Again, Namco did release Ms. Pac-Man on PS4, XBox and Steam.
Agree - Arrangement is really great. I have the PS2 version but yeah, it's not an optimal experience. I'm looking forward to seeing how it's presented here.
plus mode is a completely separate game mode with its own set of mechanics and progression, they kind of present it as co-op, but when playing solo you interact with the mazes very similarly to CE DX where you finish half, get a fruit and move onto a new half
Apparently the original recordings were not available for some reason, be it rights or just being lost. There's a more recent recording you might hear in some places (Lollipop Chainsaw) but it's actually a good bit different anyway. This is the original release.
Thanks. I checked it out in a video review. … The game is just too off for me. The fact that ghosts don't kill upon touch, the screen pulling away for the ghost train cut scenes, the bomb mechanic, all the jumps and especially the need to return to the same spot in the maze to reset every board are all too weird for me.
Exactly! I remember Ms. Pac Man / Galaga hybrid cabinets being a staple in movie theaters and local restaurants. These past couple of gens make it seem like they have it out for her.
1 & 2 are legitimately fun games.
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Glad to know there could be some merit in CE2 even with this original CE now coming it sounds like.
Woah, thanks! Is there any difference between the original arcade Pac-man and the NES port?
They're fundamentally different games. They both share the mechanic of being a score time attack, where each half of the maze regenerates when you eat all the dots and then the fruit, but the original CE is much closer to the original Pac-Man in that there's only the four classic ghosts; whereas DX additionally has individual sleeping ghosts throughout the maze that you can wake up to make them follow you, in addition of entire rows of sleeping ghosts. Because the score for eating a ghost increases with each subsequent one you eat in a short time, DX is all about waking up ghosts to set up a long train following you, and then snacking on both them and as many remaining sleeping ghosts in a combo. Oh, and the game gets progressively faster the longer you play without needing to shoo away the ghosts from you, which is good (because you get more points more quickly), but obviously also makes it harder.
Have you played CE DX? Most people I know that have tried that for like five minutes have become addicted.
i mean, my first experience with the games was the original game on a game boy color in 1998 and i fell in love with the franchise there
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They should just do a World Collection later with all the late 90s/early to mid 00s using that character design (before they moved to Ghostly Adventures):
They're pretty similar but the NES version has some pattern differences, is less colourful, and is a bit slower.
It's a bit of a shame about this one. It really does fit with the rest of the library, whereas the World games or Pac-Man 2 really don't. It's a great game. And it's not available on these platforms AFAIK.
I appreciate that the sequel is very different (even if it's very questionable how much of it works), in the same way that DX is very different to CE (and works incredibly well). They can't all be winners. There was really no way to make a sequel to DX that wouldn't be either pointlessly minor additions (at which point, why bother making a sequel at all), or a risky new formula. That's the problem when a formula works so well; it's really hard to make significant changes that don't break it.
