Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness (Dreamcast) playthrough FAIL! ; D ; P ;_;
0Trying--and failing!--to play through Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness for Dreamcast, in the emulator Flycast!
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0:00 - start
1:35 - Multiplayer
5:50 - Credits
8:48 - Classic
12:47 - New Game
14:35 - gaming
1:31:19 - horrible dog-sledding "bonus" stage
3:05:21 - horrible torpedo boat "bonus" stage
3:46:57 - horrible Frogger rip "bonus" stage
4:21:15 - jerk-into-the-screen action
4:25:51 - bad rotating tower boss battle
4:50:56 - stuck on conveyor belt
4:58:27 - star-gated
5:01:39 - wrap!
Game by Namco Hometek, Namco's old "U.S. consumer division" (says MobyGames). Ported from the PS1 (and an N64 version came out a few weeks before).
There's a bug in Flycast -- https://github.com/flyinghead/flycast... -- that stops the game's music at certain points, for instance when going into the first maze in the first level; pausing and unpausing the game in Flycast restarts the music. : P
I had this game back in the day but I don't think I got too far through it, maybe, because my memories were fond. And it still starts that way--and the music is nice, despite the occasional Flycast playback hiccup with it--but it gradually becomes clearer and clearer that the game is not interested in classic Pac ghost chase action; nope, maze-running is pretty much entirely superfluous; what this is about is boring you to death with basic block puzzles. Worse, its means of trying to make these more challenging as the game goes along is leveraging cycling traps, lots of "hurry up and wait" gimmicks, and unrecoverable misdirection.
The three or so bonus stages I reached were remarkably awful--one was a straight-up rip-off of Konami's "Frogger!"--as were several attempts at boss or mid-boss encounters toward the end.
--The end of where I got to, anyway, because I finally came to a stage gated off by a requirement for more earned "Stars," which you get by getting all the dots or fruits in a stage, beating the Time Attack mode for a stage, or eh some other stage-related achievement I forget. Briefly tried but couldn't actually bear to replay any of the stages, so that's as far as I'm gonna get. = P
Not too keen on the stereotyping of the "Pac Ping Harbor" stage.
It does have the PS1 version of arcade Ms. Pac-Man--originally from Namco Museum Vol. 3--which is always nice despite its chunky graphics and movement. Can't rotate the screen in this port of it. Occurred to me that hey I can rotate the screen BACK in DuckStation and so have pretty much near-arcade-perfect Ms. P going on without having to flip my monitor; I've got the arcade ROM extracted from "Arcade Game Series Ms. Pac-Man" on Steam but always fun to noodle with the PS1 version--and I'm less likely to inadvertently delete my high score in that version ; D--so I'm gonna go get me some Namco Museum Vol. 3. = D
8/30/24
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