PAC-MAN World 2 RE-PAC, is probably my favorite game besides Donkey Kong Bananza to come from 2025! I will admit I’m a big PAC-FAN, so there is some Bias admittedly but as someone who just recently played the Original on the Nintendo Gamecube I can really see the improvements. While it’s the most controversial part I really adore the charm from the Voice acting! Martin T. Sherman really gave it his all as PAC-MAN and solidified in my opinion him being the best Voice Actor for PAC-MAN! Everyone else was stellar as well especially PAC-PROFESSER, or SPOOKY… and a certain other one as well! The gameplay is fun, the achievements and awards are worth it, and the music is just as great as ever! Please consider playing this if you Ether loved the original, or just love 3D Platformers!

Very underwhelming remake of an adventurous classic. Clunky new controls are disappointing considering how much time has passed since the original. Many level redesigns that are signicantly worse than original. Some worlds have new level redesigns that are exceptions, good ost and great price.

I have to admire Bandai Namco’s efforts to preserve their history. Remaking their old titles and exposing them to a new generation is much more respectable than making a classics collection that would likely be ignored at launch and quickly lost to obscurity. This allows people like me who never played the original entry to try it out for myself, and learn quickly why (unlike rivals like Mario & Sonic), 3D PAC-MAN never took off. I want to be very clear, PAC-MAN World 2 Re-PAC is not a bad game by any means. It has colorful stages, catchy music, and unique boss battles. All the makings of a solid platformer are here, but that’s about all there is. Like the fist game, you bounce on enemies and move forward until you reach the end of a linear stage. There are some collectables to find, but they aren’t particularly fun to look for, and you can try to complete the challenges of each stage if you’re looking to sink more time into your sessions. Unlike other games of the era there isn’t much exploration to be found or fun hidden secrets, and often I found myself just wanting to be done with a stage as opposed to finding more ways to play it. There isn’t a lot here you can’t find from other platformers, even compared to others from its time. The difficulty spikes about halfway through the game which also hinders the experience, and when the credits rolled, I had no interest in doing any of the more challenging post game. I now understand why these games never made waves during their initial release, because they really didn’t do anything the competition wasn’t doing better. The PAC-MAN World games probably could have been apart of a budget collection, but again, I’ll give credit on the preservation effort, down to maintaining it as a product of its time.