRANCE HORIZON#

The demo's song cover art has some erroneous reflections of the blocks on the lake. This was fixed in the final game.

Demo	Final

The blocks' design was slightly different. On the Demo's preview sprite, the car blocks were rendered at a different angle, so this was fixed in the final game.

Demo	Final

CODE X#

There's different purple square-shaped blocks in the Demo's preview sprite. The final game has a pink cross with a walker instead.

Demo	Final

Unused Loomii Bodies#

Originally, you were able to change the body type of the Loomii in the customization menu. In final game, all Loomiis use the same body type, and it's not changeable. Only 5 models of body types are left in "Assets/Lumines/Avatar/Body/FBX/" folder, and they all are drastically different from final Loomii's body design.

Unused Loomii Heads#

In directory "Assets/Lumines/Avatar/Head/Keep/OLD_Suteru/" there are several very early Loomii head models. Unlike in the final game (where all head models have a blank color and no other details, so you could stick your own face and color to it), all early head models feature their own textures, eyes, and sometimes even complete faces. Those models were used only for prototype purposes, as having preset eyes and textures on the heads' models would've seriously limited customization capabilities of Loomiis. There's also a ton of skipped ID's in the early head models' file names, which suggest that there were more models made than left in the demo files.

ID	Texture	Model	Notes
28			A sad droplet head?
31			Probably the most finished looking model out of the rest
33			This head has two models accociated with it's ID. One is a rectangular one for which the texture was originally made, and the other one consists of multiple smaller cubes and is an intended model for this head type. The UV map of second model is unfinished, so it's head texture doesn't match with it.
34			This head model consists of multiple smaller models, but their position (offset) and scale data isn't stored properly so it's impossbile to rebuild the full model as intended. Last image is mockup recreation of how it would've looked like based on smaller models file names.
35			This model also consists of multiple smaller models, but this time their offsets and sizes are almost correct, allowing to easily rebuild the full model. Unfortunately texture doesn't match created UV maps, but it's possible to move/resize UV's into their intended regions and get correctly textured model.
36			A cloud head with very hard to notice eyes.
38			A leaf head.
39			A candle-like head with fire on top.
41			A clam shell head.
53	Missing		An astronaut helmet head. There's also a backpack model in the same folder, so selecting this head also put a little backpack at the Loomii's spine. This head would be later revisioned into "ASTRONAUT" head which exists in final game.
54			A football-like head model. Eyes consisted of three different smaller models, but unfortunately due to missing position/rotation/scale data it's impossible to put eyes on the head correctly to recreate full model as intended.
56	Missing		This head only has a disk model and there are no textures for it found.
57			A graffiti-style head. There's also a model of some disk inside same folder but its purpose is unknown.
58			A weird colored blocky head.
59			This head has two base models and a lot of smaller models, from which full model was build. One base model is a much simplier ghost model, and the other looking more like an octopus. The texture fits both models, but the octopus one's UV touches yellow region of the texture making some erroneous coloring at the back of the model. Yellow region was intended for a beak, but it's unknown to what the base model's beak was supposed to be attached. There's also two different eye models, which doesn't fit any of the existing base models and one mouth model, in which the supposed base model to be attached on is also unknown.

Unused Loomii Faces Animations#

There's differences in some Loomii faces' graphic animations between the demo and the final game. Most of these had much more grotesque animations in the demo, and a few even had a motion blur effect. In the final game, most of the animations were toned down and a few were removed completely.

ID	Name	Demo	Final
01	NORMAL
02	TRICK
03	PENGUIN
04	SMILEY
06	TRANCE
07	WIDE SMILE
09	WONDER
11	BUNNY
12	HORROR

Leftover Unused Game Modes Assets#

There are more leftover unused game modes' assets left in the demo files. For information about these unused game modes, check the game's primary page.

Game Mode Progress UI Icons#

There are two UI icons in "Assets/Lumines/InGame/Result/P_ResultManager.prefab" in a similar style to the Burst Battle rank icon, which were supposed to display progress or rank in the two removed multiplayer game modes: Color Battle and Survival Score Attack

Color Battle#

Enemies/Bosses Icons

There's still icons in "Assets/Lumines/InGame/Result/P_ResultManager.prefab" for all the enemies and bosses which would've been present in this unfinished game mode. Some of the icons depict completely different animals from what their file names suggest.

Chameleon enemy icon	Crocodile enemy icon	Elephant enemy icon	Flamingo enemy icon
Leopard enemy icon	Macaw enemy icon	Serpent enemy icon	Toucan enemy icon

Color Blocks' Icons and Other Graphics

This game mode used four block colors and there're icons of those blocks in "Assets/Lumines/InGame/GameModes/ColorBattle/ColorBattleAsset.asset". These icons may had showed up during some unknown popup. There's also some ink, an ink ball, a plus and color ring that served some unknown purpose.

