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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 16.1 hrs on record (12.5 hrs at review time)
Posted: 6 Oct, 2013 @ 12:07am

A fairly rudimentary port that you could politely describe as "works without falling over most of the time" BUT this is still Pac-Mac CEDX and Pacman CEDX is not only the best Pacman game ever made (which isn't the greatest praise ever) but a sharp as anything, considered and smart game in its own right.

No. Screw this. It's *perfect* as a game.

Wake the sleeping ghosts to get them to conga for you, get chased around the maze by increasing amounts of conga-ing and not-conga-ing ghosts then KILL THEM ALL (can you kill a ghost?) for massive amounts of points. Can you get ALL the points?

Everything here is so considered from the death brushing allowing you to escape from the worst self inflicted situations to how it points you towards the best route at all times but can you actually take that route without dying? It's a glorious thing.

Alongside Battle Royale which can't land on home computers soon enough (December, I think?) this is how you reinvent an old game. It's Pacman but it's not awful like Pacman is.
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8 Comments
- ̗̀ OWLS! ̖́- 7 Oct, 2013 @ 11:16pm 
Yeah, they do sell Ms Pacman on iOS so not entirely sure what their excuse is? Games industry no women? Or just usual "Namco are shite"? ;)
[xAD] Dont Panic 7 Oct, 2013 @ 8:11pm 
It always bothers me they don't include the Pac-Man conversions (Pac-Man Plus and Ms. Pac-Man) in these collections even though they won the rights to them ages ago.
Swinetower 7 Oct, 2013 @ 5:53pm 
Well, that's fabulous, but I'm still going to murder this last goat on this stone plinth in front of me just to make sure.
- ̗̀ OWLS! ̖́- 6 Oct, 2013 @ 8:49pm 
Pac-Man
Super Pac-Man
Pac & Pal
Pac-Land
Pac-Mania
Pac-Attack
Pac-Man Arrangement
Pac-Man Championship Edition
Pac-Man Battle Royale

are all out in December as part of Pacman Museum. Hopefully Namco will do something similar for Galaga even if the new versions weren't quite as successful as the Pacman rejigs.
shrewdlogarithm 6 Oct, 2013 @ 3:21pm 
I really liked this on XBOX - it's PacMan but it's also quite different from it - and it has that "oooh - lots of noises I must be doing well" factor...

But then I never really liked standard PacMan so what do I know...
Swinetower 6 Oct, 2013 @ 10:43am 
Wait, Battle Royale is also coming out soon? So all those human sacrifices weren't for nothing!
- ̗̀ OWLS! ̖́- 6 Oct, 2013 @ 8:53am 
CE is out in December as well.
[xAD] Dont Panic 6 Oct, 2013 @ 3:40am 
Honestly, I liked the original Pac-Man CE better. It was just straight-up pacmanning with some much needed variation. DX boils down to "run this pattern" and once you've successfully run the pattern there's little motivation to do it again.
I wish vanilla CE was available, as well...or ideally as an option from the menu in CEDX.