Pac-Man World 2 Isn't As Good As You Remember
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 มิ.ย. 2024
- We take a look at Pac Man World 2's console and handheld versions in anticipation for Pac Man World Re-Pac releasing soon!
0:00 - Intro
1:23 - Development
2:46 - Story
3:55 - Collectibles/Token System
9:06 - Galaxian Mazes
10:11 - Controls/Moveset
12:27 - Power-Ups
12:53 - Level Design
21:56 - Bosses
25:56 - The Overwhelming Flaws
28:12 - The Positives
30:30 - The GBA Port
38:32 - Conclusion
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Bro I get it, but if this one doesn’t get a remake imma be devastated
Am I the only one who thinks "Pac-man World 2" is just a simply *_Fantastic_* Videogame?! And I say this as a Person who has played with It and also plays with It as an adult 😅🤷🏻♀️ I *_Really_* Love the Soundtrack, the Exploration factor, the "Simple but not too much" factor, the Colors, the Settings, the fact that Pac-man can do several things besides walking/running (Swimming, Ice Skating, Roller Skating), Etc Etc... It really is One of My All Time Favourite Videogames *_EVER_* (without exaggerations)!!! 🙈🤩🥺💯🫂🔝❤💙💜
I think your title is incorrect. This game is better than I remember
Dude, I have an ENTIRE level idea of an underwater base to replace Shark Attack that’s where the ghosts build the mega whale and it plays more like a secret infiltration of enemy territory with the professor guiding us through, I would LOVE to share this idea further because I genuinely see the potential to incorporate it.
Also today’s Clyde day because I said so.
I love this idea. Maybe in Pac Man World Re Pac 2?
As someone who grew up with this game and Sunshine, I absolutely adore the odd quirks that make these games more challenging. Though, I've become so good at them they're a breeze to me now.
Pac-Man World 2 is flawed but I think it's the definite best one in the series. Each level feels pretty fresh and while there are some weaker moments in the game I enjoyed most levels. The only one I think sucked was the Clyde boss, mostly for the reasons you described. I always was pretty neutral to the water levels, and thought the 7 minute shooter one was at least a little cool because its randomly generated each time.
The collectable system is super terrible, no question. I was crazy enough to 100% the game and I found it to be tedious and unfair. Having to collect everything again if I cleared the level missing a single pac dot or fruit was not very fun. 100%ing blade mountain took years off my life. Completing the challenge was very satisfying but the process was so unfun and I will probably never do it again.
However, I think collecting everything in PW2 is still more intuitive than in PW1. In PW1 you can only see your completion percentage upon beating the final boss with no indication of which levels you didn't 100%, which makes you have to rely on trial and error. The act of getting everything in each level is equally tedious as PW2, except in a different way. PW1 levels all follow the same formula; progress in the level, get the fruit you need to open a door, backtrack to said door, and then clear the same obstacle you went by a moment ago. It quickly got boring, and even though each world looked unique and vibrant, they all felt the same for that reason. PW1 has a huge edge in the bosses though, all of them (except the stupid robot guy) were really fun, even if the world 2 boss was kinda BS.
Good comment, have yet to play PW1 yet so I don’t know my favorite yet!
@@JeffCompass pw1 is alright, I still need to try pw1 re pac.
6:25 "This is a lot of stuff to collect"
Crash 4 and DK64: Allow us to introduce ourselves.
though i personally disagree with the points made in this, i won't deny that this is a very well made video and doesn't feel like it's full of hate unlike a lot of videos that are titled similarly. great work, seriously! very enjoyable video.
Really appreciate the words!!! No shame in disagreeing :)
Fun Fact
If you play the PS2 version of Pac-Man World 2 you do have the option to bring up the brightness to make Ghost Bayou easier to see the rock paths
Oh yeah about Clyde (Blinky) the hitbox you have to hit him in the DEAD CENTER of the robot
I love this game, but having to grab everything in one go is bs
Randomly clicked on this vid and really enjoyed it. Your script is good, your points are clear, and you don't run your jokes into the ground. Keep it up!
Thank you!!!! I have no plans to go anywhere :)
It’s fun, yes, but not perfect. I grew up playing it and I still remember it’s frustrating bits. Nostalgia is often a bait and switch to keep us from seeing the bad side of things, so we shouldn’t let it cloud our judgement.
