![]() To handle certain enemies and obstacles in the later stages, you eventually get the ability to draw arrows that fire in the direction you point them and bombs that can be detonated by attaching their fuse to a fire source. If you don’t close your Pac-Man perfectly it instead becomes a large mess of green lines that hog space on the lower screen until they fade or you crash a different Pac-Men into them, but more importantly, these detection issues get troublesome with the other things the game expects you to draw. The game isn’t too harsh about how deformed your Pac-Man might end up so long as it was drawn with the expected process, and while this can lead to some silly shapes, there is an unfortunate price. If you draw Pac-Man any other manner, it won’t register, although there is actually quite a bit of leniency in the overall shape. To register that you’re drawing Pac-Man, you must draw him in one complete consistent motion starting from the top of his mouth and working down and around. ![]() Unfortunately, the reliance on drawing Pac-Man is where we encounter the game’s major issue, and that’s the touch screen controls. No matter what gimmicks are introduced later on or what foes you’re facing, these simple basics are always necessary to effectively taking down the ghostly menace, the player needing to manage their Pac-Men carefully since they are only allowed to draw him so many times in a stage, each Pac-Man disappearing for good if they leave the bottom screen from any side save where the upper lane is. When he’s been drawn and starts moving, you can still influence him some, able to pull him backwards with the stylus some but more importantly, you can draw lines in his path that will make him change direction when he collides with them, turning to match the direction you drew the line in. The size of Pac-Man will determine how quickly he moves, the yellow ghost-muncher moving forward automatically in the direction you drew him facing. There is a lot more to the act than simply drawing him however. To chomp the ghosts up requires having Pac-Man on the field, the player bringing him to life by drawing him with the stylus. These pages are set apart from each other by the way enemies and other objects are added to them, the main goal of a page being to eat all the ghosts, although some pages will only have more ghosts appear after the first batch or two is dealt with. The DS’s touch screen makes up the active play area where you can interact with the game world while the top screen contains a lane that you can send Pac-Man off into to pick up items like extra lives or point bonuses. Once the action begins, you’ll quickly find most levels are built off the same simple design. Working through the chapters of the book, the player must draw Pac-Man and other objects to combat the ghost ink’s creations and eventually take on the ink itself, although if you beat the game you end up unlocking a second harder book with similar levels that doesn’t really fit that story set-up since it’s essentially just an unlockable difficulty mode. Using his own magical pen he is able to confine them all to one final book, but before he can finish them off, he gets sucked into the book as well, his only hope for ever leaving it now resting on the player and their use of the magic pen. ![]() The moment something is drawn with the ink, it manifests as a real ghost that can travel between books and other print media, spreading chaos until the day Pac-Man pushes back against them. In the world of Pac-Pix, a substance known as Ghost Ink has been wreaking havoc across the world. In a game where you need to draw the main character over and over again, there might not be a better pick than Pac-Man, and in Pac-Pix, that recognizable circle with a slice cut out of it certainly gets put to use. Its simple design is easy to replicate, it is only really associated with the video game it represents, and it’s how the world first met what might be the first popular video game character. Pac-Man’s shape is one of the most iconic symbols in all of gaming.
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