Space Invaders Extreme XBLA doesn’t look so hot.

What was lost during the handheld-to-console porting process (besides the second screen, obviously)? I know this upcoming version adds new visualizers provided by Jeff Minter, as well as an online four-player cooperative mode, but this somehow looks and sounds dramatically less fun than last year’s DS release.

Yosumin Live! — an addictive puzzler which Square Enix is bringing to XBLA despite not localizing the DS edition — thankfully hasn’t lost its charm:

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[Via GamerBytes]

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