Also, I recently played it again and was able to get 189 tokens for the first time. The time trials will be the bane of my existence, especially avalanche alley and that one volcanic panic speedrun skip I finally got to do.
So what are the many (or moderate amount of) things you love about Pac-Man World 2 that makes you like it in spite of its mentioned flaws?
@@kieranstark7213 Well, I enjoy the music for one thing. It's a bit repetitive, but still catchy since it uses a leitmotif in expressing itself. The visuals and environment is basic but beautiful even in today's standards. It's aged well on that matter. While it lacks in specific world environments like the first one, it makes up for stunning scenery and a more simple approach on Pac-Man. The controls are way more responsive than the first, even if they still have their own flaws like the pillars putting you in a death loop animation when you latch onto them from behind, but I'm willing to look past that. And the collectibles, while being a pain to collect in later levels, look and feel great to collect. The fruit look so tasty that I want to eat 'em myself, even if their just 2D images. Also, the message that pops up when you collect all of one collectable, like an apple or some pac dots, is so satisfying to see when all the number of each one from a level start spinning. I get a good dopamine kick from that. The bosses are nothing special to write home about, but are much more doable and don't overstay their welcome much. Although Clyde makes an exception to that rule as he can be a bastard to deal with it on a first playthrough. The games you unlock at the arcade make a great incentive on collecting tokens and museum is an interesting thing to see. Unlocking Mrs. Pac-Man is a bit much though. I think that's all I have to share on my opinion on the game. It's not perfect and it has a lot of moments that made me want to rip my hair out, but it's an overall fun and enjoyable experience and it's definitely one of the best of the trilogy to play for control and visuals alike. Plus, if you're not a completionist, this one's up your alley because collectibles are optional. But I do recommend at least trying to unlock some of the games in the arcade. Pac-Attack and Pac-Mania are fun to play.
Phew, my fingers and brain are tired after writing a short review summary of this whole game.
These are all what makes me love this game with a passion (while acknowledging there’s no such thing as a perfect game) even after watching this videos
Just an FYI, for those original mazes that you play when you collect the Galaxian, you can press a button on the controller and it will change the view/zoom of the maze, so you CAN actually have a full view like in the originals (:
Repac was great and it gives me hope 2 will get a remake with as much effort as repac the bosses and 100% requirements especially mostly the bosses
I have VERY high hopes for Re Pac 2!
@@JeffCompass same honestly though world rally would be even better
There is a button you can use in mazes to zoom the camera out and view the whole maze at once. World 1 does it too and for some reason the Re-Pac doesn’t let you do it before the music stops and the gameplay starts.
I enjoyed this video. I personally appreciate how hectic the ocean levels get but can agree they really stray from the typical gameplay. It’s a shame they couldn’t make one more 3D swimming stage but with the under-water rev-roll replacement to allow for leaping out of water, getting around faster, and so on.
It's a little clunky and the physics are wack sometimes (although the rev roll feels like SA1 spin dash and that's a good kind of broken
My first instinct was to dislike cause this is one of my favorite games of all time and I still enjoy going back to it every year or so, but you really do bring up a lot of good points. I hope this game receives the remake it deserves and most of these issues are addressed. Good video :)
Also yeah the water levels and Clyde fight are awful lol
Thank you!!!!
Honestly it’s best, if World 2 gets a remake, these flaws being addressed and cut content being reimagined would make the game so much better than it could’ve been 20 years ago
I think the name swap happened because Blinky and Clyde swapped personalities in the 1982 cartoon for some reason
This game was my childhood! Even though it is not perfect it's still one of my favorite games. The ps2 version is harder because the ghost kill you in one hit on version 1.0. There was a ps2 revision made that made some of the levels easier which the Gamecube and Xbox are based off of. Also you can zoom out from any of the mazes by hitting the L or R buttons on all the versions. There is also an extra life trick in Butane pain where you jump down a center hole (which has a saw going around it) which takes you to bouncy pads where you get a token and a whole bunch of extra lives. You can easily get over a 100 lives before the ice levels.
I played some of this game recently and antiquated is a good word for it, the camera being constantly locked and stuck, the checkpoint system resetting progress when you die and some of the level design with the precise rev rolling in the lava levels definitely annoyed me a ton and made me wish a Re-pac version would exist for this game, I can see a great game hidden behind those issues. They did a pretty good job at making World 1 feel pretty modern with the Re-pac so the same for this game would help it so much.
