Sometimes press copies are bundled with swag. This isn’t anything new, but this is the first (and probably last) time I’ll get barbeque flavored worms with a game. Ignition’s copy of Lux-Pain came with Larvets: The Original Worm Snax, which are, no kidding, dried worms.
 
If you played Lux-Pain you probably get the reference. Silent is [...]

There is some screen scratching, but Lux-Pain is really a visual novel. As a genre, visual novels are way less interactive than action games and RPGs. What visual novels do best is immerse readers with elements books don’t offer like music, sound effects, graphics, and branching plots. Most importantly, a good visual novel needs [...]

A series of crimes believed to be caused by Silent, a worm created from emotions like hatred and sadness, is at the core of Lux-Pain’s story. Silent infects humans and coerces them to commit crimes. Takeo Higashino, Producer at Marvelous, tells us social problems in Japan such as school refusal, group suicide, mental abuse [...]

Typical Japanese game trailer. Very shounen-esque with a great cheesy J-pop soundtrack blaring in the background. Time Hollow gave me a similar vibe when it was first announced. This…

We had our eye on Ignition since we knew they were going to publish Lux Pain. Today they officially announced the parasite searching adventure will come to North America in March 2009. Atlus, Xseed, and NIS all have a good reputation of publishing distinctly Japanese games and sticking to the source material. But, how [...]

Since Rising Star is working on an English version of Lux Pain I was pretty sure it would get released in North America. It was more of a who is going to publish Lux Pain than if it was going to happen. Xseed passed on the scratch and search adventure game which gave Ignition [...]

Some of you may remember Lux Pain, an adventure game with screen scratching puzzles that Marvelous brought to Tokyo Game Show last year. Rising Star plans to release an English version in Europe later this year, but what about North America? Xseed and Marvelous won’t be publishing Lux Pain. However, it sounds like Lux [...]

And it’s probably Rising Star. Marvelous Interactive who published the Killaware designed game earlier this year and you may have forgotten about Lux Pain by now. Maybe you never heard of it. This trailer should help get you up to speed.
 
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The short story is Lux Pain is an adventure game where you scratch the bottom [...]

Yeah, the title of this post has a ridiculous pun, but the bonus items are named in a similarly awkward way. If you pre-order Lux Pain, Killaware’s first game, you get Lux-Sound (aka the soundtrack) and the Lux-Paint book (aka the official art book). Hmm… you know who generously packages goodies with their games [...]

I don’t know how this slipped through the cracks, but Marvelous put up a trailer for Lux Pain. There isn’t much gameplay in it, probably because there isn’t much to it. You scratch the screen to find worms with information. That’s probably for the better though because it wouldn’t be nearly as interesting to watch [...]