I wound up buying the full edition of Switchball, and completed the first two worlds (of five) tonight. As you might expect, it starts off fairly easy but then soon gets harder. It’s usually pretty clear what you have to do, but pulling off the timing, avoiding rolling off the edge, etc., can sometimes be tricky. By the end, my final time to complete the stages (your score, effectively) was far past the expected ‘bronze’ time.

Since I’m already 2/5 of the way done, it probably won’t take too long to finish as long as it doesn’t get insanely difficult. The real challenge lies in redoing the stages over and over again to try and get the bronze/silver/gold medal times. Of the 12 stages I’ve done so far, I’ve only managed to get two silver medals and one bronze, so that part could take me a while. If ever…

I also popped into Lumines for a bit, to check out some of the new skins. The “Breeze” skin is another video skin by Genki Rockets, and the song is catchy enough. I probably won’t play it in its own challenge mode much though, since the video is a bit distracting, but maybe I’ll drop it into skin edit mode every once in a while.

The other skin pack is supposed to be a holiday-themed one, but of the skins I’ve seen so far, it’s only in an abstract sense. I don’t know why I keep buying these packs when I’m not really that great at the game; I only managed to unlock four of the 20 skins in my first attempt at it, and I still haven’t even unlocked all of the basic skins yet. The “Amber Moon” song is pretty rocking though, and I expect to use it in skin edit mode a lot.