It’s a unique puzzler concept in its own right and can be great for short bursts, even if the overall presentation feels like you’re playing it in an alley behind a honky-tonk bar. Lines of blocks will disappear on their own, but ghosts can only be removed by setting a Pac-Man up to devour them down a path.Īttack consists of an endless Normal Mode and a 100-stage Puzzle Mode where stages need to be cleared of ghosts in a set number of Pacs. Players rotate and place pieces consisting of blocks, ghosts, and Pac-Man himself. The final entry, Pac-Attack, ditches the mazes entirely for a straight-up puzzle game that is part Tetris, Puyo Puyo, and chomping. While more lenient than the other games, Arrangement could easily be considered the highlight of the collection, brimming with fun, personality, and a ‘90s pseudo-3D arcade feel. Unlike the original Pac-Man, Arrangement also has a set number of stages, ending in a boss battle of sorts - players are given unlimited continues to reach the end, although using one naturally resets one’s score. Pac-Man gets his own upgrades in Arrangement, including dash arrows, jump pads, and capsules with different effects. Let Kinky come in contact with any of the four original ghosts, however, and he will merge with them to form a larger, super-powered ghost true terror is not known until a bunny-eared Super Pinky starts bounding all over a stage. Top of the list is a bespectacled fifth ghost, “Kinky,” who is weak and immediately munchable on his own. Arrangement carries the same core maze gameplay, but throws in a handful of crazier elements. If Pac-Man is the sacred puck, Pac-Man Arrangement shows what can happen when designers get a chance to go nuts with the formula, with joyful results. A closer look at the action is provided with a scrolling option that follows Pac-Man as it pans about the maze, but this may bug players who want to keep tabs on the ghosts at all times.
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Full screen mode offers the entire maze on one screen and, while a little small, is still sharp and serviceable even on the GamePad. There is no messing with the gameplay here, which is very wise, although two different ways of viewing the mazes are provided. Pac-Man Collection knows this, delivering the original game in all its classic dot- and ghost-eating simplicity. Making a Pac-Man game collection without the original Pac-Man feels like going to an a-ha concert and not hearing “Take On Me”: the whole thing could still be good, but you know you need that one thing to keep from feeling disappointed. The question now is how well the four games of Pac-Man Collection have held up since its 2001 GBA release. We kindly submit as evidence to this claim the fact we’re reviewing a 13-year-old game compilation for a character who was a spry 21 at the time. Pac-Man is a creature of classic longevity.
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