PAC-MAN ٤+

I love it but the issues I have with it kinda ruin it.

As a 14 year old Pac-Man fan I can certainly say this version did not disappoint. However there are (I think) bugs that have yet to be fixed despite the most recent update. Classic mode is my favorite mode, however, whenever I get to the screen to get more lives using coins gems or wasting seconds of your life you will never get back by watching an add. If I get to that screen enough, if I still have coins I will get another life. All of a sudden the button doesn’t work anymore. It says “unexpected error!” and the loading symbol pops up even though it does not load. I am forced to exit the app completely and go back into it to exit the screen. It always sends me back to that screen though, and I learned the hard way that clicking the same button again repeats the same action. I have one more issue where the button’s suddenly stop working and I am stuck on a specific screen. I am a diehard Pac-Man fan though and if the game works fine until the buttons decide to die on me then this game is awesome. Highly recommended.

Story Mode isn’t Great - Glitches and Design

Story Mode provides a great way for players to play countless mazes. In fact, this game is centered around Story Mode. However, I have found the mode to be quite frustrating at times due to a reoccurring glitch and poor decisions made by developers. Oftentimes when I complete a maze, a glitch occurs where players don’t receive a reward and the game prohibits them from advancing to the next maze. This can be annoying, especially when a life was lost or a power up was used to complete the maze. A few poor decisions are present here too. For example, some bonus stages feature 2 PAC-Men: one players control as usual, but the other mirrors your movements from across the screen. It is interesting at first, but becomes a hassle once players discover (a bit too late thanks to the game’s hints) that the mirrored PAC-MAN can be caught by a Ghost and lose a life. Playing with 2 PAC-Men indeed makes the game much harder to play. Also, Tokens (which are the game’s currency) are a non-renewable resource as they are only won by playing new mazes (they cannot be obtained from the same maze twice). If players need to by a particular power up using Tokens in order to fulfill a challenge requirement, players may be forced to skip the challenge and play the next couple of mazes to raise enough Tokens to buy the power up later. Personally, these issues caused me to enjoy the game a lot less.

Used to be good but they ruined it. No mfi controller support anymore.

So I used to play this game daily. I loved it. It was near perfect and a 5 star game for me. Now it’s a one star. Why? Read on:

When this game first came out, I found the on screen sliding controls were just horrible but that was okay as I bought a mfi Nimbus game controller to work with both my ipad and Apple TV. But mainly bought for this game. It worked great that way. Then for some strange reason in late summer/early fall 2018 they decided to rewrite the app in some way and strangely removed mfi controller support even though such support is still listed in the app description. Why? Who knows...they never answer that question. I got excited when I saw an update with “joystick” support, but that was merely a horrible on screen joystick, not support for a hardware controller they once had. So now the game is once again horrible to me and their customer support is equally horrible. They literally do not respond to my support tickets asking why this was removed and when will it be back considering it is still listed on app description. So I am done with this game until they put back hardware controller support that never should have been removed in the first place.

RE: that developer response: why would support respond to me now when they didn’t the first two times? That is a DEAD END that goes nowhere.

استجابة المطور ،

Hello there,

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The PAC-MAN Team