Survival Score Attack#

There is a danger sign image left out of this game mode's files in "Assets/Lumines/InGame/InGameUI/SurvivalScoreAttack/P_InGamePlayerUI_SurvivalScoreAttackMain.prefab". It probably showed up with an alert sound effect playing, which is still present in the final release, in the stage intended for this game mode.

Also in same prefab there is an red cross icon, which served unknown purpose.

Team Score Attack#

The Demo's files also have a graphic from another removed multiplayer game mode in "Assets/Lumines/InGame/BlockAttachments/P_BonusBlockAttachment.prefab". It's an image of a chinese kanji 高 ("gao") which means "high", "tall", "superiour". Guessing by the folder and prefab name, this graphic should've been attached to some bonus block or square. No other info about this scrapped game mode is found, but would had been used in the final game's graphics for LOSE and WIN texts (which appear at the end of Burst Battle), though still containing this game mode's name in their file names.

Unused Nameplate Designs#

The Demo's files contain lots of early and unfinished nameplate designs in "Assets/Lumines/Menu/Resource/Resource/StyleBoard/". Most of them were prototypes, as they use unfinished stages' sceneries as base. The table below will contain both completely removed nameplates and ones which have differences from the final game's variant. Most of these have quite odd ID's, since at first they were numbered in the order of their creation and those ID's are occupied by prototype ones, but later in development all nameplates (like others related to the stages' assets) had got their ID's assigned to the reflected in nameplate stage ID. The developers decided to not remove the prototype nameplates when they were finalizing their nameplates' designs and just added A to the end of their plate ID if it had collision with an already taken by prototype nameplate ID.

