nickisonlinet
1991
Hard. that's all i gotta say
1996
Personally one of my favorites in the Pac-Man series; S-tier music, great mazes, graphics, the 2-player mode and other things make this a pretty good Pac
An incredible concept for a video game; Nintendo at it's finest
On a technical scale, this is rather impressive for a console like the Game Boy Color! Despite the neat idea, I found the controls to be frustrating with how sensitive the gyro is, not to mention massive difficulty spike after the fifth world, especially since games this hard are unusual for a series like Kirby. Despite the difficulty, I did find the music, animations, bonus games, and sound clips for Kirby to be good and very charming.
2022
This review contains spoilers
What an intersting Pac-Man collection if I have to say so myself! I was lucky enough to win this game from Pac-Man himself (from the official Pac-Man Instagram). It's a solid collection with great games, but with noticeable flaws.
PROS
- First of all, the selection of games is pretty good overall! It has all the games of the original base Pac-Man Museum, which I really enjoyed.
- My personal favorites from the collection are Pac-Man, Super Pac-Man, Pac-Land, Pac-Man Arrangement '96 (Arcade), Pac-Man Championship Edition and Pac-Man 256.
- Though they're not my favorites, I did enjoy Pac-Man Arrangement '05 and Pac-Motos as well.
- Pac-Man Arrangement '96 finally has the correct audio pitch! Previous releases from the early 2000s Namco Museum game made the OST from the game very high pitched, and it felt awkward in comparsion to the regular pitch. I also adored what they did to restore the credits and created their own loop to the game's attract mode from Classic Collection.
- I also really enjoyed the customizable arcade aspect of the game! My arcade went through 4 major revisions throughout my playthrough, and I loved being able to see other Pac-Man characters wandering around the arcade, as well as being able to listen to music from the games while at the main screen.
- I really liked the idea of missions! There are some missions I don't like doing but they give me more of a sense of completion whenever I complete them.
Now there's sadly issues I have with the collection.
CONS:
- Emulation is rather sub-par: Alongside notable forced bilinear filters, incorrect display ratios/no pixel perfect modes, there's noticeable input delay and there's this awkward sound emulation error that occurs during all the classic arcade games. In addition to that, there's this heavy audio splice thing which shows up if you play for an extensive period of time. Going to the system menu and resuming the game fixes it, but it shames me that they didn't bother to fix it despite having several updates. The video options are also rather lackluster in comparison to previous compilations, and the CRT filter is pretty barebones, most especially in Pac-Land. SNES games (Pac-Attack and Pac-In-Time) also unnecessarily brighten up the screens of the games on the console versions (the Steam version doesn’t have this issue)
- The lack of game options for the classic arcade games in this collection really bothered me honestly, considering how previous collections always had these customizable options.
- Some of the games are based on their Japanese counterparts, most notably Pac-Mania and Pac-In-Time. While I understand some of the changes, I've been rather iffy with the choice to use Pac-In-Time's Japanese version internationally, considering how the US version is already there and with the Japanese version being considerably harder and more painful to play through.
- Like Arcade Archives Pac-Land, Ms. Pac-Man's near-complete erasure from all the games is what bothered me the most about this collection. It baffles me that they went to completely censor Ms. Pac out of all the games where she appears. Absolute shame on you Bandai Namco for erasing the first woman of video games from history.
- Some of the missions, most especially the excessive coin grinding required for Pac-Man 256.
- This collection generated my dislike for Pac-In-Time.
- This is just a personal thing but I really wish there was online play for any of the games, wish being able to play Pac-Man games with multiplayer was easier.
- I ALSO really wish there were more surprise picks for Pac-Man titles like Pac-Man Championship Edition DX and Pac-Man Adventures in Time (latter will probably NEVER happen), but hey maybe in the next collection
Overall a neat collection! Most of my problems mainly consist of the emulation and presentation of the bonus features, but it's a really solid collection of games! I'd recommend this one only if you're a true Pac-Maniac though, otherwise you might Pac-Away for the next compilation featuring him or settle in with the Arcade Archives games for good presentation.
(Finished with all missions completed and all non-DLC Gashapon figures obtained)
PROS
- First of all, the selection of games is pretty good overall! It has all the games of the original base Pac-Man Museum, which I really enjoyed.
- My personal favorites from the collection are Pac-Man, Super Pac-Man, Pac-Land, Pac-Man Arrangement '96 (Arcade), Pac-Man Championship Edition and Pac-Man 256.
- Though they're not my favorites, I did enjoy Pac-Man Arrangement '05 and Pac-Motos as well.
- Pac-Man Arrangement '96 finally has the correct audio pitch! Previous releases from the early 2000s Namco Museum game made the OST from the game very high pitched, and it felt awkward in comparsion to the regular pitch. I also adored what they did to restore the credits and created their own loop to the game's attract mode from Classic Collection.
- I also really enjoyed the customizable arcade aspect of the game! My arcade went through 4 major revisions throughout my playthrough, and I loved being able to see other Pac-Man characters wandering around the arcade, as well as being able to listen to music from the games while at the main screen.
- I really liked the idea of missions! There are some missions I don't like doing but they give me more of a sense of completion whenever I complete them.
Now there's sadly issues I have with the collection.
CONS:
- Emulation is rather sub-par: Alongside notable forced bilinear filters, incorrect display ratios/no pixel perfect modes, there's noticeable input delay and there's this awkward sound emulation error that occurs during all the classic arcade games. In addition to that, there's this heavy audio splice thing which shows up if you play for an extensive period of time. Going to the system menu and resuming the game fixes it, but it shames me that they didn't bother to fix it despite having several updates. The video options are also rather lackluster in comparison to previous compilations, and the CRT filter is pretty barebones, most especially in Pac-Land. SNES games (Pac-Attack and Pac-In-Time) also unnecessarily brighten up the screens of the games on the console versions (the Steam version doesn’t have this issue)
- The lack of game options for the classic arcade games in this collection really bothered me honestly, considering how previous collections always had these customizable options.