I think a World 2 Re-Pac is inevitable. Especially considering this game sold better, I believe
The Clyde fight has always been pretty infamous in this game, although I'm not familiar with the hitbox issues you had at the end of the fight (it may be an issue with the GameCube version since I primarily played this one on PS2). In general, though, I think this and KingK's video really showcase how busted the core collectathon element of this game is and how that hurts so much of what would otherwise be pretty great game design.
I've had the hit box issue as well on the ps2. The cockpit glass gets so dented that its hit box becomes really small. You just have to hit that sweet spot. It can be a real sting in the last part of the fight
You mean freaking BLINKY
i only ever played world 2 and never got past the volcano as a kid, fun asf game tho
This game is actually one of my favorite games of all time but even then I still have my gripes with it
As a kid, I loved this game. As an adult, I still love this game...but there is no denying that World 2 may have suffered from the same weird development cycle as the other games in this trilogy. The difficulty curve is wildly inconsistent, the underwater levels felt like padding (even back then) and overall it just feels sort of...unfinished? I still pull this one out and beat it every year and always come out with a net positive experience...but it's no masterpiece. Hopefully it too will get remade as well- I always felt like this trilogy could greatly benefit from it.
Yes, this game would really benefit from a Re Pac treatment!
Pac Man World 2 walked so it’s soundtrack could run
Better than pacman world 3
It is as good as I remember, but I only played through the first half as a kid. Recently played through the latter half of the game for the first time and sadly have to say that it doesn't hold up. Up till the volcano levels is still incredibly fun though.
I found your channel from the recent Twitter thread making fun of you, and this was actually a really good video! I’m gonna be watching a lot more from you!
Hey thank you!!!
Name a more underrated TH-camr, I’ll wait.
In all seriousness, what a great review! This is honestly more high quality than most big reviewers out there. I hope this TH-cam channel gains more traction. Keep up the great work!
Holy, what a nice comment!!! Thank you!!!! :)
So then I guess ADAMNATOR and Coop and TehSnakerer were reviewers of PMW2 that were wrong to give PMW2 this much love, huh?
Well, I think it’s one of the greatest video games!
Sure, it can have its frustrating moments (looking at you, Magma Opus!), but then again, so do the best and most popular games.
You are so right no one calls this game out at times
There is some fall damage in this game, like jumping from the high trees in B-Doing Woods tbf. With Magma Opus, you can skip slides so long as you touch them at least once near the end.
I'll admit, though: That wall in Night Crawling stopped 7 year old me from beating the game. I had to wait ANOTHER 7 years just to be able to clear that mess.
There is definitely a better life grinding spot: Butane Pain has a secret area with 7 extra lives on a single stump. When you're about to roll down the net, look for a B-Doing in the bottom right corner. That'll guide you to it, so you can just collect those and keep dying to reset them.
I do find the Ocean world to be a unique, chill break from the hectic lava area...At least until Yellow Pac-Marine (the boss is fine imo.)
As a completionist, this game was the bane of my childhood. I tried so hard to get every token, but it just never happened.
I've been replaying to get ready for the remastered version of Pac Man World Re-Pac.
The camera is GARBAGE AND GETTING 100 PERCENT IS EVIL!
It's still a charming as fuck game
Decided to come back again to say one last piece, despite this being one of my favorite games of all time, and I will defend it to the grave, this video doesn’t piss me off or upset because it’s true, we’re all living things and everything has it’s flaws no matter how quality is, and I’ve accepted that, plus I mostly agree with the flaws, and I only call them out because I care, and would LOVE to give this game the better development and chance it needed, plus Mario and Sonic arguably had technically worse games with major hatred behind certain aspects like jank and frustration (especially on Sunshine’s end) that we wouldn’t expect from in house games, yet we still love them despite their flaws because they really showed how much ambition and progress 3D was doing and that things were only going to get better (despite the former being the only one to actually succeed), and also modern games now that pander to nostalgia instead of taking risks have made us appreciate these games despite their missteps, but that’s a topic for another day.....
Same boat as you. I still enjoy this game as a grown man, and I *loved* it back when I was 7 years old renting it out from the local grocery store...but it's hard to look at it now and not see the lack of polish and the possibility of a rough development cycle.
