Saturday, June 18, 2016

No Nonsense Review: Pac World 3 PSP



I have been checking out videos on this game for years, and when I finally got it. Wow!! Ever play a game that is both good and bad at the same time. Pac World 3 is really a mixed game. You're doing the basics. IE working your way through the level,  gathering items as you go. Defeating enemies, you know the standard that has been around since the 1980s.  Then you throw in Pac Man type, fully 3D levels and this is the problem. You get a combo of super easy elements and extremely difficult ones at the same time. I am being honest here, more than once I had to refer back to YouTube videos in order to find the items in order to complete the levels. There is quite a bit about this game, that isn't obvious. Sometimes that is a good thing, but not in this case. In one level early in the game, you have to defeat a handful of enemies, in order to get an item in order to go on. The real problem is you can bypass these enemies, and get all the way to the checkpoint and get stuck. Mainly because you don't have that one item. Worse yet this happens time and time again, and sometimes those items are in crazy locations. Ones I am not joking, you actually need someone telling you exactly where they are to find them.

In short Pac World 3 is a good but also very frustrating game. Prepared have to use YouTube...more times than you could imagine, I also would say having it available when you play this game is a must.