Pac man world re pac vs original11/11/2023 ![]() The main reason is that the environments are far more varied here since they use the same level themes as the core game stages and thus stand out compared to the usual black background with blue trim and yellow power pellets. Similarly, the inclusion of overhead traditional Pac-Man bonus stages feels so much fresher here than it does in even more modern games like Pac-Man CE 2. It also feels fresher now having not been used even in Mario’s 3D adventures and strangely keeps that power-up alive better than Mario does. Things like the Metal Pac-Man power-up were clearly a send-up of Metal Mario, and yet we haven’t seen that done to death in the 26 years since Mario 64 - so it comes off as more of an homage to a classic than a copycat game idea as it did in 1999. ![]() Re-Pac offers up a new lease on life for a game that never got its just due fully in the twenty plus years since its release and showcases elements that I’d honestly forgotten about that hit completely differently now than they did then. Pac-Man World has largely been lost to the mists of time until now and like Klonoa and perhaps more fittingly, Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom, it has gotten a complete ground-up remake that puts Pac-Man’s original 3D adventure in a whole new light. Sonic Adventure has been re-released a lot, while Crash and Nights have as well and Mario 64 has gotten selective re-releases alongside things like Klonoa getting a recent big re-release alongside its sequel. When you think of late ’90s platformers, many have been given prominent re-releases. It was something of a sleeper hit historically because it sold well in its day and got a couple of sequels, but hasn’t been re-released a ton. It was Pac-Man’s first foray into 3D platforming and was released right after Sonic Adventure hit the Dreamcast, marking yet another legendary gaming mascot trying to maybe not topple Mario 64, but put its own stamp on the then-new genre. Pac-Man.Pac-Man World was something of an anomaly when it hit the original PlayStation in 1999. But this change was likely because of the rights concerning the character of Ms. It's not even clear if the mom part stands for being Pac-Man's mother or the mother of his children honestly. Pac-Man was cut from the game entirely and replaced by a new character, Pac-Mom. However, some of them got their names changed and, the most notorious of all, Ms. You can now reach the ending without freeing any of them, though they're necessary for those who want to accomplish everything the experience has to offer.Īnother difference is that these characters are part of the series canon. Curious, considering how that is the plot of the game. The first and rather odd change is that saving them is no longer a necessity, but instead a side objective. After all, changing that could break the plot, but there were two interesting alterations when it comes to Pac-Man's family. ![]() Your goal in this game is to save your kidnaped family. It is a very curious detail, more than anything. Though none of them are particularly bad, there is a slight difference between them. The game also received multiple short scenes before every boss fight to introduce them, as well as showing the main baddie, Toc-Man, threatening you along with the bosses.įinally, the game also offers you two different endings, depending on whether you saved all your family members throughout the adventure or not. RELATED: Pac-Man Games You Didn't Know About Unlike the original, where characters had actual speaking dialogue, here all they say is "gibberish", and you know what they're actually saying thanks to the subtitles. First, there is a lot more dialogue, with the ghosts talking to each other about all of these multiple weird Pac-Men lying around (aka the Pac-Family). Still in the original intro cutscenes, two things can be noticed. If you haven't played the original in a while, you may not even notice that the intro cutscene is different with the party being outside the house and the way most Pac-Family members were kidnaped also being different. New visuals and reworked cutscenes are to be expected, so this doesn't seem like a big deal at first.
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