If you happen to be looking for a frantic, fast shooter with lots of different powerups and hordes of things flying at you in desperate need of blasting, then what you need is to get over to BubbleBox and try a round of Luminara.

Basically, it’s Geometry Wars, if Geometry Wars were a heavy drug user and paranoid to boot, because everything around you in Luminara is out to get you.  For what reason, we don’t know, so we can once again insert one.  This time, I think your little ball with a stick gun was a rogue enforcer for the Random Shape Drug Mafia, and once they discovered he’d been skimming product, they sent every triggerman they could find to get him.  Of course, being as gifted a shot as our little enforcer is, he won’t go down quietly.  I made it through twenty six rounds of fighting my first time through, so you know there’s lots of things out to kill you.

It’s fun, and a great little casual game that’ll keep your attention riveted for a couple minutes at a stretch.  And isn’t that the point of all casual games, in the end?