2011年1月26日星期三

Pac-Man CE is one of the best games of all-time

If you ask me how Final Fantasy got by long enough on its two half-decent sequels before releasing its first amazing game (IV), I'd say it's because the menu cursor movement and selection sound effects are perfect.Also, since you asked so politely, I will tell you that Level-5's Inazuma Eleven is home of the absolute best menu sound effects of all-time. When I told (Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross composer) Yasunori Mitsuda that the replica Baume & Mercier 8729 WoMen's watch menu sounds in Inazuma Eleven were something I would gladly listen to in the dark through jazz-worthy headphones, he blushed, and indicated that he'd spent “a maybe-embarrassing amount of time” perfecting them.

Pac-Man CE is one of the best games of all-time (as I've said in my review on Action Button Dot Net), maybe because it represents the creator of a bona-fide cultural icon (Pac-Man) looking at his creation and realizing that, even then, it wasn't perfect. Pac-Man CE elevates Pac-Man into a whole new experience simply by perfecting the original replica Baume & Mercier 8524 Ladie's experience.Pac-Man CE DX, however, elevates Pac-Man CE into a whole new experience by applying imagination on top of perfection.Most importantly, it does this by pushing Pac-Man beyond “Pac-Man”.Pac-Man is a game about the hunted, suddenly empowered (by nature, god, technology, whatever), becoming the hunter. Ghosts (of the past?) chase Pac-Man around a maze.

He eats a pill and becomes a superman. Now those hunting him flee in terror. You can decide for yourself whether or not this is abstract art. I will decide for you that it is a fantastic idea for a video game.The idea of Pac-Man CE DX is that it takes a risk, namely by imagining a new pseudo-rule-set on top of the existing rules. The replica Baume & Mercier 8597 WoMen's watch longer Pac-Man runs and survives, the more enemies he attracts. Ghosts sleep throughout the maze, representing points which cannot be passed. Travel near a ghost and he awakens, his first thought being to chase you. Now you have to run away from him. The more fruit Pac-Man eats, the more sleeping ghosts materialize in the maze. If you eat fruit on one side of the maze before awakening and enraging the ghosts on the other side of the maze, the sleeping ghosts will disappear.

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