To be fair it has been over ten years since I've suffered through this game. But I doubt replaying it will change my thoughts much.
It takes everything lovable about world 2 and removes it entirely. Unlockable arcades? There's now just one sad machine sitting in a dark basement. Music? Basically none. Goodbye to the appealing pacman world, hello extremely generic locations with monsters you beat up with the same 3 hit combo for hours straight. Platforming is beyond basic. The games got 2 bosses and they're both the same, and really bad. Not content with being a bad brawler that locks you in a room to slay enemies endlessly; It's also got a 2nd type of enemy wave that's just a bunch of ghosts. On what planet do you see the interaction of grab power pellet, touch ghost and go "Hey, let's lock you in a room and make you eat an arbitrary amount of ghosts to move forward" Not remotely compatible or well integrated with the already tired brawler format this game went for.
Just kinda sad and feels like it does not end. Almost every idea results in a boring binary interaction. Pink ghost can make platforms solid. So you activate pink ghost, jump on platform, make it solid. Now pacman can use that platform. It's about as engaging and fun as it sounds. Some really weird, dreadful writing too.
It takes everything lovable about world 2 and removes it entirely. Unlockable arcades? There's now just one sad machine sitting in a dark basement. Music? Basically none. Goodbye to the appealing pacman world, hello extremely generic locations with monsters you beat up with the same 3 hit combo for hours straight. Platforming is beyond basic. The games got 2 bosses and they're both the same, and really bad. Not content with being a bad brawler that locks you in a room to slay enemies endlessly; It's also got a 2nd type of enemy wave that's just a bunch of ghosts. On what planet do you see the interaction of grab power pellet, touch ghost and go "Hey, let's lock you in a room and make you eat an arbitrary amount of ghosts to move forward" Not remotely compatible or well integrated with the already tired brawler format this game went for.
Just kinda sad and feels like it does not end. Almost every idea results in a boring binary interaction. Pink ghost can make platforms solid. So you activate pink ghost, jump on platform, make it solid. Now pacman can use that platform. It's about as engaging and fun as it sounds. Some really weird, dreadful writing too.
Despite having more interesting narrative and areas to explore than World 2, World 3 unfortunately still ended up being a dull experience overall, witty dialogue and world building can't overshadow the gameplay that emphasizes more on basic brawler combat over the decent platforming segments , Pac Man World 1 remains the peak
It isn't that bad, i mean, it has some pretty disappointing stuff such as the boss fights and some of the controls, combat is fair enough, i know that voice acting can be a little cursed but damn the dialogue in this game is awesome, like whatever if pacman has a weird ass voice, his lines are great!!!
I just wasted 11 hours trying to 100% this only to learn that if I want to actually do so I will have to start all over from the very beginning because the game is glitched with one of its unlocks and I missed 3 fruit on one level.
All this game does is waste your time. Platforming is both less frequent and less engaging than in its predecessors. Also despite having a full soundtrack, it barely ever plays. Most of the game is filled with dead silence unless you manually put on music externally. Just don't.
All this game does is waste your time. Platforming is both less frequent and less engaging than in its predecessors. Also despite having a full soundtrack, it barely ever plays. Most of the game is filled with dead silence unless you manually put on music externally. Just don't.
This game is.....weird?
This one randomly turned into a platformer with tons of beat em' up parts and has a weird subliminal atmosphere in the game's theme. The platforming bits were actually pretty good but I was moreso really annoyed by the repetitive combat and beat em' up areas of the game because it showed up wayyyyy too much than I expected. The music feeling empty, subliminal and different from the usual Pac-Man fare felt weird, but enjoyable personally? That also went to the visuals, that felt like it came from a completely different game. The writing and dialouge however, that takes the gold in this thing! The jokes and potrayal of Pac-Man and the Ghosts got me laughing a few times, alongside their voices being good! Though overall, a mediocre-ish experience personally. Hard to recommend unless you're a real Pac-Maniac sucker or you wanna enjoy the visuals and dialouge.
Finished the main game without collecting all character cards and fruit.
This one randomly turned into a platformer with tons of beat em' up parts and has a weird subliminal atmosphere in the game's theme. The platforming bits were actually pretty good but I was moreso really annoyed by the repetitive combat and beat em' up areas of the game because it showed up wayyyyy too much than I expected. The music feeling empty, subliminal and different from the usual Pac-Man fare felt weird, but enjoyable personally? That also went to the visuals, that felt like it came from a completely different game. The writing and dialouge however, that takes the gold in this thing! The jokes and potrayal of Pac-Man and the Ghosts got me laughing a few times, alongside their voices being good! Though overall, a mediocre-ish experience personally. Hard to recommend unless you're a real Pac-Maniac sucker or you wanna enjoy the visuals and dialouge.
Finished the main game without collecting all character cards and fruit.
Yuck! To be fair I played the DS version so maybe this isn't the same, but I've heard it's close enough. BORING samey level themes, weird ass villain, and again, BORING AND BLAND GAMEPLAY. Certain sections made me wanna snap my DS and when they didn't I was on auto pilot. Being able to only hold 3 lives was fucking dumb, though I like that falls only take 1 chunk away not a whole life. This game's just on the lower side of mediocre but it's so boring I feel it's bad.