1.5/5 ★ – TNGLiam's review of Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures.

Platform: Wii U Time Played: 5.5 hours Status: Beaten ⟳ I remember enjoying this game nine years ago when it initially came out, but upon revisiting it many years later, it clearly does not hold up very well. The game is just overall a very bland and boring romp. The gameplay is just super generic, with a lame double jump and poor combat when it comes to eating the Ghosts. The level design is boring and uninteresting. Just everything about this game is boring, unfun, uninteresting, and there's really no reason for anyone to ever play it. The bosses suck, the minigames suck, the cutscenes suck, the story is abysmal, and the voice acting is piss poor. When I loaded up the game, I thought somehow the game loaded a cutscene from further into the game, but no, I was watching the opening cutscene. The game acts on the idea that the person playing has already seen the show, so therefore they don't ever introduce any of the game's characters, who they are, why they're important, or anything. It just assumes that you already know the entire show's backstory and premise. Also, I noticed during the opening cutscene that Pac-Man sounded like Gon from Hunter x Hunter's English dub, and I was in fact correct because they share the same voice actor. I'm sorry but that voice actor only has one voice, and nothing else. It also shows how unimportant this game was because none of the show's cast was in this game. The whole game revolves around Pac-Man and friends trying to get back this giant ice laser machine from the villain Betrayus. They spend the first four worlds trying to get it back, and once they do so, the game struggles to try and extend the runtime by introducing an entirely new plot point where Betrayus tries to use a Ghost Ray on the Tree of Life in order to turn it into the Tree of Death so that the Netherworld can seep into Pac-World. Like we never see this Ghost Ray, and we never see the Tree of Life that's mentioned. There's also a random subplot beneath all of this where Pac-Man goes to temples to find tablets that hopefully lead to his missing parents, guess what, they don't. The game just abruptly ends after defeating Betrayus, with a weird cliffhanger that just sounded like the game would continue from that point even if it wouldn't. This game sucks, don't play it. I don't have high hopes for the sequel.