{"id":14770,"date":"2016-03-28T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T00:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=14770"},"modified":"2016-03-03T01:13:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T01:13:50","slug":"pac-man-puzzle-tour-ios-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/pac-man-puzzle-tour-ios-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Pac-Man Puzzle Tour (iOS, Android)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PAC_BOX\"<\/a>Normally I wouldn\u2019t review every free-to-play Candy Crush clone that comes about on the iPad, but I had to with this one because it has Pac-Man in it! And you know how I like Pac-Man!\u00a0 Apparently the ghost monsters have stolen all the fruit from the Pac-Man arcade machine and have run off, and now Pac-Man must catch them.\u00a0 Help him by matching three of the same fruits in a row in this downloadable game available for iOS and Android devices (reviewed on iPad here).<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve played any match-three puzzle game like Candy Crush or Bejeweled, you\u2019ll know what to expect here. Slide fruit to match three or more, and each stage has different objectives.\u00a0 Sometimes you\u2019ll have to clear out tiles (a.k.a. hidden ghosts) by matching fruit, sometimes you must reach a certain score in a time limit, and other times you must make matches to drop cookies to the bottom of the screen (they look like the ones from Yoshi\u2019s Cookie).<\/p>\n

When you match four or more fruits, you can get a special item to help you clear out other fruits. Four in a row will make one of the fruits clear out a horizontal or vertical row.\u00a0 If you match five in a corner formation, that fruit will turn into a bell and if you match fruit with that same color bell, it\u2019ll clear out the fruits surround it twice!\u00a0 And if you match five in a straight line, one will turn into a Galaxian ship which will clear out all of one fruit of the same color on the entire screen.\u00a0 You can also use items like extra turns to help you, but they don\u2019t come easy unless you buy them.<\/p>\n

The problems with this game are just like the ones in other free-to-play titles. If you lose a round, you\u2019ll lose a heart and must wait for a long time for them to refill so you can play more.\u00a0 And at around level 20, the game gets super hard and you won\u2019t be able to pass unless you pay for items or lives.\u00a0 While that\u2019s usually the norm in these kinds of games, level 20 seems pretty early on for that kind of nonsense to start.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a shame because a few years ago, there was another match three puzzle game featuring Pac-Man that was much better. It was called Pac Chomp and was one of the first games I downloaded on my iPad.\u00a0 Pac Chomp had more of a Pac-Man \u2018feel\u2019 to it.\u00a0 In that one you matched ghosts, not fruit, and if you could line up the Pac-Man with the power pellet on the field, you could move Pac-Man around for a limited time and chomp ghosts and fruit for bonus points.\u00a0 And it had no in-game purchases either.\u00a0 It\u2019s a shame that Pac Chomp\u2019s not on the iOS store anymore.<\/p>\n

As a classic Namco fan, there were two things about Pac-Man Puzzle Tour that I kind of liked. The map screen was neat because it was filled with arcade cabinets, pinball machines, air hockey, and pinball tables.\u00a0 And you can choose an icon when showing off your high scores online, and while most of them are of Pac-Man and ghost monsters, there were some from other Namco games like the cats and police mouse from Mappy, and The Prince and King of All Cosmos from Katamari Damacy!<\/p>\n

\"PAC_SCREEN\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nothing violent or objectionable here, but parental supervision is recommended for the in-game purchases and ads. Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, but not necessary as everything is pretty easy to figure out just by playing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Normally I wouldn\u2019t review every free-to-play Candy Crush clone that comes about on the iPad, but I had to with this one because it has Pac-Man in it! And you know how I like Pac-Man!\u00a0 Apparently the ghost monsters have stolen all the fruit from the Pac-Man arcade machine and have run off, and now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14772,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14770\/revisions\/14772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}