The story – which puts the high school aged Pac-Man and his friends Cylindria and Spiral (neither are actually the shape that their names imply, ironically) against the evil powers of the ghost overlord Dr. Of course, there is a certain appeal to the Pac-Man inspired visuals representing various environments in and around Pac-Man’s home of Pac-World. Ghostly Adventures reminded me of this favorite title so much, I actually had to dig out my old Game Boy Advance SP just to give it another whirl and sure enough both titles complement each other perfectly. The title revolutionized character-based side-scrolling gameplay with its unique aerial combos and character modifications. If handheld gamers have never experienced this cult classic side-scroller developed by the gameplay geniuses at Treasure and Sega’s Hitmaker Studios. The game that I’m talking about is Astro Boy: Omega Factor on the Game Boy Advance. But where gamers might think this to be a cop-out on the part of the developers, it actually introduces some really interesting gameplay mechanics that hearken back to a certain cult-classic title that I am sure most of the younger gamers out there have no clue ever existed. The most noticeable difference is the change in perspective – other versions of the game take on a third-person perspective, whereas on the 3DS the gameplay is largely 2D side-scrolling action. So, you can imagine my surprise, and my elation, when I discovered that while the 3DS version of Ghostly Adventures follows pretty much the same storyline of the Xbox 360 title, the gameplay differs so greatly that it feels like a completely different game. Not that I wasn’t impressed by the Xbox 360 version of the game, in fact I was quite impressed by it – but it is often hard to be completely objective in any review when playing a game the second time through, especially when playing on a less-powerful handheld. The show does retain a few vestiges of the original game (Pac still chomps on colored berries, he can power up and down, and some of the sound effects recall the game's), but mostly it's an entirely new story designed for a new generation of fans.After having played through Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures on the Xbox 360 recently, I was a bit forlorn over the thought having to retread the same story on a smaller screen of the 3DS. In other words, there's a lot of potential in this vibrant, action-packed series.Īs is to be expected in modern incarnations of classic characters, advances in animation technology put a whole new spin on Pac-Man and his world.
What's more, he leans on his friends for help and turns to others for guidance when it's needed. Known as "The Yellow One" by his enemies, the last of a race lethal to the ghosts and thought to be extinct, Pacster faces his heroic destiny head-on and shoulders responsibility for the entire world. In closing, this Pac-Man from this show is a bad role model, and I prefer you go for the Hanna-Barbera cartoon if you want something Pac-Man Related.įar from the two-dimensional dot-matrix world of his classic video game, PAC-MAN AND THE GHOSTLY ADVENTURES gives Pacster an intriguing back story, a couple of comical BFFs, and a selfless purpose of saving the world to fulfill his destiny. who's named that for no reason other than to be tortured, that's like naming your child "Satan" for his misbehavior. Because that's what we want to show our kids: making them fat by eating junk.Īlso, I hate that there's a villain named Betrayus. What I don't like from this "Pac-Man" story is that he's a gluttonous teenage jerk, who focuses more on food rather than helping others. Also, according to the Hanna-Barbera Cartoon, Power Pellets grow on trees, so the Power Pellets are fruit. Yes, Pac-Man eats junk, but he had a balanced meal, like Cherries, Apples, and Grapes, to counteract with the Pac-Dot Cookies (Yes, they are cookies, not drugs). This is not the Pac-Man that I remember from the Games, like in "Pac-Land", "Pac n' Roll" or "Pac-Man World 2", where he was portrayed as an Adventurous Family Man, caring for his family and protecting his home from Ghosts.
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