This game feels like a student project more than a commercially released game. The assets all feel super low budget (and not in the charming way), and the game basically only does the bare minimum required to be Pac-Man, with a few extremely undercooked mechanics added in an attempt to make it even slightly unique. I seriously wonder why Infogrames even bothered putting this out when they had already inherited the obviously superior Adventures in Time from Hasbro Interactive anyways.

Of course, it's still Pac-Man, and assuming you don't have literally any other way to play Pac-Man, it's fine... is what I would say if this game didn't have the worst sound design known to man. I seriously have no idea how you manage to fuck up the sound design for Pac-Man of all things. Every other game from the past 40 years lifts its sound straight from the original arcade machine, but Quest for the Golden Maze, with it's very high production value, has decided to grace us with completely new sound effects. And surprisingly they all sound like ass. This alone is a feat so impressive that I don't really think I could call this game anything other than "bad".

yeah that has to be a pac-man game ever if i ever played one

I feel like this has to be the most "safe" Pac-Man game I've ever played. It's fair enough but it barely innovates outside of adding power-ups and that bonus fruit mazes (which are very difficult). The graphics are passable for it's time but it does sort of feel disappointing especially after something like Pac-Man Adventures in Time, which only came out a year after that. The sound is pretty empty-sounding for a Pac-Man game too; even though I found the music repetitive, I sorta did find it chill at the same time as well.
Aside from those, it really just feels like it fails to innovate past the regular Pac-Man formula as the stages become incredibly repetitive with no unique mechanics and twists. Dunno if I could recommend this one at all.