ID	Demo	Final	Notes
01		Removed	"THE DARK" stage themed nameplate.
02		Removed	"NEON STREETS" stage themed nameplate.
03		Removed	"SNOWFALL" stage themed nameplate.
04		Removed	"TIME AFTER TIME" stage themed nameplate.
05		Removed	Early variant of the "SLICE & DICE" stage themed nameplate, without the glow and with different angled apple.
06		Removed	"TROPICAL SURVIVAL" stage themed nameplate.
07		Removed	Early variant of "MIRROR BALL" stage themed nameplate, with red background.
08		Removed	"LOVE ETERNAL" stage themed nameplate, with early unfinished scenery used as a base.
09		Removed	Early variant of "SERPENT CLASH" stage themed nameplate.
10		Removed	"WINDING ROAD" stage themed nameplate.
11		Removed	"ARISE" stage themed nameplate.
11B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background.
11C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background.
12		Removed	Early variant of "AUTOMATON DIGITS" stage themed nameplate, with the arm rotated differently.
13		Removed	Early variant of "ABYSSALL DEEP" stage themed nameplate, with a shadow on the right side of the image.
13B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background.
13C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly more pink tone background.
14		Removed	"DUO SOUL" stage themed nameplate.
15		Removed	"GOLDFISH TANGO" stage themed nameplate.
16		Removed	"GLOBE" stage themed nameplate.
16A			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had slightly different particles at bottom left side of the image.
16B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background.
16C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background.
17		Removed	Early variant of "RISE & FALL" stage themed nameplate, without the lights and taken at a different angle.
17A			In the final game, the girl was moved to the left of the image.
17B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background.
17C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background.
18		Removed	Early variant of "STEAM AHEAD" stage themed nameplate, with early unfinished scenery used as a base.
18C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly more red tone background.
19		Removed	"SEAHORSE SWAY" stage themed nameplate.
19B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background.
19C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background.
20		Removed	"WINDING ROAD" stage themed nameplate.
21		Removed	"HOPE BLOOMS" stage themed nameplate.
21B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a lighter gradient.
21C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly more pink tone background.
22		Removed	"AUTUMN FALL" stage themed nameplate.
23		Removed	Early variant of "CANDLELIGHT" stage themed nameplate, with different lighting.
23B			The Demo variant's icons were purple color instead of pink in final game.
23C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had completely different icons and darker background.
24		Removed	Was later being re-named to match stage ID 41.
24A			There's erroneous seam at the left side of the image which was fixed in the final game.
24B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate used a dark blue background color, instead of gray in the final game.
24C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly more red tone background.
25		Removed	Early variant of "TEMPLE BELLS" stage themed nameplate, with early unfinished scenery used as a base.
25A			The Demo's variant of this nameplate depicts an early version of the BEYOND stage, with early light model and prototype Loomii models of several body types. And the Loomiis used a different from final release random nickname generator (which did not add numbers at the end of their nickname), and was also able to generate Japanese nicknames, unlike the final game, where only English nicknames are generated.
26		Removed	Early variant of "RAIN STEPS" stage themed nameplate, with early unfinished scenery used as a base. And there were Coca Cola™ and Nike™ adverts in the background at some point of development.
26A			The Demo's variant of this nameplate was dimmer than the final version and had the light going all the way up into the left side of the image, which is painted black in the final game.
26B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate used completely different icons of the letter A. In the final game, the letter A icons were replaced with metaball icons, and a lighter background was used.
27		Removed	Early variant of "ISLAND BREEZE" stage themed nameplate, with early unfinished scenery used as a base.
27B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a darker background.
27C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background.
28		Removed	"STAR ODYSSEY" stage themed nameplate.
28A			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had erroneous seam at the center of the image, and an differently placed and scaled fish formation at the right side. The seam was fixed in the final game and the fish formation was moved up and scaled down.
28B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background.
28C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a dark red background.
29		Removed	"SPIDER WEBS" stage themed nameplate.
29A			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had seam above the left head's ear. This was fixed in the final game.
29C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a lighter gradient.
30		Removed	"CHAMELEON GROOVE" stage themed nameplate.
30A			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a cyan colored background at the left side of the image. In the final game, it was painted black.
30B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background.
31		Removed	Early version of "ZERO GRAVITY" stage themed nameplate, which did not have post-processing yet.
31B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly lighter background.
31C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background.
32		Removed	"UNDER THE RADAR" stage themed nameplate.
33		Removed	Early variant of "DIGITAL HUMAN" stage themed nameplate, which like the song cover art lacked the blue tint and some additional coloring in the Demo.
33A			The Demo's variant of this nameplate copies the one under ID 17, but without a white border.
33B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background.
33C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background.
34		Removed	Early variant of "TRANCE HORIZON" stage themed nameplate, with early unfinished scenery used as a base.
34B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a dark blue background, and the wheels icons had more spokes than in the final game.
34C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a darker background.
35		Removed	Early variant of "CODE X" stage themed nameplate, with a differently placed QR code.
35B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly more green tone background.
35C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a lighter gradient.
36		Removed	Early variant of "ON EGGSHELLS" stage themed nameplate, which did not have feathers and had lighter background.
36B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had early cloud icons, and had a darker and more blue tone background.
36C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had the same colors and butterfly icons as the "HOPE BLOOMS" theme nameplate does in the final game. It seems that at some point, the "WINDING ROAD" stage had something related to butterflies.
37A			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had erroneous seam at the left side of the image. This was fixed in the final game.
37B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background.
37C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had early lighter colored butterfly icons, which oddly had a lower resolution.
38B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background.
38C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had bigger acorn icons.
39A			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had more red color tone, and erroneous seam at the left side of the head. The color tone was changed, and the seam was fixed in the final game.
39B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background.
39C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly more yellow tone background.
41B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background.
41C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a cyan background instead of blue in final game.
43C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a lighter gradient.
44A			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had an leftover city crop at the bottom-center part of the image. This was fixed in the final game.
44B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background.
44C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background.
45B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background.
46A			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a white dot at the left side of the image. This was fixed in the final game and the sphere was moved slightly up.
46B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background.
46C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly more red tone background.
47B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a dark grey background, instead of dark blue in the final game.
47C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a lighter gradient.
48B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a green background instead of cyan in the final game.
48C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a lighter gradient.
53A			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had light blue lighting on top of the astronaut, which was removed in the final game. The astronaut was also moved slightly left in the final game.
53B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background and different astronaut icons, which had the helmet's glass area filled with color, unlike being transparent in the final game.
53C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had much lighter icons than in the final game.
54B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly more red tone background.
54C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background.
56A			The Demo's variant of this nameplate copies the one under ID 33, but without the white border.
56B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background.
56C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background.
57A			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had some leftover blur at the left side of the image. This was fixed in the final game.
57C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background and much lighter icons.
58B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly more green tone background.
58C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly more pink tone background.
59B			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background.
59C			The Demo's variant of this nameplate had a slightly darker background.

Internal Stage Names#

"Assets/Lumines/System/MessageData/NM_Stage.csv" has internal/early names of all the stages in the game, which were replaced with more better frontend names in the final game. There's internal names of all unused stages after the final game's stages, which gives a hint of what they would've looked like if they were finished. This table below describes all these stages technically existing in the game and known info about them.