MATCH AND POP BUBBLES WITH PAC-MAN™ IN AN ALL-NEW PUZZLE ARCADE ADVENTURE ON THE APP STORE AND GOOGLE PLAY!
New Mobile PAC-MAN Pop Game Set to Challenge and Delight Gamers Around the Globe
SANTA CLARA, Calif., (September 1, 2016) – BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment America, Inc., is excited to bring the massively popular PAC-MAN series back to mobile platforms in a new colorful bubble shooter called PAC-MAN Pop. The new free-to-play mobile game combines the pick-up-and-play fun of PAC-MAN with hours of addictive bubble shooting puzzles and challenges. PAC-MAN Pop is available now as a free download from the App Store and Google Play. To celebrate the game’s release, new players who download the game through September 4, 2016 will receive a free bonus coin pack that will enable players to purchase in-game items.
- Download PAC-MAN Pop for iPhone and iPad from the App Store: ly/pmpprios
- Download PAC-MAN Pop for Google Play: ly/pmpprgp
In PAC-MAN Pop, the familiar fiendish ghosts, Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde, have trapped all of the fruit in PAC-LAND and left bubble traps for PAC-MAN’s beloved pets in their wake. It’s up to the player and PAC-MAN to save the day and save the trapped pets by matching bubbles, eating fruit, and using PAC Power Ups across hundreds of challenging bubble puzzle levels. PAC-MAN Pop includes unique gameplay elements like “Pop The Ghost” puzzle levels and new “PAC-ATTACK” mini-games that fans won’t find in any other bubble shooting game.
“The hallmark of a great PAC-MAN game is that it is a fun and delightful experience for fans across the world,” says Makoto Asanuma, Managing Director & Chief PAC-MAN Officer from BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc., “PAC-MAN Pop stays true to that spirit in an all-new game that combines beloved PAC-MAN characters with bubble matching gameplay for the first time. The result is a game that feels both nostalgic and brand new at the same time.”
Celebrating more than 35 years of worldwide popularity, the PAC-MAN series has gobbled up billions of quarters, earning the Guinness World Record as “the most successful coin operated game” ever. On mobile platforms, PAC-MAN games have been downloaded over 150 million times
- View the PAC-MAN Pop launch trailer here (YouTube):
https://youtu.be/QjMEwuaWky8
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For unknown reasons, Hatsune Miku and her friends have lost their ability to broadcast their music to their fans and without their fans, they can no longer sing and generate power. As such they need the player’s help to bring their music to the world once again and unlock “Clouds” by completing performances. Each cloud has a little story snippet presented as a visual novel that only lasts probably for a few minutes per cloud and generally doesn’t reveal or develop much but does add a little something extra that otherwise has been completely lacking.
The real difference in this title comes in the way everything progresses. You see, unlike previous entries in the series where songs can be unlocked by completing other songs and, while doing so, the already completed songs can be played on the hardest difficulties, Hatsune Miku: Project Diva X instead limits this unlocking nature. Until players clear every single cloud in the game and unlock the songs available they are only able to play on Easy or Normal difficulty and that means that veterans will likely find the game extremely easy and a bit of a grind to start with unless they switch to free play mode and find themselves with more freedom of choice but also a lack of progression.
Speaking of unlocking Modules, players will now find that costumes come at a much easier but far more random rate in this game. Rather than purchasing them using in-game currency, if the player can clear the Chance Time mode, rather than triggering an on-stage special effect they will now trigger a costume change that will award the player with a random Module that will then be unlocked for use from then on. The problem here is that players do have a chance of obtaining repeat modules while also unlocking costumes they might not actually need for a given set of songs.
These medley songs make for some of the best performances in the game and thankfully players are given a way they can craft their own as, once you manage to reach a certain point in the game, you can create Festivals of three songs of your choice featuring complete freedom for character and costume choice as well, though only a few stages are available for this mode. It is worth noting that the Concert Editor that allows players to create your own performances is still available for the game but needs to be downloaded as a free piece of DLC.
The actual performances still very impressive looking and feature a wide variety of stages and dance moves but unfortunately almost every performance is designed to be a stage performance meaning that there are no longer any music video style sequences that were found in previous entries though it is worth noting that more than a few of these performances are still quite extravagant looking. That being said, the company has continued their translations of every song’s lyrics which is a perfect addition for fans.
The only problem is, that if he doesn’t find a true love by the end of the day, the arrow’s effects will wear off and with it his entire life’s supply of potential love, meaning he will be forever alone and shunned even by animals. With only a day to try and find love, and thanks to the convenient return of a childhood friend as well as her elder sister beginning tos peak with Houdai again, there are already two potential love interests in sight.
If players opt to simply rush through the game they will find that Gal*Gun: Double Peace’s basic story mode can be completed fairly quickly but that is partially the design for this title. I say this because this title implements the visual novel style of route unlocking by making it so players can, at least at the start, only pursue certain endings (even these endings have variations depending on dialogue choices and affection levels) and then once they have managed to clear these endings can opt for a different route. These multiple routes help extend an already highly replayable title that players will want to run through more than once simply to try and get better scores or unlock items by adding additional storyline options and new content that is specific to certain routes.
To do this players must make use of their “pheromone” shot that is provided to them by Ekoro and provide any girl confessing to them with euphoria and cause them to fall to the ground in satisfaction. The girls take on various methods of confessing their love such as handing love letters, shouting out kanji that can be shot out of the air, grabbing and hugging you, or simply kissing the player while other girls who are infected by the demon Kurona will take a bit more violent approach and often stomp on the player in a dominatrix fashion.
As you make your way through a stage players will fill up a meter that allows them to trigger “Doki-Doki Mode” where up to three girls can be targeted at a time and brought into a separate mini-game. In this mode players must target (or on the Vita use the touch screen) various weak points on girls while the camera spins around them slowly in order to fill up a meter and give them a “climax” finish before a certain amount of time passes. While a great mode for the more perverted aspect of the game, this is also very useful at times as successfully clearing this mode detonates a euphoria explosion that subdues every girl on the screen and can help the player out of a tight spot.
It is worth noting that while multiple difficulties are available, those looking for a bit of challenge to go with their light-hearted fan-service heavy fun will want to play on the harder option as the standard difficulty is fairly easy. Along those lines players can purchase various upgrades in-between stages from a school shop where they can buff various stats that allow them to make certain dialogue choices, increase their health or amount of damage dealt by shots, purchase items that allow them to avoid or diminish damage from certain attacks, or even add more camera angles to the Doki-Doki mode.
Of course the various moaning when girls are struck with ecstasy shots or when the camera pans around in Doki-Doki mode might be a bit much for some but those looking forward to the fan-service will be right at home. The actual dialogue in the game is handled with well-translated English subtitles paired with the Japanese voice acting but it is a bit unfortunate that there isn’t more variety when it comes to the game’s soundtrack that quickly becomes repetitive and environments as most of the areas in the game are sparsely detailed and generic for a school setting.