I think the only level that really pissed me off as a kid, was the ghost bayou level, where you have to get to that tree in a certain amount of time or you die. I think if you killed some enemies, you got a time token that gave you some time but man, that level was something.
I love this game it’s one of my favourites and I enjoy how it’s hard but my one problem is the camera movement and how u can barely look around and ur camera gets stuck. Sometimes I would have to guess where to jump bc I’m not aloud to move my camera
Well I finally got around to watching this video and it's not as bad as I was expecting. You make a few good points, the Magma Opus slide has wonky physics, Blinky/Clyde/Akabei is a difficulty spike (though I think it's more fair than you give it credit for), Yellow Pac-Marine sucks, and that one section in Night Crawling is a bit cryptic, they probably should've put a ramp there to better indicate what to do.
But... that's all I can agree with you on. First off, the collection/100% system is one I think is really overblown and misunderstood. This isn't an open sandbox 3D platformer like Spyro or Banjo-Kazooie. This is a linear get-to-the-end 3D platformer like Crash Bandicoot or Mario 3D World. The challenge in completion in Pac-Man World 2 isn't just to get everything; it's to get everything in one clean run. It's much like the box challenges in Crash. That's a lot of the replay value. Getting a better feel for the levels, improving your skills, until you can eventually achieve the perfect run. It's a lot like playing an arcade game over and over to get a high score, which is very fitting for a series that has its roots in the arcades, and the aspect of collecting everything also harkens back to the gameplay loop of the classic Pac-Man maze games. 100% in Pac-Man World 2 definitely *looks* daunting on the outside, but once you actually do it, it's really not that difficult and make the game more enjoyable for the most part. Some levels don't handle 100% well like Blade Mountain or the water levels, but for the most part I think 100% makes the game a lot of fun, and you don't even have to do those levels' 100% if you just want to unlock everything, as the game lets you skip out on 9 tokens.
Something I notice in your footage is that you frequently cancel out of the rev-roll while above a pit. I just keep thinking to myself, "if you want to make the gap, don't cancel out of the rev-roll." It honestly reminded me of IGN's infamous Sonic Unleashed review.
While I agree that the slide in Magma Opus sucks, that other section you had trouble with was no problem for me. I thought what you had to do was pretty clear so... skill issue I guess.
The 4th boss is a difficulty spike and that last hit is bullshit, but I think this boss is still a fair challenge. The projectiles are pretty easy to predict, they just come out fast, and the fire spawns where the projectiles hit the ground, and sense the boss aims for you, you have a bit of control over where the fire goes. I DO know that the GameCube version has the fire more transparent then in the other versions, but even then I don't think it's too unnoticeable in the GameCube version
I also thought most of the underwater levels were a nice little change of pace, with the only one I disliked being Yellow Pac-Marine, which is also the ONLY level in the game I don't like. The volcano levels upped the challenge but were also still fun. I also wouldn't consider 4 levels a "big part of the game." That's 4 out of 24, 16.67%. Maybe I'm just dumb at math but the percentage doesn't seem very high to me. I get that your mileage may vary if you don't like the volcano levels for example, but for me, the bad level percentage is 4.17% considering I only dislike a single level. And while we're talking about percentages and that comment at 28:05, I'd like to say that the good-to-bad ratio in Pac-Man World 2 is much better than Super Mario 64. Has a better camera too.
Oh yeah that's another thing, you didn't talk about it much, but I feel the camera is another thing about this game that gets really overblown. Like, it's not perfect, sometimes it gets stuck on something and you have to... adjust it to get it unstuck, which is really just a minor annoyance but so many people treat it like it makes the game unplayable. Honestly, this game has one of the better cameras of the era, and certainly a better camera than most 5th gen games.
So, some stuff I agree with, some stuff that was just you missing the point, some stuff that seemed more like you being bad at the game rather than a problem with the game, and one annoyingly clickbaity and condescending title.
Clyde is one of the most broken boss fights
@@novistador9844 Not as broken as Anubis Rex in PS1 World 1.
