I mean, unlike Crossy Road which was blissfully simple, this seems all pretty convoluted. And then there are prompts to watch ads to earn coins.
When you die, you're presented with an end screen that has a confusing design to it - along the top you're earning towards some sort of unlock you can continue your run for a credit, but above that in a tiny box is a free-play option plus your power-ups can be upgraded with credits, but that can have a timer attached. It's a little bit frustrating understanding how it all works actually. I love the laser! There's around sixteen power ups to collect but I haven't played enough to get them all yet. These are in the form of a freeze bomb, which slows down ghosts an actual bomb that explodes ghosts if you touch them, and my personal favourite, the laser which is basically a "get out of my way" device. Pinky now chases you at near break-neck speeds and we have an addition to the family in Glitchy, who seems to have caught the 256 bug.Īlong the way you do occasionally have the help of power ups. Yes but to balance things out, the ghosts have also had some tweaks. Pac-Man has had a bit of an upgrade, the more pellets he eats, the faster he moves and if you get a good rhythm going, you can be tearing around the screen at quite a pace. You do this by swiping your finger up, down, left or right. Which means that you have to move! You need to navigate your way through an endless maze filled with ghosts all on the hunt.
This time around the glitch is there from the very start, eating away and moving up the screen like a tidal wave, destroying all in its path. Basically, when you got to level 256, there was a weird glitch on the screen that made moving to the next level impossible. The 256 in the title referrers to a bug that was in the original arcade version. Well, now they're back with another arcade re-invent, Pac-Man 256. It was essentially a new take on the classic Frogger. Last year Melbourne developers Hipster Whale had a mega hit on their hands with the tap happy vertical hopper Crossy Road.