The best Pac-Man title to date, period. Now I know what some of you are thinking. Yes, Pac-Man World 2 is a classic 3D platformer in it's own right successfully transporting the eponymous hero into a completely new genre (more so than it's predecessor), but Pac-Man is about navigating mazes while munching on pellets and chomping on ghosts. Adventures In Time is the final evolution of this classic Pac-Man gameplay loop with creative level design: slopes, obstacles, multiple stories, zero gravity, and a plethora of different maze shapes and biomes. Traditional Pac-Man peaked here.
More inspired, fleshed out, and varied than Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness: a game I find comparable in it's presentation and approach to the character.
More inspired, fleshed out, and varied than Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness: a game I find comparable in it's presentation and approach to the character.
would be the best maze pac man game IF THE LIVES WERENT TIED TO YOUR SAVE FILE WHICH MAKES IT POSSIBLE TO GET STUCK WHOSE IDEA WAS THAT? The levels are all pretty memorable and cool with neat lil gimmicks involving the now 3D terrain which means theres like slopes, multiple vertical maze layers, and even gravity gimmicks going on. If the save file life thing wasn't an issue I'd even go as far as to say this is on par with the world games and ms. pac man maze madness. I bet if this got a console port it would have remained in the public consciousness for much longer.
Maybe my favorite of the PC games I owned pre-GBA era (before I turned seven), with a solid campaign through different thematic worlds. My cousin Colin and I played the competitive modes a whole lot too. Grandpa was GOATed.
I could waste a few paragraphs breaking down how this game fails to champion Pac-Man in any meaningful way, but what's the point? Past all the miserable, miserable flaws is a game whose fatal flaw is... just being plain boring. Count how many levels are just the original Pac-Man maze, maybe with a small gimmick; revel in how unconfident the developers themselves were about the Pac-Man gameplay that they constantly interrupt it with forced minigames. I think that alone says all I need to say about how much fun there is to derive out of this game.
I've learned an important lesson, though: bad games deserve to be played on Easy difficulty. It's for your own good.
I've learned an important lesson, though: bad games deserve to be played on Easy difficulty. It's for your own good.
Surprised I'm the first to review it and one of few to have played it, it's a really underrated Pac Man game with fun cutscenes great locations and a fun adventure.
the best Pac-Man game to date with creative level ideas and terrains based on the various time eras
i didn't hate my time here but i think the save system is frustrating, and about halfway through you can get a little bored. the cutscenes were cute though! pac-mans voice actor was funny. i also liked how the ghosts dressed up to match each areas theme.
i had an alright time but i also just like pac-man a lot, i don’t think this is gonna win any pac-man fence sitters over or nothing but it’s not a bad way to spend your time if u like the little yellow dude.
i had an alright time but i also just like pac-man a lot, i don’t think this is gonna win any pac-man fence sitters over or nothing but it’s not a bad way to spend your time if u like the little yellow dude.
Pretty fun game overall! Adventures in Time takes a rather interesting spin on the Pac-Man formula, which is surprising for an early-PC era Pac-Man game. Fun mechanics, occasionally decent music, good graphics and multiplayer modes make this a pretty fun Pac-Man game. Some of my major issues include the awkward camera system (the way how it moves, making it hard to see where the ghosts are coming from, and it makes it especially hard to complete levels for the levels that disable the overhead view) and the tedious save system, which makes it frustrating to easily progress between levels, especially with the way how it also saves your current life count. Finished on the Normal difficulty.
A great evolution to the maze formula, it being in full 3D helps. Although weird they brought back the jump, but no jumping ghosts.