@@jackiexkh yeah but at least they fixed it in re pac
For me I always gravitated to the first one the most out of the 3 games, I thought World 3 was fine enough and hits the exact weird stuff that I like seeing in guilty pleasures and to me... World 2 is just there, I see why people love it, it's a solid game but nothing about it really hits me besides Spooky and Inky having sawblades for weapons, that's my hot take on the Pac-Man World series haha.
I only vaguely remember this game - don't think I owned it, but must have played it at a friend's house or rented it or something like that. Honestly I'm surprised they were able to come up with enough substance (in both 1 & 2) for a 3D platformer based around Pac Man. Great video as always!
Also... were your glasses always missing an arm? I've had that happen to a few pairs of mine in the past and it was the WORST
Yes just waiting for my insurance to send me a new one :P
I lowkey love some of this games flaws, I have a really good memory of getting my friend to play the GameCube version for the first time before she went off to college (I grew up with it on the PS2). Magma Opus was such an ordeal for us to get through it became an inside joke, and we had to work together to be able to see the path in Ghost Bayou since it was too dark. Literally I had to get really close to the tv and direct her it was so bad. I hope this game gets a remake with every problem fixed, but I’ll never forget the hilariously frustrating times this game has given me.
I guess I'm the only person in existence that didn't hard struggle on Clyde in the Caldera oh well
I enjoyed pac man world 2 a lot. Never knew or thought much about the sequel or the first one. The other big pac man game I liked a lot was pac man maze madness om the Nintendo 64
The volcano levels are my favorite and my argument for the level you got confused on- my 8 year old self figured it out first try so I can't say I exactly sympathize or agree- although the magnum opus slide IS junk, there are actually TWO skips that let you ignore it entire- reminiscent to the mario 64 slide skip-- but even wilder imo.
The blinky boss fight (Clyde caldera) is a great boss fight imo because it combines interesting platform enclosure mechanics (sizzling ground) with merciless death defying vaults over large gaps to get to the boss (although technically you could jump onto the boss head early for most of it). As for the janky final hits, I hope a remaster captures that feeling in a different way-- like imagine you have to quickly butt bounce 5 times to break a protective barrier and reach the hp bar but go too slow and you'll dive into the lava going for the 5th- obviously with visual indicators.
My only gripes with the game is the underwater whale boss itself (water levels were okay and a nice breather after hard platforming but could've used in-between segments like entering an underwater cave segment or in a ship underwater as opposed to full on water levels). And for collection completionist sake, skate levels.
Otherwise, the game is a gem of its time. I would definitely love to have input on a remake of this game. It would be amazing!
Will watch/listen through this video as I play Pacman 256
I replayed/beat the game for the first time about a year ago. I think my biggest impression is that it was cute and fun and delightful until Clyde in the Caldera, which was just far too buggy to make it a fair fight. After that, the game really takes a nosedive with its water levels. They're difficult, annoying to play, a bit broken, and are set up in such a bizarre way that getting all the fruit for full completion isn't even close to being feasible for an average player, let alone the children this game was targeted towards. Also the framing of it all makes no sense. This evil villain guy who was sealed in a tree for like a thousand years by a knight man happens to possess an entire underwater military fleet with full working technology? Felt they ran out of ideas, though thankfully the last few levels after that were pretty decent.
Glad I was finally able to beat the game though, I feel like I avenged my childhood self who never was able to get past Clyde and eventually decided to give up. This one is for you, little me.
Great comment! I hope you enjoy the video!
I find it funny you showed a clip of the Finding Nemo game, as Pac-Man World 2 and Finding Nemo are the two games I got with my Nintendo GameCube when it was given to me as a birthday gift... of course, I played them a lot less after I discovered that the game actually packaged with the console was Metroid Prime and my grandparents hid it because of the T rating. When I found it hidden somewhere, it became my favorite games and is still in my top 5.
I still hold a spot in my heart for Pac-Man World 2. Sorry Finding Nemo, you don't even break top 5 liscensed games for the GameCube.
Happy Clyde day!
That title is fighting words😈
I’ve gone this far in my TH-cam career without a spicy take, the streak had to end somewhere!
