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These are minor quibbles that many 3D platformers struggle with though, and ultimately, I was still having a great time even when I was falling to my doom. This could have been remedied by changing the angle at which players view the action, as well as making Pac-Man’s shadow a bit more prominent as he descends to the ground after a leap.

This places the player’s focus solely on taking out enemies and landing jumps, which I appreciate, but the fixed perspective does occasionally make it difficult to gauge distance when moving towards or away from the camera, making it annoyingly easy to miss relatively simple jumps.

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Similar in some ways to Super Mario 3D Land, stages in Pac-Man World Re-Pac allow for full 3D movement without allowing the player to control the camera. These little details were present in the original, but are much more appreciable now that they’ve been re-worked for HD. There’s a noticeable bounce in Pac-Man’s step every time he walks or leaps into the air, and I loved watching his facial expressions change as he flutter-jumped over a chasm or tried to balance on a moving platform. The result is an incredibly responsive movement system, one that’s brought to life eve further by some charming and detailed animations for Pac-Man himself. That’s to the credit of the developers of this remake, who not only gave the entire game a complete visual makeover, but also tightened up the physics driving the action. Importantly, though, Pac-Man feels absolutely wonderful to control in Pac-Man World Re-Pac.

This moveset opens the doors for a decent variety of traversal-related challenges, although there’s nothing here that will feel particularly challenging to most players. He also now has a Butt-Bounce attack that not only lets him crush certain enemies from above, but that also acts as a form of enhanced jumping that can make hard-to-reach platforms accessible. His Rev-Roll move allows him to charge up his speed and boost up steep ramps, but also acts as a means of attacking enemies and interacting with certain moving platforms. Now, having transcended the second dimension, Pac-Man can run and jump freely through linear 3D environments, and even has a few new tricks up his sleeves. Sure, he’s the same lovable gumball he always has been, but now he’s sprouted a full pair of arms and a set of legs, as well as a rather dashing pair of red kicks. Pac-Man himself has had quite the glow-up in Pac-Man World Re-Pac compared to his sprite-based origins. Of course, it wouldn’t be a Pac-Man game without those pesky ghosts – and in World, not only do they capture Pac-Man’s family (on his birthday too, those jerks,) but they also whisk them away to the oh-so creatively-named Ghost Island where – believe it or not – the ghosts are holding them all hostage! So of course, this is Pac-Man’s impetus to put on his game face and traverse through the various regions of the island, rescuing the various members of the Pac-Family as he goes (the most important one obviously being Pac-Pup, which, yes, is the canonical dog in the Pac-Man universe.) There’s also a new villain behind the whole scheme named Toc-Man, who is genuinely unsettling for me to look at for an extended period of time. Sometimes, though, a game doesn’t need to innovate to be a good time, and Pac-Man World Re-Pac is a perfect example of how tight, responsive platforming and a dollop of arcade-fueled nostalgia can be a timeless, satisfying combination. It’s a solid 3D adventure that has its fans, sure, but it didn’t leave a substantial impact on the genre in the same way that Mario, Crash and Spyro did.

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So, while it shouldn’t be a surprise that of course he featured in his own series of 3D platformers in the late 90’s and early 2000s – those games were a dime a dozen back then – it was a bit of a left-field announcement when Bandai Namco revealed that the original Pac-Man World would be getting a remake.

It’s not a stretch to say that almost everyone who plays video games is at least aware of Pac-Man the puck-shaped pellet muncher is perhaps one of the most iconic gaming protagonists of all time.