Forum Overview :: Pac-Man

POST-INSTA-REACTION, by Pinback! by pinback 09/14/2016, 4:34pm PDT Ultimately, I think, it is a lesser game than CE:DX, while still being a blast. I mean, this is a formula that just works. But in CE:DX, where seemingly every individual part of the formula works, I can't get over that the ghost-chain-eating part of CE2 does not work as well as it might have. I do not look forward to eating power pellets, which is a strange experience for a Pac-Man player. Eating a power pellet means things are about to get annoying, and there's no big sense of relief anymore either, since ghosts don't (usually) kill you when you run into them the first time anyway. The new fruit mechanic -- where you can get to it before the board is complete, which then sends you to another, different board, is also less satisfying that the liquidy left-right flow of CE:DX, where as you complete one side, the other side recreates itself, so the action never stops to switch between boards. Though, arguably, this presents more strategic choices (i.e., when you switch boards, any "angry" ghosts will forget that they're "angry", so you can piss 'em all off if you're about to hit the fruit and go to the next board.) It's all... interesting. And the presentation is slick and wonderful. Recommended, but if you don't have CE:DX, get that one first.

CE2 is out. I'm already in the world's top 500, and it hasn't finished installi NT by pinback 09/13/2016, 1:15pm PDT     INSTA-REACTION. By Pinback! by pinback 09/13/2016, 2:31pm PDT     POST-INSTA-REACTION, by Pinback! by pinback 09/14/2016, 4:34pm PDT