The board is horizontal, rather than vertical, much like the Atari 2600 Pac-Man game. Unlike that version, this does look like Pac-Man, and the graphics are very precise and very vibrant. Psychedelic acid trip vibrant, and the music is pulse-pounding house techno that seems to get faster and the game gets more frantic. I could feel my heart beating in time to it with the pressure of the game.
There are advantages. You get bombs to blow up the ghosts, but it doesn't really seem to help as they recover quickly, and there are ghosts everywhere, sleeping until you pass near. They just keep coming. It's almost as if someone decided Pac-Man wasn't hard enough, it needed to give you a nervous condition as well.
That's EXACTLY what that game is. The thing is, once you realize that the purpose isn't to play it like Pac-Man, but to play it like a twitch pattern game, where you figure out the pattern and then do it as quick as possible, it's a lot of fun.
ReplyDeleteBut yeah, palipitations.