- Some of the games are based on their Japanese counterparts, most notably Pac-Mania and Pac-In-Time. While I understand some of the changes, I've been rather iffy with the choice to use Pac-In-Time's Japanese version internationally, considering how the US version is already there and with the Japanese version being considerably harder and more painful to play through.
- Like Arcade Archives Pac-Land, Ms. Pac-Man's near-complete erasure from all the games is what bothered me the most about this collection. It baffles me that they went to completely censor Ms. Pac out of all the games where she appears. Absolute shame on you Bandai Namco for erasing the first woman of video games from history.
- Some of the missions, most especially the excessive coin grinding required for Pac-Man 256.
- This collection generated my dislike for Pac-In-Time.
- This is just a personal thing but I really wish there was online play for any of the games, wish being able to play Pac-Man games with multiplayer was easier.
- I ALSO really wish there were more surprise picks for Pac-Man titles like Pac-Man Championship Edition DX and Pac-Man Adventures in Time (latter will probably NEVER happen), but hey maybe in the next collection
Overall a neat collection! Most of my problems mainly consist of the emulation and presentation of the bonus features, but it's a really solid collection of games! I'd recommend this one only if you're a true Pac-Maniac though, otherwise you might Pac-Away for the next compilation featuring him or settle in with the Arcade Archives games for good presentation.
(Finished with all missions completed and all non-DLC Gashapon figures obtained)
2021
i love getting mildly punched by bluto and being flung to another island while my launch speed rapidly accelerates mid-flight
to think an april fools joke would get me into visual novels
For an April Fools joke, this is surprisingly well done! To think Sonic would be the one to get me into visual novels in general is.......a bit surprising? (i mean eggman got me into chainsaw man late last year) The art is gorgeous and the writing is surprisingly stellar as well! On top of the pretty good ring collecting mini-game and references to the 2000s era games, they put a lot of effort into this joke and I enjoyed it greatly.
and it only took them sonic's ascension to get me into a new genre of games
For an April Fools joke, this is surprisingly well done! To think Sonic would be the one to get me into visual novels in general is.......a bit surprising? (i mean eggman got me into chainsaw man late last year) The art is gorgeous and the writing is surprisingly stellar as well! On top of the pretty good ring collecting mini-game and references to the 2000s era games, they put a lot of effort into this joke and I enjoyed it greatly.
and it only took them sonic's ascension to get me into a new genre of games
This review is about the officially finished version of the game from 2022: this is a huge blast from start to finish. Extreme Genesis/Mega Drive accuracy, great level design and mechanics, the way how all the levels seeminglessly connect without a fade to black, the way you can immediately swap between Sonic and Tails, incredible remixes, and so many fun new things, it honestly feels even better than the Game Gear original. Though I did encounter some severe glitches during my playthrough, I overall enjoyed everything about this. Huge recommend from me.
Finished with all the Chaos Emeralds collected.
Finished with all the Chaos Emeralds collected.
Pretty solid Pac-Man maze game! The maze concepts, gameplay, visuals and the surprisingly great music were highlights of this game for me, though I'm not a fan of the required backtracking around the end of the game and the strict difficulty of the time trial levels. It does get repetitive during long playthroughs occasionally. But overall, a neat game for it's time.
Finished 72% and 54 stars collected.
Finished 72% and 54 stars collected.
1992
Despite it's aged controls, I did find this one to be pretty fun to play through! I found myself using the rewind feature on my emulator a lot during the 100cc races though
The ol' American-developed Sonic game is pretty rough. I did enjoy the darker theme and some of the music, but a lot of the issues originate from how the game plays: bad physics, awkward collision and aiming, and the big difficulty spike after Lava Powerhouse. Finished with save states, completed all the bonus stages except Nail the Crab.
2001
Awkward on the graphics and sound but this is a pretty damn good collection of games; too bad there's no save features for high scores
An incredible way to end a childhood series that always got laughs out of me. Alongside incredible remasters of the classic games, Completing the Mission had be laughing constantly and wanting to see more. The additions content and secrets are super fun to go through as well. A must-buy for the people who enjoyed the original Flash games.
2002
Pac-Man World 2 definitely feels like it's trying to be more ambitious in it's level structure in comparsion to the first game. The themes, music and aesthetics of this game were generally great! Though it's not without it's faults though. I had a difficult time trying to get every item because of the absurd level design in the later worlds and had trouble getting through some levels because of the stiff camera. Other than that, it was a solid platformer!
PROS:
- Great aesthetics
- Neat music
- Pac-Man feels even greater to control
- The extra games are a neat thing too
- Neat level designs for some
CONS:
- Absurd difficulty spike after the third (Lava) area
- Difficult level design especially for items in order to get 100% completion in a level
- Stiff camera and camera controls
- The requirements for unlocking Ms. Pac-Man
PROS:
- Great aesthetics
- Neat music
- Pac-Man feels even greater to control
- The extra games are a neat thing too
- Neat level designs for some
CONS:
- Absurd difficulty spike after the third (Lava) area
- Difficult level design especially for items in order to get 100% completion in a level
- Stiff camera and camera controls
- The requirements for unlocking Ms. Pac-Man
1994
i have no idea what anyone is saying
this is why i need to learn japanese
this is why i need to learn japanese