Thank you so much for this. The first Pac-Man World is one of the games of my childhood, so I might be biased, but I've played it again and I honestly think it's a good game (I mean it's getting remastered isn't it). I had never played Pac-Man World 2 until recently. Everyone around me seems to love it, but... I don't see that. In fact, I mostly find it frustrating, for the reasons you said yourself. The platforming can be hit and miss - getting all fruits in the FIRST FREAKING LEVEL just freaking SUCKS, I hated bouncing on those roofs with a PASSION. Some levels just feel a bit dull in term of design, and mind you, I haven't even gotten yet to the volcano levels, but at this point I'm not even sure I'll finish the game. I feel I'm not enjoying it. Whatever.
I enjoyed your review though! Liked and subscribed :)
Thank you, glad you enjoyed!!!!
I guess you don’t enjoy hearing more positive reviews of PMW2 than this, huh.
Another review said the main reason the fruits in Pac-Village are so hard to get is because it's the hub world. You're supposed to come back with newfound knowledge or something, and the same goes for this game in general. Much like an arcade game, you keep attempting each level to see if you can get a better score.
That said, I don't mind them expanding on lore or whatever they tried to do in this game's sequel. Just pause your game towards the end of Kirby to see how much they can fit in, despite the simplicity of the main character.
twitter has managed to find this and they are not happy
haha indeed
excellent video as usual jeff, great humor, writing, editing, and analysis
love ya funky!!!
The title is not true for me
I hope Bandai Namco give the sequel a remake just like the first.
My main issue with the game is the terrible camera.
It's a 7/10 at best game elevated by nostalgia.
Yep!!!
4/10
@@toooydoeur Eh maybe at worst but 4/10 is what I'd give world 3 overall for sure.
@@TerrorOfTalos never played it, only played world 1 and 2 and 2 sucked
@@toooydoeur 2 did not suck at all, you weird asf ong.
MR SHOVELWARE IS BACK ??
I finally played it when I was 16 in 2020. It was fun but it doesn't do anything special,it's just really derivative of Crash Bandiocat
better than taxman for the apple ii
Now that I can’t argue with!
i was ready to be angry but honestly you nailed it lmao
That was my goal with this video!
this game is my favorite game of all time i played it on the ps2 when i was like 5 years old. back in like 2008. watching this video reminded me of how bullshit this game was at points and realize how truly bad the game was on the low. i think i was blinded by nostalgia, what i remember as being the most fun is the starting grass area with the layouts and the soundtrack but the game is just so nostalgic
10/10.
will watch this when i bed 😎
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WHO ON GODS GREEN EARTH LIKES HAUNTED BOARDWALK THAT LEVEL IS MY SINGLE LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT MY FAVORITE CHILDHOOD VIDEOGAME
At least they tried to do something unique with a Halloween type level.
Yellow Pac-Marine is only likeable if you enjoy 7 minutes of green water. The boss fight far outperforms it.
Namco will just make Ms Pcman in any remakes, PAC Mom. It sucks but that’s what they seem to have gone with.
Are you actually attacking one of my favorite games? Wow ok
I do agree with your points on the collectables and the water levels though
*On the topic of 2002 3D platformers, this is why Pac-Man World 2 is better than Super Mario Sunshine and Sonic Adventure 2 (mainly the seventh-gen ports because the Dreamcast version is great)*
• Instead of romanticizing negative stereotypes like the damsel in distress (Princess Peach) and/or the yandere (Pinky), it antagonizes it.
• If you think Mario is a good franchise partly because of its character designs of Bowser, his minions, Yoshis and even the humans (re: Mario Bros.), then wait until you see what PMW2 has in store (re: Chomp-Chomp has dog ears but looks like Pac-Man himself on a four-legged body)
• The graphics are super stylistic and very atmospheric (as for Sonic Adventure 2 (mainly the 2012 version), on the other hand… m.th-cam.com/video/GxCcHOvSVJQ/w-d-xo.html)!
• The GBA version of PMW2, while the weakest way to play the game, is nowhere near as much of a downgrade as SMS for the Switch.
• Did you think the music was strong (especially The Legendary Sand Bird) in SMS? Wait until you see what PMW2 has in store!
• If you thought Bowser was a strong villain, wait until you see Spooky!
• While both have their fun and frustrating segments, World 2 has more of the former and Sunshine has the latter.
• It has a tamer fandom that can respect/acknowledge opinions.
