Pac-Man 99 2021

Log Status

Retired

Playing

Backlog

Wishlist

Rating

Time Played

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Days in Journal

3 days

Last played

April 13, 2021

First played

April 8, 2021

Platforms Played

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Like this one a lot let less than the Tetris and Mario versions. While the general loop of keeping power pellets going, building ghost trains and grabbing fruit is quite fun, I feel like it ramps up WAY too fast. Ghosts speed up and revert back to normal faster after eating power pellets in just about a minute of gameplay. Add on to that the myriad of white Pac-Mans on the screen at once making it hard to track the ghosts, and even the red Pac-Man's that act as instant-kill obstacles (and those start moving on their own after a while), so games tend to last only a couple of minutes even for the winning players.

Not to mention that there's absolutely nothing to unlock without the DLC. All the themes are just paid for, and the profile pics either come with the theme, or are unlocked via the single player modes that need to be paid for. I really hope if they keep doing these battle royale games they go back to Tetris' approach, which despite its DLC still let other players have goals to unlock new profile pics, and tickets to unlock new themes.