The game originally began as an open-world adventure game titled Pac-Man Ghost Zone, with development headed by director Bill Anderson and designer Scott Rogers.

The plot follows Pac-Man's enemies, the ghosts, crashing his 20th birthday and kidnapping his friends and family to bring them to their homeland of Ghost Island - with his birthday in ruins and his family in trouble, Pac-Man sets out to rescue them and defeat the ghosts. Controlling Pac-Man, the player must complete each of the game's six worlds by collecting a certain amount of pellets to open up an exit door.

The one thing I don't like is that the shortcuts are pretty obvious and let you bypass huge parts of the tracks, and the AI players don't seem to use them, but I'm guessing/hoping that changes in hard mode.Pac-Man World: 20th Anniversary is a platform video game developed and published by Namco for the PlayStation. When you're ahead, you can be a dick and try to eat as many pellets as you can so the ones behind can't turn into Pac-Man, but they're positioned so it's impossible to eat them all, so that's good. And the 'turning into giant Pac-Man and eating other players' part is just cool, especially on multiplayer. The fruits scattered around the tracks don't seem to do anything beyond giving you points but I still like trying to get them all. I still haven't learned to press it fast it enough, but it's very satisfying when I manage to do it. Drifting fills up a gauge that gives you a little 'angel' icon you can use to save yourself from item attacks. I'm hoping it provides more of a challenge, but even if it doesn't, I think this is still a pretty good game for casual local multiplayer.Īs for getting stale: I think the different mechanics keep it interesting. It does seem pretty easy so far but there's a hard mode I'm planning to check out once I complete it on normal.

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