• Platformers are less of a norm in the Pac-Man franchise than in the Mario franchise so we need more platformers in the Pac-Man franchise! m.th-cam.com/video/s7o4_QoJisk/w-d-xo.html
• More atmospheric variety (Super Mario Sunshine can overdose a bit on sunniness even for what it’s supposed to be, but World 2 really does feel like it has a more various uses of their own elements for each world)
• It’s a video game with no bad acting whatsoever, which is saying a lot for a game that was made two decades ago.
• A controllable camera in most of not all places (didn’t see that coming, huh!).
• It inspires me to make a movie with that game’s visual style (Pac-Man and the University of Pac-Land)
• Unlike Super Mario Sunshine and like Sonic Adventure 2, it comes up with a more cleverly complex ending than just “Have a relaxing vacation!” (granted, both Bowser Jr. & Sr. have a very believable father-son dynamic, and the end of SMS is where it all started)
Even as a kid, I had issues with the second half of this game. Volcano, Water, and Haunted themed all felt like a slog to play and it was around that time where I really wish they would have stopped after Clyde and go straight to Spooky.
They all had very subpar level design that really makes me think the developers must have run out of ideas and tried their best to make the levels more puzzle based than simple platforming. They went back to just simple platforming with the Haunted levels, but they felt pretty disappointing imo.
Collecting all of the Fruits, Pac Dots, and Tokens in this game is pure Hell! I really had suffered so much, trying to unlock Ms. Pac-Man and let me tell you: it's a fucking chore to do and I hate it. This is one of the reasons why I don't like Collect-a-thon games as they feel more and more like padding, even if the reward is good. I just wanted it to be over. That's why I have decided to not complete games anymore and just finish the story and be done with it.
But the first half of the game was very fun and the soundtrack as a whole is totally Godlike for a Pac-Man game. It was my very first Pac-Man game after playing the arcade Pac-Man and I liked it, but didn't love it, because around that time, I had played better platformers.
If I have to rate the game now, it would be a 6. It's a fun game, but the more you play through it after Pinky, the more it feels like you're on molasses with the pace of the game, as well as the very mediocre level design of the later levels. It's a shame too, because yeah, this game could have been amazing. It's just an alright game.
Yeah i see where your coming from, I really like this game but even i can admit it has flaws, it's just to me the pros out weight the cons but again i see your point. great video
Thank you!!!
no. its still just as fun.
About time someone said World 2 is mid, its not the perfect game the Pac-Man fanbase think it is, but it still has some charm
You remind me of the act man
I am currently purchasing Pac Man World 2 because I only like mediocre video games ngl
16:38 yup I remember doing the same then having to ask my friend when I was in first grade how to beat it completely flabbergasted by the resolution
I have only ever played world 1 and a bit if world 3 in ds.
World 2 looks fun, but I dont think I will like it that much since I didnt grew up with it.
@Pac- Man K! World 2 is literally da best of da Trilogy dawg. It's sad you didn't grow up with this masterpiece.
sounds like a skill issue
aint watchin all that its still better than normal pac man
TikTok attention span
It didn't have a game journalist difficulty so it's not good enough for this guy. It's just tooo hard for him...
14:03 it took him an hour to figure out he should rev roll off the obvious ramp...
Pac man world 2 was the best one …… I need whatever you smoking asap
this whole video is a troll i finished the game in one sitting on a ps2 recently. honestly: fun not that hard and easy
That title, them’s pac-attack words, bub. Best not waka-waka round any mazes, might get ghosted.
Finally someone said it! I have never understood the love for this game
Because it has so many crazy characters with their puppet-like designs! XD
@@kieranstark7213 that doesn't mean anything when the characters are boring and bland
@@ashyoshicharizard3949 1. I'm pretty sure that was sarcasm.
2. The game is simple with just enough variety in what it has to offer. They knew people might not like 10 levels of roller skates, so they just everything they could with it in one sitting.
@@seank.cunningham3841 reusing the same boss 2 times
ah, the contrarian.
No U
That is all
PAC man world 2 is the best game in the entire world 🌎 it’s given me so much joy in my life you don’t even know ….. that game is flawless don’t ever slander pac man world 2 ever again !!!!!!!!
No.
@@novistador9844 Bet you're fun at parties.
no
pac man world 3 is the best of the trilogy + you fell off + ratio
@Ninjastar Compass *Worst of the Trilogy.
@@playboypika5003 Wow you sure convinced us
@@seank.cunningham3841 whatchu talkin' bout dude?