Only layouts that you have unlocked in Adventure mode will be available for practice. Practice mode allows you to play one specific layout from the game. So you may finish Easy and move to Normal with 17 lives and 12,000,000 points (but only if you say you want to continue the game.) When you complete all the levels in all the stages, you will have a chance to take that score and any extra lives up to the next level of difficulty.
It is in adventure mode that you move along a map, unlock new levels, win new badges and building a score for the High Score board. More colours makes matching more difficult.Īdventure is the base game. Expert adds white spheres at the same level. The difference between easy and normal is that normal has pink spheres also. The main difference is that the game makes a level more challenging by adding more colours. The screenshots below show level 1-2 at Easy, Normal and Expert. I believe you would have to successfully complete the Expert challenge but I haven't finished that yet. The fourth level of difficulty must be unlocked during play. The biggest change is that in Luxor 2, there are three modes of play and four levels of difficulty in the main adventure mode. You get a bonus for a perfect round where all of the spheres are destroyed. So you never need worry about the colour of the spheres, but you do have to prevent them from escaping. During this round, you use little daggers to destroy the spheres. If you can finish a level always making at least one match, you get a significant number of bonus points. While the game calculates this bonus, extra coins and treasure will drop. You get another bonus at the end of the level based on the distance from the temple the spheres were. You are still guaranteed one piece of treasure if you can destroy the spheres before either they escape through the temple or the scarab is squashed by another set of spheres. Now the closer you can destroy a set of spheres to the entry point, the more treasure will fall. In Luxor, destroying all of the spheres caused the scarab to turn into one gem. Some of the badges are easy to earn and others are quite difficult. Also new are badges which are awarded for reaching certain goals in the game. So what's new with Luxor 2? The graphics have been upgraded, and the layouts are brand new. Whenever you restart the game, any stage you have completed is available as a starting point. You must complete all levels in the stage to advance to the next. It's a very straight forward game that requires timing, strategy and skill to succeed. You destroy the spheres by shooting matching ones into the moving set of spheres. The general idea is that a small scarab is pushing a string of little spheres. Luxor 2 is an updated version of the popular action puzzle game.